I check more often than not if they’re a co-op.

I dislike parasitic capitalists with ill-gotten wealth expanding it.

I mean there are further reasons like:

“I will only purchase things where the laborers are contractually obligated to some or all share of the profits”

I’d never pirate a product from a worker co-op, charity, or artisan but everything else is fair game in my opinion.

I prefer to have fun with my real friends instead of the people I work with.

I chose those people.

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What are some open world games you’ve previously enjoyed and what did you enjoy about them? Additionally what are some open world games you dropped/didn’t enioy?

That’s probably going to allow people to give you better recommendations for yay/nay.

That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.

I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.

Definitely a grumpy old man but that doesn’t mean you aren’t right.

Try telling people the same thing about how corporate consolidation is bad and is going to lead to long-term anti-consumer damage and they respond the same way largely.

The good news is the Lemmy community seems, as a whole, to have its head on its shoulders better about things like this.

I assume it’s some combination of an older userbase, more tech literate, and people directly experiencing enshitification as the fundamental reason a large segment of the community migrated here.

Short of a constitutional convention that probably results in the balkanization of the United States I don’t see how individuals manage to overthrow their corporate overlords and their bought government in the US.

Condolences to all of the people held hostage to vote for democrats on a harm-reduction line.

It’s probably the correct play, but man do I feel for all of you.

The only additive feature that would make it my forever client is customizable multi-communities.

Let me choose to add games@lemmy.world, gaming@lemmy.ml, pcgaming@lemmy.world, etc into a single multicom (that I can name) and display posts from all of them when I click on it.

It would be quite literally perfect for all of my browsing needs if it implemented this feature.

Beyond technological throughput constraints, I just genuinely don’t want the real life commodificaiton of in-game resources.

I don’t want a market existing around selling my virtual jacket in game, I don’t want loan-terms from fake in-game banks backed by a real-life commodity determining the investment in my guild, I don’t want to think about the macroeconomic impact of an expansion releasing and how that affects the value of my character.

If a crypto-game actually delivered on the above I bet it would have a playerbase (people who think Eve is too casual), but they’re overwhelmingly crowd-funding/vc-funding cash grabs whose cypto-technological utility is usually less functional than that of the steam marketplace.

I recognize I’m someone who will never want to play a game that couples its virtual economy to the real-economy (and I think the overwhelming majority of players feel the same way).

This is largely a reddit-discourse problem that evolved over time as the site devolved into witty one-liners and adversarial comments for engagement.

I’m hoping people push back hard against this across various fediverse instances because it just makes the internet a worse place and discourages contributions from would-be posters/commenters.

People should feel excited to post without feeling the need to look over their post/comment 100 times to pre-emptively guess what all attack angles someone is going to respond to in a post as harmless about liking the way roses smell.

A heads up for the audiobook listeners (of which I know there are many)- make sure to look at the illustrations in the book as they’re gorgeous and absolutely worthy of your time.

If you just want to see the images once you’ve finished, just use something like 7zip to open the epub archive and then look at all the image files within it.