I'd ask you what its like to so thoroughly lack self awareness, but unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to tell me, by definition.
Also just no, your 'facts' are bullshit.
You know what category of games consistently earn the most revenue?
Mobile games. Cell phone games. That's over half of the money getting spent on video games.
The majority of gamers, people who play video games, people who spend money on video games... they play gacha games on phones... they're not perennial Madden/FIFA/COD players.
So if you don't have a gacha game waifu... you're actually in the minority too.
So yeah... fundamentally ignorant, extremely overconfident... wanna check any more of those boxes, buddy?
Just imagine me bouncing a ball off of your forehead repeatedly, I'm sure that'll put you in the right mind state for this.
... where the fuck is the baffled Jackie Chan meme when I need it?
Yeah this shit makes no sense to be excited for, unless you basically have oppositional defiance disorder, and you just enjoy being snide, in a group.
Literally... Back a few years ago when that idiot hacked into RockStar and leaked the alpha build of GTA6... (and was then immediately caught because he is an idiot)... thats it. Clips from that are the closest to actual gameplay anyone has ever seen.
AI as a cultural phenomenon has been truly exceptional at revealing the extent to which the privileged are just literally mouth breathing thumb sucking mental invalids.
We should be laughing in their faces, when they say shit this stupid. We should be pointing out that they must have failed highschool physics, mocking them, to their faces, with a little bit of accidental spittle to drive it home.
We literally have to shame these fucking morons or they will destroy human civilization.
If Virginians aren't surrounding the county government building, 24/7, with firearms...
Your fucking state motto is Sic Semper Tyranis.
Live up to it, or never be taken seriously, about anything, ever again.
You know what happened in Iceland in the 07/08 financial crisis?
Something like 1/3 to 2/3 of the entire population of the island surrounded parliament, literally with pitchforks, untill they actually prosecuted the criminal financiers for their actual financial crimes.
Iceland is basically the only Western country that didn't bail out their bankster fraud artists, and sent them to fucking prison, instead.
Ya'll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
So I was watching JoeFromSeattle and he basically has an observation/theory from repeatedly interacting with these people on Twitter.
... They literally do not count themselves as 'gamers', they use the word to identify others.
These are the people who buy Madden/FIFA every year, every COD, every Battlefield, and assume everyone does that, to the point of projecting it without realizing it and then not believing you if you say you didn't do that as well.
... they are very often illiterate, cannot understand sentences above roughly Grade 5 complexity, always assume they are correct and work backwards to attempt to form a justification for whatever they've decided is corrrect.
Maybe he sprayed himself with a bit too much of that fentanyl laced cat piss.
If you do not get the reference... he previously said that he'd like to be able to dispatch drones that would do that to basically anyone who annoys him.
Somehow more camp and pathetic than an actual comic book supervillain.
And he has actually been using his super yacht to do actual ground breaking research on the biology of extremely deep sea creatures.
Not even joking, that yacht has a deep sea submersible, he bought the shipyard so he could direct the refitting of the super yacht to be able to carry and launch it... they've been mapping a trench near Japan, have captured high resolution video and bathymetry... they even appear to have discovered a or maybe a few new species.
I'm fairly certain every platform offers an SDK with mostly the same things.
Just objectively, factually incorrect.
Making mods only available inside a closed ecosystem so it's easier to charge for them and grab a cut isn't actually a good thing for instance.
So you're fed up with NexusMods bullshit too eh?
Err... were you talking about something else?
There's also the fact that valve could easily offer all that and only grab like 3%. 90% of the cut is there to cover Gabens new boat purchase, not for the features.
Fact? You have detailed access to the internal financial records of a privately held company that is generally not obligated to report them?
You could be correct, but you'd need to provide... you know, evidence that that is the case.
I'm not trying to clown on you to be an ass, I'm trying to point out that you just seem to know a bunch of things that are false, that you almost certainly can't know, that apply equally or moreso to alternatives to Steam/Valve.
Everything is a contest to get you to pay your attention toward watching, looking at, reading, whatever particular thing.
Outrage is the best way to get you to pay attention.
But when you've spent your attention on being outraged... your brain tricks you.
You've had the experience of being outraged... you felt it, you feel like you understand the thing, experienced the thing... contemplated the thing... even like you acted in some way about the thing.
But 99.9% chance... you did nothing other than absorb information and have emotions about it. Maybe you also posted a reaction comment or video of some kind... but you didn't do anything tangible about it, something that might alleviate the conditions that led to this outrageous thing being a thing, or its likelihood of recurring.
You didn't actually do anything about it... but you feel like you did.
This is why people get nutty about fandoms, have parasocial relationships with e-personalities, get legitimately fatigued from so much bad news.
There has to be a balance, you have to retain actual self control and self awareness. Otherwise, you're a zombie that thinks you're morally superior to other zombies, and you'll sleepwalk toward what the algorithm wants you to...
When you could have, at some point, turned off the screen and... meditated, read a book, gone for a hike or jog, planted a garden, maintained your car... even gasp had a face to face interaction with a random person.
They want us atomized, exhausted, existentially despairing.
Such people won't be capable of doing anything about anything.
If you want to stay Christian about it:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
... Not actually in the Bible. A Lutheran pastor came up with it in the 1930s.
Though I personally disagree with the less often quoted second part of it, which echoes your quoted verses of Jesus saying to more or less be right with God and focus on that... seems to imply that all suffering is unavoidable, and of course that you'll be better off in Heaven... which I do not think is the case.
But, I can at least say that I think the first part is pretty close to spot on.
They might be getting mad because Jesus is not saying the same thing I am.
He is saying do not worry about tomorrow because you can worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
He is saying material reality is not the most important thing, your relationship with God is.
I am saying do not worry about things where the worry itself prevents you from actually acting to make tomorrow better... or where there genuienly is nothing useful you can do, when you have no realistic choice.
...and I would want you to fundamentally base your appraisal of your own situation in the material and practical reality, and in you trying to be as honest with yourself, about yourself, as you can be.
Oh my god one of you actually showed up!
I'd ask you what its like to so thoroughly lack self awareness, but unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to tell me, by definition.
Also just no, your 'facts' are bullshit.
You know what category of games consistently earn the most revenue?
Mobile games. Cell phone games. That's over half of the money getting spent on video games.
The majority of gamers, people who play video games, people who spend money on video games... they play gacha games on phones... they're not perennial Madden/FIFA/COD players.
So if you don't have a gacha game waifu... you're actually in the minority too.
So yeah... fundamentally ignorant, extremely overconfident... wanna check any more of those boxes, buddy?
Just imagine me bouncing a ball off of your forehead repeatedly, I'm sure that'll put you in the right mind state for this.