I mean, voting Dem didn’t do anything to prevent it either, is my point.

My annoyance also isn’t with people voting Dem. Vote how you want. My annoyance is with dems attacking third party. With people blaming third party. My real annoyance is people refusing to criticise the DNC. This defensive voting blue no matter who shit is what got us here. When you refuse to criticise someone because they’re marginally better than the opposition, we get into the position of literal Hitler, or “at least I’m not LITERALLY Hitler do you HAVE to vote for me.” Which… bad.

No, you’ve said voting defensively prevents exactly what is happening. As if people don’t vote defensively. As if we are not here.

Harris being run is WHY we are here. The DNC thinking they can get away with being antidemocratic (attacking third parties, suing to get them off the ballot, don’t get me started on the “victory fund” bullshit) is WHY WE ARE HERE. It’s on them. The DNC has fucked itself since after Obama. That’s why so many normal ass people haven’t voted since Obama. I’m not talking super principled leftists. I’m talking normie shit. They don’t vote anymore because it’s fucking garbage. Because even if the DNC won they wouldn’t do anything of substance to help. Half of what happened in Palestine was in collab WITH Biden, planned by him and passed on to Trump. Maybe it would’ve been slower. Draw out the suffering more, but it wouldn’t have been changed for the better, which is the problem. Better than the worst imaginable isn’t good enough for people.

if that sort of voting prevented this situation at all we wouldn’t be here?

Do you think supporting the lesser evil magically makes the two parties put forward BETTER candidates? All that shit does is lead to parties racing to the bottom, voters getting fucking tired of it and either stop voting, or look at trump and go “at least he isn’t a politician he’ll do something different” and vote for him. Dems refuse to do shit about it but run shit after shit after shit. When they had huge turnout for Obama’s message of “change” and now their message with biden is “nothing will fundamentally change” which… cool. Great. Way to energize your voters. “Not trump” isn’t enough. and until the DNC learns that, they can fuck themselves as they aren’t improving or preventing shit. I’ll always vote, but I’m voting for candidates that are the most worthy of a fucking vote.

Or, hear me out, you just let people vote for progressives if they want and don’t blame them for dems losing. Maybe look at why people stopped voting after Obama? Maybe he happy that people vote at all because it allows more votes for progressives/dems in the local level, even if it doesn’t help at the national level? Cuz dems have a lot of issues, not just leftists “not” voting for them. (sure, some don’t but iirc they’re actually the highest % dem voting block, even if they are much smaller in population. )

“VOTING IS SO IMPORTANT”

“So you have to vote how I tell you.”

“Also everything is your fault, we’ve done nothing wrong.”

Fuckin dems lol.

Highly suggest it. No need to rush into purchase. Try out the base game, explore, enjoy it. Endgame all classes can do basically everything, so finding one that clicks for you is more important than wanting to play “a healer” or etc. Unless you are trying to do the ultra sweaty Legendary Challenge Mode raid bosses you can complete everything using mostly whatever so meta isn’t a big deal. (Maybe high end fractal CMs and PvP/WvW things matter a bit idk.)

If you’re into story, there is a LOT behind the living season stuff, which was free if you played while it released but otherwise I think they bundle it all (and pretty sure like EVERYTHING is on sale, its $50 for the 1st 3 expacs and the living story stuff on their site, I think thats $5 cheaper than on steam.)

Do note: If you buy on steam, you’ve gotta buy all the stuff through steam. If you buy through arenanet’s website, you can’t purchase upgrade through steam. (If you’re on linux/steamdeck you can download and run it through steam with a startup command to use anet’s launcher to sign in normally if you go through anet instead of steam so either way it works.)

It’s kinda funny, what stuck out to me in gw2 was that it was an MMO where (at launch) the story wasn’t just about you. There was an entire army (I mean duh it’s an MMO) and while you were the commander and thus still important, there were still things happening that you didn’t see. People dying in the war, even if you try and help, and overall just felt refreshing. Well I guess most people hated that so it ended up going a different direction after that but, I really enjoyed it.

I get liking the 4 player instanced content stuff, I loved PSO and others with a similar setup I just wouldn’t really call that an MMO, but they’re good games too. GW2 is much more social, and stuck out to me as an MMO where you don’t hate to run into people for once. No fighting over mob kill credit, no waiting in queue to kill a unique for a quest, no rushing to get a resource node before someone, etc. so even if it wasn’t all instanced, it was good to see other players, and they were more often than not extremely helpful.

It’s for sure a very different game than gw1, and I’m sure it will be different than gw3 as they plan to keep supporting and releasing content for all 3.

Also, if you didn’t see, they recently did a pretty big update to gw1 to make it more modern, and releasing on mobile later this month (you can sign in to same old gw1 account to play on mobile) and they did just say in their video post yesterday that they are adding a new type of content to it soon.

As someone who played gw2 but never got into gw1, what exactly made it special? With reforged I’ve decided to finally get around to it and I played for maybe an hour so haven’t really been able to get to builds or heroes or etc yet so curious what people loved about it so much that isn’t in gw2.

I mean to be fair those are 5+ years old mid/low tier stuff, for a game that’s coming out in 2 years. It’s not like it’s asking for a 5080 and a 9800x3d.

It’s targeting ps5, so controls will be okay but yeah thats a bit higher than a steamdeck.

Come a long way since launch (which like technically could’ve had those builds but no real need since dungeons didn’t have much use for them cuz 5 DPS just blew stuff up before you die) and now raids and fractals have use for roles for either DPS or boon support which comes in DPS, heals, and tank flavors. Every class can do pretty much every role now, which I find nice to be able to find something that clicks with you and not have to switch off that class.

Some classes still have niches, it’s not all mush or anything, but it’s nice.

I mean, gw2 kinda sounds like what you want? Like it’s pretty chill, no need to continuously grind, hit max level and that’s it. Anything new added is account progression, and even then most of it isn’t important outside of that expansion’s story or to get better rewards from the maps for that expac or etc, save for a few masteries needed for a few specific raid encounters, and some that get double introduced (like mounts that are introduced in one expac and featured heavily in another) give a bonus if you have both which is cool but not necessary. Like 14 years of content so there is plenty to do, and today they said they’re commited to 15 more years, and while they’re pausing the next expansion for gw3 to get released, they are going back to base game to fix up a lot of stuff to make it better (and even adding physics based rendering)

It’s a game I can stop playing for months, come back and keep enjoying without needing to learn something new (unless a balance patch really fucked you up) or unlock new stuff or get new gear just to be able to play.

Plus WvW (bigass siege style PvP) is a pretty cool game mode and they’re developing a new map for that finally which can be a pretty chill PvP mode.

I guess my point is also why I am stoked for GW3, Anet has learned a lot and I don’t think I could be bothered to play an MMO not made by them at this point.

Mostly subs but it depends, some dubs are good. Some subs are annoying too. I’ve been enjoying witch hat in English. Black lagoon had a great dub. And then, if I’m watching while doing stuff dub so I don’t have to look at the screen the whole time.

Pfffft. No way. That would be like the company that owned skype failing to capitalize on video calls during some sort of major pandemic.

I mean, he did also literally taunt them.

Okay but this is actually funny.

Like it was a 24hr ban.

But are you like actually complaining about this and not posting it because it’s funny?

Yup came here to say this. Had Mario tennis and I’m sure some other game but yeah not a lot of games. However it did cause a lot of headaches.

But otherwise I mean, I’ve not bought anything I would say is disappointing but also I haven’t bought any current gen bullshit.

WiiU was maybe a little closer to a disappointment? But more so because it wasn’t as popular. I absolutely loved the 2nd screen for shit like shoving the UI for MH3U on there so I could look at it while keeping the main screen clear.

I mean either way… yes? It’s half. Which is a fraction of integers thus a rational number. Or you could argue the entire thing is left panels, in which case it’s 1. So… yes.

I was about to say you really gonna rip the GN design and change tux and call it a day and not even credit them? Then saw the very bottom.

Literally poking out into where traffic is supposed to be? Gets in the way? Wastes more gas just cuz big=“cool” (big != cool). Has same size truck bed/towing capacity as Japanese trucks literally half the size

a true outlaw star fan, obviously.