Hasn’t someone already suggested L4D2? I only played the first and was pretty offended when they promptly released the second and expected me to pay for it. They did eventually turn around and give it away but IIRC it was under a year from release and they expected me to buy a whole other game.

Killing floor 1/2, fps zombie horde killing.

Another doot for Remnant, really enjoyed the odd universe and two player coop.

Battlefront 2 multi player for mindless star wars pew pew fun.

I never used Twitter, I don’t see a reason to use bluesky.

I still use my nexus5 as my backup phone. Battery lasts longer than my pixel1.

All that stuff is great if you’ve the time. I’ve got maybe 1-2 hours a week for the game.

I’m definitely experiencing FOMO with the warbonds I don’t have. I don’t have the time to play/grind or the inclination to pay for them, so I am missing out. There’s three warbonds that I don’t have and sure I’ll eventually get them maybe but right now I’m missing out. Being able to unlock things is a big part of a game to me. I’m not dedicated enough to HD2 to skip the other games I want to play in order to get the unlocks. The whole process is lowering my interest in the game. I paid for it, I want to use the new toys that get released with it. If I were to buy it today, I’d be so far behind I’d feel short-changed in what I got access to.

My Helldivers gripe is that the war bonds cost too much for the casual player. 1000 super credits takes a while to gather, and even grind. Paying actual money for them is about $25aud per war bond. I think there’s eight war bonds now? That’s a full day’s income, and you still need to collect medals to unlock the contents of the warbond.

Edit: You all don’t need to explain this to me, I’m aware of the options for getting super credits. None of that changes how I feel about the game and that I’m losing interest because of it.

Team fortress 2 still has a massive community.

Ultimate Doom which was doom2 with harder levels was great fun as well, but yeah, doom2.exe was peak.

Not playing a game doesn’t reflect its quality. I still haven’t played red dead 2, gta5, the witcher, assassins creed.

Denuvo makes games bad, so no, there aren’t.

True that. Captain hindsight to the rescue.

Headline aside, if you’re on $150k p.a. you should have an ample emergency fund and frankly aim to live below your means while earning that kind of money in such a volatile employment field.

I also had a lifetime subscription. I think like with many of these things, they might’ve included a usage monitor rather than a carte blanche closing of accounts. I rarely used it once someone told me Opera had a built in VPN but it’d still be nice to have it available. I would’ve used less than 1gb a year, maybe less than 100mb. I haven’t used at all in in the last three years. What harm does my account bring to their financial outcome?

Does it have ads? I use Jerboa as its ad free.

Just starting season three of the original Robotech. I watch one in the morning with breakfast. It’s pretty dated but it’s got some good storytelling.

I’ve got a couple of mates that only play fifa. They buy the new ones asap, they buy the new console to play them. They love that shit.

Sure, but we’re not going to suddenly move to some Star Trek commie utopia. For now, developers need to get paid. Either I goto work and make money (burning carbon) to pay for it, or advertising (toxic) pays for it, or crypto mining (also toxic). How does this developer, living under capitalism, buy food, housing and medical without something to make money? Goodwill donation links are unlikely to cut it.

Now you’re just being rude.

Call it engagement farming then?