everybody on ilx complains about reddit

Xposts challop(?): Hacker News commenters are generally worse than reddit posters. None compare to the wretchedness of ilxors, of course

Thank you for helping me realize 'Hacker News' isn't some allegorical embodiment of reddit's IT community but an actual news site. I feel like a complete dunce right now.

who's got a screencap of the new wife who threw away pictures of her husband's dead wife

It's here

This might be the most monstrous thing I've read on r/relationships and that is saying A LOT pic.twitter.com/V7gUZU0d2I

— bras in the dryer (@ajlobster) October 27, 2017

dead wife is a helluva drug

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Jesus Christ

that makes me incredibly sad. those poor people. that the person who did it then starts a reddit thread about it is just extra depressing.

it's widower ffs

Rebecca 2: Rebecca's Revenge

this is generally (perhaps beside trump and rolling race) the saddest thread on ilx

https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4f3jrfs3r1qjj1zvo1_r1_500.gif

assuming that's a cigar box

A cigar box named Pandora.

https://i.imgur.com/ep8w3lw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/juuycRg.png

gross

Incels forum banned!

ha nice. on what grounds tho?

Inciting violence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/reddit-incel-involuntary-celibate-men-ban?CMP=share_btn_tw

The community was banned this week after Reddit updated its site-wide policy to prohibit content that “encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or group of people”.

“Communities focused on this content and users who post such content will be banned from the site. As of November 7, r/Incels has been banned for violating this policy,” said a Reddit spokeswoman.

reddit: now officially a volcel-only community

https://kotaku.com/ea-defense-of-star-wars-battlefront-ii-becomes-most-dow-1820396527

i guess people are really that upset about having to play a videogame to unlock a videogame character

there was a similar system of grinding for the prior game which wasn't horrible because locked items/characters weren't necessary, but at the same time, joining a game as a new player two weeks after release only to get instantly killed by weapons and characters you have no access to really feels like a scam, especially when there's a little "pay real life dollars to unlock this right now!" caption

Eh, I'm with the Redditors on that. This isn't something I'd ever play, but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.
I don't know if the game's marketing made a big deal out of these characters, but I suppose they kinda have to be, given the franchise.

I think I would mind less if you /couldn't/ pay your way out of it, but HAD to "achieve" it. (In fact, my most played game, The Binding of Isaac, has exactly such a system, though it's not a multiplayer game.)
The whole microtransaction thing doesn't make sense to me outside of games that are otherwise free to play.

but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?

but at the same time, joining a game as a new player two weeks after release only to get instantly killed by weapons and characters you have no access to really feels like a scam

i agree that it sucks, but this is a very common scenario for new players playing online games. these days i kind of assume that when i first start playing i will just get murdered over and over again while i try to figure out how to equip pants or whatever. it's one of the reasons that online games usually really really suck (hot take) imo, unless you're 14 years old

the 'getting slaughtered by high level players' thing could potentially be fixed by balancing the game, better player matching, etc.

but the 'parts of the game are locked until you play a ton' is a fundamental feature of videogames. it's just that there's now an option to skip past all that by paying cash, which is really lame, and in order to incentivize people to do it they made the unlockable content part of the game require even more effort to reach without by purely playing the game.

that is fine, it’s the part where you can pay more money to instantly unlock shit, on a game that cost $60 - $80, is bad

either make it pay-to-play or just make me grind

https://media.giphy.com/media/Uj735LXIo8fAc/giphy.gif

lame

the image i mean. loot boxes are fine.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?
Well, it's a single player game, so I think that's fundamentally different. The single player experience is in its nature an arc, while (most) multiplayer gaming is more about quicker variations and improvs on a familiar theme. In this Star Wars™ game, you're in theory meeting other players on the same "level" as you. I don't know enough about the game to know if these characters amount to much more than a different player model though. (And I do like the idea of having 15 Darth Vaders jumping around trying to choke one another!)

And I can't say I've seen single player games allowing you to pay to skip ahead. That would strike me as pretty gross, too. The adventure game genre had something kinda in line with this, like the Sierra Entertainment tips hotline. Some of those games had some insane puzzles that led people to suspect they were trying to force them to use the hotline.

I'm not 100% against all sorts of additional costs though. I bought the DLC for XCOM, for instance. The original game felt like a complete experience on its own, while the DLC was a significant addition to it.

polyphonic if yr against grinding i dont kno what to tell u

I once wrote a letter to FTL Games to find out how to get past a difficult bit in Dungeon Master

all it cost me was the postage :)

I understand why it's bad in theory but basically the only thing I could have to balance the scales against the child who plays COD 8 hours a day is some expendable income so if I could buy my way to better weapons I'd be seriously tempted.

I've long wished for old people FPS servers - if you log in more than two hours a week you have to go to the regular servers.

multiplayer should ideally be a sandbox with the same rules and abilities available to all players. but people will become angry anyway if you use certain overpowered or uncouth items which are available to all players. maybe this is a way to include such items while adding an extra layer of visible and agreed upon shame.

there should probably be an extra shame note when you use an item purchased with your mom or dad's credit card

"milo banned you with a flag post they purchased all by himself" vs. "cool_darren banned you with a flag post that his mommy had to buy for him"

this makes me want to have children so that i can give them all flag posts for christmas

is that Hardeep Singh Kohli in the grinding gif?

Reddit partially redeems itself by dragging M1ke C3rnovich to death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7liww8/im_mike_cernovich_journalist_author_and_filmmaker/

the_penis_wanker has logged off

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSuQwQrXUAI2mc5.jpg

It's all true

if you "stick out" due to no wanking then you're gonna get some attention, yeah

https://i.imgur.com/1wyYqvP.jpg

Pretty sure that's a parody. Regardless, it's prime /r/iamverysmart material, though they should probably retire that subreddit altogether in light of Trump's latest tweets.

where do subreddits go to retire?

they dry up like a raisin in the sun

v normal and good marriage stuff

Jesus a redditor signed a funko pop buying rule contract with his wife pic.twitter.com/nOvnpCxvhM

— nick (@JucheMane) January 18, 2018

there is no emoticon to adequately express the shape of my face right now