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God I'm glad I'm not a kid now. I never would have survived.

Thank you for taking the time to give me a little glimpse into the game. I may wait for a sale then. Because I really did think it looked cool v

I remember when I first saw an ad for this game and thought it looked neat, added it to my wishlist and everything. I looked it up a few weeks/months later and all I saw were gooner posts, or articles about how she's saving games with her jiggle physics. I removed it simply because I didn't want to be involved with that community. It was so gross. 🤢

"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS!

~~I'll take two, one for me, and one to sell~~

HOW COME THEY KEEP DOING THIS!? DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'LL LOSE ME AS A ~~repeat~~ CUSTOMER!?"

Because we buy the games, the microtransactions, the cosmetics, etc. Even just one purchase multiplied by millions is a win for publishers. Whales and content creators fuel the cycle even more. Meanwhile, currencies get deliberately convoluted: you need stars for a pull, which require sparkle farts, which you can’t buy directly or in exact amounts. Out of sparkle farts? $14.99 gets you 6000—enough for three whole pills! Don't worry, there's a pity system, so the most you'll spend is only $400. And then you're left with 60 stars, and if you just had 40 more!

You’re not forced to buy, but they make the grind brutal and a slog. If you're really unlucky, it can even make actually playing the came harder. And as long as this system makes money, it won’t stop. Games are turning into storefronts with a mini-game attached. Good games feel like rare blessings, and creativity is often found only indie studios. Big teams have talent—they’re just not allowed to use it, their companies don't care about that. Gotta make money, more money, all the time, forever, or you've failed.

~~I say "they" like I don't play a few gachas myself, but still.~~

Monster Hunter Wilds, and my friend and I play the Outlast Trials together. I haven't gotten far in MH, but I'm really enjoying it.

Someone already wrote a really good answer, but using the money to help fund programs would be a start. Maybe make a safe place where they can hang out that doesn't offend you (not you specifically, just in general). If possible, I would even try and talk with them, become neighbors instead of enimies. While tackling homelessness would take a system wide change, I think sometimes just not adding to the problem and shame is the best we can do.

And I get it, I've had homeless people scream at me, see them urinate outside, not everything humans do is pleasant, and I also wouldn't want all of that right in front of my business. But, at least in this example, there is a ton of empty space, the building itself is mostly empty. Come together and make the rest of the unused property a shelter. That parking lot behind them alone was gigantic and I don't think I saw any cars there, why not let them have part of the parking lot? It just seems easier to be kind and try to work with them than set up a sound system to keep the entire neighborhood up.

"Are you going to help them? Use the money to help anyone, or maybe take this moment to highlight people in need?"

"The fuck? No, I'm going to make their lives worse for having the audacity to be poor and seeking shelter. How dare they ruin my view with their homelessness."

I think Bioshock 1, Inscryption, Portal 1 & 2(I believe that 2 wouldn't be so loved if we didn't already love 1, I like to think of them as a set), Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil, Nier Automata, and Okami.

All dicks are good dicks, just like all boobs are good boobs. Don't let your dreams be dreams.

Daily.