If you played on console you would totally understand the backlash.
I played and beat it on Xbox One. There was so many bugs it was astounding it was released in that form.
Cars falling from the sky, people floating around in T poses, characters faces just not loading in, missions not updating so you can't complete it. It would crash at least twice every time I played it.
I still enjoyed the game, the bugs would range from funny to game breaking; however, it 100% deserved the backlash it got.
Well they are just different. It's like saying a despotism is a monarchy. Technically a despotism is a monarchy, but having a monarchy doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a despotism.
This is the only time I "use" Reddit now myself.
And it was never designed to be. It was always meant to be a republic.
We first were a confederation. Were your idea of a true democracy was more or less in place. The revolutionary war was won in 1783. The constitution wasn't ratified till 1789, and the bill of rights written until 1793. Before that the US had almost no central government, and each state was independent from one another. Had their own currency, banking system, laws, and military.
States still have a lot of that same autonomy today, but there was no central government tying them together. If the US went to war and a state didn't want to go, they wouldn't. A little more complex than that, but generally that's what it amounted to.
Having this type of system created a bunch of problems and came to a head when Shay's Rebellion happened. I won't go into depth about it, but mainly confederated Massachusetts couldn't fight off the rebels attempting to take over the state. Since the US was a confederation there was no central government the state couldnt call on for help, and all the other states more or less said 'meh sucks for you'.
This incident lead to the Constitutional Convention that wrote the document we still uphold today, and bringing in more of a centralized Federal Republic, and not a decentralized confederated one.
My ranty point is, we tried the whole true democracy thing and it failed. So we went to a Federal Republic, still very much democratic, but moved away from a true democracy.
Aww man... I loved PayDay 2 and was stoked for the 3rd, but now I don't have much desire to get it...
I uexpressly used the official Reddit app and actually enjoyed the app slightly more than 3rd party ones before I deleted it. The 3rd party app nonsense was more of a final straw than really caring about 3rd party apps.
For myself I've seen a steady decline in Reddit for the past few years. It went from a cool and quirky community of people, to trolls and ads.
I left Reddit for the same reasons I left Insta and FB, because it wasn't why I wanted to be there in the first place anymore.
Those apps where there for me to connect with people. Not be sold and have my information be sold.
Reddit was created to share information and have like minded people come together under anonymity, not take my information or having me be sold via ads based off my subs to turn profit.
Yes, I totally agree that practicing tolerance and acceptance is overrated, and is a secret plot by the lizard people who rule the world to make us compliant.
Anyone who looks different than me should be locked away is what I always say.
So how is this guy romanticizing it? I'm not being an apologist here, but that is exactly what they were used for? To crush dissent.
More like corporate greed did
I agree. I like Lemmy, but it seems like nearly every post is about Reddit. Like someone always talking about their toxic ex they just broke up with.
Also, whenever I try to look at only my subbed communities. I literally only see the memes community.
I just restarted playing this game as well. I'm currently modding tf out of it with the Aldrnari modpack. Probably gonna kill my computer.
Omg get out here lol