Great analogy.

As a person with anxiety, this is the real mind-fuck. The world keeps proving the things I worry about are valid. I’m supposed to work on not worrying so much about the future, but it’s saved me several times now.

Adorable! Go get it gen-z :)

This is exactly my take. I can’t in good conscious buy a Blizzard game right now, so I kind of wanted this to go through.

Every other part of me did not want this to go through. With how popular game pass is, and how many studios they’re buying, this is just a recipe for a bait and switch and a bad situation for gamers down the road.

I’m in the US, and my family was fortunate to be able to move states. I’m still worried what will happen with the next US presidential election and whether we’ll have to flee the country. There was a news article recently that told the story of a trans child whose family was also moving. I found out they lived in my old neighborhood :( I am angry and scared and sad for these kids.

Meanwhile, everyone I know who is not queer is very dismissive when I try and talk about this stuff. They either accuse me of exaggerating, or assure me it will never get worse (worse? than what? literally having to move? people being denied healthcare? emergency care?).

I also have a lot of anxiety being around kids. Because of all the stupid propaganda about queer people being groomers, I feel like someone’s going to accuse me of something, but I’m an anxious person to begin with.

I’m also afraid to travel to “red states” (something that doesn’t actually exist). It might help you to know that I recently did, and everyone was friendly.

I think the real tragedy here is that most people are supportive of queer people, but there’s this tiny group of people shouting really loudly and making it seem like the world’s out to get us.

And for the record, I’m not letting these people prevent me from doing the things I want to do. That’s what they want.

I really dislike it, but it won’t stop me from buying a game. I was recently without internet and went to play a game on my Steam Deck and was surprised to find a game I had been playing required access.

What bugs me most about it is that it seems like everything these days is tilted towards the companies. If a game doesn’t require the internet, the only reason it’s there is to collect data on what you’re doing and maybe to help enforce DRM. It’s bad enough that I can only rent games from Steam (although bless Valve for making gaming on Linux so good), now I can’t even play the games I “own” if I don’t have a pipe back to the company? Ugh.

Guild Wars 2 for sure. It’s one of the games where I never turn the music off.