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Kick—syphoning up as much thotwater as possible from thirst traps

In all honesty, I never messed with yt streaming and was quite chronically on twitch for almost ten years. Mostly hanging out in Aris’ streams listening to him talk trash and dicking around. But, his channel got so big and too overrun by overzealous mods that he doesn’t ban anyone unless you @ him with something stupid. The subject of Paul Walker came up and I was memeing like everyone else and put “Pedo Paul” as the most throwaway comment ever, and guess what? I was afk and came back to a permaban. I know it wasn’t Aris (the streamer) because I know he wouldn’t have given two shits about that. So, I was like, all the other streams I ever really watch are dark souls and re1 speedruns, might as well use this as an opportunity to be more productive with my time instead of hanging out in vacuous chat rooms absorbing the exact same content continuously.

I hungout in his stream for the vga’s to see the memefest I knew it would be, but I sort of look at it as a fun time while it lasted, and a gratuitous ban from my favorite streamer is what I needed to break away from the unproductive, rote addiction I had. Podcasts are a better alternative to background noise or multitasking anyway. At least for me.

A nice post prompt, OP. To start, and to riff off yours, I’d say games that don’t have a run option, and insist on a milquetoast in between of “fast-walking.” Here are mine that I can think of from some of the most recent games I’ve played:

–No third-person viewing option in an RPG; e.g., Cyberpunk 2077. After readily having the option in my hundreds of combined hours in Skyrim and FO, it felt preposterous not having the option to view my character at will. Crazy.

–Needlessly loud start menu music or fx leading to the title screen

–I’m doubtful there’s any sort of terminology for this, but, mission-style games that don’t make any attempt to establish a linear, interlocking world. E.g., Nioh. It’s very souls-like overall, but I really wish this aspect of the game was more like a From game in this regard.

Might edit in some more if this post stays active.

@UnshavedYak for real. It’s so refreshing not having to see loads of wasted awards on the most facile, idiotic comments. Or the obnoxious avatars people made in place of their pfp. It seems so hyperbolic but it genuinely feels great not having to see all that anymore.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Even with federation off it feels like it’s already turning into a smaller version of what we had before. Not so much with post content or comments per se, but more for the already established “power users” and recreation of the exact same garbage, popular subs. I can’t believe how many people I’ve already blocked that I got sick of seeing on every single post.