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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: February 16th, 2025
  • I played TF2 from release, to the month they implemented matchmaking. Technically they left the ability to host and join specific servers, but those emptied and never came back. I was now essentially only allowed to pay with strangers.

    I joined again for the Halloween event, thinking my tradition of playing hours of Mann Manor could still be enjoyed at least. After all, it was a special event, and I knew others would join the 24/7 Manor servers like they had every year, just like me.

    Nope. They were all empty. Everyone still only joined matchmaking. I miss my server-friends. Mostly it was just acquaintances, but sometimes I’d make a real long-term friend after we’d find eachother at an event IRL.

    As is almost always the case, the algo that optimizes, doesn’t optimize for what I want or need, it optimizes for what an unfeeling corp “needs”. I want less downtime, sure, but not at the cost of meaning.

  • Ahh I get it, thank you. The machine is hurting you specifically now and so you’re lashing out.

    “The other stuff, that was cool, but daddy said we were good and everything was chill while we watched the degenerates and the environment burn! but that was a lie! We’re not chill! And now Daddy wants my flower too!”

    They’re going to do to your AC what they did to the buffalo🤣

  • I think giving language a fixed agency in human society 4,000 years ago by permanently structuring it, binding it to physicality, and giving it violent control over people was a bad idea. But gurl, unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about “certain parts” of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.

    Unless you are taking us back back, you are a posturing, uneducated, little baby who has drank so much of the Kool aid she can’t see the forest she is in at all.

  • It is now. If you want it not to be, go ahead and stop all this modern bullshit happening around me.

    You can’t yell at people on the ocean that they don’t really need boats, and then attack boats. I mean you can, but it’s foolish and unproductive.