>not assuming all the guests aren't still just russian/chinese bots

those of you who bought destiny 2 need to go on recruiting spree

We might be able to draw in a couple of peeps but I think a lot of the old members that remained there have something against this place.

Damn son that Recon post makes me legit sad. It's weird feeling such a connection to community of online peeps you've never actually met. I really wish more members would've gotten over whatever pettiness they have against Sep7agon and come here.

Why are they implementing these restrictions? Their "community" is just kids talking about the game and the same group of losers circle jerking in offtopic I'd assume. I'm baffled as to why they even care.

People seem to think it's to quell all the negative criticism they're receiving. Specifically centered around the whole 'remove eververse' shit. Kicking people from gaming and off-topic just doesn't make any sense, though. It's pretty obvious they don't give a shit about the old Halo/Oni/Marathon fans.

Quote from: Aether on February 06, 2018, 08:14:52 PM

I don't have a bank account

Sure Im against credit cards but how the fuck do you do anything without an account?

You don't need a bank account when you don't have anything to put into one.

Quote from: Aether on February 06, 2018, 08:14:52 PM

I don't have a bank account

Do you just hide large sums of cash under your mattress or something?

Nah mang, I'm a fucking broke ass deadbeat.

Anything Activision seeps its corporate venom into inevitably becomes an insatiable greedy hollow shell of its former self.

Plenty of THPS things (specifically THUG-THAW), spent way too many years becoming one of the top players. Got a high combo in American Wasteland (without cheats or glitches) that was over the score limit of 2,147,483,647. I've also managed to learn just about every one of the insanely hard glitches/techniques in the games (kind of like double shot or BXR in Halo 2) and can do most of them while comboing. Some are practically like doing a Mortal Kombat fatality mid combo to pull them off correctly.

Year and a half of sporadic improvement. Gives me some hope, at least.



Would've crammed a lot more practice in if I wasn't battling these shitty health problems.

Quote from: Aether on February 01, 2018, 09:40:52 AM

The point, for me, is that these issues exist somewhere in Europe, and I'm afraid that they will spread to places where they aren't currently an issue.

Never say never, but I doubt it. If anything, Europe is moving towards stronger and more privacy protections in changing times. If you fear for your privacy then the US should be your main concern at this point.

Still, gotta stay vigilant for this stuff. Privacy and security are difficult to balance.

I'm very concerned about the privacy violations going on in this country. What concerns me about the UK is that all this new legislation being introduced that is undermining the right to privacy is less clandestine in nature. Which alludes that the general population may be more accepting of it.

I don't think the US government could openly introduce policies like that here. I don't believe our society would accept it. Not now, anyways, but hopefully never.

I'm not sure.

Perhaps the one that nearly all illicit drugs should be legalized and the resources used to prosecute individuals for using should be funneled into programs that educate people more effectively and help addicts use safer (clean needles, quality controlled substances etc) and ultimately come clean.

Basically treat drug use as a public health issue instead of a criminal one.

Quite the opposite. I can't seem to escape from my mother.

Perhaps one day when I'm not a sickly deadbeat.

and don't get me started on my "woman" faces

Ha I've been trying to figure them out for like 3 years now and I've still got a lot more figuring out to do.

Oh I'm not planning on stopping playing forever or anything. Not unless they actually start abusing the new policy. I don't expect Blizzard specifically to be abusive. I don't have any real negative bias towards them as a company, and I would like to think that they aren't abusive. It's just that I've seen this same sort of sentiment slowly morph into abuse over time from other organizations having been watching the social-political landscape more intently than I ever have really over the past two or so years now.

This seems all too familiar to me and it's that uneasy feeling I'm getting from this that is turning me away from virtually anything right now that is taking new steps to prevent 'abuse.' It's because what actually constitutes abuse seems to be constantly shifting towards things that are more and more benign in nature. I just can't be sure of whether or not it's an appeal to this outrage culture we find ourselves in currently. I certainly hope it isn't, and I'll surely be one to give Blizzard props if they remain fair.

Like I said, if this wasn't happening during a time where taking offense to everything has become the new 'cool' thing to do, then I probably would've have such an uneasy feeling about it.

Also, I'm not very privy to the extent of the bans WOTC dished out to certain players. I simply know that they banned one of their most prominent players for having posted something deemed controversial on a private facebook group. Something entirely disconnected from MTG itself from what I've heard on multiple accounts, and if WOTC is truly banning players for expressing controversial opinions in a private setting away from any platform owned or associated with WOTC, that I would say is taking it too far.

As for the sacrifice of truth for the sake of feelings, yes it is happening. And in universities of all places. The idea that humans are born as a blank slate, the denial of biological differences between the sexes, the idea of the scientific method being an oppressive tool of western colonialism, these are sentiments that have been expressed in academic institutions as of late. The vast majority of students don't seem to share them, thankfully, but they have no place in a university, and the fact that untruth is being tolerated now, presumably to not upset certain people, is unacceptable to me. But anyways, I digress and this thread is about Overwatch. It looks like we at least understand each other even if we don't exactly agree so lets just leave it at that.