Quote from: Mr Psychologist on October 13, 2015, 07:46:48 PM

I could easily have not existed at all and just been a ghost

But yeah, being dead in all but a name for two years is perhaps a little depressing.

Oddly enough, this is precisely how I want to operate at my institution. I don't want anyone to remember me.

Indeed, I mean preferably I'd spend the next two years as a ghost as well but unfortunately I think I'm going to be obliged to prove my existence at some point which is uh... fun.

Equally though, I'm not half as depressed/anxious as I was a year ago so eh. It's more of a 'alright fine, let's get this over with' at the thought of speaking to the tutor/class rather than 'just kill me now'

Hmm, perhaps how (as I was saying about 10 minutes ago to tru and LC) I have so far gone two years on my degree without anyone knowing I exist beyond a name and an ID number that gets pasted at the top of the assignments I hand in.

I've never turned up in person to the face to face tutorials and for the online stuff I uh... 'lost' my microphone. Then uninstalled the microphone driver to avoid talking to people with a mic rather than a keyboard.

So up until tomorrow, when I'll actually appear as something other than what could be passed off as a bot that will have been two solid years out of four on this course, where I could easily have not existed at all and just been a ghost that someone else was using the name of <.<

It sounds a little more depressing on paper than it is to me, I kind of enjoyed not really existing for that period of time. Now that I'm not a rotting corpse that is too anxious to go outside, it's still a little weird when I do things that are perfectly normal to meatbags without either crippling agony or going off the rails upstairs.

Fun either way.

But yeah, being dead in all but a name for two years is perhaps a little depressing.

GLORIOUS

You know, I really loathe quote snipping.
It's such a tiresome and petty way of arguing.

EA isn't taking advantage of anyone here, they are offering the standard season pass price for the decent amount of content (assuming they copy a battlefield game with quantity). Ontop of that they are offering the first DLC free to all the players.

The game is £40, standard pricing
The pass will be £35, standard pricing

Unless you'd like to see the basegame cost £80/$90 so that they recover their expenditure from the production of a game, why complain about an optional season pass?
If this was the cut content debacle all over again, then yeah anyone should be pissed. It's not though, Jakku isn't going to be a 108kb day one download to activate disc locked content.

Whining =/= Their entire platform being at risk of sinking into the ground
They fucked up big time, the utter slating they got from the entire planet combined with no doubt dire preorder numbers of the console is what changed the game there. Not a few comments on a forum.

And the only way to get our point across is via our wallets and complaining.

And this is why you fail.

But hey, feel free to go onto battlelog bitching away and see how much they care.

The thing is though, there isn't a deluge of outrage over this. There is a bit of whining going on and that's it, that is because they aren't doing anything out of the ordinary. Every other major AAA publisher offers a season pass nowadays because it is an assured investment into producing extra content that both allows the player to enjoy more of the game and the dev/pub to recover costs of making the title.

Games are bloody expensive to make, very few of them recoup their cost on retail sales alone. A season pass is entirely optional for the player and gives both parties a mutually beneficial transaction. It's less of a gamble than buying a AAA title off the bat because you will have presumably put more than two hours into a demo at that point and you'll know if you want more of it.

Well in that case preach away, and uh good luck father ted.
Just don't expect your audience to all lap it up.

My shilling for EA is a self-deprecating joke, of course I don't shill for a company. I just don't have a problem with EA's recent change of face, enjoy the games they publish and that's that. But of course someone who doesn't see something through your eyes must be blind eh?

Do me a favour though would you?
If you are going to quote snip this post as well, don't bother replying. I'm not alt-tabbing for 10 minutes to read what you've posted and reply at the same time.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on October 13, 2015, 08:19:13 AM

Or if it's not metal gear enough, then why bother complaining about a company you don't care for at all?

well, because other people care for it, and that's a problem, because the more people support them, the higher the precedent is set--so whether or not you like the company, or the games it develops, shouldn't be a factor if we're making some kind of ethical argument

rest of your post was good though

Hmm sound enough counterpoint really.

Facetiousness aside, do you think that any major company/publisher/business online is even remotely receptive to whining anymore?

They care about two things:

1) Profit margins
2) Positive Feedback

#1 Speaks for itself
#2 If you are confronted with a thousand posts by random users bitching about anything and everything are you inclined to actually read that?
Say you go to skim it for giggles and in the mix of those thousand posts you see one that isn't just crying and is saying 'good job on XYZ, really enjoying it yadayadayada'
After the end of reading/skimming those thousand posts, which one is going to stick out in your memory?
The positive one or the nine hundred and ninety nine shitposts?

Whining at EA won't make a blind bit of difference at this point, they are trying to improve some of their practices and people could at least give them credit for it.

Don't buy the stuff you don't like, let them know what you do.

Or if it's not metal gear enough, then why bother complaining about a company you don't care for at all?

Happy Birthday

Have a very oh day

These niggas

https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/162271661/0/0

You absolute madman.

Can't keep a straight face with the spazing Jojos

That would be the plan e.e

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T6 and Psy

Just quoting this to add to the stroheim spazout.

Do you have trouble my friend?


It is okay. I am here.

Thank you brother, I am indeed troubled.

I sat on a grenade last night and blew my torso off.

It hurts a little bit tbh

It is okay.

I know this pain. I too, have been blown up

Thankfully though...

WAGA DOITSU NO IGAKUYAKUGAKU WA SEKAI ICHI

Right so EA could have just stuck that in the season pass and said nut up or shut up, and yet they give it out for free and people still whine about them being greedy.

That's your 'cut content' right there, the rest will be being made post launch.

I get that EA is unpopular but people could at least cut them some slack for the good things they do rather than just shitting all over them like they are the worst company in America.

T6 and Psy

Just quoting this to add to the stroheim spazout.

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Quote from: Finger Face on October 13, 2015, 01:45:29 AM

Fruit and Tru

oh

Not much has changed since the last time this thread was made, deary.

Tru's British

I'm not

Totally different

You can't hear accents through the internet.

YOU WANNA FAKIN BET MATE?

So it looks like Elsie has already handled this particular one but I think we'll look at shaping up the current guidelines on shitposting because it's just causing one headache after another at this point.

This is kind of a lesson in why we don't let psy write rules/guidelines/anything remotely official official because um... my style of writing is somewhat eccentric and leaves a little bit of a lot of loopholes in it.