so....they replaced the guy on watch, right?

BroForce. There are enemies, but it's totally just blowing shit up with parodies of action movie heroes. Lots of cascading explosions, very satisfying.

Every episode of Star Trek: TNG that isn't about tachyons.

"Bro." Started saying it ironically and accidentally rewired my brain.

I'd rather they just make a third game. Especially since they blocked the fan-made one when they hadn't done anything with the IP for years.

Just when I thought I couldn't love her more

Tell me, when he's tellin' lies.

If I remember, someone (I wanna say Matt Hardy?) won the Light Heavyweight/Cruiserweight title at one point, and the whole gimmick was people questioning his weight and him avoiding scales, etc

In combat sports usually if a champ doesn't make weight before the fight they either a) have to drop it or b) make a deal with the challenger that they get more of the purse to risk getting put in a coma by someone 15 pounds heavier than them, depending on the promotion

You can't have both. The platforms are not inherently evil, it's the money people/corpos that run them. None of them started that way, they were all projects started by small groups, and were even fun/useful at first. Scale -> corpo attention -> buyout -> slop. That's the cycle. It won't change. You can enjoy the smaller shit until it either dies because it can't be sustained, or is bought out by Monty Burns and he only knows one way to live. Either way, you'll then have to move on to whatever the current new is if you want out.

Would work for commercials, too

Celery, gum, don't have anything ready-to-eat in the kitchen.

If you use Gnome and Flatpaks there is an app called Authenticator on Flathub

Are you using the flatpak? I've never had anything but silly perm issues with that. Using the repo installed from the deb + proton GE works smoothly for me for everything.

Tough crowd.

+1

Changes in barometric pressure.

if we're going by numbers, you mentioned how many users are active on each platform. then you mentioned "Search terms like "facebook alternatives" have absolutely skyrocketed to unprecedented levels in the last couple years". What are those numbers? Is that growth in line with what is happening in the growth of the new platforms? I don't have that answer, but that is also not based on complete data. What I am describing is 35ish years of repeating patterns, and the realities of commerce and human nature. Every platform has followed the pattern of "die a hero, or live long enough to become the victim." And I don't even just mean social media, hell I don't even just mean the Internet. Is it defeatist to say "enjoy what you have and don't try to be just like the others since they've consistently followed a path that is clearly NOT what you want?" I'm all for scale, I'm all for new users. But there is a breaking point where you have to sell ads or data or die and that's just economics. I feel like I'm being as honest about limitations as you are, I'm just applying psychology and history to it.

tl;dr: Growth good. Users and new tech good. Trying to replicate the numbers of behemoths without acknowledging the same path they all took to get there is how you create more. Or die trying due to lack of resources to maintain it.

Any Lego game

anxiety + immersion = all better!

There are many more times that punching someone in the throat IS the right answer than you think.