I remember those days. Console games would release and that was it. The sequel(or expansion) might fix a thing or two. Multiplayer meant hanging out with friends. Computer game lobbies had custom game servers. If you wanted to wear a funny hat you would play on the funny hat server.

I don’t really care for many multiplayer games so the MTX bug didn’t have much of a chance to bite me. I did play TF2 when it started until it started to have items. All the fun evaporated. The hats weren’t so funny when every server was the funny hat server.

I have a friend who has spent a lot of money on loot boxes since day one. There’s no stopping the guy. When I was still around the neighborhood we grew up in we’d hang out often enough. I remember at least one night he was glued to his phone opening counterstrike boxes/crates while the rest of the crew was hanging out. I think he got a cool knife out of the hours spent on it. Maybe he sold that knife for the loot box money. I have no idea to be honest. It was a lot of crates for a game I’ve never played in a currency I don’t understand. The MTX bug could raise great grandchildren off of a whale like him. It was weird seeing him under the spell of it all. Counterstrike was playing him that day.

He’s not “one lootbox away from living on the street” but I found it concerning the amount of money going up in smoke like that. He is just one of many people who do it. It’s gambling but the prize is a digital carnival item you might be able to sell on their marketplace. I’m glad I don’t get it.

Do they not know how to read where you come from?

Did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.

next thing they’ll be saying is that loot boxes were in the epstein Files.

israel shot another kid. This time in Portland, Oregon.

Thats how you know it is expensive.

I am only subscribed to Garfield so my subscribed button pulls up Garfield comic posts.

Great discussion

That toothpick in the sandwich is a good toothpick. Got one in a sample about a month ago and I’ve been using it to eat olives.

How about a tl;dw for people who can read?

Balsac has been consistent. Debatable depending on your definition of original but it’s been the same guy for a long time.

Money you can fuck? I don’t see why not. Not entirely sure how it’ll change hands moving forward but it’s time to shake things up.

Hitler vs Reagan in a steel cage match. You’ll never believe who they’re rooting for.