I see what you’re getting at - if we’re gonna allow our citizens freedom of speech, this is part of what it looks like. For the record, these dumb ass takes on my LGBTQ+ peeps do NOT align with my own personal feelings. However, freedom of speech is objectively a good thing.

Problem is that entities like Meta and X are suppressing the voices of people that are making comments against the status quo and challenging the uber rich, and elevating the voices of the bigots.

All that to say I think that’s why people are downvoting you, but I agree with you.

Thumbnail looks like this Bruno Mars album cover

Could you post a link? Can’t seem to find it.

I’ve avoided this thread for a bit because I assumed there’d be a bunch of dick jokes. I was pleasantly surprised with a bunch of thoughtful and awesome comments. Fucking love the nerdiness of this community.

To answer the question - there’s a number of them, but i think the first one for me was Fable: The Lost Chapters. It added a ton of new content on top of the base game, plus there were a good amount of extra side quests, challenges, puzzles, collectibles, etc, that I got so much beautiful and memorable gameplay from it.

It does feel like games nowadays are made to appeal to the masses and/or pump out a lot of games as quickly as possible in order to generate as much money as possible. Fortunately indie game studios and devs still exist for people that are looking for a little more substance. Shout out to the Indie Stone for Project Zomboid and their continued efforts to add more awesome features to their game!!

I’m actually going to Guyana in January to see a couple of friends get married. Going to be there for a week. I’ve been there before - lovely, amazing people, but not a lot to do. I think I’m gonna check this out while I’m there.

Sorry, I misunderstood your previous comment. Thanks for the clarification. I agree that these charitable donations from billionaires are basically just positive PR stunts because there’s essentially no tangible cost to them.

Everyone hates billionaires for hoarding their money, but then it’s also a problem when they’re giving it away to charity.

Billionaires suck and shouldn’t exist, but they do. I know this is going to get downvoted to hell because it seems a majority of the users here can’t stand anything remotely positive being said about billionaires. But guys - it’s an isolated good thing when billionaires give away large sums of their money to charitable causes. Doesn’t mean that they shouldnt pay more in taxes, or that they’re wonderful people, or that they accumulated their wealth in moral ways. All of these things can be true at the same time.

You’re completely neglecting the fact that he still has Microsoft stock… plus, he’s certainly holding stock in other companies. It’s disingenuous to say that his increase in net worth between 2008 and 2024 is solely due to the money he’s donated.

For what it’s worth, I’m not pro Bill Gates or billionaires - I just feel like it’s important to speak factually when trying to address an issue.

Yup. I live in the FSA (fucked states of america), am latina and I know a few of those fuckers. Beyond disappointing

Project Zomboid!! I love this game. I go through bursts of being addicted to it for a couple of months and then dropping it for several months before picking it back up again. Excited for Build 42!