is skeptical and doesn't believe in the supernatural
has a fear of developing superstition

Sounds to me like you've been cursed, mate.

When you peek from a rock, close your mouth 'round the clock, that's a moray.

The poormandoro

It was funny like the first two times. Humor used to be more "random", people got tired cause it's overdone now.

I unplugged the bassist but noone noticed

When your ass is so massive it bends light. Haters will say it's photoshopped.

There's also the fact that they're completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics

I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That's the whole point of them, they're just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don't see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.

It's more like we didn't like pay2win on online games, so they started making it "just cosmetic" in those, and somehow now people think it's acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I'll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I'm actually playing a game and not an advertisement.

It's a good opportunity to teach your kid about peer pressure then, and how they don't need to do everything their friends do.

I have my search history for that. Useless "feature".

Okay, and some are really good, like DF or CDDA or OpenTTD... But you're never going to find a free Dark Souls, a free Baldur's Gate 3 or a free Return to the Obra Dinn.

So I think it absolutely makes sense paying for quality games like those.

The original holds up anyway, and I firmly believe they were gonna butcher it, so... is this a win?

If you wanna protect children, you restrict their access to the internet in the first place. Good parenting and restricted access to technology is the way to go.

We need more encryption and less MacBooks at school for 8 year olds.