Is it not more like saying "I won't drink Budweiser because they advertise a known harmful substance and I consider that a manipulative business practice"? I could still drink hundreds of other beers and instead support breweries that don't rely on manipulative advertising tactics to make money. I'm not saying that I don't play video games, and I'm not suggesting that anyone stop playing video games. I simply choose not to play video games that employ business practices that I consider to be manipulative

Yeah I understand your viewpoint, and this was my perspective for a long time as well. But I've come to realise that it's a self-centered perspective. These people aren't necessarily dumb, they're being manipulated by the game developers. Micro transactions are engineered to take advantage of natural human drives for reward and social connection. So I'll just not play those games, because I don't want to support that kind of behavior from game studios

I feel that playing a game that has micro transactions and not participating in them still contributes to the problem. In fact, it seems to me that these micro transaction heavy games NEED people that don't buy the cosmetics. It creates a greater sense of superiority in the people that do buy them by creating a hard line between the "plebs" (f2p players) and themselves. Regardless of how it makes you personally feel, lots of others will succumb to the social pressure of wanting to feel superior to f2p "bots"/"noobs"/"plebs". It's the same reason that people buy shit that they don't need in real life, the difference being that you don't get to choose whether or not you participate in an economic system

I have like 3k+ hours but I haven't really played in the last year or so besides leagues

Why doesn't Biden just illegally overturn this ruling? He has immunity

This. Base 10 sucks because it's harder to evenly divide. People give imperial a bunch of shit because the conversion factors are weird (and they really are), but have no problem with time units which are even more fucked up. We use a metric-like system for measuring units smaller than a second (milli, micro, nano seconds), but then there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, etc etc. The Gregorian calendar doesn't even have a simple conversion between things like days and months! It depends on the fucking month!

I actually never played the og tactics, played a ton of tactics advance on GBA though, and have played it on emulators multiple times since. Really fun game, I'm a big fan of the art style

Yeah I agree with a lot of what you've said here. I actually switched to db0 from lemm.ee as my primary instance when hexbear defederated from ee. I mostly lurk anyways but I do like seeing their posts from time to time, at the very least it's good to get a wider perspective on things. Tbh Lemmy in general and especially the leftist instances have made me reconsider some of my long standing beliefs and have contributed greatly to my radicalization lol

Have you looked into mutual aid groups in your area? I found a group near me just from Facebook/Google, they mainly distribute food and camping supplies to homeless people or anyone else that needs it