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thing we love...?-This is how you destroy the very thing that you love.
thing we love...?-This is how you destroy the very thing that you love.
Ok the tone is a little dramatic but I agree with this. I think Dark Souls, the Dark Souls of difficulty gatekeeping/hardcore debate, is a great illustration of this.-This is how you destroy the very thing that you love. They will grow to resent you, and hate what you preserve. They will fight against it, and destroy it.
Before the internet, you could decide with whom you shared your disks and for whom you copied them.
Didn't work for Apple.The only real gatekeeping I've met was on Linux forums, where newcomers were routinely told to rtfm and fuck off.
When I see the sorry state of Linux right now, I don't think its was much of a success.
Linux is better than it's ever been! I have a massive game library I can play so I don't have to dual boot with Windows anymore. A few years ago I couldn't say that.
The people who gatekeep Linux like the current state of Linux and want to keep it the way it is. They're usually either highly-technical power users and/or smug assholes who want to use their choice of OS as a way to gain nerd cred. They don't want to see their OS dumbed down for the masses and they're sick of Windows midwits who want Linux to be exactly like Windows but free.
Personally, I'm not a fan of gatekeeping Linux. For specific distros I think it's fine. But I think beginner-oriented distros like Ubuntu should exist. A larger userbase results in better hardware and software compatibility.
It's like in Crusader Kings when a dynasty reaches a high enough level of decadence and a tribe comes out of the desert to replace them.
Just goes to show that gatekeeping doesn't accomplish anything, right?
"No! You can't have this! You aren't good enough!"
-This is how you destroy the very thing that you love. They will grow to resent you, and hate what you preserve. They will fight against it, and destroy it.
If instead you learn to include them, and show them why you love the things you love so much, then maybe they will learn to love and preserve them too.
When has it ever been the opposite?
Didn't work for Apple.The only real gatekeeping I've met was on Linux forums, where newcomers were routinely told to rtfm and fuck off.
When I see the sorry state of Linux right now, I don't think its was much of a success.
Linux is better than it's ever been! I have a massive game library I can play so I don't have to dual boot with Windows anymore. A few years ago I couldn't say that.
The people who gatekeep Linux like the current state of Linux and want to keep it the way it is. They're usually either highly-technical power users and/or smug assholes who want to use their choice of OS as a way to gain nerd cred. They don't want to see their OS dumbed down for the masses and they're sick of Windows midwits who want Linux to be exactly like Windows but free.
Personally, I'm not a fan of gatekeeping Linux. For specific distros I think it's fine. But I think beginner-oriented distros like Ubuntu should exist. A larger userbase results in better hardware and software compatibility.
Wtf is storyfaggotry anyways?
I asked because every time I watch one of those Josh Worse MMOs Ever, he always says the story doesn't matter. I started to think that maybe all narrative was just being trashed upon.
Similar, hearing combat fags made me think that combat driven games were being shit upon. Or was it ceaseless Grinding I'm confusing it with? Then there were the VN crowd which I thought was the origin of story fagging.
I don't know. I played the games but never really knew some of the terms like boomer, blobber, etc. I need a gamers index of terminology to keep on hand.
Before the internet, you could decide with whom you shared your disks and for whom you copied them.
Yeah, let's have some memberberries.
When I was like 6-7, I had a "Computer Class" teacher that considered SimCity to be an educational tool. I remember finding her in the hallway with a pile o floppy disks and asking her to copy the game pretty please and...she actually did. My brother then did the copying and installing from the floppy disks, BUT I bought/formatted enough disks all by myself back then. My brother could no longer claim he got all our games since 7 y/o me would smugly reply "I got us Simcity! ".
Much later in life we had one of the first few CD recorders in our town. Back then the only way to get games was either knowing someone with a CD recorder OR following shady ads on the newspaper and paying people who pirated shit "professionally" for copies that may or may not work. Back in those days this:
Was a profitable investment.
Although I never got into recording stuff for money (except for small potatoes stuff like "give me 2 blank CDs: one for your game, one for my troubles") I did have the questionable honor of deciding who among my classmates was worthy of a copy of Warcraft 2.
By the time I got to high school CD/DVD recorders were much more common and trading games withother piratesgentlemen who also owned a recorder was the main way to expand your library of games, movies, music albums and whatnot. Oh, and back in those days some would also trade porn. See what looks to be a drug deal, but it's actually a CD case being passed around? Yeah, those dudes are trading p0rn. People who traded games didn't bother hiding.
Indeed, back in the day piracy was a lot more wholesome. Well, except for the guys recommending jackoff materials to each other, that shit was weird .
I knew all about CD and DVD -RW models back then. Such obsolete knowledge now. I got a collection of drives stored somewhere, and the one I currently "use" in my PC isn't even connected to the mobo anymore.
But the more pressing question: where did all the dwarves go?
"... I'm just saying you can't just make 6 million dwarves disappear like that... where would you hide the mountains of disintegration dust?"But the more pressing question: where did all the dwarves go?
This is where the dwarves of Tamriel actually went:
where would you hide the mountains of disintegration dust?"
If they are winning why are they still elves?W40k dwarves were disappeared as well.
The fucking elves are winning this, bros
But the more pressing question: where did all the dwarves go?
There were never any gatekeepers. You can't effectively gatekeep people out of engaging in a hobby, especially one supported by a company that wants to make profit, which means selling more product. They are a boogieman created to invalidate all criticism of long time fans when the product is changed. You don't want the sequel to your favorite game to by extremely dumbed down? You're a gatekeeper who don't want to let younger people engage in your hobby.