I used to play black ops 1 a shitload. I was fresh out of highschool and it was my first online game after getting internet. I already liked FPS games and this was interactive FPS with actual skilled people instead of shitty bullet sponge bots.
As for why people love them so much now? I have no idea. I'm sure I also wouldn't have cared for them if I had played online games earlier in life.
I'd much rather have a compelling story nowadays.
Good example of someone who wasn’t paying attention to an issue until it affected them
"you're just being alarmist and hyperbolic, that would never happen" -Nearly everyone around me, for the last decade or so
Coworkers said she committed treason and should be executed for this.
When asked about literally trying to overthrow the government when Dementia Donnie lost, that was somehow NOT treason and also somehow democrats doing a false flag, and also antifa did it, and also those people are heroes for NOT being there NOT trying to do anything and NOT actively hanging their previously elected VP in effigy.
Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.
"Yeah, I made sure to lock up before I left, the fire alarm and security system were all running fine, and as nearby CCTV cameras will show I left the building and headed in the direction of home, I have no idea what could have caused the electrical issues that made them both stop functioning right before the store burned down. Of course since I lost my job, it's not really MY problem, now is it? click"
I want a Bluetooth physical phone so I can slam the receiver down and hang up with flair
Damn, that's the same bass-ackwards logic that record companies use to say piracy makes them lose money.
Spoiler alert: the majority of people pirating your stuff would not have otherwise purchased it. You have lost nothing.
Similarly, the majority of people using gamepass to play the game would absolutely not have bought the game, especially since it's the same game as last time, with new names and skins.
For instance: the last call of duty game I bought was MW3. I only played black ops 2 when someone got two copies for their birthday and gave one to me I only remember playing for the zombies. I have played a total of less than 30 minutes, from startup screen to shutdown, of all the call of duties since then. Absolutely no chance in hell I'd buy another one. But I'm sure Microsoft would have included me trying it out as a potential lost sale of every one of them.
I love the idea of Objects that can do things we can't explain.
The Lost Room is probably what got me started, and Control really scratches that itch. I absolutely love the idea of The Oldest House.
Twitter is the only thing I will ever intentionally deadname.
Companies aren't people, neither are billionaires.
not a vibrator, it's a "personal massager" and how dare you suggest such a device could be used sexually!
"We believe that [OBJECT] played a significant role in religious rituals." -Half of any objects found from 5,000+ years ago
When you tell a funny story from your childhood but instead of laughing, your friend hugs you and says "I'm so sorry you went through that" :
In the current world, we don't care about what you should and shouldn't do to protect yourself, but only about what appears to be proper
We can't actually DO anything, because they haven't officially declared an open war, and defending yourself against attacks just wouldn't be proper
Now please go quietly protest away from anyone that considers it an inconvenience. It's what's proper, you know.
Note: I am from the US and when I say "we" I mean the collective peoples of earth, not to indicate I am from the UK.