Because you can't monetize blog posts as effectively as you can videos :/
I hate it.
boatswain
joined 2 years ago
I know time got weird with the pandemic, but that was not actually before 1990, believe it or not.
As someone already said, don't delete your old characters, especially your oldest one: birthday gifts are per character rather than per account. You probably have a ton in your mail if you haven't gotten them yet. Probably best to be near a back when you open them; they'll take a lot of inventory space.
It's up to you whether you want to dive back in on an old character, or start from scratch again on a new one. The nice thing is that leveling is pretty quick, and the game is very alt-friendly; you're almost expected to have multiple characters, and endgame equipment is all account bound rather than character bound, so you can share it around between characters.
I'd use the 1-80 journey to figure out what you enjoy in game. You get XP for all of it, so once You've checked out all. (or maybe most) of it, do the bits you like. Personally,I like exploration and story, so I do that bits. Also instanced PvE. There's also WvW, PvP, races, adventures, crafting, collections, achievement hunting... all kinds of stuff.
Enjoy it, and welcome back!
The thing is, truth decay has been going on for a while now. 2016 was of course the year of "alternative facts," but even before then anyone with sufficient money and/or clout could redefine truth to some degree.
What we're going to see with ChatGPT and deepfakes is really just a democratization of truth decay: what was once the province of only a few will now be open to us all.
The Battlestar Galactica reboot should have ended after Season 2; 3 was meh and 4 was terrible.
Haha 2001 was my first thought, and Idiocracy was my second.
Yeah, I stay away from the nonstick stuff as well, for the same reason. Just thought that thinking of seasoning as a nonstick coating target than as something to be cleaned off might be helpful, though I totally get it if not.
What about if you think off it like Teflon on a nonstick pan?
1990 is like practically new. Do you mean 1890?
Ah gotcha, I can understand how that might be a thing; cat iron is definitely something you treat differently than other dishes. There's a whole fascinating level of nerdery to proper seasoning, but it's definitely special cookware that doesn't fit the usual patterns.
Don't forget strong policies to keep everything from enshittifying all over again! Check out Cory Doctorow's thoughts from DefCon: https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?feature=shared