Why are gamers like this?
>>736480349Don't wanna admit we love the pop slop too
>>736480349but i did eat breakfast
>>736480349How did they know what they ACTUALLY played?
>>736480585They are in your walls
>>736480349Just check the steam profile, problem solved.
>>736480585>AAA dev>sent surveys>sample of 1000stop noticing
>>736480349No one wants to talk about the 1000+ hour games.
>>736480645lol
>>736480349Some stuff isn't tracked publicly or in any meaningful way. I'm almost certain Minecraft would be my most total playtime of all games across multiple decades but lmao that shit thank the fucking God don't got a real hour count
>>736480645>World of Warcraft? What's that?
>>736480741Dead tranny game.
>The people you’re listening to aren’t even your players>Once something is being discussed in public, people get social rewards for discussing it and saying the right opinions. A staggering number of people will chime in about games they have never even played and repeat an opinion they believe to be Right, because again, Being Right About Games is what matters.>Let me be extremely clear about this. People who have never played your game will give you feedback about it.I know tards here are gonna deny the facts of this that they aren't like this at all but they are.
>>736480769Perchance, but most people here have playtimes measured in years.
>>736480349Can we see the study?
>>736481025No
Westrannies will invent any excuse to avoid admitting they can't make games.
>Aksually we know far better than you what you want, pleb!How is your woke slop failing then, and why are chinks eating your company in 10% pieces on firesale?
Oh, its a bunch of bullshit.
>>736480585>>736480648A narrative about the consumer being wrong or retarded has to be crafted for the games urinalist class to run with because big money is losing too many investments on big projects in recent years. Controlling random people online is impossible but creating an image or perception to discredit the vocal "gamer" crowd must be done, otherwise too many normalfags will catch on. Welcome to propaganda. Same way they convinced women to get cancer at the turn of the last century by telling them they were "liberating themselves from the man", now they tell you average consumers are retards so you keep buying their edutainment social engineering slop.
>>736481773>bots talking to bots
>>736480349What the hell kind of correlation even is that? "These gamers didn't know their #1 time spents with certainty, so that means they all lie and make shit up about themselves constantly on a regular basis"?What dumbshit scam artist did this "study"?
>>736481773Everything you see on the Internet is bullshit. Hur hur peer reviewed, there's a gorillion studies made every picosecond, by the time its proven false its twenty past heat death of the universe, nobody gives a fuck any more, fancy that, la creatividad had it completely on the money.Trust your gut nigga
>>736482020You were wrong about your most played game just admit it it's not that big of a deal
>>736480349>Strong opinions on games they haven't playedJust like /v/
>>736480349SKYRIM, I PLAY SKYRIM.
>>736480349Which "AAA" dev mentioned in the article?
>>736482230Probably the one that needed to explain to the shareholders why they keep wasting money on bullshit nobody wants to play.
>>736481773Netflix obviously doesn't count though. Eric you faggot.
>a particular AAA developer I know of
>>736480349Gamers are like women, they say one thing, mean another.For example, DLSS and Raytracing, all they do is whining about those technologies then buy RTX 5000s in bulks to have access to said technologies.
>>736480741I haven't played WoW in ages now but it's easily my most played game ever because I spent like 10 years almost only playing WoW. Thank God that Blizzard ran it into the ground ages ago to set us neckbeards free.
>>736482162I'm sure I would be. I know the ballpark for my top five or so, but I'd be guessing which one. And if you removed the top five, most of my other games have signifigantly lesser, but still very similar playtimes as well.The study's author says not having immediate, top of head access to this fact means you're a compulsive, serial liar who can't be trusted to say anything truthful about themselves though.Basically anyone who isn't a human spreadsheet is full of shit. If I'm gonna be called a bitch ass liar, I want it to be because I lacked proof that I sodomized your mom in front of a high school orchestra, not because I wasn't keeping track of my playtimes.
>>736480349The game I've put the most hours into is something I haven't played in several years.
>>736480349Seems like a counterintuitive factoid, ie leftist bullshit.
>>736482289Kek. Chuckled a bit. Thanks anon, been a shitty day.
The game I played the most was Dota 2 and it turned out to be a depressing waste of time, I don't know if I could own up to it without anonymity desu.
>>736481773>Netflix is a game
>>736482725And you lost
>>736482472Dude, it's not like a reporter jumping you in the streets demanding an immediate answer. It's a survey. You can take time to come up with the answer.
>>736482472Seething
>>736481801>A narrative about the consumer being wrong or retarded has to be crafted for the games urinalist class to run with because big money is losing too many investments on big projects in recent years.it's funny because even if they did manage to convince devs and suits that the consumer is too retarded to support next GaaS fortnite-slop, they'll still be confused and demand to know why Concord 7 flopped
>which game they had played the most, then compared it with the data of what they had actually playedFalse, you compared it with data of what game they had left running for the longest. Not the same thing at all.Amateur analytics is going to destroy the human race
>>736481801Yall come up with the wildest conspiracy theories.This shit is done to explain why you're making a thing that should be popular, but isn't. The result: The information source about what's popular is garbage, stop listening to it.That's all there is to it.
>>736482787est shit
>>736480645steam profile doesn't measure how many hours i play all my pirated games tho
>>736480349It's not just in games
>>736483054>The result: The information source about what's popular is garbage, stop listening to it.and then they continue to make metrics-based decisions using surveillance data that continues to be just as wrong
Gachas are the worst for this>oh I just do 5 mins of dailies I can't have that much playtimebut if you check it adds up to like a thousand hours a yearand nobody qants to admit that
>Fap to VN or gacha 15 min, fall asleep>+10h playtime
>>736484047>cooming yourself to sleepyou guys don't really do this, right?
>>736484251Ask your doc for a testosterone check today, soi
>>736483758>We offer many choices, and, whatever they buy, is whatever we lean in to.And this is the step western video game companies fail at.
>>736480585Multiplayer games take up a lot of time. You spend less time playing them because you're waiting for other players, but the actual play time keeps counting. There will be games you actually enjoyed putting time into, but then you look at your play time and that popular multiplayer game will probably have significantly more time logged simply because it was open longer. This also applies to open world single player games: there's significantly more dead time wandering from place to place. It doesn't make an impression on you, the player, but that time adds up. This "data" is why publishers THINK people want more multiplayer and open world, when really it's not measuring engagement at all.
>>736480349these dick riders don't understand that steam doesn't count hours played when you're offline
>>73648339152,544 hours in space wars
>>736483758I doubt that applies in an anonymous survey. Self-evaluation may still be inaccurate, but anonymity should prevent socially-oriented answers.
>>736481801It's very likely that this Anon is right.These guys have squandered an astronomical amount of shareholders' money by creating games that nobody wants. These same guys were constantly antagonizing consumers and hiring consulting firms that openly said things like, "Our goal is to destroy the industry". Ubisoft, for example, has become a massive hub of activism, and an Anon posted hundreds of documents, internal emails, etc., proving this beyond a shadow of a doubt.Journalists, who have always been on the side of these same guys, are probably trying to justify what their gang of subversives did. It's not their fault that they scammed shareholders. In fact, it's the players' fault, they don't know anything, not even the games they played yesterday...
>>736482020It was some "Gotcha" bullshit see here: >>736481773>"Umm actually you idled in your steam library longer than any individual game you played in the course of this year, so you're wrong about your most played game ok lil chuddy"
no amount of torture will get me to admit 30000 hours of league of legends
>>736480349This is not just a gamer thing.It well established humans are very bad at self-evaluation. Especially women.
>>736483758So if the industry knows what people say they want, isn't what they actually buy, why do they keep making things lame and gay and filled with dumb tranny shit? How many times are they going to listen to social media and do this when they know it's not selling?
>>736486486why are they sending surveys for gamers to women???
>>736481773>communicating poorly and behaving smug about itclassic
>>736486634beat me to it
>>736486674I haven't had enough baked beans in my life to understand this joke. Can someone explain this?
>>736486902i cannot understand what you're not understanding
>>736486981How can the third answer be "language"?
>>736486902I also don't get it
>>736486902There is no joke, the comics creator sometimes just liked to be smug and used the black hat figure to do it.
>>736487036>>736486902There's a "language" word on the first panel, and the author tried to tried to pull that out, but communicated it badly. I assume it's some kind of meta-irony, otherwise it's dumb.
>>736486902His example of poor communication doesn't actually work so there's not really anything to get. There's no conceivable way the answer could be "language". He hasn't communicated badly. He said something that is objectively wrong.
>>736486902I just looked it up and apparently the guy telling the joke fucked up and told it wronghttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/169:_Words_that_End_in_GRY
I mean maybe they played said game on a different platform? I have an emberassing amount of hours on Resident Evil 6 PC but if you pulled my Playstation data its like 10 hours.
>>736480349Heh. Get outplayed, idiot survey.
>>7364870351 "the"2 "english"3 "language"congrats on being too inept to even fall for one of these 'gotchas', i guess
>>736487154fair point but you should still be able to infer the shortened, shitty attempt with even a modicum of interpretation.
Is there anything as bitter, hateful and pathetic as a western AAA dev? No wonder their games suck ass despite bring financed with infinite jew money.
>>736480741WoW ruins this type of questioning because it sucks up insane amounts of people's time but there's no way to actually check how much time you've spent playing it other than logging into every single character on your account and adding all of the /played times togetherI know WoW is my most played game of all time but I have absolutely no fucking idea how long I've spent playing it and couldn't even check because I'm not subbed anymore
>>736486674>>736487154Thanks, I spent too many seconds wondering if I'm dumbActually this comic says a lot about society
>>736481773What the fuck are we counting if both of those count in the same bucket? Gaming is when data is moving from point a to point b?
>>736480894You can't just slot perchance into any sentence like that.
>>736487456a AAA publisher took a mexican space game made by a handful of guys and managed to chuck a broken piece of shit sequel between multiple devs before selling the IP and ignoring the game entirely
>>736487351But the rule was words that end in GRY. Hence it can't be "the" and "english" or "Language".
Devs will do anything besides listen, including making up weird Big Brother style schizo propaganda
>>736480894>most peopleI took a survey of everyone in my household. 0 of 2 players have played WoW for more than 30 minutes. Eat shit.
>>736487154>joke about poor communication>have poor communication while telling jokenow that's meta
>>736487154>smug pseud can't even deliver the joke properlyWhat an asshole
>>736487729I see you're part of the population that does not understand statistics.
>>736486674>stop acting smug when communicating badly>*acts smug and communicates badly*
>>736480349I couldn't accurately answer that question, and looking at my Steam hours wouldn't answer it either since most games I play aren't on Steam. Hell, most of my playing of games before I'd get bored of any particular game quickly predates Steam.My best guess is Minecraft, but it could just as well be something I sunk a ton of hours as a kid when I didn't have a lot to choose from.
>>736480349This isn't surprising, I've played 2000 hours of dota 2, but I still prefer and better remember the 20-50 hours I spent on actual fun video gamesFocusing on retention is bad for everyone
>>736487926Wait, no, I actually know exactly what my "most played" game is. It's Cookie Clicker. I'm pretty sure I've had it running for over a decade in total.
>>736480889I don’t feel like starting a shitshow by bringing up the game name but I used to discuss the story of a certain game generally agreed to be bad and people would demand that I explained the story to them because they didn’t actually know the story, they’d just absorbed the information that it was bad
>>736481801You're absolutely rightBut the img point about cigarettes vs unhealthy food is actually correct. Smoking gives stochastic illnesses, cancer, heart disease, etc. Bad, sure, but before onset the smoker lives a generally normal life. Obesity on the other hand is a chronic illness that lasts the entirety of the person's life, and it carries the exact same comorbidies as smoking. Each day as a fat person is human potential wasted, unlike the smoker. Smoking is unironically harm reduction relative to eating loads of garbage food.
>>736487776I see you're part of the population that makes up statistics like "most players here have played WoW".Nigger most people here are probably indian and just got access to the internet in their slum 5 years ago. They haven't touched your tranny game. Either that, or they're zoomers/alpha who haven't even touched an mmo.
>>736480349Since OP didn't bother to post the link:https://loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasing-twitters-approval-doesnt
>>736488657Ah the good ol' contrarian.Let's just pretend that WoW wasn't a massive success.
>Claim to have 1k+ hours in game>Devs say I'm wrong and their data say it's only 400>Write article about it>mfw 600 hours is from a pirated copy
>>736488853That's not what I'm doing at all. I'm just not pretending that 4ch user base is the same as it was 10 years ago.
>>736486595They send them to both genders. Guess who actually fills them out.
>>736488356I see your point but you sound like a smoker with how lightning fast you logic'd that up. Don't take this as me telling you to stop smoking, just saying.
>>736480349This is pretty obviously complete bullshit.First off, how exactly would the developer verified their results? If they verified it via something obvious like a steam profile, surely a few of the 1000 players would have also checked that and knew the right answer.Also its not believable that out of all players, there would be none that have very obvious outliers. I know a few people who would immediately know the game, because they spent about 25000 hours in FFXIV and 500 in their second most played game. A variation of 0 wrong people is not believable.>>736481773This is further evidence that they made it the fuck up. What game has a separate avatar editor? Curious this guy doesnt name the game.The real question here is why they would make up such a obvious lie. Just as a clickbait?
>>736488953Well that's foolish.You're here forever.
>>736483054>wildest conspiracy theories.This has been going on for over a decade. The fact that BioWare still exists is a testament to how absolutely shit the industry is and how none of these faggots are willing to just let themselves be wrong. They will piss away billions just to make it seem like their bullshit is not the abject failures that they are.
>>736480349This has literally objectively nothing to do with videogames and this guy is running game
>>736485672Some people have social behavior so ingrained in them, they can't be themselves even if there is no benefit. Just look at how many normalfags lost their mind during covid because they were left on their own without anyone backpatting them.
>>736489179lol, this is true.
>>736489164>why they would make up such a obvious lieThe industry is fucked and they need to rail against gamers because they are the biggest threat to them. They don’t want people that call out their bullshit that want retards that consume and eat whatever shit they put out and then ask for more.
>>736483054>Yall come up with the wildest conspiracy theories>proceeds to agree with the post he called a conspiracy theoryThat's the point of the "survey". To tell the suits that gamers are idiots who don't know what they like, so the suits listen to "consultants" for what games to make going forward.
>>736480945Kek he's not only complaining about a game he never played, he's even wasting time reading patch notes of it
How would devs know what game I've played most when I only play single player games? I know Resident Evil 4 is my most played game as I have played it like 100 times.
>>736480741only retards play mmos. they are the same tier as mobile games.
>>736480349this is why democracy isn't real. you think you do, but you don't is not a meme.
>>736485672>anonymity should prevent socially-oriented answers.You underestimate how shallow some people's ideas of themselves actually are. The aforementioned vending machine foids will lie TO THEMSELVES that they want the healthy options because they not only want to be seen as that type, but they themselves want to believe they ARE that type. The fact that they will never actually get the vegan veggie puff delites and instead go for the XXXCREAMY hyperfudge slutcubes is just later rationalized with shit like "I had a rough day I need something gross to shove into my face #goblinmode" or "lol on my period time for chocolate."
>>736485672the amount of people even capable of that is extremely small, the population of 4chan is a relatively small percentage of the population. There is a reason most normies gladly gave all their personal information to facebook without even considering the consequences.
>>736480585every fucking year we get gaming year in review from all the platform we have an account and you are still wondering how they found out?
>>736490339I have nothing to hideThey will harvest your data anyway
>>736480349Human memory is incredibly faulty. You can straight up implant memories in people with enough suggestion
ahh, I remember being an overly self-aware angsty teen
>>736490524Easy with the antisemitism.
>>736486981>>736487351>smug retard actually doesn't understand how the english language works>>736487640Yeah, as it was already posted, the joke was told in a way that made no sense.Ignore the retard that responded to you before.
>>736480585this, i was confused too,most of my playtime is in games i pirated jej, my steam account only contains games like dota 2 and shit
I have over 50,000 hours in BDO, and 3,000 hours in DotA 2 and I can almost guarantee you that I've played DotA 2 for longer.
I remember there was a study on the attacks on world trade centre. They had asked people, on the day that it happened, where they were/what they were doing, when they heard about the attack. Then they asked the same people 10 years later, and every single one gave a different answer from the original, and everyone were adamant that they were correct, and would give an explanation as to how/why they remembered exactly as it was, when they were told they were wrong.
>>736490403>Steam suddenly lists all my minecraft hoursDid I miss this update?
>>736490720Makes sense I am pretty sure I was unconscious the entire time I was farming pirates.
>>736490720What a sad life
>>736490812And yet I sleep perfectly content every night like a baby. Weird.Probably because I haven't actually played Dota in years now.
I wish I could turn off the hours played thing on steam so I wouldn't have to be reminded of it and feel bad every time I open a game. Achievements too. Just let me play games without being tracked and judged like fucking cattle, thanks.
>>736490973>Buy game on steam>Download>Apply steam emu then launch via exeCongrats you can play without steam recording your stats
>>736483054The ads for gaming websites come from gaming companiesThe free review copies come from gaming companiesThe access to get interviews and behind the scenes info comes from gaming companiesTheir entire existence comes down to gaming companies liking them and giving them access, that's why they're shills for the ones that play ball
my most played game of all time is WoW by orders of magnitude but i wouldn't want to admit that either
>>736491064>>Buy game on steamstopped reading there
>>736491064Does it work on online games?
>>736491131was the rest of his post too long to fit in your busy schedule, Tim?
>>736490720>over 50,000 hoursYou do realize that this is like 14 hours per day every day since its release, right?
>>736491297Yes I'm well aware of that fact.It's actually closer to 60 now that I go and check.
>>736485672Delusion is a form of manipulation that's always goingBy removing the rational part of the process that understands the lie, low IQ individuals can construct much more convincing lies for others at a similar energy costThe only issue is the truth, but that rarely matters now days
>>736491153depends on if they use steamworks and how the implemented steamDRM. Most of the time you can play, usually only with other pirates but sometimes even with legit users.Something like Dota2 will never work but baldur's gate 3 will.
>>736491378Jesus fucking Christ that's closer to 16 hours a day.Did you do nothing but sleep and play BDO for the past 10 years? At least tell me that a ton of that is just the game running in the background.
>>736491494>At least tell me that a ton of that is just the game running in the background.Of course, that amount of actual playtime would be insane. It's why I said that I can practically guarantee that I've played DotA2 for longer despite only having 3k recorded houts.I basically never turn the game off since it rewards you for staying logged in to help pad their playercount. I get more stuff ingame and they get to look good in shareholder meetings. I think it's a fair trade.
>>736480349>Compare it with the data of what they actually playedHow can they know ?Console only ? But what if you also play on pc or another console ?Steam ? What about other store, emulation, console and cracked games ?How can you know exactly ?Full of bullshit
>>736491297i have a friend who i made from /b/ who gifted me skullgirls, no matter when you login, he has something running called soundpad, literally everytime you open steam he has that soundpad thing running, i checked he had like 30k plus hours, but i am sure soundpad is some background tool or something, but still having your pc turned on all that time is still big for someone like me who lives in a 3rd world shithole where we shutdown our pc after every session
>>736488826Such a gay annoying article>you say you want this but you don't want this.No.... I want this, maybe other people don't want this, but I and a good vocal thousand people want it. Is that possibly not enough to justify making the game, sure....but you can't tell me what I do and don't want
>>736490403What about crack, emulation and older console ?Does the survey force you to give ALL of your account ?Does every store give you access to a precisive number of hour ?How ?I have only 20 hour of stellaris on steam yet I have more than 200 on a cracked version, why ? Because too much extension to buy, how do you know how many hours I played it ?
>>736491707I'm american and shut down my PC at the end of the day, it's just wasteful to keep it going while I'm sleeping
>>736491907Its just a bad premise for a made up argument. Random devs don't have access to your steam data. He may as well have said "we conducted a survey and it turns out 1000/1000 gamers are retards and I'm a super genius"
>>736489062I quit when GWB was president, but I was pretty sensitive to how arguments against smoking were made. Curiously, a lot of the disengenuous arguments against smoking were made when arguing for weed legalization and later, vapes.
>>736492179Nta and not a smoker but I sure hate how logically inconsistent everyone is with tobacco and nicotine products in general>ciggies - almost as bad as crack, DONT DO IT>vaping - Fine>nicotine/tobacco pouches - fine>weed - fine
>>736492604Pot brownies are the bomb. Stop willfully regularly aspirating matter for non-medicinal purposes, your lungs don't like it
>>736480349Actually humans are like that. Memory is very fallable.
>>736492048There is also a lot of other questionDoes modded game count as the vanilla game ? Because minecraft can become a completly different game if you mod itSame for romhack, does pokemon clover count as pokemon red ? How can you know how many hour someone played a game at a friend house ? Because I played wario ware wii for several dozens of hour while being drunk at a friend's place but it wasn't on my consoleHow do you differentiate between hours actually played and hours spent AFK/idle/with the game open in the background?This is so retarded
>>736492048Actually they only said they sent the survey to 1,000 peopleChances are far fewer then that filled it out
>>736493150How do you consider remaster and remake ? Different game ? Same games ?
>>736480585Every company harvests and collects your data. They know more about you than you do.
>>736493150Are you actually an autist?
>>736492604the scaremongering is much more about the cancer than it is the addiction. (((they))) want you to think addiction is fine as long as you live a long, productive life that allows you to buy more of the product
>>736493587And yet they cannot construct a game I will buy?
>>736491641damn anon that's cool and all but i'm really disappointed it wasn't 24 hours a day all that time if you were afking anyway mostly
>>736493656I don't know, my mother wanted me to take the test but I wouldn't gain anything from it, I can't get disability benefits or special treatment regarding potential quotas for disabled people in companies for just being autistic where I live, so I refused because it was a waste of time and money.
>>736480349>sample size 1000lollmao
>>736492759I got over marijuana in my 20s, I might get drunk at a party once or twice a year but 2 light beers every few days just to take a bit of the edge off is all I need these days
>>736493587If that's true than how haven't they released a game I want to buy in the last 10 years
>>736493964The thing with autistic disability is that you have to be full retarded autistic and sometimes you need to have a physical comorbidity as well. My buddy's sister is a full on sperging retard who has panic attacks when she has to make as much as light conversation with a group as big as 1 other person, and she was denied any and all disability, so now he's fucking stuck parenting an adult child who can barely afford to pay 200 bucks monthly rent.
>>736492604people just really hate cigarette smoke. which makes sense since it's way more offensive to a nonsmoker than the other methods which are either completely undetectable or smell like fruit shit not really that complicated, anon
>>736494321I get that and I even agree, but that's never what anti smoking ads are about. Truthfully I think a simple ad that says "cigarettes smell like shit and make everything you touch smell like shit" would probably go further. I had a friend quit smoking after we told him his car stunk like shit because he was always smoking in it
>>736491907>>736493150But that still doesn't answer the question. How do you know that Steambot Chronicles isn't the game I've played the most? What are you basing that on? My hours on a possible PSN re-release? How do you know I don't have 2000 hours on it on PS2? The memory card? I could very well have lost it or it could be broken, and the replacement one only shows 150 hours. On an emulator? The number of hours? But I could have used several computers or even emulated it on my tablet, Steam Deck, Chinese emulation console like Retroid Pocket, at a friend's house, etc., and therefore have a few hundred hours on each. How do you get the precise number of hours? What if my most played game is a closed MMO whose studio went under? I imagine you're counting private servers, but again, how do you know my number of hours on a Dark Age of Camelot private server that closed 10 years ago?
>>736480349It's just basic human tendencies.This is called perception management.A person will present the information they think that will make them appear the way they want to.Same reason you can't really put your trust into 3x3 threads, people are just going to pick the 9 games that they think project the desired appearance. People do this subconsciously. People do it here all the time. I'm guilty of it. You're guilty of it. The Hindus figured it out and called it Maya hundreds of years ago.
>>736494321now listen here weed fucking REEKSmy little brother is a complete pothead and I would vastly prefer he smoke tobacco over weed at least from the smellof course the real difference is that tobacco smokers do it openly and in public and are comfortable taking smoke breaks (one of my buddies I play games with often has to take smoke breaks) and that's pretty annoying while potheads usually keep it to their basement or garage or whatever
>>736494467Hey weirdo, why would the major company cares, they're interested in normalfags who buy new games and will simply look at the numbers on steam/playstation/xbox/switch
>>736494656meanwhile i don't smoke weed or cigarettes anymore but that scent...that magical, magical fragrance...
>>736480349So what the fuck were they playing then?
>>736493587Ah yes, the AAA survey where I gave the company my Steam account, my Ubisoft account, my Origins account, my WoW account, my Switch account, and I've also mailed them my PS2 memory cards with save data of all the games I played. All so they can tell me my most played game was Minecraft that I played on an account I don't even remember
>>736494857You don't even know what the actual question in the survey was.
>>736494232Yes, I know, here you have to be 80% disabled to receive the AAH (Disability Allowance), basically meaning you have to be unable to use your legs or be useless retard who's unable to express himself other than by grunting. Also, I'm afraid of being sent to run across a minefield to clear it if I'm recognized as having some kind of mental disability during wartime.>>736494676But why ask a question whose answer you can never definitively confirm?
>>736480349>sent a survey to gamers>followed up with themthis shit didn't happen
>>736493964You should just say no unless a doctor diagnosed you with it. That applies to disorders and maladies in general, but autism specifically is incredibly weird especially after the "autism spectrum" which means everyone is autistic, but some more than others.
>>736494232i keep trying to figure out why Conservatives kept talking about how everyone is scamming disability when my wife who actually has a degenerated disc in her lower back and cannot walk without severe pain and can barely sit without severe pain and has been denied for disability for three times all the way up to a pending court case TWO YEARS LATER it's sort of sick actually because if she didn't have me to depend on she'd be literally homelessthey tell her "just use the drugs" and then expect her to be able to drive and work a job on fucking hydrocodone and gabapentin
>>736480349This is a commentary on human nature, not gamers specifically. Anyone who's tried online dating knows women's profiles are full of likes and hobbies that are things the girl has done for 20 minutes and puts in her profile to seem more interesting.
>>736494928>A particular AAA developer I know of once sent a survey to 1000 players asking them which game they had played the most
>>736495160Local health departments 100% scam the system and fill the necessary holes to get easy approval, but you have to put on a helpless retard act, if you give the impression that you are capable of financial planning or that you know how to file your own taxes they'll just run you through the system and deny you.
>>736493587The surveys that ask you for>Steam account>Uplay account>Epicgamestore account>Origin account>Gog account>World of warcraft account>Minecraft account>League of legend account>Playstation account>Xbox account>Screenshot of EVERY emulator you ever played (pcsx2 register the hour but some other like mgba doesn't)>Screenshot of your save for ps1/ps2/gamecube/dreamcast and other console that don't ask for a account or can't connect to the net+dead memory card that may proove thousand of hour >Chinese emulation console from aliexpress logs>EVERY phone you ever had>EVERY hdd you ever owned so you can try to understand to look which sector runned for how many hour (good luck for finding a 2gb games on a 10 tb hddAnd how can you know for thing that don't save like the NES ? Or even a arcade cabinet ?The question was just retarded, it's impossible to know
>>736495389>what is a paraphrase
No matter how much these journalists fuckwits mislead AAA western publishers, game studios, and shareholders. This wont change the fact that their dogshit will fail to make a profit and thus shutdown and It is getting increasingly harder to justify there existence.
>>736495396whatever retarded faggot hoops I have to jump through if they deny us after forcing us to go through some third party bottom feeder disability lawyer i will potentially go on a shooting spree because of just how exhausted i am by modern practices
>>736487154>In any case, no matter how annoying Cueball's smugness, Black Hat responding by cutting off Cueball's forearm is an overreaction [citation needed]>when a wikipedia article is funnier than you
>>736495454The question isn't retarded, that survey was made up in the AAA dev's head to justify whatever slop they worked on"Trust me Mr. Investor, this is EXACTLY what people want to play"
>>736495540Yeah that's fair. My testimony is such>were poorish>I fill out the info for my family just so my wife can get Medicaid for dental work, also include myself because I haven't been to a doctor in 15 years and why not>do phone interview which basically confirms all the info >we both qualify for a bridge program (partial pay out of pocket)>wife's dentist isn't covered at all so we don't do itVs>do all of this again a month later because wife needs an MRI for a growth in her head>literally reuse the same application>my wife(who is a girl) does the phone interview>verifies literally the same info>we get approved for the full Medicaid coverage This among other interactions like enrolling my son in preschool tells me that something fishy is going on that appears to prefer females who apply over men
>>736495454the ins and outs of this are beyond your comprehension I'm afraid.
>>736480585Valve are niggers
>>736494968That’s literally the point. They weren’t actually asking the question. It’s to propagandize a narrative they already had in their mind.
>>736495894Also maybe, just maybe, they don't give a shit about all the game you played during your lifetime and the scope of the question never was What's your most played game EVER
>>736496023Idk, sounds like a lot of overexplaining for a made-up story.
>>736494968They likely are just marketing people who need numbers to measure with and they are ordered to get that data by their managers, they don't care if they're accurate.
>>736494426Not going to lie, I prefer the smell of second-hand smoke over vapes and weed. Not the "smoking in your face" second hand but like the stuff that lingers 10 minutes later.Especially since vapes and stoners will just say "it's harmless bro, chill out" while they blow giant clouds in your face or in public areas. Smokers have had decades of conditioning to do it away from other people, the others haven't been shamed hard enough.
>>736495679I can't find the article btw,>>736481773Can't find those tweet too
>>736496175The link is in this very thread bozo
>>736496128If we're banning one I'd say we ban em all, sure.And yeah I'd take the lingering tobacco smell(grandmas house) over chemical blue berry or children's cereal turned vapor
>>736480889plenty of games I've enjoyed playing were ruined by updates that were made in response to redditors crying, more devs should just ignore all feedback and make what they want to
>>736496229Give it then
>>736494426If they said that they alter the fat cells around your pancreas, fuck your collagen, fixate radio active isotopes in your lungs, pop the alveoli, destroy the blood brain barrier, make you dependent on them to function at your previous capacity, keep your blood pressure and BPM elevated constantly no one would do them, assuming they came up today with all that info.
>>736483758>whatever they buy is what we lean toIf that was true for gaming companies, they'd be offering nothing but gacha with attractive women and zero gameplay.I'm not saying gacha is good (it's not), but it makes a ton of money.
>>736496279Would you like a cup of coffee with that sir?
>>736480349Imagine conducting this "study" and arriving at such an impossible conclusion.Imagine reading the study and believing the impossible conclusion.Imagine posting the article written by the guy who believed all that shit and believing it.So this is what it's like, being exposed to the power of a retard to the 4th degree. It feels like, huh, it feels like just a regular post on this site. Who knew.
>>736486902What do you have against beans? I ate baked beans today and I didn't understand the joke either
Oh, the article is retarded and reword it And it's still retarded since you can play a game at a friend house, got a account banned ect
>>736496403>more overexplainingTelltale sign of an obvious lie
>>736496403easyrimworld4k hours
>>736496403What platform?
>>736485672Even here there are people that lie to look better than they actually are. It comes from insecurity
yes peopel are liars this isnt new or original or some noteworthy newspeople get away with murder and get on with their lives, rapists live amongst you and your leader commit mass murder every day. the clintons themselves murdered hundreds you're just another loser lying to make themselves seem better
>>736496484If the plateform is still well, I will have0 hour since I pirated it
>>736496808by still you mean steam right?
>>736496403Why would it even matterIt's simply impossible that out of 1000 people they asked, not a single one got it right
>>736498153it's definitely possible, just unlikely.
