They got Bethesda now, too.

No, but they do have an effect on emotional states.

What’d you call me?

I want to eat

I want to have shelter

You know… I don’t think it really works for all things.

The world has been ending for a long long time. This is just the latest speed boost we’ve run over.

Did that have to do with his comfort and safety, or just some hobby he uses to trick people into giving him money?

These people use their power and influence to stave off time and death as their prime motivator, just look at his hairline for the best evidence.

What about the lonely milfs in my area? You can’t tell me they don’t actually want my body…

Simply destroying something is the easy road. Because it means you don’t have to think about what the problem is, only know that it’s bad.

It’s definitely harder to build something from nothing, but that’s not the “solution” being offered. It’s tomorrow’s problem that you don’t have to worry about yet.

It’s not the easier solution, but it is the easier thought.

You do understand that, unlike most wild animals, humans change at a much faster rate, right?

The point isn’t “humans did this (though admittedly I did throw a little jab in there)”, the point is “drastically changing an environment can have devastating consequences”.

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

So… a predator it was unfamiliar with and had no defense against?

Tell that to the Northern White Rhino.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

In after someone gets irrationally angry about people getting irrationally angry.

Because their evolutionary defense is literally defense, and not just having enough numbers to overcome predation.

Sure, there are species that exist without predation, but introduce predators (like humans) and oh, would you look at that… extinction!

Life is complex, and doesn’t have any one single explanation for how it exists.

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Ah yes, the games are the problem, not the system in which they are created.

It’s the video games that are the problem. Clearly.

Indeed, he didn’t create the party, he just says the quiet part out loud.

Maybe it looks goofy because you’re looking at a picture you took of your monitor instead of taking a screenshot like a rational adult.