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Judgmenl posted...

Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd.
They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).

This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.

I know what a social media influencer is, and I know what gaslighting is, but Im not sure what you mean by google not recognizing either of those, particularly influencers, and how this relates to a dystopian society. Please expand on that thought.

As for your other points about gaming generations and types of gamers, you are pretty much on the nose with that. Gaming has changed over the years, and not always for the better. I agree with some of the advancements and changes in gaming though, like the largely more lenient and convienient saving features that have been implemented over the decades. The lack of saving was usually a by-product of technological limitations, combined with design choices rooted in arcades, that became extremely archaic and outdated on PC and consoles over the years. Many other design choices and advancements over the years however, have either been fads, novelties, or just plain bad or idiotic design, that unfortunately caught on with a fickle gaming public.

Judgmenl posted...

The Starting on PC types are kinda rare on GameFAQs. Much more popular on a site like Reddit. I don't really understand that background, but a lot of them started with games like Half Life and transitioned to do basically only competitive PC gaming.

This is a separate issue from the generational divide, but this is also pretty accurate. Gamefaqs has always been a site thats more for console gamers, and over the years, this distinction had gotten more pronounced. If you look at boards for many new PC games, even ones that are fairly popular, the boards are largely dead, and in many cases, completely empty. Theres not much of a PC scene here, and there never really was. Ive always found PC gamers to be a strange bunch. I have had friends and family members who started as console gamers, and transitioned into PC gamers as they got older, and I see many of the same patterns. PC gamers dont seem to enjoy just playing games in general, they seem to mostly value just playing the same games endlessly for years on end. Whether that be something like Skyrim, or Diablo, or Starcraft, or Minecraft, or CS, or Rainbow Six, or WoW, etc. PC gamers mostly get a game, and then feel that game needs to be some kind of a lifestyle, and stick to it, until the end of history. Now, I know there are console gamers like this also, especially in recent years, but mostly, it seems to me that console gamers value more variety, while PC gamers value loyalty to a single game. As someone who feels that variety is the spice of life when it comes to almost anything, I have always been a console gamer.
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