MystikIncarnate

The death spiral of a social platform:

Some percentage of people want to leave, find alternatives and leave.

Some percentage of people follow them out the door, because staying in touch with those people is more important than any perceived "loyalty" to $socialplatform.

Repeat the last step until all users have left.

If someone was waving a knife at me, and I had a spare cookie, I'd offer them one.

Cookies make the world a better place.

Now I want McDonald's for breakfast.

Thanks. I don't have one available on my drive to work so I'm going to be thinking about this all day now.

I hope you're happy.

This is what I'm driving at.

Borderlands creates memes. Borderlands isn't just shoveling in whatever memes are popular at the time of the creation of the game. They're doing their own thing and letting the players decide what is meme worthy.

You have a PlayStation 10? Wowwwww

We'll be waiting a while.

They split the original game into three parts. Remake, rebirth, and re-something? IDK.

Rebirth, aka FF 7 remake part 2 (of 3) is coming to PC soon (TM). They've officially confirmed it and published minimum and recommended specs to play it. So it's a waiting game for that right now, and it's not even the end of the story.

What's next: they'll put out part 3 as a PlayStation exclusive in a year or two, plus or minus 1-3 years. It'll be exclusive for about 2 years. So we might get all three parts on PC by .... 2032? Maybe sooner?

Unless you own a PS 5, you'll be waiting a while. If you do, you'll still need to wait to get all three, but it will be less of a wait than the PC people, like me, will have.

I feel like a game like Borderlands needs to lead, not follow. They took some risks with BL3 that did not pay off, but the playability of the game was significantly improved.

Naming a character "skibidi" is moronic in the sense that, this is already a meme. If it get put in the game, they're just trying to be cool for the sake of it. It's a very "hello, fellow kids" kind of thing.

Borderlands, instead, should have some creativity with what's being said and done in the game. Take a look at Tina for a second. When she's introduced, she's unapologetically strange. You either work with her on that level, or not at all. IMO, that's why Tina is a fan favorite. The absurd and borderline insane statements she constantly makes is the reason that she is so well liked. She makes sense in an almost frightening and sociopathic way.... And we love that about her.

Going to the length of dragging Gen Z memes into the game for no good reason isn't going to help, and will, in all likelihood, make things very bad. It's just, in bad taste, lazy, and a cop out IMO. With such interesting and absurd stuff already in the game, like butt stallion, CL4P-TP, BNK-3R, and more than I could possibly think of or remember that are amazing.... They're going to stoop to a pop culture meme instead?

Borderlands is about being weird and original with stuff, and some things really work, others, not so much. And that's what made the series great IMO. They took chances, and went out on a limb for a joke, sometimes literally.

I mean, who can forget shooty mcface? That's a footnote in a quest and it's honestly really funny, weird and something that sticks with you. That's what Borderlands should be. It's not some meme pop culture reference machine.

I started to realize that the thing I liked about Reddit were the analytical and thoughtful people like me on the platform. When I came here, I found that many came over. When I visit Reddit, either because I'm nostalgic or because I have a specific need for something there, I'm finding more and more recent posts that are mostly filled with trash. Sure, some of the insightful, thoughtful and analytical people are still hanging around, but the vast majority has shifted away from that type of person. Reddit has also become so mainstream that is a stone's throw away from xitter or Facebook in terms of quality. Everyone and their mother is starting a Reddit account.

I miss when old.reddit.com was just reddit.com.

The system is working as intended. The rich are getting richer.

I repeat, the system is working as intended.

Lots of room for ammunition too.

Technically it is.

I'm not saying that should negate any coverage that you are otherwise entitled to.... Just that living is the root cause of many issues.

The system is deeply broken in the USA.

Not all of the things that are broken about the system are making things worse for the civilians.