It's like post-marketing. You're already a user/customer, but companies still want to put psychological hooks in you.
Kind of reminds me of steam's insane discounts or epic giving away games. That's more geared toward bringing people in, maybe.
I'd like to believe some instances of this sort of thing can be out of genuine appreciation for supporters, but I might just be naive... It is straight out of the abuser's handbook.
"I know you're sick of it, but I'm gonna need you to get the chicken Parm again. Trust the process!"
It's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation, I suppose, both encouraging and empowered by antisocial behavior. It's hard enough to convince someone there's a problem to begin with given the culture.
I do wonder how any transition could be made under an inherently opposed system, but that's also a key point of Marx with respect to revolution.
Unrelated, but I'm forever stuck trying to choose between a professional GitHub name and something like GermanBread.
But babe, we have to go out tonight. It's for science!
Sure it's clickbait, but it's not inherently wrong. Some mental illness, not all. At the very least we should consider such greed and ruthlessness as unwell. If anything it's sympathetic and humanizing to a very unaccountable section of society.
To be fair, I did use a controller, so it wasn't that bad. It even ran way better with the hd mod than the 360 version ever did.
I did get kind of masochistic with it though lol. My last run was a soul level 1 that I think I stopped playing around Anor Londo. If I remember correctly, the archers were rage inducing and I never got back into it. It's probably still my all-time favorite game, jank and all.
Oh I played the hell out of the Prepare to Die edition of Dark Souls. Keyboard and mouse was the objectively wrong way to play the game lmao
I was going to make a joke that you didn't even mention the tubes, but TIL that's anti-net-neutrality idiot propaganda :( Idk why I thought it was, like, Tim Burners Lee or someone trying to explain things to non-nerds.
I literally have that one followed by this
Lmao, so I've used PollyMC before and knew about Prism forking from PolyMC, but I never knew why. Luckily, I made it out of the rabbit hole.
We could be living in utopia, but those damn youths had to go and break stuff