I’ve been playing Pal World this past week and been having a lot of fun exploring and discovering the world. The atmosphere is quite cartoony but you can also have a pet monkey with a gun go into battle with you. I’ve spent hours at a time just wandering the lands discovering new areas and also get lost in the base building aspect of the game.

Yeah same with me, I’d get lost for hours in that game just smuggling items from system to system. I’m not even sure if I ever figured out if there’s an actual story in the game, the flying in space was all I needed.

I’ve been winning at EVE online for about 10 years. I have no clue how much money I spent on the game and I only had two accounts. One of my buddies that I played with mentioned just this week wanting to check it out again and I do not think I’ll be joining them.

Also pushing the book shelf across the room and rearranging all the books

How is that brainwashing? If I go to a 3 hour concert for $50 then I’m agreeing to spend about $15/hr of entertainment. If I’m okay spending $80 for 100 hours of entertainment in gta6 (assuming the game isn’t just trash) then I’m agreeing to spend about $1/hr of entertainment. Am I brainwashed for considering the value I’m getting with my money?

I understand the sentiment here and I am the kinda gamer that rarely buys games on release date and waits for deep discounts, but the “renting” it aspect of the argument seems pretty hyperbolic. I try to think of the value as entertainment hours per dollar. I usually only get a game if I think I’ll get at least 1 hour per dollar or two, and I bet I’d get at least that with this game at $80-100. I’ll probably still wait for a discount but I doubt they’ll be removing the rights to the game before you can get decent value out of it. Hell I bought GTA 5 on multiple consoles and still got my money’s worth.

I feel like so many people aren’t necessarily ignorant to the problems, we just don’t know what to do about it. I keep seeing posts suggesting Americans are supposed to be uprising but by doing exactly what? I don’t want to be defeatist, but I legit don’t know what the plan is supposed to be. Voting doesn’t seem to be working, and apparently it’s going to be even less effective soon.

The article says they are NOT infected. It does say “aggressive” but doesn’t seem to expand on that.

Despite reports initially suggesting that the monkeys were carrying infectious diseases - including hepatitis C, herpes and Covid-19 - Tulane University, where they were being housed, denied that was the case. “The primates…aren’t infectious. We’re actively collaborating with local authorities & will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed,” the university wrote.