Might have the big dumb

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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • I dont think you would like what comes after societal collapse. It’s easy to pin society as just capitalism, but collapse will mean more than just the economic system. Democracies will collapse and entire regions will cease to exist. Food scarcity and mass migration will result in extreme regimes that will defend their territory, and a bunch of nomads who have to live with the constant worry of where the next food and freshwater source is. Not to mention the constant fighting over geopolitical issues (imagine current day scaled up exponentially)

    Yes, we should fix our economic system, but societal collapse is not an end result we ever want.


  • Thats not really the scenario I was referring to. There’s the scenario where people decide to just give up, grief, and make people waste as much time as possible.

    I will say that in your scenario, you should also look at it in your teammates perspective. Your own intentions might be purely that you want to play it out to its fullest. Maybe you see a win condition. The issue is that your teammates don’t share that view. It could be that you are the only one doing good in that game. Your teammates are not having fun. They dont see the same wincon you see. And at the end of the day, if that one match isn’t fun for them, could you really blame them for wanting to surrender? There’s not really a clear right and wrong in that situation.


  • Oh, ranking system in video games is a whole other beast to tackle. It’s a both pro and con game design. Games want to promote people perfecting the game and bringing competitiveness in the sphere. That’s not inherently a bad thing. Even in non ranked games, if theres a way to compete people will naturally aim to be the best. There’s just a lot of issues that come with it as well.

    Visual rank is hard. For one, it’s a medal to reward the player. Just like physical sports, winning a medal feels good. It’s an accomplishment that really boosts the feeling of competitiveness in a sport. On the other hand, visual rank in games can be used as a way to put people down. “Oh you’re only _ rank” and all that. Not really easily solvable, considering how many games that have a ranked system. It’s one of the fundamentals of the system that couples everything together.


  • Yea valve has been pushing for punishing bad behavior, which is good on them (I remember the coal incident). It’s still a complicated task, but at least they’re trying things that seem to stick rather than riot (like them trying to change certain pings to be party only which was really stupid)


  • I guess my phrasing is a bit off, sorry. They’ve tried to address it. It just hasn’t worked that well (for example, they decided to add a bait ping that looked like a fishing hook, but players decided it was used moreso as a noose). The community is still as toxic as ever. Nothing’s really going to change other than some more banned words and maybe some changes to how pinging works (which is another toxicity problem)