Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While this nonsense is not a deal breaker for me, as I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.

I used to think I was an idiot, that everyone around me knew what they were doing and I didn’t.

Later I joined the work force and I now I kind of wish I was an idiot because no one seems to know what they’re doing and that is existentially dreadful.

No one is making an art piece every meal.

If you are like me and you wasted your 20’s being lazy and asocial then 29 felt like an awful frantic make up year (that achieved nothing) but 30 felt like “Well at least I know its too late for certain things. I can relax and just accept things as they are. There is peace in doom.”

Its not enshittified in various ways. Its just a news aggregate and discussion forum that functions.

I’m torn, most of the time I’d agree and I do befriend co-workers myself most of the time. But I do kind of resent the fact that often people at work often come to dislike you if you aren’t spending time with them during breaks/lunch.

Thing is, I know why: gossip/shit-talking about you is easier when you aren’t around. I know co-workers will start shit talking other employees (or even the manager in a personal way rather than general work complaint way) and even when I myself dislike the co-worker/manager they’re shit-talking myself I tend to soft-defend them because of the discomfort over talking shit about other people.

EDIT: I kind of wish people could just be more blunt/open or even confrontational and not do the Machiavellian thing. Rip the bandaid off.