Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don’t have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don’t need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.

So?

I hate how every game want to compete for current playtime.

I got way more than money’s worth out of this game, but I haven’t played in over a month. I hope that when I go back to it, there’s still a playerbase.

But like, the developers planned for at best to get 10% of what they did…

If they dropped that extra 90%, I don’t see why that should spell the end of the game. It’s the playerbase the game was designed for.

There’s just this weird “first or worst” mentality with a lot of studios. I hope this game is just given the room to stretch it legs over a decade or so. Something people might not always keep installed on their console, but still download once or twice a year to get some games in.

Games like that can be a success. Just because a lot of people burnt out doesn’t mean they’ll never play again.

It’s just games like that don’t maximize investor returns. They want to churn out hits that people play exclusively for 3 months then drop, only to buy the new one next year.

It’s literally the people running his campaign…

“I think he’s the only Democrat who can beat Donald Trump,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a Biden campaign co-chair, said during an interview on ABC News’ “This Week.” “And let me tell you, we had the single best day of grassroots fundraising after the debate.”

And that’s not even getting into how those are pro-Biden donations so much as “please for fucks sake someone stop trump” donations that literally any Dem candidate would be receiving.

It’s what happens when you insist on running back to back campaigns on just not being the other guy…

Like, cool bro, we know the other guy sucks, but why are you here?

We could have someone we actually want instead, who is also not trump and have the same level of voter support.

From a cold emtionaless perspective, there is just literally no advantage to Joe Biden being the nominee.

And this election is more important than Joe Biden’s feelings. We shouldn’t just let him have this one, it’s not the last fucking cookie, it’s deciding who has the best shot of stopping a fascist takeover of the country.

Wouldn’t they benefit from more people?

The wealthy win when there’s more workers than work.

Historically the greatest gains in workers rights and the times we make the most gains against wealth inequality is when there isn’t a surplus of workers.

I mean, they’d be pretty much like real chickens.

Chicken rules are just prison rules.

You pick the biggest one, and punt it across the yard. Then it attacks the second biggest one and you’re done.

If you let one of them attack you first, then the rest are going to want to see how they measure up.

It looks stupid but is insanely effective.

The bobs helps pick out movement, once they pick out prey, they have laser focus and stop bobbing.

If you don’t think they’re similar, watch a video of a chicken hunting a mouse. It could be a scene out of a very low budget Jurassic Park.

Edit:

Randomly came across a relevant video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYV39SKIiM

I envy woman for being able to walk around with a bag the size of a phone without looking stupid.

Bruh stop caring what people think and carry a bag if you want.

I’ll never understand why guys bitch about not being able to do something because it’s not perceived as “manly”.

If you’re secure in your own masculinity then you wouldn’t give two shits what other people thought about carrying a bag, what you drive, what kind of dog you have, or any of that stuff.

Don’t worry about projecting the appearance of a confident man. And just be confident in yourself bro.

The party says who is on the ballot…

I really don’t think a significant amount of voters would write in Biden over any listed Dem.

Biden and the people he appointed to head the DNC don’t have to be the people running the DNC…

We can replace them and have a functional leftwing party again.

It’s not quick, and it’s not painless, but it’s possible.

That’s not going to stop trump.

What will stop trump is running a good candidate.

But Biden and the people he appointed to run the DNC would rather trump win than Biden step aside for the good of the country

most people don’t have a visceral horror of fascism

No the problem is instead of:

Fascists vs non-fascist

We get:

Fascists vs slightly less fascist

That’s not good enough to win elections. It’s not a binary choice between 0 and 1, it’s 0.5 and 1.

Republicans will vote Republican no matter what.

Dem voters have always needed a candidate they like and/or agree with to turnout en mass and get the Dem elected.

It makes zero sense to keep blaming Dem voters for having standards instead of blaming party leaders for continuingly shoving candidates we don’t like down our throats.

There is zero reason to keep pushing unpopular candidates.

But because we all held our noses for Biden 4 years ago, he got to nominate DNC leadership and he picked idiots who say Biden is our only shot.

Holding our noses and voting for a candidate whose not for basic parts of the party platform, just moves the party platform and makes it even harder to get votes the next election.

So…

You don’t think it’s possible the DNC or Biden does the right thing to maximize our chances of beating trump?

The primary isn’t a real election. The DNC can just nominate someone else, they’ve been very open about it

And Biden can obviously just step aside.

Do you think they don’t care if trump wins? Or that they’d just rather that happen then a Dem candidate Dem voters want winning?

So…

To you, a link about how people can organize politically online…

Isn’t evidence that people can organize politically online?

Here’s the bad news - the primary is over

It’s not tho.

The convention is the end of the primary.

Biden appointed Jamie Harrison to the head of the DNC.

And Jamie Harrison set the convention for mid August.

If you don’t like it, go complain to them. But they picked when the primary was over.

Backed up with nothing but excuses and self-serving bullshit. You have zero evidence to back up your “claims” …

…

Wait…

So you want evidence that someone can use the Internet to organize politically?

I gotta admit, I didn’t see that coming.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357176371_Online_political_participation_the_evolution_of_a_concept

I’m willing to put the time in, I think we can do this. Please don’t hesitate to keep asking if you don’t get it yet.

You’re acting like convincing me means anything…

Biden needs to convince 10s of millions of people. Politicians like Obama and Bill Clinton could do that, but they were charismatic in addition to being the lesser of two evils.

It just makes zero sense to be running Biden.

If all that matters is beating trump, why force a candidate that supports genocide? Why is it ok for Dems if trump is worse? Why not at least someone that people like and is a good speaker?

Like, you understand someone slightly less bad as trump is still pretty fucking bad?

Where do you draw the line if you’ll support “some” genocide?

If it was trump VS Mitch McConnell who would you vote for? Would you finally realize it’s the parties that need voters, not voters that need parties?

Oh, I absolutely agree they’re both pretty awful, but one is significantly worse.

We’re talking about genocide tho…

We’re asking people to support “some” genocide, and that “some” is actually quite a fucking lot of genocide.

And we’re not just asking Americans to overlook that, we’re asking young Dem voters to overlook it. A demographic who historically doesn’t like that shit going back for pretty much the entire existence of the party.

It makes absolutely zero sense except if the party as an entity wants to be as conservative as possible so when the nation has such a serious risk as trump, instead of the easy win of a candidate dem.voters want, we get someone significantly more conservative than the party, 82 years old, and uncharismatic.

It’s like someone at the DNC bet on winning, but not to cover the spread. So they’re trying to win by the smallest majority possible.

https://apnews.com/live/presidential-debate-2024-updates

The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is an especially vulnerable spot for Biden. With only 26% of U.S. adults approving of his handling of the issue, it’s well below his overall approval rating (39%). In the latest AP-NORC poll, nearly 6 in 10 Democrats disapprove of his approach to the conflict

trump is worse than Biden, and only 26% agree with Biden…

You don’t think it’s worth talking about when a foreign country buys off both parties in a two party system so that no matter what happens their interests (in this case a genocide) would be protected and funded?

You don’t see how this could be happening to a lesser extent in other areas like banking, healthcare, employment, and even social issues that religions care about?

Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s are also two different things, but two things don’t have to be absolutely identical to be compared to each other. If they were, we wouldn’t be comparing them because they would be the same.

I think that’s what you’re missing and why you’re accusing people of arguing in bad faith.

You just don’t understand the point they’re making, but you think you do.

How can you organize voters with a district like the Texas 33rd?

I said “the internet”…

That was “my claim”.

That “the Internet” is how you would organize people in a sprawling district because that doesn’t rely on geography and in person meetings. It’s also just how you do shit now.

Then you asked me:

Let’s see evidence of “the internet” solving extreme gerrymandering

And acting that I claimed it could. When I never said that because I was answering a completely different question.

The only way that makes sense, is if you dont know what me or that other person was talking about.