But of course, here’s the understatement by the state media, already including several mutilation to skull, eyes, hands, and only regarding the protest of last Saturday ! https://www.franceinfo.fr/societe/mobilisation-du-17-octobre/une-adolescente-eborgnee-un-mineur-a-la-main-arrachee-ce-que-l-on-sait-des-quatre-enquetes-ouvertes-par-l-igpn-apres-les-violences-du-17-octobre_8245324.html

Several minors including one that wasn’t even in the protest were maimed in the days before too

Yeah you see this is why we’re calling tip culture toxic, if it makes you unable to appreciate someone doing you a favour, no matter how small, you are the problem, not the others with their weird “minimal wage actually sufficient to live” society. Most often, we tip 1 or 2 euros to our waiter if we enjoyed our meal, as a small thank you, and because we know they can otherwise get paid a true living wage just from the price we paid in the first place.

Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts more in depth, it makes a lot of sense, and I now think I was a bit too certain while writing my initial answer. Of course, different people care for different experiences, and that’s absolutely fine :)

It’s true that I took a bit of a shortcut in my previous statement, I shouldn’t have been so absolute.

And as a sidenote, I believe that I read somewhere that the intent of having sleep not activated by default in MP was also somewhat of a counter to not having timeskip, allowing players to “use” all of their available time (though as you said, you’re still just waiting so I’m not entirely convinced by the argument)

I couldn’t disagree more, I love the game and think it’s first and foremost a solo experience. I have around 500 hours in, and about 400 are exclusively solo, in various games since build 38. It’s in single player where the truth of the apocalypse hits you, the dread of being alone against the world knowing you will fail but not knowing how and when… Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player and drastically changes how you can approach the game, sticking closer to the gritty realism themes. Multiplayer, even in really harsh settings, often ends up with a somewhat trivialised survival, and sort of a devaluation of defeat. Unless you want to play it hardcore and reset if anyone dies (which can be understandably upsetting to some), you’ll just respawn a character, get your stuff back, and you’ll only have lost some xp and time which your mates can help you power through, instead of a entire “life” you really cared about.

Don’t get me wrong, multiplayer can be heaps of fun, but I truly don’t think it’s the core of the game, and I’d really encourage you to try your hand at some solo play if you can be convinced :)

Perhaps a 1 user bump to their online user count, so really nothing of importance, like to other said, enjoy yourself with what you already payed for, and rub in that publisher’s face that they didn’t make anything good since ;)

Ah yes, the “near meaningless term” being only the centerpoint of this community, what a great analysis you’ve provided

Hi ! I don’t need any of these, but I still wanted to thank you for this initiative :)

Yeah actually I can weigh in, I worked in a dairy farm for a summer, and besides I have a bachelor’s degree and a Masters in animal biology and ecology.

Dairy production is at best questionable, most often barbaric. Cows undergo forced impregnation as soon as they are of age, go through pregnancy (a stressful situation for most mammals), have their baby almost immediately taken away from them so that all their milk is available for farming, and are again impregnated as soon as production starts to dry up. The cycle goes on until the cow’s body can’t take it anymore, then it’s killed.

Some farms, especially smaller ones, are more humane, with the newborns able to stay with the mother, and a more delicate milking procedure, sometimes even keeping the older cows in the fields instead of sending them to the slaughter, but it’s VERY rare.

And to be precise, I am neither vegan nor even vegetarian, but I am definitely politically opiniated against the agricultural industry as a whole, and meat industry first and foremost

Not my timezone of availability, but wishing you all the best ! We regularly run Mothership with friends and it’s among our favourite systems :)

Yes, my cat, as you can see in my post history. This poster just steals shit and reposts it

Hey fuck off, that’s my pic from days ago that you’re reposting without credit or permission !

Dude, your posts are already barely pertinent to where you’re posting, but you could at least mark nsfw shit as such