I’m not leavin’ until I have to!

Unlikely, they’re one of like 5 shoe stores in the local mall. This goofy ass picture isn’t going to make me go there any more or less likely than before.

Maybe statistically even a bad ad skews the population on average? I wouldn’t say the examples you’ve provided would work on me, or anyone conscious of advertising in general. Unless that can be proven in some way, I refuse to believe that the excuses advertisers tell to justify their existence are true.

The only advertising that I know for sure works on me is SEO and search result manipulation. If I need a suit, I’ll search for places and usually will end up with whatever’s closest or in my price range. The power Google has over that decision is significant.

But let’s be real, seeing and making fun of some awkward store window decals on lemmy is not a significant deciding factor for anything.

Wow it worked so well, I’m going to immediately seek the nearest footlocker location and buy shoes!!!

Just seeing, or making fun of, a marketing image does not mean “it worked”.

Fucking hell, I’m having a meltdown in this very sentence.

I heard there may be trace remnants of dihydrogen monoxide in them, which is commonly found in people who die around age 100.

I think the fence also likely exists for a reason, so removing the fence isn’t a good example of justice. Rather, changing the viewing area to be above the fence would be a better example.

I graduated highschool in 2014. Very interesting that you think schools taught students how to use a computer beyond opening a browser, Microsoft word, and typing.

Has this guy’s website been down for a really long time? I’ve checked it periodically for a couple of years now. Before it was just no updates, now it just gives an error.

I’ll throw in a few that I enjoyed (all pc with a controller):

Hollow knight (probably the common favorite). Fun gameplay, interesting story, felt like a great entry into the genre as someone who didn’t like them previously.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Really interesting farming mechanics to unlock new skills and fun combat. I think I liked this one mostly for the gameplay and don’t remember the story much.

Grime. This one felt really, really clunky at first. However, like most games in the genre, it really picked up at one point and I enjoyed the whole experience. I think there were some sections that really dragged on but overall a fun game with interesting movement, mechanics, and enemies.

Taking pleasure in the (self inflicted) suffering of others, but voting for and supporting policy change to fix that suffering seems very different from actively participating in the increase of suffering of others.

Not everyone has to be as holy as thou to not be evil.

Seems like this is not your kind of community.

There’s a small resurrection effort for a lot of shut down games and I really do wish them success. I saw one for Firefall, which was something I often wish would’ve succeeded.

I had the opposite for this one, heard it was good and really didn’t like it when I gave it a try.

I still don’t understand, truthfully.

Saying the joke is overused has nothing to do with what you said.

While I agree, just play whatever you want and stop gatekeeping, I do think there’s a degree of bad design that often happens around difficulty sliders. Many games will have different difficulties that boil down to something like, “Easy: enemies have half health and do half damage”, “Medium: 1x health and 1x damage”, and “hard: 2x damage and 16x health”

Instead of a pretty well tailored, and maybe difficult challenge that can be overcome with skill or by using the game’s mechanics, you just have a game that either doesn’t challenge you or does, but every fight is going to be bullet/damage sponge hell.

No it’s a method of cooking vacuum sealed food, I’m pretty sure.

What the hell does this response even mean?

Brother this place is dying, best get all your mocking out quick!

This joke is already old. Time to find a new horse to beat to death.