I’ve had a second wind of pokemon since pogo came out, but they killed it with the sale to the Saudis. I’m not supporting Saudi blood ventures

The Nemesis system, which we just sit on and don’t do anything with.

Close but not quite those games. Farmville is kind of like a tap tap game. Or Simpsons Tap Out. The tapping refers to the need to harvest resources by tapping on things in game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Tapped_Out

This sounds like every terrible mobile game I’ve ever played. Are gachas similar to tap tap games on mobile?

Regulation of predatory practice. Taxation on the games to pay for rehab and support services for people that experience negative effects from it. It’s really easy to do, but every single gambling operation gets the big bucks from the heavily addicted. The whales are the entire business.

The widespread deregulation of gambling in the US is heading that way too.

Weird. I only seem to get AFib when I eat Chipotle.

This is obviously where this is going and it’s a big part why they’re obsessed with labeling people “groomers.”

That’s weird. Russians and Americans aren’t sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.

Firefox with ublock works too. I’ve never seen a reddit ad in my life, even on mobile.

I could deal with the aesthetics if they kept the core function of old.reddit. But they didn’t. I see “trending” posts more than I see posts from subs I have joined and that’s what eventually has driven me from the site. Every time I log in, it’s whack a mole with random bot repost subs.

The part that turned me off is it is a complete rip off of Humankind, which was okay but got stale for me pretty quick.