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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoGames@lemmy.world•Skill issueEnglish
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    6 days ago

    You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

    I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

    Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

    Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

    I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoFediverse@lemmy.world•Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.English
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    9 days ago

    It’s because of this bullshit.

    Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

    500? 2000? 10,000+?

    Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

    There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

    Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

    Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

    As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

    P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.

    P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoGames@lemmy.world•Chrono Trigger Is TimelessEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    I played it during an internet outage in 1999 - no walkthroughs, no strategy guides, no reviews.

    I went into the game entirely blind, without having an iota of what it was.

    I thought it was a generic JRPG and Final Fantasy knockoff like every other SNES rom I’d tried before getting to it, but boy was I wrong.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•IQ isn't 160. No one's isEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Thanks; I needed this article.

    As a transdimensional entity, I found myself stuck for a lifetime as a human being and figured that would make my life a cakewalk intellectually.

    I took a couple of graduate-level examinations: LSAT, MCAT, GRE and scored shockingly average, if not below average.

    I arrived at the conclusion that standardized testing is rigorously biased towards those with resources: Students or individuals with ample time and money to practice very constrained and narrow questions – “testing to test” or learning how to “game” the exam.

    When I revealed this incongruity to a colleague, they laughed and said: “You need to be smart enough to cheat on an exam and not get caught”.

    Humanity is odd, and it won’t stop being odd.

    Perhaps the birds had it right, and the most colorful plumage, or the way someone dances is impressive, not their “IQ score”.