Philip Gibson

There’s a really simple rubric you can apply to identifying and addressing the issues with a live service product - is this issue negatively impacting your users’ experience?

If it’s not a problem for your users, then maybe it’s not a problem.

This lesson has been learned and forgotten and relearned over and over during the last ten years, Bungie. Trying to control how players play the game has never worked. Focusing on delivering good stories and fun gameplay and letting players decide how they want to engage with it has always worked.

As a full time worker and parent I don’t get a ton of time to enjoy this game, and I imagine a lot of the player base is in the same boat.

When an activity gets shut down completely because players aren’t playing your game the way you want them to, it makes me want to engage less, not more.

The community response to “we’re shutting down this whole activity” is going to be a lot worse than “have fun with the bug until we get it patched”.

I agree with everyone else here. Instead of disabling an entire activity because there’s currently an issue that lets people get more loot than you want them to, it would be better to receive that as feedback that they are not enjoying having to spend all their free time grinding for loot.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

I agree with this idea in principle. Here’s something I worry about, though, and I don’t have a great solution for it. I worry that we are so far into a post truth, anti science era that the only people who would hear this are not the people who would actually listen.

The world’s richest person has no business anywhere near the levers of a government that regulates his businesses, especially when he profits from contracts with that government. #muskmustgo

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

Is Mark Zuckerberg having a midlife crisis or something?

Random shower thought incoming

That guy, as I’ll refer to him, isn’t as dumb as we like to think he is

It’s worse than that

He’s smart enough to know how much he can get away with and doesn’t care what happens to anyone else

You can’t reason with that

You can only protect yourself from it

Did you use team planner or just wing it?

Elon post on X asking to end pharma ads. My post from X is replicated here

Can we end Citizens United as well ? Kill them both and you end linear TV as we know it. Fox News. Gone. MSNBC. Gone. CNN. Gone. LFG !!!!!

Seeing our little blue planet from the perspective of the ISS must make all this “Us vs Them” stuff seem quite petty.

Post by Charlotte Clymer: Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

I got a steam deck recently, been playing lots of monster hunter there, but Arcane got me down a rabbit hole. I’ve give TFT a shot. I’ll friend you if you DM your user name

Do you Wild Rift, by chance? Just discovered it and I’m looking for people to play with. Haven’t tried TFT yet, but I’m interested.

I’m a sociologist, healthcare analyst, and single dad living in a very red state. I like guitars, movies, games, and casually talking about social theory for fun.

I just want to have intelligent conversations about cool things again without the internet ruining it with ads and sponsored content.

Wait… this was real? I really thought this one had to be a farce.