DogWater

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Yes, but the size matters. And the prevalence and reach those top tier info sharers have. Now it's not even a question of whether or not you run into people playing with that knowledge. It's assured in every competitive game in nearly every match.

A personal example would be halo 2 jump tech. A friend of mine showed me a few videos on 2005 YouTube showcasing cool jumps on lockout and a few other maps (not super bouncing, different things).

I was able to leverage that for like the entire life of halo 2 online with people rarely ever understanding what I was doing.

Today everyone everywhere would know that because the biggest halo streamers would make it so common.

You're exactly right. The playful learning. It's so bad now that sometimes just knowing you haven't googled the most optimal way to play can linger in your head and ruin the experience lmao

I believe that gaming is so fundamentally different now. Twitch, YouTube and other services have produced instant access to streams of the best players in the world and thousands of players crowd sourcing all of their knowledge online in discord, comment sections, subreddits, YouTube, and wherever else...

it's produced a phenomenon where a community for a game inevitably speed runs everything about it within like 7 days. Any new meta or piece of content can go from novel to completely documented in no time at all.

This changes the way developers think about competitive gaming and even cool story games where you might hide Easter eggs. It changes how they build the game and their choices.

The onus is on the player to actively not seek that info out in games. And in competitive shooters that is to their detriment.

I'm just an old guy yelling at clouds, but it removed some of the magic of the experience when now you just Google (game)"current meta"

/okbuddy196

Agm batteries are fuckin annoyingly expensive

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!!!

Damn that was cool. I'm on team billiard now.

Indeed.

Yeah but my aging parents can't, it's about effort. Of course I could set up something that gets around all of it but then I still have to pay for their music streaming on their phone. And the second something breaks I'm not with them to fix it.

Yup.

Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people

I get that Google bad an all that, but it's a good deal