sleeplessone

Thanks. I'll write up an issue on GitHub for this. Also, which characters exactly did you enter into the title field?

When you posted this, did you literally enter "‎‎‎" into the post title field, or did you perform your trickery through some other means? I couldn't reproduce this on lemmy.ml (which uses the 0.19.11 backend), but Hexbear appears to still be on 0.19.9. Need to know if I should file a bug report or if this will be fixed by your instance upgrading to a more recent version.

Load them into a blunderbuss and fire it like it's grapeshot.

lemmitors are responsible so take with that what you will

Lemmitor is a term used on Hexbear to refer to a Lemmy user (usually from a federated instance) who acts like a redditor and has their brainworms.

https://hexbear.net/post/4908156

Struggle sessions about gaming and gooning on the same day. You love to see it.

Lol does Hearhstone even heavy enough to demand a GPU that powerful?

It's not gambling in the usual sense since, as stated earlier, it is possible to play free to play games for little to no money. However, it's common for unscrupulous game publishers to design their games in such a way as to make normal progress slow to the point that some users will want to skip the grind by just coughing up the cash. It sounds like your girlfriend's brother is what people call a "whale", a user who dumps ludicrous sums of money into skipping the grind in a f2p game.

Since we live in capitalist hellworld and game publishers need to turn a profit, and since the player doesn't need to spend money to start playing the game, they need to get money from somewhere. Making games with dark patterns to entice players to spend money they otherwise wouldn't to improve their experience is how they go about this. Most players of these kind of games spend little to nothing to play them, but it only takes a small part of the playerbase spending large amounts of money to keep these games afloat. These players are the aforementioned whales.

An free to play online collectible card game by Blizzard. I've only ever dabbled in it years ago, but it does the usual free to play thing where it's technically possible to build a good deck through just playing the game normally but practically impossible to make something cool without dropping money. They also do the thing where certain old cards not admissible in certain game modes after some time, encouraging users to keep buying new cards from new expansions.

Hearthstone is pay2win af, but I wouldn't call it gambling just like I wouldn't call dumping a shitton of money on Warhammer 40k figures or Magic the Gathering cards gambling.

Is it the video games that are making him angry? Based on your post, it sounds like you demeaning his hobby was what made him upset. Then again, this post is all I have to go off of.

Is this supposed to link to a video?