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It took Rocket League and another multiplayer game called Super Animal Royale, to cease playing multiplayer online with randoms. Friends only.

Oh and I’m permanently banned from both of those games too. At least with Rocket League, my Steam account is banned which contained a handful of DLCs I wanted and a couple of lucky trades I got when the rocket league garage was available, a site players could use to trade items with. All down the drain. All because of putting up with countless assholes on there.

So no, I will never touch games like DotA, LoL and whatever else because I’m just going to remember the tail-end time with Rocket League where it was just back-to-back miserable experiences, even when trying to be spacious in how much I play it. When things go right in Rocket League and nobody is being a prick, it is an absolute blast of a time, win or lose.

It can be completed

Rocket League.

I have sank so many hours into this game, it is in triple digits. People have their opinion on shitty game studios today, but I find Psyonix practically irredeemable. Where do I begin? The community is very, very toxic and elitist that playing a casual match is a challenge of itself. You’ll be wanting to leave a match so badly, not because your team is down by goals, but because of how said team of yours got down by goals. You’ll be team-rammed, griefed and other bullshit and it’ll all somehow be your fault in their eyes.

The worst part of all of this, is Psyonix is dogshit about enabling this behavior. You are penalized for leaving casual games early, leave enough of them, then it’s 5 minute time-out and it escalates the more times you leave matches. It’s funny how the text in the banned prompt says “leaving a match creates an unfair balance for your teammates” or some bullshit garbage. No, I disagree, because people don’t need to stomach a bad experience when their teammates decide to go rogue or the other team is busy fucking you up with deliberate demolitions. THAT is what is called being “unfair”, Psyonix, you stupid fucks!

And Psyonix has a very absurd way with banning words. You can’t use “rammed” for some reason, that’s a bad word in their dictionary. Yeah they censor the hell out of many words, a lot of them obvious, but a lot of them very questionable and trivial. Psyonix only listens to the elitists and nobody else, if not, money because they’ve really been gutting out any enjoyment Rocket League once had with earning things and even having optional DLCs that were valuable.

I still, to this day, hope that Psyonix goes belly up. Not because of backstabbing the thousands of players that were there for them since Day 1 and then slapping them all in the face by going Free-To-Play and then scurrying off to Epic Games. But also because of the hours I’ve had to endure filled with lots of bittersweet experiences, most of them teetering towards negative ones, because Psyonix endorses the bullshit behavior.

Fuck you, Psyonix.

What you’re not really detailing to us is what exactly do you even want from a game? And if there’s an answer to that, in what way would you prefer to have played that game on?

I think, despite the current hardware price gutting for PCs right now, we’re still in the best of times for PC games. You will not find as many great deals or sales for games on consoles as you would for PC, comparatively speaking. There is a wide range of variability in PC unmatched. Consoles have had their heyday when PC gaming was still figuring itself out in the 80s, 90s and a tiny bit of the 2000s. But, it’s almost no contest anymore.

And they shouldn’t.

I’m sorry but it is completely fair game now for piracy to be as it is.

You’re illegally collecting data on us in every tech we have? Fine, but we’re pirating your shit and you’re going to like it.

Avoid all and any modern day record players. They simply are built cheaply, they don’t really know how to do it right and they’re just ruined by modern crappy design.

You’re best off thrifting for an actual record player.

I’m not a parent and I won’t ever be a parent.

But if there’s anything I’ve learned growing up - be a role model. My parents weren’t really planners, they didn’t have plans for themselves and moreso, they didn’t have strong ambitions. So, when they had me and my sister, we grew up almost never knowing what we want to do with our lives and not having the tools necessary to get there.

All we know and have done is work jobs that are minimum wage, paycheck to paycheck and just paying to survive another day. I’m fearful for my future every other day because, I don’t know what is ever next for me and what I could achieve that can get me out of the hole I seemingly got myself in. I don’t even know what I want to do next after I’m done with where I’m working now.

So the point of what I’m getting at is, parents, give your children something to look forward to. Give your children a model to live by and give them the support they need when they decide to pick up on something that they want to do. It’s easier for a child to go out and do something when they know their parents did the same things, enough to also raise their children because they care. Far more than just bringing in more lives and not even giving them the blueprints needed for their futures.

Going through all the ways that I can die, just so I can restructure myself back together like anew.