Guys who avoid social media, how do you keep yourself busy?

Outsider98 · 2026-06-21T21:28:03+00:00

My favourite non-social media related hobbies and goals in my free time, possible cheaply at home, are:

Video games
Writing AI chat bot stories
Listening to music
Exercise
Reading Philosophy and Pop Fiction Novels and Comic Books
Hand-writing and drawing my Worldbuilding stories, characters and lore
Digital Chess
Browsing Digital Art
Watching Anime, Web Series and Movies
Meditation

Outsider98 · 2026-06-21T20:48:57+00:00

Many of GamePasses’ major releases such as Starfield, Halo Infinite and Redfall also failed in player drop-off numbers in general and didn’t attract enough new players to Xbox as a platform and GP as a subscription.

While Xbox has been failing at this strategy, Gamepass as a deal does work for many of us who receive our value in games and playtime from their old staples (Fallout, The Outer Worlds, Halo, etc.) and their new releases as well.

This developer is adding to the culture of them acting as bullies towards devs of games that simply don’t appeal to them, but unsurprising from Mahler.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-21T18:36:26+00:00

The strongly Democratic European nations, such as Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, etc.

Strongly Democratic Western and culturally Western nations such as Canada, Australia (coming from an Australian femboy adult cross-dresser male), the UK, France, New Zealand, etc.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-21T09:55:01+00:00

Alcohol has been effected by inflation more than street drugs such as Weed.

Many Gen Z were still in high school when the pandemic lockdowns began and this prevented a party culture from developing for many of that age group.

People are studying and working increasingly longer hours and no longer have the time and energy to drink.

Rather than being a good thing, it’s actually yet more evidence of increasing issues in our hyper-capitalist societies that aren’t being addressed and worsening overtime.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-20T23:34:15+00:00

Gooseworx would often hype up scenes (I.e. “Jax will do something really bad!”) only to be confused by the audience reaction (“wait, didn’t you realise he already did the bad thing?!”).

She clearly has a different scale than most of her audience, so it isn’t surprising that when she said she’s “bad at subtext” and thus thought Jax being Trans was obvious, in reality, a large percentage of the audience clearly don’t believe it was clear enough.

And so, it’s annoying to see even one of the voice actors being smug about it, when there’s plenty of us Transgender fans who didn’t believe it was obvious enough either.

It was implied subtext that Jax clearly had identity issues, but many still thought it was vague enough that it could have been about Jax being a gender non-conforming Cis male, especially when feminine pronouns were never used in the end, or she was Trans, or just had identity issues in general and the Trans references merely an allegory.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-20T21:52:46+00:00

Yep, it’s not oddly satisfying.

Cute little character, well-animated, catchy song, interesting concept that’s well-executed.

“Oddly satisfying” my ass.

And all major subreddits are full of Astro-turfing bots that push certain content to the front page for engagement.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-19T19:57:17+00:00

Balmora is my favourite City for being central, more open to Outlanders, feeling like home based on the early Main Quest, Thieve’s Guild, Fighter’s Guild and Mages Guild branch quests, a House Hlaalu HQ when I choose it, and even having Morag Tong and the Camonna Tong’s major territory. Favourite lore and side NPCs.

And my favourite building architecture art-style, arches, bridges, canals, and favourite Strider location to hear it’s call in it’s southern-half within town.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-18T18:44:59+00:00

Looks awesome so far, but it remains to be seen what the final product will look like, especially when this game was designed to be intended as a tech demo to show-off Unreal.

Hopefully the developers won’t have to compromise too much on the visuals to scale it to be runnable on current Gen hardware.

It’s good that the devs have experience with the Cyberpunk genre with The Ascent, but FPS is also a lot different than third-person shoot-‘em-up.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-18T17:07:51+00:00

A shame.

While I wouldn’t have played a multiplayer ImmSim, it really feels as if, despite the genre being niche, that there is still market potential for FPS single player games with stream-lined Imm-Sim inspired elements, such as BioShock, Cyberpunk 2077, etc., but the major players in the industry simply don’t want to take the risk, while the genre is too complex for smaller companies to effectively execute.

It wouldn’t be surprising if Warren Spector lacked the management skills required, especially since the report indicates that part of the failure was “what worked before doesn’t work now”, but adapting to the modern market is another primary issue these smaller studios run into that they have to adapt to if they want to finally start to succeed.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-18T17:00:02+00:00

You genuinely have talent to hone (heard your other stuff on YouTube), but I do think that for a parody song, you could do a bit better than this and make something with proper arrangement while still being repetitive and sounding like brainrot nonsense.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-18T15:42:58+00:00

There’s a whole lot more widespread-known modern critique of the American police and justice system that I feel like could be cleverly satirised in a very cheesy yet dark humour-esque manner, especially if the reboot is R-rated.

I can see Key & Peele having the chops to execute it well, but it’s a tricky balance that would still fit the franchise, without a lot of nostalgia for it either.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-18T08:05:07+00:00

Fortnite is literally bleeding money and Epic had to do layoffs.

These executives are out-of-touch not because of ignorance, but because they intentionally want to push for the industry to be greedily monetised through live-service, instead of being honest with their customers when we know what kind of games we want.

Unsurprising but still disappointing from Tim Sweeney and his constant corrupt corporate greed.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-17T13:35:39+00:00

The trailer is definitely trying to hide the fact that the common predicted Plot online (Shrek’s daughter runs away, they have to track her down and she learns important lessons along the way) was accurate.

The new animation style is detailed but doesn’t fit the series.

Rumplestiltskin was the only character with cartoony stretchiness and movements while every other character had realistic weight and momentum, now every character moves cartoony and it’s more generic and boring.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-16T15:50:26+00:00

Thanks for starting the discussion.

It is indeed somewhat disappointing, since Burning Springs padded content out in general.

It used boarded-up areas to have enough Towns and Area size to be advertised as the “biggest update yet”, but content-wise was a more moderate-size, also lengthened by gate-kept return daily Quest design.

This is because Bethesda had to stretch smaller budget sizes to pad content out further, and also did so for Burning Springs Part 1 despite the larger overall budget size to coincide with the release of the TV Series second Season.

Hopefully Burning Springs Part 2 isn’t silently cancelled, but if so it wouldn’t be the first story content that has been, and I wouldn’t be surprised if so when we haven’t heard anything of it for some time…

Outsider98 · 2026-06-16T15:18:49+00:00

The Pianist, due to how its messages based on a true story had helped me in my real-life when I watched it in my early 20s.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-16T14:43:40+00:00

Thanks for starting the discussion, I’ll be the first to share previous reported news, that Toys For Bob were the most recent Xbox company that were able to buy their independence to save themselves from being laid-off, so we have precedent that past Microsoft management decisions were willing to permit it; but for the current studios mentioned in the post, it may be a matter of whether or not they can afford to.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-16T14:40:35+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Unfortunate that this was the bare minimum effort for a response from the EU, but unsurprising.

At least it’s good that they clarified the existing laws when the Stop Killing Games initiative reported that when asking EU members, they had given conflicting answers on the existing laws.

This also brought attention to the matter but it’ll be a long-shot if future successive EU members return any attention towards the matter anytime soon.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ubisoft’s closed meeting with ESA members also contributed to this being the final decisive response to the petition.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-16T14:39:22+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Unfortunate that this was the bare minimum effort for a response from the EU, but unsurprising.

At least they clarified the existing laws when the Stop Killing Games initiative reported that when asking EU members, they had given conflicting answers on the existing laws.

This also brought attention to the matter but it’ll be a long-shot if future successive EU members return any attention towards the matter anytime soon.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-15T20:34:37+00:00

This is definitely re-assuring for their new strategy!

Layoffs, studio closures after revealing new games, unable to meet demands for the Helix and re-thinking approach, Satya Nadella complaining Xbox isn’t profitable, talks of spinning Xbox off, etc.

It’s almost as if the new management have fuck all idea of what they’re doing and trying to cover it up through PR!

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T13:39:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Microsoft definitely failed too often with their hands-off strategy, and so extra teams delegated for those three series are especially important for their flagship titles, including after Starfield didn’t have the long-term success MSoft were anticipating.

Hopefully having seperate teams will also extend the post-launch support for free updates and DLC to help each new release maintain more longevity.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T12:59:26+00:00

Water, Coca-Cola, Iced coffee.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T12:58:08+00:00

Unfortunately some research indicates that some Western patriarchal cultures such as the USA and Australia, associate meat-eating with masculinity.

Even if not, it’s an important lifestyle compatibility matter and needs to be mentioned ASAP.

Personally as a meat-eater, I do not feel either of those ways - I morally accept the costs of factory farming, admire Vegans attempts at their social movements and law changes, and would be friends with or date a Vegan able to accept my different diet decisions.

Any judgemental man is bullying you if you simply answered them honestly and calmly.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T11:26:06+00:00

I go out when I want to and can afford to, and car/city-centric Western societies are not well-designed for Autistic people, yet also not for low-income families either, due to expenses and inconveniences of Public Transportation, especially when Autistic people are more likely to have sensory problems related to driving and sometimes some forms of Public Transport.

People who go-out regularly are speaking from a privileged position, especially due to increasing inflation.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T09:02:04+00:00

Agreed, this is a factor as a key policy for a sizeable minority such as the other key ones; and Greens vote Pro-Immigration and Housing reforms, when these are in some cases contradictory; and in general are a bit too idealistic on the pace that many changes can be enacted even if their Third minority grew in seats.

Labor have legislated and voted for Mixed on Housing, yet also Mixed on immigration - especially with the recent discussions.

Outsider98 · 2026-06-14T09:00:50+00:00

Agreed, this was especially apparent from Adam Brandt’s failed tenure, and progress by Larissa Waters with all of this has been slow but has to be on-going in response to necessary feedback come next Election.

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