Star wars and other similar sci-fi fantasies with their single biome planets are bullshit

If you shoot a pellet gun into the air and it lands on your neighbour's property, it will do less damage than hail pellet.

Now here's another funky bit. Sometimes taking a break from a game and coming back to it weeks, months or even years later will make it feel like you've never been better before. And the numbers or scores might validate it.

I've personally experienced this with:

• QuakeWorld in the early 2000s, where my shaft hitscan rate went from low 20s to mid 30s and my movement control got even more fluid. Factor here might have been a PC upgrade
• WoW around 2008 -> 2010 where I went from struggling in arena to hit the lowest rank to duelist. Factor here might have been my aging reflexes starting to compensate more strategy instead
• Enter the Gungeon from 2013 -> 2015 where I was struggling to get past the first few biomes to maxing out the whole game and attempting streaks with 9 curse and turbo on. This definitely came after watching a few streamers trying to do speed runs and their movement and situational awareness of the mob patterns inspired me.

I've also revisited these games since, again, and definitely only gotten worse at them.

Sound about right.

It's the same demographic, don't worry.

Who do you think does it?

When they are talking about essential oils, they are talking about the peddling Karens and Staceys that consume overpriced lavender oil and shit with every meal and also put it into the food of their kids. And then wonder why their kid exhibits sings of certain poisoning and hives.

Oldest Gen Z is 27 now.

That's Gen Z.

Us early millenials can "afford" it while taking on massive amounts of debt.

The best management is the one that also gets their hands dirty.

That's right!

My match making in Quakeworld late nineties / early two thousands went from LAN with dad and brother at home, to LAN at compsci lab at HS after school, to local PC cafe, to regional LAN tournament to international scene once ISDN & ADSL became ubiquitous.

We were always welcoming newbies to the scene. But then starting 2003 the Nordic players became increasingly cliquey and started refusing to play anywhere further south than servers located near the Stockholm datacentre.

School night for your 6-12yo.