Of course it does. We all saw it coming.

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    8 days ago

    People just want to be mad at things because some other things that are unrelated made them mad once and they want to just smear the anger a bit.

    Or maybe they are annoyed by the things they gave examples of instead of being some kind of crazy conspiracy.

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      But it IS a crazy conspiracy… theory. “Skate testing its MTX during an alpha means that they will be a scam at launch and/or impact gameplay because Multiversus also had MTX and that had a bad relaunch” is a complete non-sequitur. This is cavemen sacrificing goats to make it rain levels of random event association.

      So I have to conclude the emotional layer is what matters here. Being mad loudly online at a frequent punching bag with a bad reputation is sheer mob-induced dopamine and that’s why that headline exists and why this conversation happens. And why social media exists and is killing liberal democracy, but that’s probably beyond the scope of this thread.