Only if Supreme Highgod Pooh demands it.

Six minutes! Impressive!

Can I get low rated in 4 minutes?

You can do it! I believe in you! GO FOR IT, TIGER! REACH FOR THE STARS! THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!

You could've just said "I have near 0(if not exactly 0) empathy for those I disagree with or dislike" and saved yourself a ton of typing.

5 minutes lol Imagine if they put this kind of energy into productivity,

Took ya more than 5 minutes. I am disappointed by your underperformance. :(

Sad, innit? It wasn't that long ago that special people would indulge in pastimes like discussing Star Trek or collecting rare issue models of PEZ dispensers. Now they're reduced to compulsively hitting red buttons in an obscure gaming forum. How the mighty have fallen!

I just realized that every single post in his thread, without fail, is getting down-voted.

Just wanted to say I agree for the most part with this bit.
(no need to reply back...as I see you've decided to retire from the thread)

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It's because the trolls have seemingly put the thread on their low rate scripts....everyone is being rated down in here now.

Well tbf, the whole community isn't poor....just ones like the ones using the aforementioned scripts and a few other bad eggs. Many others are very nice and helpful.

That's what makes it so funny (in a somewhat tragicomic way). Imagine someone being this butthurt.
"Waaaah, people are talking about stuff on the internet! I gotta put a stop to this! Waaaaah!

I hear ya.

Now if it were me, i'd be spending my precious time on this earth doing near anything else....including things like, I dunno, playing the games bought from this store(also: you put me in the screencap...w00t!).

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As to the main topic and cancel culture:

I've often noted how a number of the same people who deny it exists/claim it's justified will then turn around and admit it exists/decry it when it happens to them.

lol, some of my posts are back in the neutral. Downboat harder! xD

Tell ya what, let's foster some positivity! If all the posts in this thread are "High rated" by the time I wake up tomorrow, I'll do a giveaway of a surprise gog game of my choice!

Ya spoke too soon....they came back around....like sharks in chum filled waters.
(well sad little sharks who sit in front of their PCs clicking red buttons, I mean)

I wonder if it'll be the game I think it'll be.....;D

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(btw, i'm thinking of possibly holding a giveaway of my own soon enough...so everyone might want to stay tuned)

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Back ontopic.....a bit of musing on the whole "actions have consequences" line being bandied about so much:

Yes, a number of actions have consequences...."natural consequences", that is.

Thing is, however, a good number of the ones that come as a result of cancel culture are unnatural ones forced upon others(and pretty often based on false information and/or dumb things people said years and years ago)....usually by petty individuals and trolls engaging in modern day witch hunts.

Sometimes I wish/hope/dream that humanity could move beyond such pettiness, but then the realist in me realize the likelihood of such things and it saddens me a bit.....still, "crazy" me still holds out some hope nonetheless.

In short: just because actions have consequences, that doesn't mean others should try to MAKE consequences for others they dislike and/or disagree with

The fuck they will. GOG is following the money, and Factorio is very profitable game.

Hypocrisy is their main weapon. They don't even think about what it would feel like in reverse. If it happens to them, it is a horrible and unacceptable thing but when dishing it out? No remorse whatsoever.

I will once again plug Arch's channel. He did a very good series on the importance of gatekeeping and in general, covers nonsense stuff like this. So for anyone interested:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpOlBB48OjcAglcCJYyAAA

This thread could be used as an experiment for how many upvotes exactly would it take to bring a post into positive. Get a group of people, pick a random post and upvote it one by one until it becomes high rated. At least we would know the number of bots/downvoter accounts.

Thanks for the recommendation...might check it out some day. :)
(if I remember to and can make time, that is, but it seems good so i'll put some extra effort in to do such)

Looks like haters lost this round against Factorio: nobody should be attacked for having different opinion