Some people have this idea that playing games is a hobby and it puts me off. Playing games is not a hobby it is a pastime. Hobbies are often communal activities that encourage socialization, not pseudo online congregations. You can engage with your hobby in isolation and it can be your own activity for yourself, or you can share your hobby with others which I believe is the prime function of maintaining a hobby the goal being socialization. Just because you play a game with other people or groups of people does not then make playing a game a hobby, you are merely interacting with others inside of a video game which is very dystopian.

This same phenomenon of pseudo relationships exists in the streaming world where people congregate behind their screens to watch a person do a thing or play a game, but together, it’s essentially gooning without the sexual pathology.

The definition of hobby has been stretched to include video games. Video games are not a hobby, they facilitate the atom

The starting price for a 7x7 small thatched roof cottage was 100k. This house I've furnished that's two floors is worth that much. Get real.

Having a bit of an obsession over it since a few days ago. This thread is a bit of an outlet for that.

Also, I am curious if anybody would be willing to run it, or if anybody has run it.

Mods.

A place all newbies know as you want to log out at an inn so you don't get pick pocketed.

Eww

In the end, Activision cancelled all Crash and Spyro projects and sent both Toys for Bob and Vicarious Visions into the Call of Duty mines, but Toys for Bob at least became independent afterwards

Edit: I'm currently watching the video this screenshot originated from and it's really depressing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHwPNPW2VM

At one point Activision got rid of Toys for Bob's dedicated art department since they figured they could just outsource art to contractors who they wouldn't need to give benefits to