The No Use for a Name cover was my first exposure to the song for any punk fans. Unfortunately the Pogues didn't seem all that well known (or at least discussed/played) in my neck of the woods.
There definitely was a shift. People and subreddits that existed before the mass influx of phone / app users tended to hold onto the hate of emojis but there was definitely no stopping all the newer younger users that didn't know and rightfully wouldn't care about what smileys are acceptable on a forum :)
I don't see it as very anti-consumer that every skin and statrak item has been brought along to the new game. I agree it would be nice to be able to play the old one, but I'd rather the option to torrent old clients and host my own dedicated server on the old one than be forced to upgrade to the new one. They don't host it anymore, pirate away Who cares?
This release has sucked ass, CS:sources release sucked ass, Condition Zero as a whole sucked ass, and ask anyone old enough, the move to 1.6 from 1.5 sucked ass.
I still expect it to end up a good game, just like 1.6 and source eventually was.
they were never going to be able to release a totally new game without a lot of backlash from the addict skin trading communities. They wouldn't want to risk their free income from the whales by splitting the player base and eventually shunning the skin investors stuck on the old game.
Why do you hate the Dwarves so much? I think I've only heard a song but a buddy wears a shirt from time to time.