One thing that's gotten a lot worse is the hate for everything, I've unsubscribed from several of my formerly favourite YouTube gaming channels because they've gotten more and more about just hating on everything. Every game that isn't perfect gets dragged through the dirt and people love it and join in. And comments anywhere on the web about any game are generally 80% hate and pessimism. And if you dare to say you like whatever game the topic is about you'll get down voted and told you're an idiot and/or shill.
And then begins the gruelling quest of navigating all the "how many ways can we ask how much we can spy on you and change settings so this happens more often, so we can track you more, ooh look here, new features! (They're just fronts for more tracking)" pop-ups which seem never ending.
That's all you have to do, it's not hard. I'm absolutely certain that people really want to have things that annoy them and makes them feel bad just so they can complain and get attention from that complaining. This is the same as people complaining about ads online and then doing nothing to fix that, it's the same with many things.
I used to love Kurzgesagt but I just don't like their videos anymore, and I'm not sure why. They definitely make the kind of content I enjoy, always did and still do, but when I try to watch any of their videos from the last 3-4 years I just don't like it. I also get this feeling that they are kinda smug about their popularity and how famous they are, it's weird.
The ai isn't the biggest problem IMO, it's the balancing of things. Even many easy early-game enemies are absolute bullet sponges and can kill you in 3-4 hits. The whole game right now is just finding ways to cheese every encounter, which doesn't feel good.
And both buying stuff and repairing things is so ridiculously expensive that it's impossible to keep up.
It feels like they didn't do much playtesting of the actual game at all, more like they tested specific things in exclusivity.
On a huge trampoline with 10 friends when I was like 15.
In a pile of people on a Persian carpet outside an underground nightclub.
Inside an abandoned caravan in the middle of a forest that I was lost in.
Inside a big tyre used as a cushion for boats on a dock. In Swedish the word for being passed out from being drunk is "däckad" and the word tyre is "däck" so I was "däckad i ett däck" - "tyred in a tyre".
It's also very much part of the 'murican narcissism culture, everyone has to be special in some way, no matter how shallow, made up or objectively irrelevant that is.
I've known a few Americans IRL (I'm Swedish) at different periods of my life and no one else has ever come close to the level of mental gymnastics they do to feel special, cool, different etc.
This really mirrors a lot of other things about the US, the classic image of early American towns with houses that have decorated facades but that's all it is, paper-thin lies to mask both nothingness and shittyness.
And man do they hate it when you try to push your finger through those shallow shields they build for themselves.
The photo used isn't Galaxy S22...