Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They'll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as "seasons".
It's everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.
Well that's just wildly misunderstanding political definitions, can't help you much there bud. (You probably think of all communism as Stalinist Authoritarian Tankie Communism with a paranoid autocrat but there's a whole spectrum in the anarchy/libertarian direction that really puts the "community" in "communism")
I hate that "social media" is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. "Social networking site" is great, straightforward and descriptive. But "social media" encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for "traditional media" which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!
All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I'm too young to be this mad about it.
Contradictory? Not at all. Radical just means opposed to the status quo, "leftist" is pretty broad but is generally used to mean "left of the DNC" by politically engaged people and "left of Ronald Reagan" by MAGA. Marxism is a specific foundational political philosophy that identifies and idealizes a communist society.
Just because the monkeys on typewriters don't know the definitions doesn't mean the words don't go together.
Ok, well, I am. It's not "pointless story" it's entertainment and I'm struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.
It's set in the Titanfall universe, there's lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.
It's not really for fans of the game, it's about catching the rest of the country with empty pageantry while raking in advertiser money. Sometimes the game is also good but it hardly matters to the NFL.
Yeah people misunderstand Trump's business history. It doesn't matter how many casinos he bankrupted, Trump profited. He's a vampire like a private equity firm, leaving a trail of dead husks behind him.
It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you're comfortable handling lye)
Vitamin C supplements are mostly bullshit anyway. Almost nobody needs them.