Allow me to introduce you to the wild world of common keys: This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key

Mark O’Conner did a sequel with Johnny Cash as the narrator, Travis Tritt as the devil, and Marty Stuart as Johnny. It’s called “The Devil Comes Back to Georgia” and Johnny wins the that one again, this time with even more hubris than before. Good song though, if you like the fiddle Mark O’Conner is incredibly talented.

While I agree with you here that Coffee Stain is a shining example of what EA should be and how it should be utilized, I think you can also understand OPs cynicism given the state of affairs. I don’t think it’s entirely fair to jump straight “to all gamers are mad no matter what” but I certainly empathize with your frustrations regarding the apparently implacable nature of the community.

My intention is not to tone police, I just think conversations like these would be more productive if they were less antagonistic.

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Not the person who responded to you but:

Your first post is a bit ambiguous. On initial reading it seemed to me that you were accusing Coffee Stain specifically of abusing the EA system to manipulate sales, but I can also see how your intent may have been more general and broadly directed.

In either case, you didn’t “ask” anything so it is a bit disingenuous to imply that you did.

The person who responded to you may simply be exasperated with the state of the gaming community, and it seems you are similarly disillusioned with the state of development. In either case, both of you seem to have some justifiable frustrations that are being misdirected. It’s important to call out the bad behavior of devs, and it’s important to recognize the ones who are doing things the right way. I think it’s equally important to be civil.

The gaming industry has become just that - an industry worth over 200 billion dollars, and the industry leaders do not have the best interests of the gaming community at heart. The amount of infighting and snark among the community does not serve us. Community action can have enormous impact, as seen recently with the Helldivers 2 PSN debacle. It is in our best interest to elevate the level of discourse in our community and leave the barbs to the in-game match chat.

K, that’s my soapbox, sorry if it came across preachy, it’s just a topic that’s important to me.

Well that certainly would make more sense! I’m a cold weather person myself, but shorts in -5F is a bit much for me.

Christmas Day in 1983 was a record low for Chicago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpT0vG56ADM

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/il/chicago/KMDW/date/1983-12-25

I’m not from the area, so I’m unsure if there are severe micro-climates in or around Chicago. Maybe, even, you and your neighbor are acclimated to very cold weather conditions. It’s irrelevant either way, as we would all be better served by not conflating weather with climate, which OP’s post is also doing.