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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I wanted to be the target of homophobic insults, I could just do it to myself in front of a mirror, though granted, I can’t really emulate the voice of a 12 year-old so it’s not quite the same experience bouquet.

  Beyond that, multiplayer is almost like working - you’re supposed to relentless keep at it, on somebody else’s timings even if you’re in a guild: done it in EVE Online and WoW and, frankly, for the experience of work I have real-life were I actually get paid for it rather than the other way around.

  The there’s the whole creepy monetisation shit - I’m not really interested in the constant sales pressure, especially when it’s “buy this or else you’re handickaped vs those who did” (EA is still in my shit list since they did it with a DLC in one of the older Battlefield titles), especially nowadays when I’ve managed to mainly remove advertising from my life.

  So I just stopped doing multiplayer a decade ago and pretty much avoid it like the plague.

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• AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t play multiplayer games anymore.

  First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.

  Second off, I’m in my 40s and my reaction time isn’t what it was when I used to play Counter-Strike. You can’t improve an aged reaction time or dedicate the time that you would need to to get even somewhat better, let alone competitive, and getting repeatedly stomped isn’t fun.

  Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. One map is expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery and story.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s unlikely your reaction time has changed much in your 40s. You probably have well over a decade before that starts to happen. On your first couple of tries, reacting to something is going to seem impossible. After you seen the same stimuli and practiced what you should do in response, you’ll be right around where teens and 20-somethings are. If you don’t want to put the time in to make that happen, that’s fine, but don’t think it’s unattainable to get good at a given multiplayer if you were otherwise interested in doing so. E-sports are now old enough that we’ve seen enough folks age into their 40s and remain top talent, as long as that remained an ideal career choice for them when so few are going to be able to support themselves in that career.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In my own experience, now in my 50s and having played games since my teens, including a long period of RPGs and FPS online, reaction times start dropping in your 30s.

      It’s a tiny bit and you only really notice it when you’re operating near your limits (same for intelligence, by the way - if you’re using it near capacity, you’ll notice that your capabilities start falling at your mid 20s).

      However, you can compensate it with experience, smarts and even wisdom - for example in FPS games you use the environment against other players, lead them into doing something predicable and get them then and/or prefer play styles that don’t depend on reaction speed.

      It’s just a fact of life that physical and mental capacities do decay with age and far earlier than you seem to think, and whilst if you keep on using them it’s not that much, if you’re using them at a high enough level it’s noticeable if you pay attention as you can’t just reach the peaks you could reach before.

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    • ati@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m 50 and it’s started getting noticeable in the last year or two.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Watching NakeyJakey’s video on competitive shooters put into perspective how hard it really is. I knew I wasn’t cut out for it, but that just demonstrated how not cut out for it I was.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doing the same thing over and over again he’s boring.

    That’s also a factor in the gameplay itself.

    Competitive multiplayer games will always develop a ‘meta’ that you have to adhere to or respond to in order to be at all competitive.

    In single player games, you can make a replay interesting by playing it a different way, trying different strategies even if they’re non-optimal, just to have the novel experience of playing the game a different way. Things like, “I think I’m going to try doing a no-vehicles run in Subnautica.” or “I think I’ll try Cyberpunk with a melee-focused solo build this time.” But stuff like that just isn’t viable in competitive multiplayer. You will be defeated early and often if you stray too far from the meta.

    So not only are you playing the same few maps over and over, you’re playing the same few tactics and strategies over and over, making things boring from that angle as well.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In single player games you can also cheat a little or bug abuse/glitch the game for giggles without ruinjng the exp for others too

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  • SalamenceFury@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m 32. I just recently started getting better aim than I ever had throughout my entire 20’s. When it comes to gaming, age doesn’t really matter as much.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, I’m in my 50s and the previous poster is totally right about reaction speed - there comes a point were your aim is as good as it gets, but so is the aim of the kids doing the same FPS 10h/day and they’re faster than you.

      That said, with age comes experience (well, can come, if you’re trying - plenty of people age but don’t learn) so you can beat the kids with smarts and wisdom (things like leading them into situations which are traps, using the environment in your favor and, more generally, just playing in ways were your reaction speed doesn’t matter).

      That said, I’ve been out of the FPS genre for a decade now. Like the previous poster I simply don’t get enough fun from a game if it’s low complexity, which tends to be the case for fast paced games that require fast and/or precise moves.

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  • PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh. It’s clear you haven’t played multiplayer games for a long time, otherwise this false statement would not have come up:

    Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. One map is expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery and story.

    Maps rotate constantly and change, active and passive maps, community maps.

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    • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I obviously understand that there are multiple (if not dozens of) maps, but how many times are you expected to play those maps over and over again? Without plot progression, I just don’t find it interesting.

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.

  My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”

  Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”

  Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”

  Me and bro: -glare-

  Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”

  Single player games are still fun when played together.

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• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, it’s a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day. In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.

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  • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager

    One of my younger coworkers was just complaining about that and I had the pleasure of informing them they were now an old man.

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  • LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.

    Yeah exactly. I need a game I can just pickup and put down on a moments notice.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was gonna say having kids is incompatible with souls like games.

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• Larry@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I miss community servers. Each had its own identity and you could pop in and out without being penalized. Being locked in to a 30+ minute sweatfest with people I don’t know, or like, has never been appealing to me.

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• purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I’m getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit’s like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don’t even exist anymore. It’s exhausting.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re not supposed to leave! Subscribe to the Steam iv nutrition service and stay focused!

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• mereo@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don’t want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exact same. I can pause when needed and handle priorities. Fuck MP games that drive up my blood pressure. The only MP games now are co-op, like L4D2

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  • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SHAZBOT!

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I AM THE GREATEST!

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    About the same, but I would love to go to a lan party every now and then and actually game. I stopped going when people were more interested in sharing their puddle deep political takes then gaming and that was before gamergate. I can only imagine how bad it would be now.

    People were more relaxed a lan parties and open server browser games. Rank tracking and matchmaking made everyone a sweaty gamer.

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• lonefighter@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.

  Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.

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  • miraclerandy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is something I’ll do with an especially pretty game. Find a pretty view and just set up camp watching the world. Works even better with weather and night/day cycles in the game.

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  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really love the atmosphere of skellige. Something about it is so nostalgic, the blowing wind, the clouds that look like a huge storm is about to roll in.

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    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I want to live on Aard Skellige. It’s so beautiful, you have everything, ocean, forest, mountains, meadows, cliffs, creeks/waterfalls, all of it.

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  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    every time it rains i think or sing to myself “it’s rainin’, it’s pourin’, emperor emhyr’s whorin’”

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• Switorik@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.

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  • scops@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve yet to find a game I couldn’t play on Bazzite in the year since I’ve switched from Windows. I know that says something about my gaming preferences, but it is also high praise for the folks who have worked on Wine and Proton over the past years

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    • Switorik@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To make it a bit more clear, they are actively blocking access to the game via anti cheat that doesn’t support linux or in many cases, not enabled.

      I have zero issues on arch. I find linux works better out of the box, is more reliable, faster, and doesn’t actively farm data your data.

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• cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.

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• lordziv@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is going to be extremely niche, but I find the surf mini game in Counter Strike Source to be incredibly relaxing and rewarding while also being a quasi multiplayer game. The community is quite helpful and friendly and there are almost 1000 different maps of all skill levels so there is something for everyone if you are into movement based mechanics.

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• Airfried@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.

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  • GhostFace@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Once any game gets big enough it’s all downhill. Games are the most enjoyable when they’re new, before they’re ruined. I’ve had so many childhood games get popular, the content creators come in, change the game to their liking and then leave when the toxic following they’ve brought destroys the community and the fun of it.

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• Azrael@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Online multiplayer games used to be fub but they have really gone downhill recently.

  The most fun I have ever had in a video game was hunting a bear in RDR2 to make clothing with the pelt. It took several days but I think that’s what made finding the bear so satisfying.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.

  Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots

  I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date

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• Weirdfish@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.

  I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.

  Have a huge backlog of games I haven’t touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.

  Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.

  Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I’ll do a full play through at least once a year.

  Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.

  I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn’t been for me for a long time.

  I think the last one I really spent any time on was America’s Army around 2006.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.

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• Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.

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  • PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The alternate modes like arms race or demolition are fun and quick.

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    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and not what i’d want from the game ;)

      it’s either a 5vs5 in a serious setting or in service of getting better at that, otherwise it’s not the game i miss.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.

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  • Somsphet@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Deep rock galactic. Best multi-player game i played recently other then stardew valley. Sometimes a multi-player game gets better with someone else

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elden Ring Nightreign has been my jam. Deep Rock Galactic and DRG Rogue Core are also fun.

    But yeah otherwise a lot of MP games are ass nowadays. Too much lootboxes and hostile policies and not enough focus on fun.

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• Somsphet@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I get it, but my favorite multi-player game is mobile suit Gundam battle operation 2. Try it. The community has really been pruned of trolls and bad actors. The game makes it more frustrating for them, but more fun with people who just wanna play giant robots. Sure sometimes you get stomped because of a whole ducking clan attacking at once, but I find the wide range of mechs with lots of different playstyles counter the stomping.

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  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yikes that game has some troubling reviews.

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• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.

  And even these games are way better as single player games.

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• curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kingdom Come

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve recently been playing Tales of Maj’Eyal and it’s such a nice vibe. There’s an in-game chat for people just going about playing their single-player adventures, generally filled with kind and intelligent people. The game is complex enough that being able to ask questions in the chat is a nice option.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Single player games for life baby.

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• nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s sort this skill issue in Quake Live, Apex boy.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll never forgive Apex for denying me a Titanfall 3. Titanfall 2 is a masterpiece

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• Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only multiplayer games I still play are deep rock galactic and the occasional MMO. The former has the best online community around and the latter I can filter who I play with easily

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• FRYD@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I used to play on my college’s Overwatch team. I did the grind. I hit GM. I put in 5000 hours. It has forever made me despise competitive games/gaming. 2 years ago, I tried valorant for a few weeks and was immediately accused of smurfing just because I was pub stomping the lobbies.

  I still have good fps fundamentals and pretty much any one I touch is trivially easy, but I stick to single player games now.

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• dotCody@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ani.social/…/acfb6522-e363-4830-a456-d2b781536642…

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• HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Recently I rediscovered StarCraft 2 for me. Am I ever to reach a top ladder placement? Hell no. But the games in platinum league are fun and it is often surprising what tactics other people come up with. Especially because almost anything can work on that level when it is decently executed. No need to play the same optimal openings all the time like the pros.

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  • Object@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does it feel to have 4 less starting workers

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