An overnight update to Counter-Strike 2 erased billions of dollars in valuable digital assets that players had accumulated. The law gives them almost no recourse.

In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This wasn’t a hack or a bubble bursting. It happened because one company, Valve, changed the rules for its video game Counter-Strike 2, a popular first-person shooter with a global player base of nearly 30 million monthly users.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There are lots of things I would like to address and fix if I wasn’t stuck in bed with a bad back. Therapy might fix some. Most of my issues are circumstantial.

    Not at all trying to be a dick. I’m disassociated from time. I’m not actually using my broader vocabulary. Not trying to be an ass or anything like that. I have been super into AI stuff for the last few years where I need more specific language. I started noting stuff I came across and wanted to recall by posting some of it here as Word of the Day but like 5 people ever cared so eh. I’m rather poor at language IMO.

    I blame my time spent painting cars for my dynamic range of detail. Maybe if I was not stuck physically disabled, spending most of my time stuck in bed, I would be more aware of larger vocabulary, or less inclined to ramble on to make my points. I don’t directly interact with much of anyone any more, so I am rather disconnected from feedback of what exactly constitutes big words in a practical sense I can manage. I try not to be a pretentious asshat by using words without surrounding context. I usually save that stuff for real insults, returning 8 to 12 letters for every halfwit four letter expletive dished into the fray.

    Normal is a person you have not taken the time to get to know yet. It is a fallacy and abstraction of the mind; normal people do not actually exist. Some take a little digging to find eccentricity, but no one is spherical, or lacking a Chinese menu.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I was merely explaining my thoughts and intent with a little personal experience in the mix.

      Sorry about your back, that sucks. Isolation can drive a person to unusual places.

      Writing is a practice, like cooking, both art and science. Big words don’t mean big thoughts, as Hemmingway has taught us. “Fuck it,” is a full sentence.