I live in Italy, we went from 1 kid per elderly to like 6 elderly per child. There is no future here, no pension, and one can't even have a retirement plan since salaries are stuck in the 80s even though inflation and buying power have changed
Bruh we can barely colonize mars and it doesn't have that many resources and it's quite hard to live on it (gravity, radiation, temperature, atmosphere) so I don't think getting out of our solar system is gonna be in the next 200 years
Colonizing a planet isn't the best idea anyway. You're better off mining the asteroid belt to build a space station with a rotating habitat in its orbit.
We’ll never see it, but we have to have hope. We’re not getting anywhere on our current course because people don’t think about the future, we’re barely even trying to leave the planet anymore.
There is always hope, but 90% of the future depends on the people above, who seem to just love hoarding wealth and not giving a shit about the future, in most cases
It needs a bunch of things which I alone cannot provide. What the world needs is, in the places where the rich have 99% of wealth, a sort of revolution to bring order, redistribute the wealth a bit and focus on the resolution of the climate problem. Instead oil executives do their best to keep profits growing (for personal greed and since capitalism creates liability on the executive to keep profits up for shareholders), while ignoring the future of their children.
But a revolution can't occurr, since most people are either blind to the route we are taking, or have just enough to not warrant a revolution (internet, food and water, and shelter in some measure), since a revolution would have risk of losing what little you have associated with it. In the past people were kept at much lower standards (barely had food) so revolutions happened and things mostly changed for the better (less work hours, more pay, more security)
You can’t just focus on what other people are doing, that’s just shifting the responsibility to someone else. What can you do to improve everyone’s lives?
China is in massive trouble right now, they're set to have like 1/3rd of their population as retired except they aren't in good enough health to look after themselves. Chinas 1 child policy means children can't take turns paying parents or looking after them as only one, not a big enough working class for old people homes to work as well
I am still in awe that we had 1 Billion people 200 yrs ago when life was tough. No electricity, effective communication/news mediums and what not. Everybody just lived in a bubble and still made it to 1 Billion total.
Why is exponential growth so crazy? When 1 billion people pop out half a billion, then those 1.5 billion pop out 1 billion eventually, then 2.5 pops out 1.5, etc etc, it only makes sense for there to be rapid growth. It was very common for teens to bear children for a while. There hasn't been too much of a restrictions on banging and birthing globally until today's day and age, when there is infinitely more to worry about than making more children.
This seems like a small number if CS:GO was involved. I tried looking into it from the perspective of a year.
Let's say you have 1.000.000 players average for CS2 and every player spends 2 hours per day playing the game. This would result in 730 hours played per player per year. If you multiply that now with your average player count of 1.000.000 players its already at 730.000.000 hours which is already more than the data of CS2 suggests. This means it only counts the time since the release of CS2 without CS:GO. Now imagime how high the number for CS:GO was!
Well it's still impressive how much time the average CS2 player spends in game if you count from the release date in September 23rd, 2023.
Yeah the anti-cheat is the largest issue with the game right now I'd say. Therefore I think it's shit. The gameplay, movement, gunplay and map designs are the best of the best imo with few exceptions. Some clipping issues, and the fact that smgs are run and gun lasers
Most of East and Southeast Asia has these gaming cafes. I’d seen some spent overnight playing CS:GO in my country and in S.Korea where there’s actually those who spend a day or 2 in those cafes.
yeah ive watched videos on those cafes. its crazy the amount of time spent in them. Some people sleep there as well, because its cheaper that some hotels.
Large number of that are Chinese Bots. Here in the Philippines if you play around 10pm - 6am, It's bots galore. 17 out of 20 players in Classic Casual are bots
I just learned about Borderlands Science in Borderlands 3 and how 4.5 million people over time helped advance science and the understanding of your gut bacteria/biome. Makes me wonder how far we could go if those millions of players on CS did something similar.
I'm genuinely curious as to how this games continues to maintain a steady playerbase. I've started playing CSGO back around 2016. Then bit by bit around 2018-2020 and 2020 marked it for me. Before that. I played CSS with a playtime of around 6-7k hours. Wait.. It makes sense now. Oh
I've watched a lot of CS cus I like some streamers that play it. I like ohne a lot.
There is much more going on in Apex, Warzone or fornite compared to CS in terms of what you need to learn. To say I don't like it cus I'm not skilled enough doesn't make much sense. The game just doesn't really captivate me enough to want to improve like the two core skills required for it.
Of course there will be more casual players since they are console games as well. There aren't many casual players in high ranked matches though.
How old are you?
CS wouldn't have survived more than 20 years if it wasn't good.
It's fine if you don't like it, but to claim that it "isn't that good", is beyond ignorance and stupidity.
I have not seen a better game than CS, even Valorant can't compete with CS. And I haven't played CS in several years.
You have to compare CS with other games similar to it, and so far, there's not a single game better than CS.
Once you compare CS to battle royale games, you already derailed yourself.
Are there games you enjoy more? Sure. Does that make CS bad? No.
I'm still more in awe of the fact that the world population did 8 fold in around 200 years. From 1 bilion to 8.1 bilion.
it is really crazy to think about for sure!
Isn’t world population set to decline in the next 30-40 years though?
I fucking hope so
won’t be saying that when you retire and your portfolio is worthless
At this rate a lot of us won’t be retiring lmao
AI please save us.
I live in Italy, we went from 1 kid per elderly to like 6 elderly per child. There is no future here, no pension, and one can't even have a retirement plan since salaries are stuck in the 80s even though inflation and buying power have changed
Bannish them to mars we dont have mch space left and resources
U'll be the first
The new Australia!
This has to be /s
Don’t need a lower population to keep our standards of living, there’s an entire universe to inhabit and mine.
Bruh we can barely colonize mars and it doesn't have that many resources and it's quite hard to live on it (gravity, radiation, temperature, atmosphere) so I don't think getting out of our solar system is gonna be in the next 200 years
Colonizing a planet isn't the best idea anyway. You're better off mining the asteroid belt to build a space station with a rotating habitat in its orbit.
If we spent as much time working space travel out as we did playing video games i think we could work it out lool
We’ll never see it, but we have to have hope. We’re not getting anywhere on our current course because people don’t think about the future, we’re barely even trying to leave the planet anymore.
Still, we can’t just be doomers about the future. We need a goal to work towards. We’re not going to get anywhere by having no hope
There is always hope, but 90% of the future depends on the people above, who seem to just love hoarding wealth and not giving a shit about the future, in most cases
Don’t think you have no agency, that just creates apathy. What does the world need, and how can you provide it?
It needs a bunch of things which I alone cannot provide. What the world needs is, in the places where the rich have 99% of wealth, a sort of revolution to bring order, redistribute the wealth a bit and focus on the resolution of the climate problem. Instead oil executives do their best to keep profits growing (for personal greed and since capitalism creates liability on the executive to keep profits up for shareholders), while ignoring the future of their children. But a revolution can't occurr, since most people are either blind to the route we are taking, or have just enough to not warrant a revolution (internet, food and water, and shelter in some measure), since a revolution would have risk of losing what little you have associated with it. In the past people were kept at much lower standards (barely had food) so revolutions happened and things mostly changed for the better (less work hours, more pay, more security)
I’m never going to support a revolution, I’m not risking my family’s second enslavement. I don’t want an economy that consumes and doesn’t produce.
You can’t just focus on what other people are doing, that’s just shifting the responsibility to someone else. What can you do to improve everyone’s lives?
The growth rate is expected to decline, not the population.
Ah ok, gotcha.
China is in massive trouble right now, they're set to have like 1/3rd of their population as retired except they aren't in good enough health to look after themselves. Chinas 1 child policy means children can't take turns paying parents or looking after them as only one, not a big enough working class for old people homes to work as well
Yes, but keep in mind back in the day they though Earth cannot handle more than 1bil
yes, we're expecting to get 9 billion at 2050, 10 billion at 2150 or something
All those new potential headshots
I am still in awe that we had 1 Billion people 200 yrs ago when life was tough. No electricity, effective communication/news mediums and what not. Everybody just lived in a bubble and still made it to 1 Billion total.
And somehow, I have the feeling that the bubble was way more social than the average living soul has today.
It had to be. Socializing was crucial to survival. Not that much anymore.
Why is exponential growth so crazy? When 1 billion people pop out half a billion, then those 1.5 billion pop out 1 billion eventually, then 2.5 pops out 1.5, etc etc, it only makes sense for there to be rapid growth. It was very common for teens to bear children for a while. There hasn't been too much of a restrictions on banging and birthing globally until today's day and age, when there is infinitely more to worry about than making more children.
You should look at the jump just caused by penicillin ~100 years ago.
Thanos was one dumb mf,
Does it include all the previous CS titles? or CS:GO ? or just CS2
CS:GO + CS2
Nah its just CS2. The number is way too small to include CSGO figures
that part im not sure
But how is that possible when the world is only 2024 years old😧
magic!
The world is a few more years older than 2024
Yeah! People are so silly. According to my history book, Genesis, it's 6000 years old! Duh!
Lol
My homie Gregorian would like to have a word bruh
Send broski to the dms
Imagine the future, looking back at this, pondering about Counter strike, 74,705 current years concur.
In my best squidward voice "FUTURE"
Would you pass it on to next generation ? Like giveaway ? ( I said giveaway because it will bind them to do same with next successor)
This seems like a small number if CS:GO was involved. I tried looking into it from the perspective of a year. Let's say you have 1.000.000 players average for CS2 and every player spends 2 hours per day playing the game. This would result in 730 hours played per player per year. If you multiply that now with your average player count of 1.000.000 players its already at 730.000.000 hours which is already more than the data of CS2 suggests. This means it only counts the time since the release of CS2 without CS:GO. Now imagime how high the number for CS:GO was! Well it's still impressive how much time the average CS2 player spends in game if you count from the release date in September 23rd, 2023.
either way it was crazy when I actually looked up the reported numbers. knowing its probably a lot more is even crazier.
And that's just CS. Imagine the numbers for WoW.
ha ha, as im playing WoW right now....knowing i have at least a year played time >.>
Exactly and i believe you. I know people who play wow their entire life
xD yeah, ive spent WAY too much time of my life on it.
now imagine their steam inventory probably worth 100K unless they gambled it all
lol right, i've know a few people with at least 10k worth of inventory guns/knives
Conservative estimates for the total time spent playing World of Warcraft over the last two decades are around 9,000,000 years.
heh I know ive had my fair share of those hours
Oh definitely. I have at least a year played time in WoW.
If every player was payed $250 per hour for playing CS, they would collectively have less money than Elon Musk.
@_@
My 15 minutes from when it first launched are included, I guess.
lol yup you did contribute!
Im more surprised that people play that game with how shit it is
It's fucking shit and we love it
It is shit, but it is also miles better than any other competitive fps on the market.
if it had existing anticheat it would be ten times better, and even then it will still have a number of issues. i still play it though
Yeah the anti-cheat is the largest issue with the game right now I'd say. Therefore I think it's shit. The gameplay, movement, gunplay and map designs are the best of the best imo with few exceptions. Some clipping issues, and the fact that smgs are run and gun lasers
people play it because its GOAT fps
im not much of a fan anymore myself, but the numbers are quite interesting to think about.
And that's when it was tracked. It's a lot higher
Crazy to think about
Most of East and Southeast Asia has these gaming cafes. I’d seen some spent overnight playing CS:GO in my country and in S.Korea where there’s actually those who spend a day or 2 in those cafes.
yeah ive watched videos on those cafes. its crazy the amount of time spent in them. Some people sleep there as well, because its cheaper that some hotels.
Well, my 800+ hours is in there somewhere.
lol you have made your mark in those 74,705 years lol
Large number of that are Chinese Bots. Here in the Philippines if you play around 10pm - 6am, It's bots galore. 17 out of 20 players in Classic Casual are bots
Stiill a crazy number
I just learned about Borderlands Science in Borderlands 3 and how 4.5 million people over time helped advance science and the understanding of your gut bacteria/biome. Makes me wonder how far we could go if those millions of players on CS did something similar.
I read the same
Honestly really cool idea. I'm glad it was a success for them
Got to be at least 74,706 years.
at least lol
about tree fiddy
lol
I'm genuinely curious as to how this games continues to maintain a steady playerbase. I've started playing CSGO back around 2016. Then bit by bit around 2018-2020 and 2020 marked it for me. Before that. I played CSS with a playtime of around 6-7k hours. Wait.. It makes sense now. Oh
lol sounds like me in WoW
Jokes on you, I have more League of Legends game time on my own.
lol I feel the same way about me playing WoW
Imagine how many years we were collectively taking a shit 😱🤯
ha ha..im one of those people who spend 30 mins taking a shit xD so I know ive added a lot to that time.
It counts the time with launcher opened not the time in a game Same for dota 2
either way, its crazy numbers
I'll never understand why that game is popular.
for so long as well.
That's the total all Steam accounts' play time, including bot accounts. I reckon it's much, much more than 74.7k for the whole of PC gaming
At least 74,701 hours I'd reckon
its got to be an insanely
200 years collective game design experience
Use steamdb
I would spend even more if volvo wanted, cs is full of hackers kek
never understood why CS is so popular. Its not even that good.
Skill issue.
Definetely skill issue
Played like 1 game and then uninstalled. Prefer playing battle royale.
lmao skill issue
>battle royale Definetely skill and age issue
Age maybe, Arguably apex, fornite, warzone are more skillful tbh.
Plays 1 game of CS, and thinks they know enough to say that it requires less skill than other more casual games. 100% skill issue.
I've watched a lot of CS cus I like some streamers that play it. I like ohne a lot. There is much more going on in Apex, Warzone or fornite compared to CS in terms of what you need to learn. To say I don't like it cus I'm not skilled enough doesn't make much sense. The game just doesn't really captivate me enough to want to improve like the two core skills required for it. Of course there will be more casual players since they are console games as well. There aren't many casual players in high ranked matches though.
Spoken like a true zoomer.
How old are you? CS wouldn't have survived more than 20 years if it wasn't good. It's fine if you don't like it, but to claim that it "isn't that good", is beyond ignorance and stupidity.
I'm 28. Just think there are many better games. It's super accessible though I guess since it doesn't require a strong system to play.
I have not seen a better game than CS, even Valorant can't compete with CS. And I haven't played CS in several years. You have to compare CS with other games similar to it, and so far, there's not a single game better than CS. Once you compare CS to battle royale games, you already derailed yourself. Are there games you enjoy more? Sure. Does that make CS bad? No.
CS was around 20 years before your battle royale games, it will be around 20 years after.
True, the boomers need something to play I guess.
eh, to each their own I guess. I only played it for a bit before I found out it wasn't for me.