The bus driver was actually great too, younger than me, maybe early or mid 20s, before the wheelchair bound guy got on, we bitched about microtransactions in games, and I was able to confirm that yes, games did not in fact always used to be like they are now, with dark patterns and what not… he sounded like a lot of his friends were trying to gaslight him into just accepting the enshittification as normal, that its always been like this.
Sounds like you made a friend!
The bus driver was actually great too, younger than me, maybe early or mid 20s, before the wheelchair bound guy got on, we bitched about microtransactions in games, and I was able to confirm that yes, games did not in fact always used to be like they are now, with dark patterns and what not… he sounded like a lot of his friends were trying to gaslight him into just accepting the enshittification as normal, that its always been like this.