pklem

They actually recently finished Xen! It's different from the original, but I think the overall consensus is that it's better than the original. (No more awkward fps platforming)

I don't think this is entirely accurate.

What's going on here is that Airbnb has essentially made a pass/fail review system, where 5 stars is pass and anything less is fail. Thus, short of a visit being completely terrible and the host awful, I would feel bad giving anything less than a 5 star review, since it would adversely affect the listing and the host.

On one hand, this does encourage hosts (and guests I suppose) to do their best. On the other hand, this eliminates honest reviewing, making reviews either "Best stay ever!!!!!1 (5/5)" or "This place sucks! The host is terrible!(1/5)"

The only bad experience I had was a decent looking apartment type room in a house (from the pictures), but it ended up being the moldy basement of the house, and the bedroom didn't have an egress window. It wasn't unbearable, but it wasn't good either.

However, you can't go wrong with superhosts. I've never had a bad experience with them.

I was skeptical of your cynicism at first, but then I I loaded up explore, and in the first 20 results was r/incels, r/loli, and r/beastiality. I do appreciate how this project seeks to improve on reddit at a policy level, and if enough (sane) people migrated from reddit, I would consider switching over. However, currently as it stands, I only see this website becoming reddit's 8chan, where reddit users who are banned or otherwise censored go.

I honestly find that this form of complementing to be toxic in general. I've heard too often "Other people are <insert negative trait>, but you are <insert positive trait>!" I generally appreciate the complement part when a comment like this is directed towards me, but the comparison to other people is not necessary. You don't need to put others down to build others up.