A trite point to make on this platform, I know, but it is crazy to me how much X just completely sucks now. 

Logging on is like to going to a bar you used to love, and now there's an expensive cover charge and arbitrary new rules, it's filled with the biggest douche bags you've ever seen, most of your friends aren't there anymore, and the once-intimate lighting has changed to hideous fluorescence -- and they can't even keep it on all the time. 

But it's still the only bar playing certain games on TV so you have no choice but to pop in.

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i genuinely can't believe its $50/mo now

i do love X in some ways, but it used to make me feel good and now it makes me feel a little sick

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I pay for it just to make it worthwhile, but still don't generate enough traction on it to get paid back. 

But hey, at least I'm constantly served content from semi-literate troglodytes who think they're the world's smartest and most virile guys for rediscovering 1930s-era eugenics. Can't put a price on that!