Age guidelines seem somewhat unnecessary for a game like Disco Elysium: I don’t think kids who might do coke have the attention span for it or are really interested in this type of game. Or if kids enjoy it, they’re probably smart kids who “get it”.

A friend of mine in Victoria bought it for me, I’m grateful.

If you’re an Australian and you’re reading my words, take the plunge and buy it. I’ve played through the game as intended, and a second time using cheat engine to change my stats in order to explore more options, both wonderful experiences. I loved Inland Empire, but you make your own choices and enjoy the unfolding

The amount of crap that we Australians have to put up with in this arena is amazing. Games get refused classification all the time for things that you wouldn’t even blink at in a movie. Drugs and drug use is usually the trigger. So I can watch Trainspotting, Naked Lunch, Requiem for a Dream, Human Traffic, Pineapple…

If you can rationally argue how selling for six months with induced FOMO spikes can unquestionably outsell a product’s lifetime sales, including those induced by price-cuts, then sure, I could see your point. But their thinking something this extraordinarily unlikely seems reasonably perceived as reasonless.

I would’ve prioritized moving to a country that doesn’t care where your money comes from before buying loads of expensive cars. Surely if your criminal enterprise is on the internet, you could control it from some beach somewhere and not get arrested by the Chinese, right? Just seems kinda sloppy to me.

Time is money - literally, in this case.

The battle passes can go reallyyy slow, depending how many modes you enjoy. The MW battle passes crept by for me last year, but CW feels much faster with the inclusion of Zombies. I played a ton of MP at the beginning of CW, but now i’m playing more Zombies and Warzone. Curious about that 40-player Hardpoint though!

Warzone is such a bore. I still get an ego boost when I win matches but damn... it’s going on two years and nothing has actually changed. At least with Blackout they had actual events; events that changed the topography of the map. Blackout was just better and should have been the one that Activision backed. 

The problem isn’t that they make irrational decisions. The problem is that their degree of rationality is inconsistent. Ian, for example, has been positioned as the practical one in his relationship with Mickey, and independent of his bipolar disorder has generally been framed as responsible. And so for him to be the…

I am still baffled that the writers and showrunners are somehow completely unaware of how much they’ve sandbagged Debbie. They keep acting like the audience should like and care for her without any earned redemption. 

It is very odd that Lip isn’t verbalizing regret over having left college. I’m half expecting his arc to end with a deux ex machina that lets him go back and finish school. We saw Ian/Mickey and Kev/Vee make their moves to leave the South Side this week. I don’t think the show will end with Lip still languishing there…

I remember watching the towers fall from my roof.

I was 18 when 9/11 happened, and I know it fucked me—and most of my peers—up. We’d gone through the 90s being taught that we were living “post history”, where things like that didn’t happen in the USA (stupid, I know, considering the OKC bombing AND the first WTC attack, but neither of those were carried live).…

I think it also comes into play of what will and will not count as violence in our eyes.

“People died in 9/11 numbers daily in America from COVID as the cost of doing business, and nobody bats an eye.”

I don’t think that’s true.  There is definitely a very specific group that doesn’t bat an eye, but to say nobody does is a huge overstatement.

Agreement.

We saw 9/11 and then a huge number of people supported two wars of profit.

9/11 was an inflection point that the wealthy class of the US absolutely capitalized on to make a buck. Covid is more difficult to profit from ideologically. 

To be fair , US Boomers got to see JFK shot live and on TV and then Oswald a few weeks later and it didn’t mess them ...oh wait

I also think the dark adage “1 death is a tragedy, 100k deaths is a statistic” comes into play in these situations as well.

You’re assumption, grounded on absolutely nothing, is that her consent, or in this situation, specific lack thereof is null and void because ‘club rules’.