You know what hooked me into watching things I’d never seen before? Being able to browse by star rating.

Not just paying for Netflix’s service, but paying ever more and more for less and less.

“Tenet.” Not “tenant.” Hire a copy editor, please.

The game is the real world at this point, and warnings, timeouts, suspensions and expulsions are real-world ramifications for online misbehavior.

Punishments don’t even have to be severe. They just have to be certain. Bad actors act badly because they believe there won’t be any consequences. If just six reports are all it takes for Overwatch to issue you a warning, you’re far more likely to straighten out and fly right than if the first offense gets you a…

Counterpoint: If you trash talk your opponents in a chess tournament, you will get your ass ejected from that tournament and banned from future ones. Organized chess does not mess around with this shit. Online game developers could take a lesson from it.

I agree with most you just said, except for one thing. We cannot just simply declare “games are a form of relaxation”. Different people play games for different reasons.

The cynic in me says that this is only happening now because these companies have hit the tipping point, where the abuse is now costing them too much money, and going in on this together is the only cost-effective way to possibly solve it.

Speak for yourself. When I play a game, the only thing I want from trolls is for them to stay out of my experience entirely.

And you seem to have

Jesus Christ.

That was obviously not his point, and your continued insistence that it was isn’t reflecting well on you at all.

That would be an ad hominem.

Online gamer since the early ’90s, when MMORPGs were called “MUDs.” Let me break the timeline down into simple terms:

Actually, as a photographer, my first thought is to stage you and your fiancé very prominently in the foreground and have your bridesmaids and groomsmen stand well back and frame the two of you, using a generous depth of field so that they’re in sharp focus, too.

They are teaching morals and values. The morals and values they’re teaching is that shooting people, or threatening to shoot them, is an acceptable means of getting your way.

Spring in Chicago is meh. Gray, soggy, not warm enough yet. Early fall. That’s what it’s about.

I am never so proud to be German as on March 17.

As a chess player would say, Junkrat’s threat is stronger than his execution.

Which would be great if Junkrat players ever watched the backline.