They shouldn’t have spending limits, they should be illegal. These things are essentially fraud designed specifically to exploit vulnerable people. They’re no better than a pickpocket who steals your watch when you don’t pay attention.

Because they are no less dangerous to the people who become addicted than a controlled substance. Addictive personality disorders, like eating disorders, are not something that you can reliably manage through conscientious habits and self-control. They prey upon your impulse control and in part actively interfere with…

I legitimately don’t know what to say about this, the problem is these ‘games’ are nothing of the sort. They aren’t fun, they aren’t even gambling, they just straight up exist to take advantage of people with problems. I honestly struggle to see this as anything except fraud, and I’m saying that as someone who thinks…

You cannot be objectively attractive. Attractiveness is subjective, never a fact.

Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep is worth it.

*Spoiler warning if anyone really actually needs it...*

It’s really about Tina (who was already deeply traumatized from witnessing her parents’ deaths at a very young age) coming to terms with Roland’s death in the main game.

So aside from some pretty solid jokes about…

Definitely a good expansion, but I’m incredibly dubious on your argument about the confidence being undeserved. One, I like how much they got into things - I can respect the willingness to be absurd. Two, holy fuck was BL2's writing good. Yes, the itemization was worse than BL1 (which remains some of the best…

The primary reason given was lack of growth. Covid is just a compounding issue. They are pretty clear on the reasons and there is 0 indication of any affects on the other events. They even state that they hope to see everyone at their other events as they return.

That’s certainly the impression I’m getting from the community. Lot of diehard PAX attendees saying some permutation of “Sad to see it go, but I’m not traveling to/spending money in Texas with the way things are.” Can’t blame them. Jeez, yeesh, and/or yikes! 😬

I would love to see Gearbox and Rooster Teeth, etc. move out of Texas for their attempts at making Handmaiden’s Tale non-fiction. Randy Pitchford hinted at that possibility, but he gets no credit for a tweet of intention.

I imagine the political situation in Texas isn't helping either.

Not at all mixed.

Why do I get the feeling that you have “This woman’s tweets show she is both unhinged and a narcissist. I don’t buy her story.” as a shortcut-macro?

Apple has always seemed like a crazily stressed out entity to me. I can still recall a time I was looking for work and Apple was one of the businesses I had applied to. I received offers from Apple and another company. I went to the Apple office and the hiring manager brought me back to his office to discuss the…

Indeed. If anything, it shows how toxic and powerful corporatism has become, with the vast wealth they have accumulated that they can continuously get away with breaking the law and get a slap on the wrist, and lay off hundreds of workers at once and get a big raise for yourself and your executive buddies.

Still using their products after all of that? I think I would say “fuck Apple” at that point. Personally I said that years ago for a number of reasons not related to being fired for some bullshit, not sure what her reasons could be to stay with Apple now. 

She should try being a Nazi sympathizer or an anti-vaxxer. Those people never seem to get deplatformed. Probably because they’re not doing anything TRULY evil, like being a woman in a hot tub.

“In 2013, he won a $9.5 billion judgment against the energy firm in Ecuadorian courts—the largest human rights and environmental court judgment in history. Yet Chevron refused to pay up and instead focused on attacking the attorney in court. In 2019, he was placed on home detention by a judge with an…

What? Sorry, Myles. I disagree. This was a solid B+.

I’m happy Brendan Hunt got a showcase episode and I couldn’t care less if some people found it to be tangential to the series.

Honestly, I’m not even sure what they’d do for Overwatch 2 anyways. To be fair though, I haven’t played the game in years, and that doesn’t really disappoint me given how they’ve been behaving. From supporting China’s abuse of Taiwan, to hiring torture apologists, from sexual abuse, to layoffs for devs as the moneymen…