Here's a neat thing you can do! It's called "not read it". The fact you know this exists via Kotaku means nothing. There's nothing in the very slight description Kotaku gave that you wouldn't be able to guess based on knowing it is an RPG in space. The only way you're getting anything "spoiled" is if you go out of…

Imagine the concept of some people having fun differently than you do, and not being a douche about it

First, the images aren’t stored, according to them anyways. But even if it was stored, the whole point is for the parent to send a picture to verify their consent, not the kid. And yes I know, the kid might try and take a selfie because they think they can trick the filter, but if set up properly, which any parent who…

Well like I said, I’ll never begrudge them for making it. I’ve spent hours replaying a single mission in a game over and over because it wasn’t clear on how a mechanic specific to only that mission functioned. The quest for knowledge, even over silly trivial bullshit, should always be encouraged.

Yeah I'm not familiar with the game as I was born during the decline of US Arcades but I would definitely give them a cut. If I was selling it I'd give her like 25% of what I get and if I was just keeping it I would try to give her at least a grand or so for it, even if I had to do it with several small payments. 

I won’t begrudge anyone’s willingness to sift through this kind of thing and build out a detailed document like this. I’ve done similar stuff in the past and the answer “because it’s fun” is a good enough answer to the inevitable “but why” gif posted in response to this.

The ethos is “Oppenheimer will bring clicks but we’re primarily a gaming culture site. What extremely strained metaphor can we use to farm some search engine optimization, since we probably shouldn't just publish a post that says "Oppenheimer" 500 times in a row?"

No, people are worried about CSAM because if it exists, isn’t squashed, and people aren’t jailed for it, then it leads to more of it being created which means more abused children.

WWE is anti-union so they can rip off their talent, and they use propaganda just like Walmart and Amazon and almost every other business to convince their workers unions are bad. However WWE is probably more successful with this plan because they are able to showcase big names and say “See? Look how much X makes, not…

It really seems unnecessary to “delete” accounts at all. Data storage is dirt cheap and that’s IF they are actually deleting the account to begin with. Commonly a deletion just equates to setting an “Active” flag from 1 to 0 in their database but retaining all the data because it’s better to retain it and not use it…

These kinds of things are neat, although substantially less impressive now that we have 4k TVs taller than a person for pennies on the dollar of what it would cost back in the day, back when such a thing would be a minor feat of engineering.

That does look pretty great. The quick contrasts between slow and fast motion don't make logical sense really, but they make perfect visual sense and communicates the super speed very well, which is what's important. 

How is it not the game’s fault when the game’s setting and story are what make this planet not only a possible option, but an almost guaranteed one before being confirmed? They could have made the game about tons of other shit in other places, there’s tons of ground to tread without changing the gameplay mechanics or…

Are we just going to ignore the fact that Hardcore mode, and their cousin Ironman mode, existed in games for years and years before being game streaming was a thing? Okay then.

Then why exactly are you crying about it like a tantrum throwing 7 year old?

Considering the original was just a bunch of “I’m 12 and this is deep” nonsense that hit solely because most of us were neck deep in pubescent angst and confusion and it absolutely doesn’t hold up once you take your nostalgia-goggles off, I agree.

Maybe that’s why we should focus on that (or not specifically that, see my next paragraph). After all, from JFK’s speech on this subject:

The ability to submit a recording of the recent conversation is a really good step and if adopted by other systems it could do a lot to curb shitty people in voice chat (provided they actually deal with the reports properly). If that got adopted on a wider basis by Sony, Valve, and individual game publishers it could…

I honestly don’t know about that. The only F Zero game that broke 2m was the first game. The other console games sat at about 1-1.5m. And yeah the console install base is much larger now but there hasn’t been a console release in 20 years.

I was thinking the exact same thing.