but the world that Batman exists in is one where the cops are completely incompetent and incapable of maintaining law and order, sometimes they’re even complicit in the criminal activity that goes on.

Few things...

Not illegally obtained, the rifle was legal

The only thing - it’s implied that these are not just the Borderlands equivalent of pen and paper characters - they seem to be ‘AI’ driven and capable of awareness (obviously the Dragon Lord, but suggested again by Izzy after the climax - who is aware that she is a part of a game, “I saw you talking with the sky…

The Dragon Lord is Tina’s Fatemaker.

Maybe... you should look at who that quote’s actually from as noted in the article?

I’m unsure how you think this turmoil could possibly affect anything given we’re talking about the bloated corpse of Bioware past that’s been set on fire by EA making the game.

I stand by what I said, but I must have worded it poorly, and I’m sorry about that.

I get what you’re saying but that’s not really what I’m driving at.

So many of them are about *bypassing* the intended experience (summoning, over-leveling, cheesing); this preserves it beautifully.

No, those players chose to play the game because of its earning potential. Specifically because in countries like the Philippines, the USD per day was more than many people were making at their 9-5 jobs.

Its been 2+ years under COVID.

First guess, is these are the states where their employees currently live, so arrangements have already been made.

So, to be fair, the devs are almost never in control of that sort of thing.

I’m sorry you’ll have to explain why it would singlehandedly revive the game.

I take it you missed the whole profiting off the pandemic by selling bad masks thing?

Not everyone pays attention to the goings on of the world and we each have limited bandwidth to care about things that don’t affect us.

I’m not white.

Never could we have imagined that the people we interact with in such ordinary, pedestrian ways—the makers of our games, the adversaries in our matchmaking queues, the readers and printers of our books, the painters and commissioners of our fanart—would suddenly have their entire worlds and livelihoods threatened on…

Where’s the fucking justice for /anyone/?