Eh. It's their wealth/following that enables them to do those big charity events so taking advantage of them to further those things feels like fair game to me.

I’ve seen people act like it’s the fans that have changed and people didn’t used to be this “desperate” or attached or whatever. But I don’t think that’s true. Celebrity worship and obsessive fans are nothing new. What has changed is the nature of “celebrity”. As you point out there’s no oversight for a lot of modern…

I mean it’s America. Probably one of the most backwards places in the civilised world and in constant danger of regressing further. This is the same country where a significant portion of the populace believes, perhaps more religiously than they believe in God, that every idiot should have access to firearms and…

Meh, two wrongs have never made a right. This was a stupid and dangerous thing to do regardless of the actions of the pigs in the NYPD. The cops need sorting out but that doesn't change the fact he should face consequences for this gross stupidity. 

Some stores might turn a blind eye here and there for casual play but I’ve never heard of a tournament allowing proxies (there are some exceptions where you can get a judge sanctioned proxy in your deck but they generally require you have the actual card you’re proxying). And while some stores might be okay with it…

On a side note Lorcana feels so ridiculously overhyped that it’s just being set up for failure. About the only thing going for it is the Disney IP and as strong as that is it isn’t a recipe for guaranteed success (look at Disney Infinity for example). Game wise it looks to be mostly an MtG clone (which is a pretty…

Which is fine if all you want to do is play at your kitchen table. But a lot of the appeal of these games lies in the social and/or competitive side of things. Good luck playing in a games store or a tournament with a deck full of proxies.

There isn’t really anything challenging about it though, it’s just tedious.

It’s how it’s worked in the past, but whether it’s a “core part” of the genre is debatable. Question is, what does this actually add other than tedium? Is it really a part of the experience that anyone is actually happy with?

Spoiler: gamers are hypocrites.

Pretty much the only time I’ve used both at the same time was for It Takes Two with my fiancée. I got my PS5 when the only way you could get one was in a bundle though so I ended up with a second. I’m glad I did though because she battery life on these things isn’t great. So what I primarily use the additional…

It’s not optimal but even just mashing it when you have ammo is better than ignoring it because of the damage perks that work with it. There's some really cool cast builds you can do though. Exit wounds plus the sword that knocks the cast out when you special is chefs kiss.

Yeah I have to disagree with this. I also grew up when streamers weren’t a thing. But celebrity worship is nothing new and there’s a long history of dumb and desperate fans doing dumb and desperate things. “Celebrity” is just something that’s a lot more accessible these days and it’s far more possible to be…

Fuck the cops. But fuck this idiot too. This was stupid as hell and he deserves the criminal charges. The fact he’s black doesn’t change anything except which race he’s an embarrassment to. It’s a bit of a change though. Usually its the white streamers doing the stupidest shit.

Police occasionally kind of doing their jobs like they’re supposed to doesn’t magically erase systemic corruption and racism. And even then the response was disproportionate with some probable police brutality sprinkled in.

I think it depends how broad you want to apply that brush. I think like a lot of things the excesses are absolutely awful but there's a lot of streamers that just make fun content without doing awful or stupid shit.

Oh look, a wild simp! Gather round children and watch him throw his money away. Such bizarre and deluded creatures they are. Sad he thinks he’ll be laughing rather than crying when the dumpster fire that is GameStop falls even further. But at least the simps have their NFTs to console them. No one can take away their…

But the thing is the original scenes aren’t ambiguous. Yes they could be cut or edited to export the show to cruel and backwards places. That still doesn’t change that it wasn’t ambiguous in the original Japanese broadcast, or the subtitled broadcast for English speaking audiences. So what exactly is the point in…

I can appreciate collecting stuff if you have the money to do so and you don’t let it become an obsession... but holy crap of all the things you could collect in the world why choose something as ugly and soulless as Funko pops.

They aren’t giving it away for $15. They’re selling what are essentially loot boxes on the promise that one might contain this rubbish. They’d probably have to sell at least 15,000 of them to make a profit but I don’t think they’ll have a problem exceeding that.