Toxicity isn’t unavoidable. You just have to punish it fast, hard, and reliably. If you take weeks to act its pointless. If the penalty is just a few hours off ita pointless. If the same behaviour isn’t treated the same way twice its pointless.

Have a large human enforcement team and issue one strike perma bans. Anything less and your message rings hollow. No one needs a warning about not being a bigot. It all starts at the top.

Content that isn’t purely online related is being locked away. That’s the problem. That’s the “DRM” problem here. Obviously it makes sense online components need an internet connection. But Hitman’s “online” components actually don’t need a persistent internet connection. It needs an update and done until the next…

“However, there’s more that is locked away from offline players including the ability to unlock weapons, items, outfits, and earn new starting locations... playing offline also means players won’t be able to complete in-game challenges or earn experience to level up your Mastery Rank for each map.”

The decision to tie progression into the live service wasn’t on GOG, but the latter arguably should have disqualified it while the dependency was in place.

Yeah, this is a shitshow. It’s especially worrying because the no-DRM policy is the ONE reason to buy games on GOG and not Steam since Valve’s ecosystem, for all of its MANY flaws, has several “luxuries” that are simply nonexistent on CDPR’s storefront. It also has better and more frequent discounts.

People will always gravitate towards meta builds and the largest numbers instead of getting wacky.

Out of all of those, none except BL3 and TL3 are recent, TL3 was a stumbling move from another game, and the Borderlands games are a different genre entirely (though since I love loot games, I am fond of them - albeit BL3 was a disappointment). Honestly, even counting everything I’m familiar with here I definitely…

I didn’t buy the remake, but I go back once every few years to play the original, and honestly have no idea what you’re on about as far as the genre going... anywhere. There just aren’t that many D2 clones, and most of them are not very good comparatively. The ones that are not only come out rarely, but generally…

In the video she asks the question, people in the crowd cheer and the men on the panel looks chastened. Then men in the audience start booing loudly and you can see the panel become emboldened to start openly making fun of her. There is a lessen here about the fact that the misogyny in the game industry is reinforced…

Israel has an ultra-advanced military and police force with billions of dollars in budgetary support from the United States. Only Palestine has a shortlist of casualties, Israel does not.

The desire to hold people accountable is good.

Republicans: “It is APPALLING the way that Rep. Maxine Waters spoke of these events! She seems to be completely oblivious to the importance of decorum in these lofty offices.

I treat the police like feral animals. Imagine opening a cage with a grizzly bear in it. Maybe it’ll attack your problems, but maybe it’ll attack you. You never know what it’ll decide to go after, but if you’re going to open the cage, be prepared for the consequences.

I think this is mostly a keming issue. Just a bit more space before that I would help a lot.

Redneck Thanos, “I am inevitable, ya’ll”

Writing a line like that is just generally a safe bet. “Rednecks attempt to overthrow democracy” is just kinda what they’ve been salivating over since the Civil War. We didn’t really NEED an actual event where Conservative politicians plotted to help fascist insurgents attempt to Order 66 one side of the aisle. Saying…

What’s keeping me from shitting all over this dealership?

Depends.

I think it’s possible to acknowledge that McGowan did the world a service by shining a light on Harvey Weinstein and was genuinely victimized by him... but is also a deeply mentally ill person who’s life is in no way improved by additional media attention now that Weinstein is in jail.  Let’s all wish her peace and…

This has kind of been the basis of my argument for a while now. For the most part, the Left, such as it is, tries to go with the moral high ground, making arguments and statements in good faith and then getting kicked in the teeth anyway. Meanwhile, the Right, such as it is, repeatedly and without fail does everything…