Drummer Watch, day 538. Badass Boss of the Behemoth is throwing gang signs...to my heart

They accelerate till halfway and then flip around to decelerate or ‘brake’ and come to a stop at the destination. This is the efficient way to travel such long distances in space with their technology and also how they maintain gravity in the ships.

Yet again, this fucking show.

We do our best to just treat them like we would any other publisher. Any time I’m going to run a report like this, I’ll always ask the relevant parties for comment. Sure, Bethesda hasn’t responded in nearly five years, but that doesn’t mean we’re gonna stop asking. Let the onus be on them.

Ugh....resource gathering, base building and crafting is boring beyond words in my opinion. It’s the downside to all of these RPG/FPS games

If by easier you mean less tedious, then yes.

Uh I hate to break this to you but Pokemon has literally never been difficult. The primary demographic is pre-teens. Note that none of that is a bad thing and the games are plenty deep while being easy.

Developers started making big announcements in the weeks leading up to E3 a few years ago to prevent their news getting overshadowed

ABC: We’re bringing back Roseanne!

Most reasonable people like to see racist scum fail.

I know. Intolerance of intolerance is the worst kind of intolerance, isn’t it.

The issue isn’t microtransactions, it’s specifically the randomised lootbox/gacha element. It’s an exploitative practise designed to play on the same impulses as gambling, and specifically targets those most vulnerable to such tactics (aka “whales”).

“please don’t start by saying how cute or pretty they are!”

THIS. Especially girls. And please don’t comment on how cute their clothes are. Ask kids about school, what they learned, etc. Kids (especially girls) need to know they’re valued for more than just being cute and pretty.

And stop it with the…

Because it’s not a problem unless it affects you, right? ¬_¬

There’s a difference between normal microtransactions and lootboxes. The random element in the latter taps into the same impulses that gambling does, making it an unethically exploitative practise.

“and were far worse than lootboxes could ever be”

Wouldn’t you rather just be able to buy what you want? I think cosmetic MTX in $60 games are never going away, but they feel far less predatory when you can just go to a shop and pick whatever skins or hats you want rather than rolling the dice in hopes you’ll get that rare Junkrat outfit you’ve been craving.

yup, you’re right

And for everyone responsible for GDPR at their businesses—especially those of us working at email service providers—pour one out for surviving this hellish week, because this one’s for you:

YAY.