Sure sucks for anyone who buys this game in five or ten years when the update servers go down.

100% yes

There’s always* an unspoken parenthetical “unless it’s for money.”

The trolls are tryin’ to get their say...hope they love them greys. :P

People are too hard on that book. I think JD Vance is sympathetic to the plight of Appalachia/Rural America, with full acknowledgement that he was lucky to succeed.

Yeah, rural PA born and raised here and this:

There certainly is a strain of willful ignorance and excessive pride that can become a generational trait in certain demographics.

Nah.

They’re his employer, they can impose whatever penalty they want to within reason. I think it's appropriate.

It’s their league and they can make all kinds of requirements if he wants to come back.

it can be. it can be used by anyone really.

If only liberals had the extremists the Right so wants us to have.

I agree. From what I remember MikeZ got ousted by a streamer and then made a insensitive joke on a Skullgirls competition stream which resulted in a staff member bringing up his past racist “jokes” followed by more employees coming forth.

“You giving context for my baseless complaint is totes not fair!"

Well, he was at least kind enough to confirm the bad faith with all of his follow-up replies. lol

One thing you might consider thinking about is how many of the wars the US had been involved in that were started by the US.
Did the VC do bad things to american soldiers? Probably. Did the US have anything at all to do in Vietnam? Nope.
Do bad things happen to american soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sure.
Does the US…

I mean, that’s all sorts of wrong, but since the “war crimes” bit has been addressed below, let me just point out that this reply lost me at sentence one.

> I get that the rank and file don’t want to answer for war crimes but these canned responses are disgusting

When you have an overwhelmingly superior military like the US, people will generally do anything it takes to level the playing field, even if it involves committing atrocities and war crimes.

Ha! Boeing/Raytheon/Lockheed stockholders would like to have a word with you.