I think the assumption is that parents don’t really do it “voluntarily.” Short of the discussion of having kids is indeed “voluntary” a teacher can quit, parent’s don’t necessarily have that option.

“We didn’t patent the Among Us mechanics,” tweeted co-founder Marcus Bromander at the time. “I don’t think that leads to a healthy game industry.”

If everyone thought like you, that it was okay to pirate because games are made by corporations, how long do you think the industry that makes the games you enjoy would last?

This is exactly the kind of reverse justification that encourages companies to make shitty micro transaction filled, always online DRM riddled, GaaS, Freemium, pay-to-win, bullshit.

Yeah, perhaps some sort of always online DRM requirement is the direction they should go, right?

After spending some time with it on Game Pass, I can say that the game has good bones, but it’s been completely borked with GaaS model bullshit and micro transactions up the wazoo. Such a shame. They could have had something great here. Now get back to making Deus Ex!

For that bizarre subset of people who have enough time to put something like this together, and enough money to afford it.

Yeah, I used to go to the London one for special occasions.  Wasn’t sure if it was still around.  Haven’t been in years since moving.  Hope it survives Covid.  Food there wasn’t great, but it was always fun to go and try as much stuff as you could.

This reminds me a lot of a Chinese style buffet restaurant chain that we had in Canada called The Mandarin. None of the food was great, but it made up for it’s mediocrity with a ridiculous amount of selection. It also had Koi ponds, but at least they usually inlaid them into the floor and put a fancy bridge and some…

Agreed, but I think bottled water should be taxed into oblivion too since it’s horrible for the environment and extremely inefficient. We could use that tax money to make sure that everyone actually has access to proper water infrastructure and good clean drinking water instead of enrich corporations who bottle our…

It amazes me how many people are not aware that pop should be drunk in moderation.

Holy crap, self melting cheese! Dude, that’s a million dollar idea! You may have just single-handedly cornered the stoner market.

Yeah, I had to go back and double check cuz I was pretty sure it was releasing in October.

Halloween happens but once a year. It’s a “treat.” Nobody is advocating for consistently dosing our children with sugar and chocolate for the other 364 days of the year.

Rich people selling unnecessary expensive shit to other rich people so they can turn around and sell it to other rich people. This isn’t exactly some new phenomenon, it’s just a new way to do something people have been doing for millennia.

I hope that’s actually true, although I can also see their lawyers and PR people going “Shit, look at what happened to Act/BliZ! Quick we need some good publicity, stat!”

I don’t think my Grandma ever told me my gameboy was too big. For the majority of her life, computers were something that you needed a large room to house. The concept of a computer and display that could fit into a (large) pocket was amazing to her.

What they don’t tell you is that there is a tiny internal combustion generator which powers the unit. You use a hypodermic needle to fill it with a 1/8'th ml of gasoline. Give it a good rip and you’re off to the races.

Oh dear, now you have me picturing how that would work...

Thank goodness for opposable thumbs.  If not, I’d be stuck using garbage like this.