I agree that the American view on the “war on drugs” had a big effect as well, but it’s not quite true that these drug laws all came into existence post WW2. The Cannabis Control Law was made in 1930 originally for example, though it was strengthened in 1948.  However, it’s worth noting that for the samurai class…

You kinda left out one major reason: Western Imperialism. While the Americans didn’t force opium on Japan the way the British did with China, a historian by the name of Mineta Fuko and a handful of other Japanese scholars wrote an account of the first Opium War that was widely distributed among the Japanese nobility…

You know what’s better than a gunblade? A gunlance.

Here’s the sad thing: this dude will be a legend with some Birmingham residents. He probably doesn’t have to buy his own pint again for a year at least, this city voted for Brexit (albeit by a slim margin, but still) and the “good old boys” aka old white people who “remember” when “football used to be tough” will give…

But the women also get benefits and the men do not.  The women also get paid a salary, regardless of whether or not they play a single game in the season, the men are treated like freelancers and only paid if they play games.

So...here’s the thing: the men and women aren’t paid in the same manner and that makes matters complicated. The men are paid on a per game basis; if they aren’t brought in to the team, they aren’t paid. If you get injured playing for your club team and can’t make that big tournament? No cash, US Soccer doesn’t care as…

If there was a nuclear disaster in my city I sure as shit wouldn’t return. Are you fucking crazy? I’d wind up looking like this this poor bastard:

Generally speaking, lootbox changes shouldn’t change much in terms of gameplay; typically those are developed by two different departments.  This appears to be a straight-forward case of Bioware/EA lying about what sort of content would be in the final game.

Speaking from experience here:  Sometimes they get the landing strip.

Mar-a-lago isn’t far away...

There’s a strip club diner chain in Florida. I mean, it’s like a Denny’s but with strippers; totally blew my mind when I visited for work. Like...if I’m getting breakfast or lunch at a questionable roadside diner, the last thing I want to worry about is a loose pubic hair from a stripper getting into my food...why…

It’s pretty simple: Steam is a privately owned store and they can choose what they do and don’t want to sell in their store. Wal-Mart doesn’t sell porno magazines and nobody is arguing they should be forced to do so, so why should Steam be forced to sell a game they don’t want to sell?

As someone that really dislikes rogue-like games, I know the feeling.  Every so often a rogue-like comes along that is so compelling, so tickles my particular niches that I decide to try it despite the rogue-like label; almost every time I quit out of boredom.  It’s not that that I can’t do it, it’s not that I need to…

I’m also not so sure it’s true. Yes, a lot of the Marvel movies have that theme (Captain America’s stuff in particular) but...I feel like non of the Iron Man movies have that vibe nor do any of the Thor movies (except in the very broadest “oops I fucked up” sort of way). It’s a big theme for maybe four characters…

I feel like most video games let you do this though, in some way. Most games involve you, our plucky protagonist, taking on literal armies of enemies in your mission to defeat the big bad, usually taking out numerous other subordinate “bosses” in the process; it might not explicitly be called an empire, but there’s…

What could they possibly be referencing?  *nudges the corpses of Fallout 76 and Anthem out of sight*

They’re just trying to protect their identities so they aren’t associated with this thorough sigh and a shrug with a “what you gonna do” of a game. Seriously, being god damn space Iron Man shouldn’t be this dull.

They can toss a lot of different types of salad.

Amazing that you believe the AAF is going to exist next week.

Matt Hughes has always been a piece of a shit, long before he started MMA. He was dumb enough to document it in his autobiography. This Amazon review really sums it up for me: