But how does that work, then? In Mr. Wednesday’s speech he explicitly says that the old gods were “brought” over to America. Is he the only Odin, or are there thousands of other Odins running around (like the Jesuses) in random villages across Scandinavia? If it’s the latter, why don’t the old gods just recruit all…

First announced on Rockstar’s Newswire blog, this program will reward players with $500k in GTA Online for activating the extra security on their Social Club accounts.

Right? These platforms literally have that feature built-in, it’s called sharing/retweeting.

From what I’ve heard of Giant Bomb’s coverage, they pretty much completely retconned that aspect of the plot. Which is a shame, because it was a genuinely interesting idea.

I mean I’d hardly call upholding the principle of free speech “bullying,” but yeah, you’re right - the west is absolutely complicit in enabling/supporting this authoritarian shit. We love cheap plastic crap and slave labor, as long as it’s not happening in our own backyard.

Maybe. Could just be me reading between the lines a bit too much, but to me that sounds like a more diplomatic way of saying “Valve told us to patch the content out or fuck off, and we don’t want to bite the hand that feeds so we have to take it down while we comb through the rest of our assets to appease them.”

Of course they took it down, Valve absolutely refuses to rock the boat with respect to their business relationships in China. See: the whole mess with Dota 2's Chongqing Major and Valve agreeing to ban one of the players on request from the local government (then releasing a blog post saying they had no idea about any…

Little of column A, little of column B. There’s a vocal minority who make the DRM aspect of things their priority, but I think — as we’ve seen with the backlash against uPlay/Origin/Epic Store — the ire around digital storefronts is more just that people don’t want to mess around with a bunch of separate accounts.

That’s always been part of the charm, though. ATHF had a budget of like $3 and some coupons, and it still managed to be one of the funniest and most clever cartoons of that era.

Maybe on consoles, but no, that’s absolutely not normal for literally any even semi-serious shooter.

Oh totally agreed. I haven’t really played since the start of S2 since other games have taken priority, but every now and then I’ll check back on the state of the game and aside from some issues with the balance/economy it seems like most hardcore players are pretty pleased with things.

You’re right that there’s only been two major expansions, but I’d say all the Living World content is probably the size of both of those combined. Maybe it’s harder to keep people invested in that when it’s drip-fed so slowly?

Never been to an FGC event but this pretty closely echoes my experience at TI last year. Come finals I was dehydrated as shit and had the worst hunger pains of my life, because the arena food was ridiculously overpriced ($5 CAD for a standard bottle of water, almost $10 for a tiny little hotdog) and nobody in my group…

VICE has been having an absolutely shit few years, profit-wise, and a lot of people suspect Waypoint will be the first to get the axe

Thought you guys brought back Patrick Klepek, who we all know is the real authority on Mario Maker

The Milo one was hilarious, he gave that dumb fuck just enough rope to hang himself and ruin his own career.

Same. I’m fairly firmly in the “Joe Rogan is alright, most of the time” camp.

And why don’t the laid off workers get say? Hell, why dont the non laid off workers get a say in this corporation’s decisions?

Mostly just ego, but technically it can be monetized. High-karma accounts are more likely to come across as having a sense of authority, so there are a lot of sites dedicated to buying/selling them so companies can shill products and do political astroturfing without seeming too obvious.