Because their customers are idiots.

Really, Nevada took 49th?

You know, I'd like to see this compared to data on median income. And maybe educational ranking. Or maybe racial/ethnic demographics. And government deficits. Leading political parties. Hell there are a lot of things I'd like to compare here that I bet have a positive or an inverse correlation, and others that may be…

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Agreed. Piracy is a boogeyman the same way mixtapes and recorded TV (back when VCRs existed - they were magnetic tapes that you could store a whole hour of video on...in 480p at best) were going to kill the music/television industry. They weren't true then and it isn't true now.

Which is still ridiculous. I resent that there is no opt-out. I am not a child who needs her hand held because she doesn't know not to give her password to other people.

Their blocker seems to work inconsistently. puu.sh occasionally works and occasionally does not, it seems to vary.

It's not theft. Theft, by its definition, involves depriving the owner of the object stolen; piracy does not do this. Even the Supreme Court has ruled that possession of copyrighted materials is not possession of stolen property, that is to say, that copies cannot be considered stolen, as no physical deprivation of…

So what you're saying is, when the Supreme Court, you know, the literal highest court in the country, rules that copies of copyrighted works cannot be considered stolen property because no theft, conversion, or fraud has occurred, that what they meant to say was the exact opposite of this, that a theft has occurred?…

So not only are you smarter than the Supreme Court, but they're "simply too stupid to speak with"? Good thing they, and not you, are actually entitled to speak on such matters officially. Copyright infringement is not theft. It's copyright infringement. That is the name of the offense. Calling it a different offense…

Sorry to break it to you, but no less than the freaking Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that copyright infringement is not theft.

People are angry about shit like on-disk DLC and day-one DLC because it's quite literally taking things out of the game we just bought in order to sell it to us. And don't give me that load of bull about day-one DLC being developed after the game went out for manufacture, sometimes this DLC is announced months in…

Overthinking it much?

There's this perception that just because something is Japanese, it has the special power to manipulate or corrupt children, or that Japanese trends are ploys to undermine western nationality. Again, this might be racism at work.

Not that I disagree that parents do not give a fuck about the game stats of random strangers, but how is "parents might barge in at any time whatsoever and demand their kids stop RIGHT NOW" responsibility?

I've seen the short film that trailer is for, and it's freaking hilarious. It's an adaptation of the Chick tract written in the 80s to capitalize on the "D&D is satanic" craze, and although it plays the story totally straight, it's made by the same people who made the The Gamers trilogy and it's so hilariously…

There are various forms of online implementations of D&D and other tabletop games. For asynchronous rather than live play I'm guessing something like forum RPGs would fit better. D&D would take forever if it were play-by-post or so on.

Try Roll20 or other online communities? Unless you insist on playing in person or not at all, there's always groups available online.

Well, it does take dedication to run a campaign unless you're running one-shots, yeah. It's not a hobby that I would say is necessarily for everyone.

See, that's just roleplaying. There's nothing wrong with that and it can lead to hilarious or awesome adventures.