My channel of five years, Operation Meatier, had just crossed the 20,000 subscriber mark when Bandai Spirits and Bandai Namco Entertainment threw copyright claims on every parody video we’d made overnight. This was in June. As of writing, my channel is still taken down and Bandai has never responded to any attempt at…

The way that game companies talk about integrating NFTs into games is basically DLC that players sell each other (while the company takes their cut, of course), so just like DLC inevitably ended up at loot boxes, it was probably inevitable that NFTs would end up at NFT loot boxes. They got there pretty damn fast…

Wait. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token, that is, a token that is not (non) interchangeable with another (fungible). What the fuck does GFT stand for? Gift-Fungible Token? As in a token that is interchangeable (fungible) with another gift (what I’m assuming the G stands for)? Because if someone ever got me a GFT I…

To be clear, I’m not advocating for paying them while they play Pokemon Go all shift. They’d have to do it for free, just like I would if I still played it. I’m just advocating for taking away their guns and badges and cars and pensions and almost impossibly powerful bizzaro-unions and sense of superiority and…

The LAPD’s annual budget is north of $3 Billion and they’re set for an increase. Most cops earn over $100k a year. Their incompetence and impotent rage is on display everywhere you go.

I mean, there are worse things they could have been doing. If catching that Snorlax gives them something to do other than murder black and brown people, I say we just let all cops play Pokemon Go all shift. Seems like the lesser evil.

You’re correct. Marvel Nemesis, the comic book, was made to promote the video game. In fact, the Nemesis original characters are EA’s property, not Marvel’s IIRC.

I thought the same thing. I think most people did, honestly.

I always forget to check public comment section accounts.

As a veteran leftbooker, I’ve seen more self-identifying fascists than I ever thought possible. Thousands of them are very open about it, even posting overt fascist propaganda (as opposed to non-overt, like GOP/Trump posting) on accounts where they had their place of work and family and friends who could all see it.…

Np, there’s another version if you click the blockquote option twice.

Blockquote after you paste whatever it is you’re quoting and it should look like this:

In this instance it’s definitely the prior correspondence and accusations of trying to deal with artists directly that are the story here, not the simple “A vs B” image comparison.

Yeah, I don’t really see the issue either. Sure, there are similarities in both designs, but nothing you couldn’t really explain with “they’re both futuristic looking shotguns”.

I was actually thinking about exactly that. How my econ classes taught me that businesses will do the right thing because of, lol, the “profit motive.” But it seems to me that, under the vast majority of circumstances, about the most that the “profit motive” will encourage is that they remember to take your wallet out…

The board is in an even worse position. Their are 100% beholden to the shareholders. The CEO is responsible for the company, and in turn reports to the board.

For the board to be getting involved, their one and only concern is the plummeting stock price since the last 3 months have seen their shares lose a quarter of…

It boggles my mind that nearly half of the US genuinely thinks that deregulating corporations and removing any external accountability from the equation will somehow change the fact that corporations’ one and only reason for being is to enrich their shareholders. Genuine concern for employee well-being and being a…

I’m so thankful that I gave up on ever expecting a corporation to do anything resembling the right thing years ago. Very rarely they’ll surprise me, generally by doing the absolute minimum necessary, but for the most part they constantly sink to the basement expections I have for them.

After some lingering trauma from going into SMT 3 completely blind when it first came out all those years ago and learning how genuinely brutal a turn-based JRPG could be if it wanted to, I’ve always spent a lot of time in SMT games over-leveling as much as possible before an area’s point of diminishing exp returns…