Genuinely cannot wait for the crypto bubble to burst.

Because NFTs aren’t actually valuable, and a counterfeit of something with no value also has no value.

You really make it sound like Star Wars Galaxies! Man, I miss that game.

Other games have faced those issues in the past - SWTOR is one that comes to mind for me personally. When the player counts dropped, they just merged servers that no longer had the populations to support themselves.

This gives some really helpful context, thank you!

This is an interesting perspective - I’ve been reading a lot of the old World of Darkness supplements lately, and none of the old stuff really stands out as unusually offensive for its time. There’s lots of stuff that wouldn’t fly today, of course, but I’m curious as to why you think it’s so egregious.

Ew, randomized available actions? Every once in a while someone making a tactical RPG comes up with that idea, and it’s terrible every time.

This wasn’t a criminal proceeding, though. Intellectual property law is usually a civil matter, which is why he has to pay a huge amount of money instead of going to jail.

So he’s not innocent or guilty, in a legal sense; he is, however, liable.

I mean, they’re reporting on one developer’s statements, which is decidedly aimed at another developer’s game. I’m not sure why that requires the context of “but also this developer’s game is super predatory.”

...does every article about a game have to mention every negative thing that the game has?

This is an unfortunate problem with collecting card games in general. When I still collected Magic cards, I was trying to collect each unique artwork of Legendary cards, so any cards that showed a specific character or item.

Unfortunately, they started releasing exponentially more unique arts of each card in the last…

Donations to local candidates, or to smaller races like Congressional races, can actually have a huge impact. Donating to a presidential campaign is probably a waste of your money, but any amount of extra cash you can donate to a Congressional candidate in a hotly contested election could actually make a difference.

The International Olympic Committee has allowed trans athletes to compete as their actual gender for nearly twenty years now.

To this day, no openly trans athletes have competed at the Olympic level.

It would probably be nice to be able to pick and choose what policies your vote is supporting, but...that’s not how politics works. If you vote for Donald Trump, you are supporting everything in his policy package. You don’t get to say “Well, I don’t like his stance on social issues, but I like his economic policy, so…

It revealed the projected release date. That’s what the “reveal” in the title is referring to.

I mean, there are actual technical limitations to consider. The prettier and more packed with detail your world is, the more space it takes up on a hard drive. There’s a reason open-world games don’t look like beautiful but linear Call of Duty campaigns.

Usually when we’re talking about Mass Effect subverting the moral choice system, it’s that the options aren’t necessarily “obviously good” and “obviously evil” but “good but nice about it” and “good but an asshole about it.”

I love Mass Effect and all, but it didn’t exactly make new strides in the morality gameplay…

No, it really isn’t. Unless your bar for what’s considered porn is so low that you get excited by late night Comedy Central commercials.

I feel comfortable in assuming that the kind of man who cares so much about the state of Twitch that he’s driven to parody hot tub streams are not doing it in a way that’s respectful of women.

Because streaming while wearing a bikini isn’t pornography.