You know what? here’s a big “Fuck you” from someone who quit smoking tar because of vaping.

This is the biggest issue the left has to face: suddenly they want to monitize us.

I think a few things happened, but at the forefront is when they revamped their approach (and the world) for Cata they went deep into a process of “gamifying” the game (bear with me) that wasn’t really there through most of WotLK. The desire for a “streamlined” and universal experience was trumped by treating…

To be honest, as a pot smoker in MA who knows a lot of other smokers... the vast majority of drug tests that I’m aware of (amongst friends) come up positive and most companies just don’t care.

That’s a good way of looking at it. It is also a process and service (crowdfunding) that is very open to small abuses and deceptive practices.

I’m a MMO person, myself, and Pathfinder Online has been bungle after bungle after disappointment.

Nothing you say here changes anything. They’re still offloading risky investment on their consumer population which even if successful does not even come close to ensuring the project will be funded enough.

For example: Oculus Rift

You misunderstand. They’re going to have a publisher regardless for these types of projects. Those that do not need to raise their own funds, endstop. If you’re raising all your own funds and intend to do so I see no issue. If you’re raising funds from consumers to fund a prototype game which gets then pitched to…

She goes into the reasons for this. Mostly a far less intensive game, part-time/self-funded dev team and the project is pretty much complete. They’re asking for the needed funds to go ahead and release (mostly for bureaucratic stuffs) instead of scraping and saving themselves for likely years. If they can get this…

“Shady” is the right word. And a lot of people don’t see it because they don’t know how much of a one-sided deal it is for consumers because it bypasses so much initial risk.

The argument then becomes, why need to go to kickstarter when they have publishing and industry connections already? Crowdfunding was for when you didn’t have access to traditional investments. It accomplishes something amazing for companies: it allows them to offload all the worst risk at startup to a population they…

If you read the source article, which is very good, you’d know that there’s a fundamental difference between raising a portion of needed funds as investment-bait (what Bloodstained is doing) and the $12k necessary for the author to bring their mostly-complete game to market in 6-12 months. There is no cost needing to…

I’m mostly disgusted that the CEO of a major corporation is essentially encouraging consumers to doxx themselves over stupid shit. That and acting insanely unprofessional through this whole thing. Do they have any CMs left over at DBG or did they all quit?

WoW’s largest issue is that they spend enormous time and effort on large swaths of content that is, essentially, single-serving and mostly not even attended to with any focus. MMOs have learned to recycle their content out of necessity, whereas WoW remains at the top of the pile of those who refuse to adjust their…

I love how testosterone-fueled this film is... just not how many thought.

Well, manufacture outrage and then cash in. Has nothing to do with Feminism.

This is my favorite part of being a forum mod.

As someone who worked in Residental Life for a while, students themselves rarely make a fuss. The entire system for dealing with complains pretty much is focused on parents, because they’re the ones who make the vast majority of noise.

There’s a motive. It just wasn’t readily apparent. Give it a few days for them to dig through everything and there will be a narrative. Forget police, the defense and prosecution will dig deep.