Well, they will continue to let 3rd parties access the API and do exactly what they had been doing - just for a much higher price. They are shooting themselves in the foot, just as Twitter has done, not realizing or caring how many of their users prefer using a third-party app.

I don’t really understand the anti-Joel aspect that people have (though didn’t play the game):

1) what certainty do we have that the Fireflies would be able to extract ‘the cure’ from Ellie successfully? What certainty do we have that ‘the cure’ would even work as intended if successfully extracted? Yes, Joel…

The fireflies got what they deserved. Joel protected someone close to him. It’s incredibly simple. Sure, Abby might not have liked it, but that is the thing with conflict : There are always two sides with families. You fight for yours.

Sucks for the Chinese players who will lose access to the games, but otherwise...awesome. Fuck working with the CCP and screw a lot of the behavior and decisions by ATVI. China makes up a tiny part of their overall revenue (3% for the company, and apparently around 10% for Blizzard), but after shit like the…

“Apple Products are typically of higher quality than any other mainstream brand”

Lol my son was born in April 2020 and has been to plenty of amusement parks, aquariums, water parks, grocery stores, etc...  Time to let him out of the bubble.

Hard disagree with this one. Wrenching on your own shows true passion and initiative.

This.  They’re public enemy #1.  Fuck all coal rollers.

The Prius detected that the self-driving taxi was making the person riding in it feel more pretentious than the person driving the Prius, and thus sought to eliminate the robotaxi.

The human driver doing 40 in a 25 tells me all I need to know about who’s at fault here.

The problem is that copyright law needs to be completely overhauled.

You know I’m going to double down because I believe in this. This is not pertaining to Blizzard other than I think you’re daft about the issue. Outside of your political vacuum AMABs are made to feel invalid because of having small penises. The phrase absolutely could bother someone who doesn’t have your sort of…

I no longer wish to interact with you, I’m sorry that you feel you have to antagonize everyone you talk to. I just looked at your post history, yikes.

My opinion is valid, as is yours that you do not think it is body shaming. I’m not going to be antagonized by you. 

no reason to body shame in the same breath as you try to defend people’s rights. ugh i hate the phrase small dick / big dick energy

Narrator voice: It was definitely the same.

Counterpoint: better that 1000 guilty people go free than 1 innocent person be ridiculously over-sentenced.

Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.

You sound like an enormous baby. 

And yet, here you are.