You know, I’ve had comments people leave in reply to my comments be less disgusting than telling an author to write something about “vibrators” and still get blocked in a “pending” state.

Tell everyone on the internet your a horrible misogynist a bit louder, please.

Modern methods involve a net-code check. The game pings a server to see if it’s legitimate, and if it returns without activation data, the code triggers for anti-piracy.

In terms of spending money that you work hard for? Rarely is this found to be true. Hypotheticals that refer to ethical and morale choices like “would you push them out of the way”, yes, you are entirely correct.

But there is literal data to show that, in terms of finances, no.  If someone tells you “You’re not getting…

THANK you.

For example, there will be people who see social media posts about the game, now that it’s causing a big fuss, and they’ll go and purchase it just to see what everyone is talking about. That’s just how you use social media these days - “Ohh, a bandwagon! I need to jump on!”

That’s not entirely the case... but with such a limited bandwidth of data, you can jump to that conclusion.

And pick yourself up by your bootstraps. And don’t forget to use the sweat off your brow. And also don’t forget, nothing in this world is free - and the same goes for compassion, empathy, and respect for fellow humans. Nope, you gotta’ buy that too.

I do the same thing this guy does. I pirate Switch games, I try them out, and if I like them, I buy them.

I also don’t understand the obsession with watching bad things! I shall join you in saying that, simply put, life is short, far shorter than any of us give it credit for, and sitting around for an hour and a half, to maybe two hours, and NOT truly appreciating what I’m doing, sounds absolutely incredible to me.

But I didn’t misread... I mistyped, or rather, my statement didn’t hinge on the positive or negative connotations. My whole point in my responses was to say “it really doesn’t matter if I didn’t add the ‘not’ in what I wrote.”

I agree with your rebuttals. I don’t have a strong argument against anything you stated, and have no real reason to be enflamed, proactive, or defensive. The complexities involved part (in which you discussed other nations in response to my referencing the top) I think is maybe a little too “they’re hard to compares,…

I... I feel like I’m being trolled... Are you trolling me? I wasn’t doubling down... I was explaining the miscommunication. I wasn’t posting about his exact verbiage, I was posting about the thought process in general.

1 in 4 US citizens own guns as of now (81.5 million of 350 million)
20 Million of those guns were sold in 2021 alone.

It took me a moment, but I’m pretty sure you mean the part where I left out the word “not”. Everything I said stands, with or without that word. It shouldn’t be “easy” or “not easy” to not say stupid stuff.

How easy what landmine is to step on? What are you referring to here?

Are you saying it’s easy to “accidentally” say something hateful? Because I take offense to that.

I have spent my entire life never caring about ethnicity, faith, gender, nationality, or age. It’s hard - I mean quite literally, I would have to try -…

How about the 200 shootings that have happened in the US this year, and we’re not even 6 months in. 27 of which were school shootings.

Also, if it was third party sellers that had sales... they still had to buy the PS+ service cards from Sony... you don’t just get those things from free as a store. You have to buy them. Sony was already paid for these. They didn’t get the after-market royalties they wanted... that’s just what happens sometimes? Why…

Plus, I mean... who cares? Does it really matter? If a completely average person spends money for a good or service, why is that wrong? “They should have paid more! It wasn’t fair to the corporation!” The one that is designing an industry to milk every penny you have that you’re willing to part with? That corporation?

Being “anti-entitlement” isn’t a thing unless you’re literally pointing at the entitled people... you can’t point at your average citizen and say “entitled”. It’s backwards. It’s illogical. It’s like pointing at someone in a sub-$200,000 house and saying “This wealthy person over here.” They aren’t wealthy. At all.…

That’s an interesting point... I still wonder how much is mental disorders such as narcissism, and how much is just pure, unbridled monoethnicity. Like, as someone else mentioned, does this person genuinely not understand that, just because they’ve never seen someone hate another person using violence and language,…