First post:

FRANK, cronyism is the proper term because what is being described here is a network of insiders giving a favor to a colleague. And I am not talking about something benign like giving them a ride home from the airport. An article endorsing a purchase on a just-released game on one of the most trafficked sites on the…

You can look up various definitions for “cronyism” and you can also refer to Wikipedia’s entry for “favoritism” and note that it points to “cronyism.” Cronyism speaks to preferential treatment being given due to a status as a “friend or colleague.” The term is not limited to political appointments or to employment. It…

No, what you are doing is engaging in ad hominen attacks, a tactic you’ve used as a crutch while rhetorically limping throughout this discussion, as if hilariously and ironically calling someone a “malapropist” is somehow a substitute for a point or evidence or a valid rejoinder.

Your puerile admission that you have no valid argument is accepted. Have a good day, FRANK.

Most people would have used “Humble” to designate on of Humble Bundle’s game bundles? “Yo, FRANK, I just bought the Indie Humble!” “FRANK, I am sorry you couldn’t afford 12 bucks for the May Humble. :(“

FRANK, I made it very clear I was talking about Humble Bundle. I was capitalizing “Bundle” to refer to Humbly Monthly and their standard Bundle promotions. When did I mention Groupees or Bundle Stars or any other company by name besides Humble Bundle?

I mean to say “uncommon for a new game not in EA.” But you addressed that with the information about “Debuts.” I haven’t heard of that policy and I have had an HB account for 5 years. I wasn’t even aware Morphblade was a new release until I saw the review on Kotaku.

Thank you for adding nothing to the discussion.

Would this game be getting a review if Tom Francis didn’t have a lot of connections and friends in gaming journalism? There are hundreds of titles getting released on Steam every month. And they get almost no attention on Kotaku. And MacLeod is an infrequent writer at best, especially if we discount those throwaway…

If it’s on carnitas, you better take it!

“Vice President Mike Pence used his private AOL account to talk about state business for while serving as Indiana governor, and Hillary all read about it. [Twitter/NPR]”

I am writing this response fight now from my Dreamcast.

You can get past the cap with an Unlimited Data upgrade. Comcast just capped the Rockies region at 1Tb last November (I am in Denver). They give you two months to go over before you start getting charged. I average 3.7 TBs a month. I just added the Unlimited Data plan at the beginning of January.

Yes, discussion on Kinja can be quite laborious. Oh well, we work with what we have, right?

I was a federal union steward and state and local officer (vice president) for 5 years. I have given representation for multiple EEOs and grievances on the basis of racial discrimination. The EEO system is very flawed and the burden of proof placed on the complainant made every case I represented an uphill battle,…

Because nepotism is when you are given favor or influence or position due to being related to someone. No one in my family has ever given me an advantage at work, or given me a job because I am white. Nor have any of my friends, In fact, none of my friends or family have ever had any sway or influence at all when it…

Ethnic nepotism: “In sociology, the term ethnic nepotism describes a human tendency for in-group bias or in-group favoritism for people with the same ethnicity within a multi-ethnic society.”

The last sentence of the first paragraph is the crux of my point. I said that class was a paramount factor when it came to benefitting from nepotism, not opportunity, and that is because of the connections they have to those bestowing nepotistic favors. People without means do not move in the same social and power…

I can’t think of any jobs in the US where that is legal today. Since the EEOC governs and enforces discrimination in employment based on race, let’s assume for the sake of the argument that at least for a generation or two that we are all starting off, in a legal sense, from the same place.