I suppose I can empathize with the argument that this impacts his life more than if he was just playing the game but I can’t help feeling like there is no entitlement here to anything for a person in this situation.

This is a key point. Not sure why you were gray and without stars.

You haven’t really given us enough information to answer your question. 

Huh? No. It used to be a completely different hobby.

“Mill decks are oppressive because they make it so you lose based purely on the composition of your deck before a match even begins, and not on the quality of your play during an actual match.”

I disagree. Depleting your opponents deck was designed as a primary strategy in the Dragon Ball Z CCG and it worked very well.

Well I wouldn’t consider it a meme as much as a dark joke referencing NG:E, but otherwise I agree.

Sending death threats to Anno is more of a tradition than a crime.

Sorry for the slow reply.

I’m a researcher/consultant that specialized in Business ethics. If anyone has trouble understanding the dynamics of an ethical crisis like this one, shoot me a question and here and I’ll try my best to explain from a business perspective.

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Blizzard end their ruling by saying “While we stand by one’s right to express individual thoughts and opinions, players and other participants that elect to participate in our esports competitions must abide by the official competition rules.”

Or they can get someone else that would likely be infinitely better.

“Yet there’s also, in the end, something disappointingly one-note about Phillips’ portrait of madness and despair in a fictional city that never sleeps. Maybe it’s that Arthur, literally and figuratively beaten into the pavement, never really has a shot; we know from the first moment we see him, tugging his lips into…

When you say “at some point we have to stop eroding agency and personal accountability or else nobody is responsible for anything,” you are demonstrating a complete lack of understanding in terms of what addiction is an what research shows it does to people.

There are numerous, well-documented studies by both the industry and university researchers that focuses the addictive nature of games and how behavioral psychology is used to maximize the addictive nature of video games.

Yeah. It’s actually a bit odd that people don’t understand that the vaping industry is mostly a part of the same tobacco industry. 

It’s almost like the whole Twitter concept might not be suited to one of the least information dense, high context languages in the world.

The songs were haunting and magical. Few songwriters could listen to him without wishing they could write songs as powerful and pure.

“There’s food porn—gratuitous shots of frying meats and simmering soups...”