Mood at work

I dunno if it’s become too Westernized. That started long ago—in the Meiji Period and everything since then has been a natural extension of that, underpinned by government policies to Westernize/industrialize. Catering to foreign tourism isn’t new for Japan. It dates back to the late 19th century.

YES

Is this a decent place to complain about how none of the selected designs are available in both Men’s and Women’s sizes?

Kneejerk reaction: Boy, that Mei skin is gonna get a lot of mileage with the SFM crowd...

Sweet, new skins for porn!

Lawmakers are not (indeed cannot be) experts in the vast majority of fields that they legislate. That is not in and of itself a good reason to oppose a legislative measure. 

A freshman Republican senator out of Missouri coming across as a tool?

Do you also think that the gambling laws already out there are disingenuous because they prohibit kids from gambling but not adults?

Just replace “Worst Person” with Republican.

Hawley is fairly thorough with the answers, will have to see what turns up as it processes through. I will say that his faith in the bill is certainly not misplaced.

He seems a bit like a tool but I agree with his overall stance. Loot crates are a transparently devious scheme that taps into the base instincts of people, often times people with poor money management skills.

But.....isn’t D&D a game? In fact, isn’t D&D the game that gave us most RPG standards? Just because there’s no video involved doesn’t mean it isn’t a game. In fact, a well put together campaign will give you more hours of enjoyment that most video games.

You know what would REALLY help? If players showed some solidarity with the people who make the games they love and stopped playing League of Legends until Riot gets their act together. They’re sitting on disgusting amounts of eSports money that they’ve made off of their mistreated and exploited workers.

“We know not everyone agrees with this decision, but we also know everyone does want Riot to continue to improve,” the company said in a blog post last night.

I know it seems fun to blaze through everything with broken weapons but in the same vein as that cringy twitter post about cheating yourself, it really is more fun to overcome a tougher obstacle with your friends than steamroll through it a hundred times.

This news pleases me.

These “hot takes” Steam zealots have where everything that might go bad with EGS is because of evil are really getting tiresome.

These things have happened with Steam before, you know? Not in recent years because their sales have become laughable to the point where I get most of my stuff off Fanatical, Humble, or GMG,…

How did they pull "some shady shit"? Epic themselves are taking the profit loss, meaning the developer still gets the full price. Which also means they get a chance to sell more units at a discounted price, while still making full profits. If anything, it's the developers pulling shady shit. 

So basically Epic pulled some shady and manipulative trickery and didn’t tell people ahead of time, and then when companies said, “Hold up! We didn’t agree to this!”, Epic tried to paint it as those companies being unreasonable?