Yeah but that was 20 years ago. 20 years ago the US wasn’t nearly as polarized as it is today. 20 years ago the Republican party had it share of loons, but it wasn’t dominated by the Tea Party idiots like today. Being a Republican then didn’t mean people automatically associated you with people like Ted Cruz or Donald…

Perhaps, I can’t comment on the accuracy of her statement. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened. America is a pretty polarized society and part of that means people cut contact with ‘the other side’.

Perhaps the radicalizing wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t lost all her friends because of she came out as a conservative. People go to the internet and end up in these echo chambers of stupid exactly because they got no one to talk to in real life. And it feeds right into their ‘conservatives are the real victims’…

There also isn’t an intellectually wholesome belief system that includes the belief in nations, human life having intrinsically more value than that of an ant. You cannot incorporate science into a belief system that includes human exceptionalism, the notion that you somehow have a special connection to any given…

Make him some money? More like keeping the whole business afloat. It can’t be easy to keep your business simply operating when you are this small and have to compete with businesses that have marketing budgets that dwarf your entire games budget.

Has the load time between turns improved? Because that was the main issue that made the game unplayable for me.

Come on, PETA fights against the fur industry which is a niche industry serving a niche market. Its a celebrity cause. Not really that controversial. And yeah, I know, PETA is much worse than that, but they managed to keep their actually controversial aspects out of the public’s consciousness.

I agree that emotional arguments do have their place in this debate. But I disagree with the notion that an emotional argument is the only argument that should play a role in this. Because thats how it gets presented by these people. You disagree with me, then you don’t care about the experience of sexual assault…

Hah, right. Even if the artist has never done or said anything that offended someone somewhere at some point in time (and how would you know, given that its now fine to hold long dead artists from centuries ago to today’s standards), the artwork itself is easy to attack from all kinds of different angles. Incorporate…

Because in this day and age you can’t ask questions without the knee jerk idiot response amplified by a twitter storm of outrage.

You are talking about what ‘should’ be. But what should be is by definition theoretical. This world is concerned with ‘what is’, journalists in particular. After all, thats what sells papers and gets you ratings.

And what would you have them do instead? Act equally unreasonable, call half the voters in the country ‘evil’ because they don’t think the same way you do? And then what? Completely lose the next elections? Shut down the government until the country simply collapses? Start a civil war? Yeah, great alternatives.

Not when donating money equals free speech.

Yeah but not the same value. Opening up a planeswalker nets you more monetary and gameplay value than opening some crap rare thats only useful under very specific circumstances and in an very specific deck.

That sure would save everyone a lot of trouble. And yes, he should have done that. But should have and could have are all things we say afterwards.

Perhaps the ‘obvious’ discomfort isn’t always so obvious at the moment when it needs to be recognized.

Yeah but the elements that take advantage of that are not inherently part of videogames. I get how some of the gambling elements in certain videos can be addictive, but thats because its gambling. And gambling addiction is already a thing. Why should you suddenly call it game addiction if the gambling happens in a…

The slavery bit doesn’t have much to do with the military intervention there and more with European refugee and asylum policies. If Gadaffi was still in charge it would have been him running the slavery business.

Yeah as a rule, quick military interventions don’t work. They cause more conflict than they solve. And if you go a step further and actively destroy a regime, the conflict that follows will be even worse.

Sure, but why would they? Its not like they ever needed an excuse to keep the old boys club exclusive to men. On top of that, this is disruptive of normal business practices on way more levels than just the top. The old boys network may not like it when women try to join their little club, but I think they hate it…