Thats like saying that if you buy stolen goods, you haven’t technically stolen it yourself, therefor its fine. Buying stolen goods creates a market for thieves and makes their crimes profitable. Possessing actual child porn creates a market for the creators of child porn thus making their abuse of children profitable.…

Well, as disgusting as those are, it sets a bad precedent. It creates a real and dangerous limit on artistic expression. I mean, how is such a law applied in practice? Every character that appears to young is automatically illegal? How do you measure that? And what if the story or a disclaimer says that all characters…

You can’t fictionalize child porn. Either its porn with children in it making it child porn, or its porn with no children in it making it not child porn.

We ban child porn because the creation of it abuses actual children and is therefor proven to be harmful. Porn actors acting like they are having sex with family (assuming everyone has given their consent) harms nobody. The same goes for porn involving rape scenario’s.

Yeah, thats the same type of reasoning conservatives use to justify not teaching sexual education. You know, you don’t have to indulge in all your whims, wait with sex until you’re married, sex outside of marriage is bad. Sure, YOU draw the line at what you call criminal and harmful, but that line is highly subjective…

Only if someone really has absolutely no ability to tell fantasy from reality. And if thats the case, the real problem really isn’t porn, the problem is that they can’t tell fantasy from reality, like healthy human beings. On top of that, you don’t help anyone by simply trying to ban a particular kind of fantasy.

We didn’t go without that kind of stuff for a long time, it has always been there. Except it was more hidden. We didn’t invent fantasy after we invented film.

Really, a paradise? I think you mean wasteland hell.

I like the Wild Card system. Right now, if you want particular cards you either have to buy them directly or start cracking packs and hope you get a card you want. Depending on the card, that can be very expensive. And cracking packs is basically the same as opening lootboxes.

A bunch of people that I play FNM with are good enough that they get invites to the big tournaments. But if I see what they need to do in order to keep qualifying, it is fucking expensive. I mean, aside from constructing a competitive deck, which can cost anywhere between 1000 - 5000 dollar depending on the format,…

Yeah, except that covering up spousal abuse by those with power is nothing new or unique to the Trump administration. It happens all the time, everywhere. And while its a sign of corruption, its also rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. If we rank the evil shit this administration has been doing, this…

Yeah, but we live in the real world where people sometimes have to make choices and where either outcome isn’t perfect.

If Porter was an important source, it might not be smart to spend a chapter writing about what a garbage human being he was? Especially if these are allegations, not established facts.

That is not how history works. History isn’t made by individuals. To place the blame for the Tea Party at the feet of McCain or Palin is stupid. It ignores the various other factors that played a much more significant role in the creation of the Tea Party.

Syndicate is way better than AC3. Better protagonists, a clearer sense of where it wants to go, a far more interesting and developed world and overall better gameplay.

Can’t have one without the other. To take a stand on quality also means creating minimal standards which a game needs to have. Standards that go beyond ‘it doesn’t freeze my computer when I try to install it’ technical issues. Is an asset flip acceptable to sell if it offers some minimal form of gameplay? Yes or no,…

Because Steam has a near monopoly over digital distribution on PC? So it kind of matters for the people who put actual effort into actual games that are of good quality that their games aren’t buried beneath piles of cheaply produced pieces of shit or worse, blatant scams.

Finally, someone with some fucking common sense.

Its a fucking store. They can censor as much as they like, they can be biased as much as they want. Thats how stores work. No one accuses clothing stores if they only stock certain brands or certain types of clothes. No one accuses a women’s fashion store of being biased against men because they only sell clothes for…

In a world where shady devs are trying to rip customers off and Valve enables them by allowing them access in their store.