If simply always providing some sort of payout were a valid defense, Vegas slot machines would always pay out at least a penny or some sort of prize.

“Contrary to assertions, loot boxes are not gambling. They have no real-world value, players always receive something that enhances their experience, and they are entirely optional to purchase.”

Even though it’s virtual and worthless to people outside the game, in-game progress does have a real monetary value. Look at all the MMO games where people are essentially selling their progress to others, that progress took real man-hours to complete and is in turn worth money to those who want that prestige but…

Man, every sentence they say either contradicts the previous sentence, or contradicts itself. They have real world value. You sell them for real world currency. If something enhances your experience, it has real world value, that you are spending money on getting. And if it enhances your experience, then there is a…

This is a dumb quote:

So the IDGA wants publisher to do the following:

This is exactly my problem with capitalism these days. Well, maybe all days, TBH.

The one real impact streaming has had on my life is that I’ve gone from pirating a bunch of tv shows I couldn’t legally watch in the UK to just flat out not knowing that most tv shows exist in the first place because they’re all on their own platforms I’ve forgot about.

Yup. That “vote with your feet” argument is supremely fucked up. So people should have to just uproot their lives because their state is violating their rights? Really? These federalist assholes would do away with the tyranny of the federal government, and replace it with 50 smaller tyrannies.

He was calling for a state in which both Palestinians and Israelis had equal rights. His remarks were clear on that.

Why would granting democratic rights to Palestinians require Israel to be destroyed in its entirety? Those are some spicy priors you’re working with.

Living in the South, there really is a feeling that things are starting to turn. It might not be as soon as many of us would like, but I get the feeling that Trump’s election has finally lit the progressive spark that has been needed for a generation of people.

I...wow.

I’m glad some folks are enjoying this game; everyone has their somewhere they want to be, and that somewhere doesn’t work for other folks—and that’s fine. I enjoy a great many things others think are a waste of time.

This whole kerfuffle, though, comes off as one giant kettle of “we coasted way too hard on a…

The irony of this is that the accusations were raised by someone who was previous banned from GDQ for trying to inject politics into it, by wearing a MAGA hat during a GDQ run. The person who raised these accusations is using knee-jerk liberalism as a weapon against the organization. The person who raised these…

Please do some research into Andrea. You’re not presenting the entire story. Knowing more about her helps to clarify why GDQ hesitated to take her claims seriously.

Siphoning money away from public schools is not an emergency fix or a strategy to bring them to standard.

Andrea, who is already permanently banned from GDQ for wearing a MAGA hat during a previous GDQ and never apologized. Andrea, who has called her viewers f****ts and used the n-word on Twitter. Andrea, who has a serious history of stirring shit up for the sake of it. Hard for me to blame GDQ for not immediately…

If you can stomach the looks of the front end, the Toyota Yaris sedan is a Mazda 2 and it’s terrific.

Hang on. Did she just say she was a vegetarian who couldn’t eat most bread or pasta while all but eliminating salads as viable option?

Jesus fucking christ, is his ex wife a 14 year old experiencing social media for the first time?