Well, they’re reviews for a sequel, so they are at least partially based on familiarity, and, when the article title is putting “really familiar” in parentheses regarding the game, that familiarity is being called out.

It’s critic ratchet effect, where content is criticized for being derivative or samey instead of concentrating on whether those aspects are done well, which I’d argue is what most consumers care about anyway.

Acceptable provided you treat it as F2P. Plenty of people dump more money into this game as service model than they do into the all-inclusive paid up front model. Those players tend to prefer some longevity when it comes to the pixels they paid for.

Yes. The answer is yes. Particularly when you have enough in the media carrying water for you by praising your principled position.

when neither life, liberty, nor property are at stake (such as in an expulsion from a post-secondary educational institution,) the stakes are not nearly as high as they’d be in any crime (i.e., misdemeanor or felony) proceeding.

Here’s a fun statistic, in the last 50 years Republicans have appointed 14 Supreme Court Justices, Democrats just 4.

I mispoke, should’ve said two holiday seasons in, but November 2020 to now has kinda felt like two years.

Was about to mention this one, the allegation that it was staged and that people in the youtube aviation niche conspired to stage it for the views and the insurance payout has been going around for a while.

Subjective I know, but all the titles I’m interested in I already have on PS4 and PC, so two years in its value proposition is that the games I’ve already played will have somewhat better graphics. And on scalping, if they limit botting and make it one per customer then I have no issue with it.

#17 Resell it for a profit and wait until it gets a large enough catalog of games that it’s actually worth owning? No? Just me?

Couldn’t the Grinch hear the villagers’ cloying reveling from inside his home atop the mountain? Noise coming from the valley below and penetrating the walls oh his cave/home certainly sounds like a massive nuisance to me, nuisance in the legal sense, not the “oh, that’s just annoying” sense.

Wake up call? Like they’re not going to turn around and blame the left for their losses.

People like Sinema and Manchin aren’t budging because people like them are not harmed by Republicans coming to power. In the same way that Democrats losing the House won’t affect Pelosi’s seat or her almost-quarter-of-a-billion dollars. In the same way that #Resist and the Trump Presidency was a great fundraising…

10 years. But limitations were removed in 2016 for crimes committed after Jan 1 2017, and crimes committed before Jan 1 2017 whose statute hadn’t run by that date, call it the Bill Cosby rule.

Agreed. So, uh, how ‘bout them Mets?

That’s one of something like four or five possible origins for the word, and its modern usage certainly includes its use as an innocuous racial epithet.

That seems quite likely, maybe places in the south kept the original class-based definition describing poor whites and that either gradually shifted to or acquired the further meaning of white supremacist or ideologically adjacent whites. My experience of the U.S. is based around the north and the coasts and,…

Look, it’s “cracker”, whiteness in the West is so ubiquitous that the term doesn’t generally cause offense, but it’s ridiculously disingenuous to argue that if the term is used it’s somehow analogous to white supremacist, or nazi, or fascist when there are plenty of examples of it being used, humorously or otherwise,…

Lol, jokes on them, by the time I’ll even make a dent in the gaming library it’ll probably be holidays 2022, let’s see what it’s selling for then.

*Monocle drop* You mean they’re not?!