Once more for the people in the back.

It is though. You don’t say a car is not a car because it isn’t working. You don’t say a computer is not a compute because it came dead on arrival. Democracy is a principle of governance and America is a government founded on that principle, therefore it is a democracy. Whether or not, in actuality it hasn’t always,…

You can’t have a democracy if people don’t believe in it.

I like to think of it as, democracy is the principle, it’s the philosophy behind the republic, which is one form of democracy or one way in which the philosophy of democracy might be actualized. The principle of democracy is rule by the people, as opposed to rule by one or a few elite members of society. Now the way…

Many people do think she was raped. But that is not the same thing as saying they think the sex was unsimulated. They think that what these guys did to her was the equivalent of rape. They seem to be equating rape and sexual assault. Maybe they are wrong to call it rape maybe they are right. Just responding to OP…

Very topical, given the whole...well...state of society.

It was sexual assault. But people seem to have the impression that it was unsimulated.

Wow, not even the decency to hide how much of a douche bag he was on the first date??? Definitely not a keeper man. I mean, a real gentleman would hide his asshole tendencies until he starts dating the person and the honeymoon phase is over and all that. But, common curtesy says at least wait until like, date number 3…

Trolling people.

Yeah I mean honestly conservatives already think everything except Fox News, Brietbart and their radio shows is the liberal media so at this point does it even matter?

This is so depressing. I lose faith in humanity every single day.

She’s hoping people are stupid enough to see this and want to buy... I don’t know..something. That gif is probably relevant to here in more ways than one.

Well, to the extent that Kojima is himself a geek and constantly tries to appeal to that crowd, yeah, guess you could say that.

I definitely agree with you about the hype thing. I think this is different though. I mean No Man’s Sky was hyped in a different way than most games. They threw out all these features and marketed the game in such a way that the expectations were just insane.

Come on, let the kids have fun. Speculating and overanalyzing shit is what geek culture is all about.

Yes, but that’s what I’m trying to say that perhaps, Konami could have done just that, continue to invest and expand into foreign markets as opposed to staying within Japan and selling what they know will sell. Not saying they should have, but just saying the convo can’t end at, “well pachinko is more profitable so…

Yeah yeah you may be right. I’m not saying I know everything about business loll. Just a thought, like me personally as an investor that’s how I would think about it. Long term investments are always the best and corporations in general are thinking short term nowadays, so often what is passed off as being good for…

Why would you want to see someone fail? Jesus people are so vindictive these days.

You’re definitely right, but I think this is also a symptom of the short sightedness of corporate culture. Corporations these days are all about short term profits because they need to make the numbers look good on that quarterly report. Now who knows if video games were a good long term risk or not. But I think I…

I think this is what they call...reaching across the isle? Compromise? lol