Pardon me, but this entire digression borders on insane. Here’s a handy guide for anyone who is debating whether they should coast downhill or leave their car in gear

Bad analogy. No one’s making you wait in line. If you heard that a game is going to give you random drops and you don’t like it just don’t buy it for f*ck’s sake, no one is taking that choice away from you. Why gamers have to make a big deal of the stupidiest things?

As someone who just spent two years working on a franchise that used to rely on expansion packs, sadly not enough people buy them anymore. At the same time mystery boxes sell like hotcakes.

Make visual customization options that don’t effect game play and can be bought out right. IE: Make a cool looking outfit and charge 2.99 and not 1.99 for a minuscule chance to get it from a loot crate.

True, but if we manage to educate enough people, perhaps such tactics will no longer maximize their profits.

That’s not going to happen - you’re cooking it.

He knew where the avalanche debris zone was. He just couldn’t pinpoint her exact location under it. She had an avalanche transceiver, but it was switched off and stowed in her pack, since they were still on approach. That’s not a great idea, but I admit I’ve done the same thing many times. Fucking horrible story.

Typical Deadspin. Nobody appreciates the gravity of this story. Least of all Perkins or Kennedy.

Ugh. I respect the game, but this one just didn’t land for me.

I don’t understand. How did Kennedy know where Perkins’ body was located?

“Sad story but I’m going to be an asshole anyway.”

I mean, at least UEFA is trying. 10 match bans and closed door matches are orders of magnitude more progressive than anything we’ll ever see from the NFL.

If you paid $60 for the privilege of going to a cafe were you have the option to enter a raffle for different coffee cup colors and you reacted by screaming about how you’re being forced to spend extra money . . . then yes, you’d be a toxic consumer advocate.

There’s this certain toxic Hyper-Consumer attitude that permeates gaming. This self-aggrandizing view peddled by “consumer advocate” YouTubers convincing people who identify themselves as capital ‘C’ Consumers that they and their opinions are the most important things on the planet by virture of spending money. Their…

Jim Sterling has called out the “$60 selling price isn’t enough to cover the cost of making video games” as the bullshit it is.

I mean, I don’t know how much clearer I can be about this (I also don’t know why people dance around making this point): If you support Donald Trump, you’re a bad person.

Having competed in Quiz Bowl for years, he’s not wrong. You can only write so many questions about trivia.

I react to Yankees playoff momentum articles like I do Penguins playoff momentum articles:

Shut up. Shut UP. shutup. shutupshutupshutupSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP SHUT. UP.

I don’t think it would be good for the US to lose. If they don’t qualify, the World Cup gets cancelled and that isn’t fair to the other countries who made it.

-There are people who really think 73 isn’t the number? That’s moronic. Did he hit 73 home runs in a full season? Yes. Did he do it with steroids help? Yes, but so the fuck what? Everyone (including the pitchers!) used steroids. Unless opposing pitchers were being paid under the table to inflate his HR numbers, the 73…