When did she do that? It seems like every time I investigate a claim about Rowling I come up with very little to show for it.

When did she do that? It seems like every time I investigate a claim about Rowling I come up with very little to show for it.

Recommending to players that they pursue consent and get some sort of evidence for it seems totally rational, given the context. You’d have to believe that no human on the planet would ever lie about something like this... which... seems a rather poorly substantiated belief.

I’m more than a little baffled that this…

What, exactly, would you say they “put on the chopping block” in DA2 from DAO that was so fundamental to people liking it?

One could argue that they thought they could make it in 18 months (more like 14-16, I believe) because they put so much of what people liked about DA:O on the chopping block. I mean... they traded out complex combat systems and deep companion customization/management for button mashing action combat and companion…

That graphic is simply evidence of precisely my point... no one can direct their attention everywhere they should, no matter how hard they try, and that fact has been leveraged by smart people behind the most powerful companies in the world.

“And the comparison is a bad one, because it didn’t “generate revenue”, it actually sold units, and selling actual units of a game (rather than just “generating revenue”) does at the very least indicate real popularity.”

I think there’s a clear enough difference between being unable to avoid unethical consumption and being able to avoid it but doing it anyway.

Yes, the solution always was separating this game from the IP creator’s opinions on trans rights. Welcome to the rational position.

They would be ‘nazi sympathizer sympathizers’.

To be fair, sells well ≠ good. Loot boxes and cash shops are are a great way for gaming studios to generate revenue, but that doesn’t make them good in any sense of the word that’s worth a damn to virtually anyone (besides shareholders, of course).

I was simply illustrating that this wasn’t really about a ride failing to accommodate heavy or tall people per se. I get that the OP brought up their “fattyness”, but it seemed worth pointing out.

Absolutely false and easily demonstrated to be false. The average height has increased nearly three inches, pushing people far further into the “BMI is total nonsense made up by a Belgian nearly 200 years ago” range. Racist nonsense, I once more point out. But I guess we don’t care about that when we can sneer at…

I think you understand the point of normalizing obesity. Average has the colloquial connotation of “normal, fine, OK”.

The only problem with your point is that this has been extremely well understood for a very long time. Doctor’s aren’t automatons that can’t resist talking about your weight because a worksheet spits out a high BMI number... they do it for the countless other variables that make it obvious, in addition to BMI, that…

Setting aside other confounding variables, the national average is ~39.5in.

average ≠ healthy weight

Take the point, or actually rebut it.

People are finely tuned to be enraged by perceived inequality, particularly when they feel like they aren’t doing well. I say perceived because the reality is that inequality is a virtually constant phenomenon in human history, it just isn’t always obvious. People don’t care much about billionaires, for example, if…

Your analysis seems to be missing a point. His ability to engage in philanthropy relies very directly on making videos like this (videos people actually watch), so any use of his time and effort that doesn’t reliably feed back in to that cycle is fundamentally counter-productive in the space he occupies.

There will alw…