The entire point of that 99 cent initial pack price is to help start slowly acclimating the player to the idea of spending money in the game, so that later on, as the prices slowly start to increase later and later in the game, the player thinks less and less about it and it just becomes the “default” action.

Does it…

This kind of knee-jerk “they must all be the same” response is basically exactly why we’re losing progressive ground in the US, by the way. So good job for that.

The Left: Making Perfect The Enemy Of Good Since 1980 (TM)

Answering in memes tells me pretty much everything necessary about you and how vapid your takes are.

I read your entire comment. It’s very obvious what you were doing.

“If you’re admitting to being a violently abusive rapist who blamed the abuse, rape, and drug and alcohol addictions on your ex-wife as well as your abusive mother...I have no sympathy.”

Fuck you.

I don’t care one whit about this trial but you know EXACTLY what they meant and you acting disingenuous to a victim of abuse…

Heard perjured herself on the stand.  A fact basically no one disputes.  That alone was going to cost her.

“domestic abuse case”

But this wasn’t a domestic abuse case, which would be a criminal case, not civil.  This was a defamation case, with a completely different set of legal standards.

Here’s the thing, though. “New” is overrated as a concept. It is actually just as impressive to take existing tropes and put them together and design the hell out of it.

Like it or not, Nintendo hit a home-run in terms of getting the more casual gaming public to get into an open-world experience. The design of the…

It basically boils down to BotW being, in general, MUCH more “casual-friendly” as an open-world experience.

Not only is it not rated “M” (which most open world RPGs are), but the design choices Nintendo made were in many ways distinctly different than most other open-world developers. They gameplay in BotW is very…

Marriage is a cultural fabrication that shouldn’t be used as an objective marker of literally anything except itself.

“Gonna go out on a limb here and say the Diablo games are NOT aimed at children at all.”

You cannot possibly be this niave so I just have to assume you’re being disingenuous.

Musk has the emotional maturity of a teenager.  This is frankly REALLY common among rich people who were born rich, as Musk was.  They never connect with the real world in any appreciable sense and so they never develop the social skills to navigate it.

This is entirely too much effort to invest, frankly.  When the buying conditions become “normal”, we’ll be halfway through the lifecycle of the console and then might as well just wait it out.

I’m 39. I know plenty. He is not even close.

He’s MAYBE an exaggerated example of a Harvard frat boy in 1970.  But frat boys in 2000 were absolutely nothing like him.

The thing is...that is literally the story of every generation of humanity since the beginning of civilization.

Nothing about this is unique, it’s just more amplified now because we live in the Information Age.

Coked-out, yes, but the idea that anything about Mulaney screams “frat boy” is hysterical.

“Phones and recording devices were prohibited at the event—almost as if Mulaney or whoever coordinated Chappelle’s surprise appearance knew how much justified backlash his anti-LGBTQ and particularly anti-trans bullying would draw.”

Phones have been prohibited at every stop on his tour.  I saw him in Houston and it was…

I literally don’t care that this lawsuit is actually pretty laughable and won’t go anywhere.  Suing Activision-Blizzard is an absolute Good that I will continue to endorse for almost any reason at all.

Our culture’s completely broken idea of what copyright should be has produced a populace completely ignorant when it comes to how art is supposed to work.  It’s just idiots all the way down at this point.

Fun fact: Griner’s family EXPLICITLY asked for this not to get blown up across major news outlets for fear that it would actually make the situation worse for her.

Emily, a complete ignorant on matters of geopolitics, decided to ignore that (or just flat out didn’t do any research about it to begin with) and post this…