Sometimes it’s fun to kick the hornet’s nest and see what happens. And someone has to give these people a dose of reality every now and then as the echo chamber that is Gizmodo tends to get stuffy after a while. Too many people smelling their own farts and liking it.
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From my understanding, the theory that the Russians influenced the election has about as much evidence to stand on as Hillary’s support from terrorist organizations during the election. It’s all speculative with no hard proof. And any proof that does come to light is spotty at best. Yet for some reason everyone is…
It’s still her charity. These organizations could completely bypass supporting her campaign directly by pouring funding indirectly into organizations tied to Hillary Clinton. That’s the issue the two articles I linked pointed out. They could effectively influence Hillary’s decisions in office by supporting her via…
Maybe you should read the articles that I posted earlier cause they explain how the donations to the foundation could affect Hillary’s position on issues in office. It isn’t so much donating directly to her campaign as influencing her decisions through supporting her via the foundation.
It wasn’t some “Saudi Dude”, it was organizations who’s beliefs directly conflict with what the Clinton Foundation is supposed to stand for. It’s like having having a pro-lifer donate to an organization that hands out abortions for free. It’s really questionable.
If you don’t think Democrats are as bad as Republicans when it comes to backroom deals and underhanded tactics, you are fooling yourself. Politicians in general practice the same sleezy tactics no matter what side of the isle they’re on.
*Double Post*
I wonder how long before it is discovered that ads for Democrat candidates come from just as sleezy sources. You’d be surprised how much money and support Clinton got from sources outside the United States who support terrorism.
“Not if the buyer is aware of the lack of transparency and affirmatively acquiesces to it, like you do when someone buys a lootboxes.”
Transparency isn’t “as long as we aren’t caught deceiving you we are being transparent”, it’s “we are making our practices fully known so that you know we aren’t deceiving you.” And not providing full transparency for a purchase can be considered against the law. For instance, not disclosing pre-existing conditions of…
A Twilight fanfiction got a major movie adaptation. You can never be absolutely sure about anything anymore when it comes to Hollywood.
You can’t assume that everyone knows this stuff right off the bat. I never see a disclaimer saying “loot chances in loot boxes are subject to changes as we see fit and we reserve the right to never tell you how likely it will be to get the anything you want from them.” But for some reason you always see the “Online…
People still think the Russian’s influenced the 2016 election? Hillary Clinton lost to the second worst presidential candidate in the history of the United States because she currently holds the title as the worst presidential candidate in the history of the United States. No amount of influence from Russia is going…
How would you know that the game isn’t worth the money if you don’t play it first? You seem to be under the impression that all pirates have already decided that the games they pirate aren’t worth their money. What about the pirates who pirate a game and play it in order to make a decision on whether or not to buy it?…
You seem to misunderstand about the tricking aspect. The part where they trick you is where they don’t list the drop rate for items in the loot box. You can’t make a sound purchasing decision if you don’t know the chances of getting the item or items you want. Lets say a loot box cost $2 and the item you want has a…
And the fact that these video game companies are tricking people into paying exorbitant amounts of money for something that, by your own words, has “no actual value” doesn’t bother you? That seems way worse than gambling in my opinion. At least casino’s have to pay out of their own bank if you “win”.
The loot boxes didn’t exist when the legal definition of gambling was first set in stone. And whether or not they fit the legal definition is a meaningless point. The reason why gambling became so heavily regulated is because of the manipulative tactics used by casinos to con as much money out of their consumers as…
The reason I don’t use Facebook is for this very reason. In my opinion, Facebook is a self-doxing service. If you don’t want your every secret to be released online for all to see, don’t use services that blatantly profit off of doing just that.
It’s not technically gambling because loot boxes didn’t exist when the legal definition of gambling was set in stone. This adherence to the outdated legal definition of gambling nothing more than developers and publishers taking advantage of a legal loop hole so that they can prey on those with addictive tendencies.