Warning shots are a movie/TV show invention. Gun owners and even the worst trained police have it hammered home that you do -not- point the gun at anything you don’t want to shoot, ever. Warning shots/aiming to disable is not smart to say the least.

Don’t know if troll or not, but it’s not gamers throwing a “temper tantrum” that caused loot boxes. It’s laughable that you would even suggest such a thing.

The difference is that we, as a society, have found it prudent to legally limit childrens’ exposure and access to tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. We have also done the same with most types of gambling. Loot boxes, however, are largely uncharged legal territory, and it’s important that they be classified as gambling so…

Except the net neutrality situation is the exact opposite. The FCC is trying to remove regulations in place to protect consumers. It is deregulation.

I could think of quite a few american industries that could use some more government oversight.

You seem confused about how the branches of the government work.

Regulations are put into place to protect consumers and the general public. This is a good thing. Regulations mean you no longer have to worry about human fingers accidentally being in one of your hotdogs.

No 3rd party music of any kind? Quick, someone tell the lead music writer for the game!

Yup its gambling too. Whats your point? Oh it was just the ‘whataboutism’ argument.

You’re part of the problem.

Of course being able to just buy the skins I want would be better...

Want to slow down piracy (youll never stop it) is to price your games reasonably, release actual finished games, dont add in microtransactions. Basically dont fuck your paying customers. We pirates (yup me too) fuck you because you fuck us. Why is 1/2 my gaming collection paid and why is 1/2 pirated. WHen you start…

The difference between loot boxes and CCGs is that you typically didn’t pay a $60 entry fee (or any entry fee at all) to gain the privilege to buy packs of cards. Oh, and buying cards is understood up-front as a requirement of the CCG format, whereas loot box systems often get dropped into games in ways that aren’t…

There was a slot machine in the 90's called Rain of Diamond (I think) it was attached to a vending machine. When you won the jackpot the vending machine would release a package that contained a diamond ring. Also, there are the slot machine banks where the top jackpot is a car or a motorcycle. In class 2 machines (and…

I worked for a slot machine company for about ten years and loot boxes seem to fit what Nevada and New Jersey consider a gambling device. I think it qualifies as a class 2 gambling system.

Even if it’s not “gambling,” that doesn’t mean it isn’t playing on the same exact psychological appeals that gambling does. And when they give people the ability to pay actual money for the loot boxes—even children—that’s just super poor form. It makes me think back to comments that Jonathan Blow made in a game design…

I may be lacking some reading comprehension here. But aren’t loot boxes mostly available for real money?

Nintendo is absurdly old fashioned and alarmist when it comes to representation of its IP and I think it really struggles to understand streaming culture.

In Nintendo’s mind, it fears this imaginary boogie man situation that someone like PewDiePie is going to live stream Super Mario Bros. and start dropping N-Bombs,…

there are no nazis, just nazi larpers and they do not represent the Kekistani in anyway what so ever if they did use the flag. There are rightwingers that have used it, sure... but nazis? you are stretching so far

North American society has become a bunch of fucking sissies offended by the most bullshit tripe.