China sees the sign “Free Hong Kong”, and they thought to themselves “Wow, its free?  That’s a heck of a deal!  We’ll take one, please.”

Why would the balance be anymore difficult?

The multiplayer should, as far as I can see, be the same across both OW1 and OW2. The only addition to both will be new heroes.

The leveling up stuff and ability unlocks will presumably be limited to PvE.

I don’t want to imply Diablo 2 is overrated, but I think the game largely stood out as something special not because it was a particularly amazing game compared to Diablo 3, but because it was a good online multiplayer game at a time when there were so few online multiplayer games.  Just having the Battle.net service…

I don’t particularly hate the idea, but I’m not really excited about it either. After sticking with FO76 since launch, I do think the current product is actually quite a respectable attempt at an online Fallout experience.

The problem with this service is that private servers, aside from mod support, seem sort of…

Man, that thing fell apart faster than Hong Kong’s future after the UK gave it back to China.

Fold on what? If people protest Blizzard over Hong Kong, it hurts Blizzard. If Blizzard folds to protesters and China bans their games, it hurts Blizzard. This is a lose/lose situation for them, they can either partially satiate perpetually offended western consumers, or satiate their Chinese consumers.  They can’t do…

Woke culture would be ruining comedy, if comedians let woke culture actually stop them. Dave Chappelle talks about it in his most recent Netflix special... all the things he’s been told he shouldn’t  joke about... but of course, the fact he’s talking about how he shouldn’t is now the joke itself.

From what I’ve seen in interviews, polls, etc., the overwhelming majority of indigenous Americans don’t really care much about the name. It is so disassociated from the original meaning at this point, most people only understand it as a reference to the football team, so putting a lotof effort into getting it changed…

I swear to God, Trump’s behaving like someone that WANTS to be impeached. I can’t imagine he actually LIKES this job; it doesn’t seem like he ever REALLY wanted it. Running for President was just a gimmick to him, something he could do to elevate his brand. He didn’t expect to win it, or to move to Washington, or to…

This is unbelievably silly. How many violent movies have come out prior to this? A lot. Oh, but this one has the Joker, which is sort of like what the Aurora shooter was going for, and he shot up a theater during a Batman film, so CLEARLY, this movie is WAAAAAAAY worse than the others, right?  My God, humanity has hit…

She’s not.  She’s actually the voice of his cousin Annika van Houten.

Remember folks, this is the same Trump that supposedly did NOT ask the Russians for dirt on Hillary.

“Can you eat meat and care about climate change?”

Can you buy something superfluous and still care about paying off your debt?

Of all the issues to have with the final season of the show, Arya taking an unrealistic running jump to finish of the Night King is what you pluck out?

There was one very telling study by Harvard that implies the pay gap is almost entirely down to different work practices.

The study focused on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, because it is a unionized job where wages and promotions are determined by tenure, and men and women of equal seniority are offered the…

Of course it is still bad when it comes from ignorance. But someone ignorantly stumbling into it is a lot less appalling than someone maliciously engaging in it.  Again, likening it to killing someone, “Whoops, I’ve accidentally killed you” isn’t nearly as terrible as “I killed you because I wanted you dead.”

You don’t have a point.  We already established this.

Because I like flavor, and plants taste like shit.

I might be wrong here, but wouldn’t the issue of lab-grown meat be that it is comparatively nutrient deficient?  When you eat an animal, you get nutrients from whatever it at.  If you grow meat in a lab, it was never alive, it never had to eat to gain nutrients, so where would a lab grown meat get any nutrients from?

So why is it suddenly a big deal that plant-based burgers, designed to mimic the flavor and texture of beef hamburgers while potentially being better for the planet, aren’t that healthy?