Yes it is despite. Just because some people were able to purchase video games during these times, some have not because the pandemic decimated their industries and hence their income. Entertainment quickly takes a back seat to putting a roof over your head and foot at your table.

Of course game developers won’t allow you to bring in a skin from another developer. Lose out on all that lootbox/item shop money? Hell no.

In order to draw someone into a scam, you need a face. Every Ponzi scheme needs someone charismatic or famous enough to launch it. If I walked up to you offering a bauble that has no value other than speculative, you’d laugh me off. If a well known person does it, you’d at least be more likely to listen to them.

Unless he literally goes to the authorities immediately and starts a massive (from the dollar figure standpoint) fraud investigation, then this is all staged nonsense. I get that he’s rich, but this is still $3.5 million that was stolen from him.

Have you played any online games recently? Progress ain’t happening.

Hang on, first you said you’re not depriving someone of a resource but now you’re shifting the goalposts to say depriving someone of a product? Sure, I’ll grant you a distinction that digital goods being pirated isn’t depriving someone of a physical product. But that doesn’t change the fact that piracy is still theft,…

If you were never going to buy it because you don’t deem it worth $10 then you don’t watch it. You are enjoying something someone created for free when they intended to be reimbursed $10 for spending the time to create it. Your lack of intent to buy it makes no difference to the result of your action. That would be…

Money is a resource, so if I create a movie that I sell for $10 and you pirate it, you’ve deprived me of $10. Not to mention that the definition of piracy has evolved to include “the unauthorized use or reproduction of another’s work.”

No, the cows that already exist would live out their lives as they have been and we don’t breed more? I don’t understand how you go from industrial farming to all the livestock being freed into the wilderness in the blink of an eye.

I don’t know, if someone gets COVID and dies it sure sounds like COVID caused the death, regardless if they had any co-morbidities.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say no they aren’t because somewhere there’s fine print that said if you go on our slopes whatever happens is on you.

Saying the rich got richer is putting it very mildly.

That just means you aren’t doing it right.

Which party incited it’s followers to storm congress in an attempt to disrupt the certification of an election?

Oh what a clever retort. Go ahead and tell me any particular benefit cryptocurrencies offer or are you afraid grampa is going to make your nonsense look stupid?

Yeah but it makes it a poor comparison to today, you know, the time we are living in.

Gold has a purpose, it is used extensively in industry particularly in electronics. Crypto cannot make such a claim, they are entirely speculative.

The distracted or drunk driver as per your second example can take out other people. This is why these things are banned. As are many things that are inherently dangerous while operating a multi ton missile at high speed.

“Students won’t just study video games, but also learn the standard Japanese high school curriculum.”

I’m not sure we are taking about the same thing here. Just as you would know if your wallet was stolen you would know of your phone was. The added benefit is that your phone is locked and really hard to crack especially for a common thief so you are getting extra protection. And you can still go and cancel whatever…