It’s a CCG - we knew what were signing up for when we started playing. It’s certainly cheaper than playing MTG.

“The call for more rumors itself lends credibility to a story that had none at the time.”

“They will most likely settle out of court”

I’m deleting all your replies to me from now on, since you continue to spout racist nonsense. Keep trying though, you poor triggered snowflake.

The Holocaust started the EXACT same way - rounding up people who the government didn’t like and putting them into prisons and camps, exactly like ICE does. Undocumented immigrants (and some US citizens) are held without any representation, no access to the process, no ability to enter a plea in front of a judge, for…

Interesting how you refused to answer the question about runaway slaves - I assume because you knew you’d either have to betray your position (which you know is bullshit) or reveal your racism (which is obvious to EVREYONE in this thread).

So you think everyone who sold alcohol during prohibition should have gone to jail? Slaves who ran away when slavery was legal should have gone to prison? Your mindless devotion to legality betrays an extremely simplistic mind.

Committing a crime does not make you “bad.” Thanks for willfully ignoring the entire point of the post, though.

Does it feel good to be an utterly unremarkable cliche of an ignorant dipshit?

Your pitiful ignorance is showing. Do even a modicum of research into the psychology of abuse survivors before vomiting your totally banal judgement in public.

So hold on: you’re claiming that this article is an overreaction while dramatically and extensively overreacting yourself? Impressive total lack of self-awareness, my friend.

“However, their desire to make Hearthstone this weird community-oriented experience runs counter to what made the game popular in the first place”

What’s stopping you from hosting a Fireside Gathering? I’m genuinely curious, as there are plenty of things that could make that the case. It is a bit ableist of Blizzard to offer exclusives to those are capable of meeting up in real life, but I don’t get the sense that’s why most people are complaining.

So “all lives matter” is really what you’re saying here, right?

You are acting under the mistaken assumption that ethics is a binary system wherein a given action is either ethical or unethical. This is a pretty basic fallacy. If I witness an auto accident, it is an ethical choice to call the police. It is a MORE ethical choice to put myself at risk by trying to free the trapped…

I will agree that “classics” like Vonnegut mostly appear as trade paperbacks these days. I have no good answer as to why that is - you could be right that it’s a pure money grab. Objection withdrawn.

You haven’t made a single argument as to WHY it’s ethical, though. By what principle is it equally ethical to buy from the gray market, ensuring that authors are not paid? And how is it any different than pirating a digital copy of the book? In both cases, you’re denying payment to the creator of the work.

“Wasn’t in-print” or “was out-of-print”? Because those are two different statuses. Some books never make it to mass-market paperback because there’s not enough demand, but they’ll still appear in trades because they use the same typesetting as the original hardcover.

If you think that “legality” and “ethics” are in any way aligned, you definitely need to read a LOT more, because your education is severely lacking.

“A few years ago”? Trade paperbacks have been around for decades, and no, publishers have not replaced mass-market paperbacks with trades.