Yeah. Also “33.46 feet per second (10.2 km/second).” I know we in America are often confused about the metric system, but... the fuck?

I’ve played plenty where microtransactions are wholly optional. Many games (especially high profile ones like Pokemon Unite) have microtransactions boot-strapped onto them quite late in the design process. And the best ones (unlike Pokemon Unite) stick to cosmetic-only microtransactions.

Holy moley, take the L. “Eminently replaceable” is an extremely common construction, and is entirely correct. Stop looking up “eminent” - that’s not going to tell you the whole story.

I guess that’s hard to argue with. Kotaku definitely has a moral responsibility here, and I kind of doubt their pageviews would suffer if they refused to give space to games with microtransactions or lootboxes.

Literally no one has said “Americans are the only people campaigning against the vaccination,” but cool made-up story you’re telling yourself!

The market demanded free-to-play games with microtransactions. Blame the players for reinforcing this business model over and over and over again. The industry will never self-regulate out of this rut - it’ll take consumer protection legislation to go back.

Story and controls aren’t optional. Micro-transactions *are* optional.

It’s a movie based on a poem, and there were no sword fights in the trailer so in what way did they “sell” the movie as something else?

Doctors who weigh in on the issue say that daily bathing has very little to do with hygiene - frequent handwashing is the only important part in that respect.

I wish more people had this take.

Twice a day is both bad for your skin AND the environment. People showering less are a hell of a lot more ethical than you are.

What’s gross is being so brainwashed by “beauty” companies that you’re going to mock people who choose to conserve water during the worst drought in our lifetimes. Daily bathing is a product of advertisers, and you’ve let them hack your brain HARD. That’s sad as hell, but the fact that you’re willing to act on that…

Wow. Grow the fuck up, whiny little dipshit who thinks “mea culpa” is too complex of a phrase to use. You’re a fucking neanderthal.

What an utterly surreal reason to pass on great art. Some of the best animes of all time only had a single season. You’re seriously going to skip Cowboy Bebop entirely because it didn’t run for seven seasons?

Seems a little derivative of Death Cab for Cutie.

“in this exchange he sure comes across as spiteful and emotionally stunted.”

Uh huh. Cry about it more, coward.

“Fully vaccinated” means the same thing everywhere.

If somebody medically can’t get the vaccine, it’s far too dangerous for them to take a TOTALLY OPTIONAL PLEASURE CRUISE during a worldwide pandemic. Get your fucking shit together.

So you don’t think any of the gains of the labor movement should have happened, in order to make sure there were more exploitive jobs to “teach” people how the world works? Just trying to clarify your position.