You’ve reinforced this behavior by not just clicking on the post, but posting a comment. You’ve given it Premium Engagement - thanks for voting in favor of more anti-Tesla headlines! You are the reason they keep doing it.

How are you morons still out there making the exact same false-equivalency? Did you really think this was smart when ten thousand dipshits posted it a decade ago? I pity your family for having to put up with you.

A 200-lb sack of hammers? That’s a huge fucking pain in the ass, and extremely expensive. Just because it’s *possible* to circumvent doesn’t make it at all easy.

But the tougher you make it, the fewer people will go through the work required to circumvent it. The number of people with access to a “false pulse generator” is MUCH smaller than the number of people with access to a brick and a piece of string. Why are you pretending that’s not the case?

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.

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.”

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.

All business owners have a moral responsibility to pay a living wage. If you can’t afford to pay that much, you can’t afford to be in business - and you’re also really, really bad at it.