Would love to see your source for the claim that “lawsuits are down, way down, over the last 40 years.” Do you mean suits per capita? Or are you claiming that the total number of suits is down in that time period?

Please, please, please don’t comment on someone’s attractiveness while they’re testifying to Congress about surviving sexual abuse. Please.

This is awfully weak sauce to justify your weekly quota for slideshows. “Games come on discs”? Just wow.

I love you dumbshits who think consequences for speech are a brand new thing. CEOs who publicly embarass their companies and cost shareholders money have been fired for many decades, and they absolutely should be.

By replying, you upvoted it, so congrats on encouraging the behavior you claim to want to discourage.

I don’t have kids, and I’d rather avoid a breakthrough infection, sooo... masks are definitely not hygiene theater for me. They’re one more layer of imperfect protection on top of the imperfect protection of vaccination.

Don’t read books with bad cover art, either - the cover is definitely the most important part.

The difference between fully analog media and digital media is a bit more stark than the difference between high bitrate digital audio and lossless digital audio. I’m not out here saying vinyl is “better” - that’s plenty debatable, and it’s certainly got a lot more noise in the signal than digital audio. But it’s…

“Presumably, he’s shown that he can behave professionally on the set of Jeopardy...since he was a producer of the show.”

But they’re marking it up MORE than other stores selling the same things. The extra markup is optional, and the only reason it works is because they’re exploiting the false perception that they mark things up less. If you can’t see how charging an extra tax on poor people is unethical, something is fucking wrong with…

Nothing like taking zero responsibility for your shitty takes to show how totally Kinja you are. You are the Kinja Slideshow of commenters.

That section is not practical in any way - it’s intended to be punitive. They think they need a stick to hold over people they see as inexperienced, unreliable indie developers.

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.