it’s 2017. Sarcasm isn’t subtle anymore. You have to be explicit.

It was a good joke. Sorry that no one got it :(

Read my irony :P

If you really want the “Heather isn’t fucking around version,” here it is:

Loot boxes are, ignoring the hair splitting of insufferable pedants like yourself, gambling. They are crafted, from probabilities to visual to their contents, to condition individuals and encourage repeated purchase and use. People with…

Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…

I can completely understand not feeling like shouldering that burden when at the end of the day it’s just a first-world hobby, like you said.

I guess I would just say to you that if profits aren’t tied to a good game but instead these sort of pseudo-gambling practices, then there’s no real incentive to make a “good” or…

Okay, some further editorial.

Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…

Newsflash: Heavily invested Xbox fan prefers the new Xbox console. More at 10.

They don’t want some of that sweet green money from over here? When they put out a game in the west, is the return not worth it?

Really? faster load times are what do it for you?

If anything they’re probably glad for all the publicity. Its much easier for someone to see a gun in a game and go buy one, versus a HMMWV.

The Goomba stack...savage.

What I would like to know is why they abandoned one of their better games, Alienation. I loved that game.

Yep, Fahey has been a bot for years.

I feel like Mario’s penis is just distracting us from the real issue here- that he apparently only has two toes per foot.

[Translator’s Note: I WAS IN THE POOL]

Thank you for this. Kotaku has been neglecting the fish. Must have a weak union.

“MTGKid” - in a few years to be MTGDude, followed by MTGGuy, and finally MTGGeezer, I assume. :P