Re-read what I wrote originally about review boards and I think I identified what tripped you up.

It may be awhile, but the faster we can put Mutations behind us, the better. 

Uhmm....yes. Both firefighters and soldiers often make snap decisions without carefully considering threats and planning to mitigate them. I mean.....do you actually think they sit down with blueprints every single time they are called out to a fire? Do you actually think soldiers are always completely informed of…

Don’t move the goalposts.

This is where the Coca Cola example is useful. They sure didn’t use the power of divestment because they felt like being a better company. There was attention and pressure brought by the citizens of Atlanta (and others, but mainly Atlanta) that, in turn, made Coca Cola apply pressure.

When it comes to video game companies I think a good question to ask is, “Well, what can they actually do?” Donating to causes and “opening dialogues with employees and communities” is nice and all but we are so fucking far beyond that point that those things don’t actually matter. Even fully committing to affirmative…

Firefighters routinely prioritize others over their own self-preservation. Soldiers often (one could say almost exclusively) follow orders that are in direct opposition to their self-preservation. It is not an attribute that is immune to suppression or re-wiring. Both of those professions entail the exact opposite of…

Swing and a miss.

Nate Silver was near-constantly telling people that Trump had a much higher chance of winning than people thought but, you know, probability is difficult for some people. 

Prosecutor here, and I can easily be branded “part of the problem” by the nature of my job.

Don’t confuse “defending” with “explaining.”

Your second paragraph is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. It seems like the only solution (which will never happen) is to increase the opportunity cost for scalping to take place, namely limiting online sales. I know, I know, it is insane to think of in the Year of Our Lord 2020, but I can’t really…

We can call it scalping if that makes us feel better, but to deny that this is a function of supply and demand is to deny reality. This isn’t about justifying poor behavior. 

Agreed on the perspective bit, and pretty much everything else. It just seems like when the discussion is centered around gaming electronics then the distasteful practice of scalping veers much further away from “unscrupulous” than if we were talking about, say, basic necessities.

That’s very true. We certainly are not a true free market economy. And neither is.....checks notes.....any other country.

Breaking news: law of supply and demand can really suck some times. Film at 11!

Swing and a miss.

I’d have to watch the trailer again as I only saw it once in the theater but I had the thought that we could be seeing people travel through different realities that are almost exactly like each other in order to engage in combat/whatever.

Is it too much to ask for FFVI to get the glamorous Remake treatment it clearly deserves?

“Nobody knows anything,” according to you.