That “you will be attending.” That’s fine. Exactly when is the problem. Look at something like Gearbox. They knew they would be there and advertised as much. They didn’t give the time or place of their panel until AFTER the schedule went live, and you know something as big as them had that locked down weeks in…

You realize that via Tencent’s ownship of giant amounts of companies, and the near universal use of Epic’s engine, you not giving them any money requires you to pretty much stop playing video games, since between those two facts, it covers something like 85-90% of all games made in the last 5 years.

Valve had complete control over those documentaries. No way there were going to allow themselves to be seen in that light.

You clearly don’t read well do you? Let me spell it out slow like... The....Patreon...Supporters....Didn’t...Have...a...Tier...Where...they...Got...a...copy...of...the....game. And there was no kickstarter. So NO ONE had the game “purchased out from under them”.

The original release of Xenoblade Chronicles, Has Been Heroes, Tenchu-Dark Secret, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Tales of the Hearts R, De-Formers, Song of the Deep. All Gamestop exclusives, and a couple, such as Song of the Deep, if you wanted a digital copy at launch, you had to buy it from them as well. Gamestop…

Never mind the fact you’re full of shit? There was NO kickstarter, ever. And the Pateron has NO level where anyone was promised a copy of the game.

“it’s about refusing to give money to a company whose entire business model is laser-focused on ensuring consumers have no other choice, and offering no consolation in the form of a lower price or a better client.”
So you don’t have Steam right, because this the exact description of steam. There were other…

Problem is, as Epic and the dev have stated, they’re making fake videos and images and claiming the dev said this or that. We have ZERO idea how much of it is real and how much is fake at this point. for all we know, most of this video is fake.

Correct. The problem comes in how they’re reported and which standard you use.
FBI Old standard, pre-Columbine I believe it was: 3 or more people killed.
FBI Standard from Columbine until Bush Jr: 4 or more people killed.
FBI Standard from Bush Jr to now (watch how twisted this gets): 4 or more unrelated killed (as in…

There’s a huge different between fighting in the desert, where they can randomly bury bombs, and suicide bombers, who throw themselves away to try and kill dozens; and a couple of people in a house trying to fight the government. None of those people are going to suicide bomb.
Vietnam was a guerrilla style war that we…

All three of the cases you named were effective for reasons other than brute force, which seems to be what American armchair warriors would use.
Vietnam: America was woefully unprepared to fight a guerrilla style war. The US doesn’t have a whole lot of thick jungles, so this is unlikely to be a factor.
Afghanistan and…

“Guns are never leaving American hands, because there are individual Americans that do not trust their government or their peers.”
Because all those pea shooters they have at home are going to protect them from the military if it ever knocks on their door.

Someone did a breakdown of as many of the mass shootings they could find since Trump took office where we could find some indication of the political leaning of the shooter. In all but one case, the shooter leaned Republican. Out of over a thousand (for reference, if we use the FBI definition of a mass shooting, where…

“PAX is hugely successful - why the hell would they feel the need to risk scandal and bad press to catfish random assholes for a tiny amount of money?”
Seriously, they get enough scandal and controversy when Jerry does a Q&A. They don’t need help with that.

They’re also traditionally told NOT to advertise the time and date of the panel until it’s finalized. Nothing is set in stone until the official schedule releases, which has not happened yet. It’s these guys fault for advertising something they couldn’t be 100% sure was going to happen.

That’s where you’re incorrect. PAX tells panelist to NOT advertise the panel until the final schedule is released in case of changes. This isn’t on PAX, they cancelled before the official announcement.

That actually might be the reason for the cancel. Just because you have a panel, you aren’t supported to release the when or where until after PAX releases the final version, as you could get shifted around or bumped off if a last minute bigger company wants that location (especially the Hydra). Advertising it before…

Elon founded X.com, an online financial services (read: bank) and email payment company. One year later, he merged it with Confinity, which had a product called PayPal, which at the time was just a wire transfer service (think Western Union). The combined company was renamed PayPal, and the product lines combined and…

I still say we’re two houses short of making a Voltron.

He’s got a couple that were one or the other. Paypal works, but no one will call it simple.