Back that train up. I had no interest in playing this game....until hats were mentioned. Are hats an integral part of the game? Do we get to collect many hats? Is it a haberdasher’s jaunty adventure?

Protip: A mom and pop shop makes jack on new video game sales, buy used from them or buy high-profit margin items like candy or old DVDs.

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

He ain’t got nothin on good old chuckie T. ...who will probably never end up in wwe.

I miss streetpass so much, it was fun and simple.

Small note on that, while it works, it also makes the area uninhabitable for the bugs, so they may spread further than the quarantine zone you have set up.

We did the same with my son, we told him they were mosquito bites (which plenty of them were due to him being a young boy that played outside regularly) because we really didn’t want to risk uneducated teachers and such calling CPS or something.

We took care of the problem asap, lots of washing, lots of Diatomaceous…

Awesome to hear. We had an infestation about 5 years ago and my wife and I are returning to normal. I still do random checks and if my wife has an allergic reaction to something I tend to panic. (Heck even just seeing someone itch their arms or trunk makes me a bit paranoid)
Congrats on being Bug free!

Burn it all down. Everything.

In all reality, it depends on your financial situation.
If you can afford it, get an exterminator in to check for bed bugs. They hide and are amazing at it. If you can fit a credit card there, they can hide there. If you catch them early enough, you only need to treat the room they are…

I wish you the best, but speaking from experience, it doesn’t really go away, just gets easier to handle the paranoia. Tips: Don’t let kids eat anything that has chocolate in it near the bed like oreos. Those crumbs look mighty suspicious when getting up in the morning or changing sheets.

Came here to post the scientific fact that dogs cannot look up. Very pleased to see someone else is a man of science.

Just a note, you get bright engrams every time you would “level up” after level 20 as well as from some milestones I believe. So you can also get these from regular gameplay, not exclusively cash money.

All of the things you are trying to equate it to have actual intrinsic value set by a manufacturer. A PS4 is whatever, $300-$400. You can go buy a PS4 for that much. It has a MSRP value. It isn’t a digital item that has an artificial scarcity. Now when it comes to games like UFO catchers and such, I don’t know, those…

The reason they haven’t gone in on trump lately is because reality is much weirder than anything they can do.

We have a president who is getting into name-calling matches on social media, threatening to nuke other countries, has been firing his own people left and right when it suits him, Claims he invented the term…

Just because someone is willing to pay 24k for a digital knife does not mean that the CS:GO boxes contain a chance to get $24,000. The secondary market sets those prices. Not Valve. Valve sees the items as worth close to $0. The same with loot boxes, the items themselves (Again especially in games that don’t have any…

As I understand (which I am not a lawyer, so this is just a guess at interpreting US definitions of gambling) paying to play a game of chance to possibly win more value than you put in is not the same as purchasing a pack of digital (or physical in the case of trading cards/games) items that contain random items which…

It depends on how it is set up, much like packs of cards or mystery boxes of toys or whatever you want to compare it to. you aren’t paying to play a game and “maybe win something” you are paying for a pack that will contain randomized digital items, some might be more desired than others, subjectively.

In the case of…

No because some people enjoy them when used properly.

That isnt the discussion, the discussion is regarding whether or not the loot boxes are gambling. You are paying for a pack of randomized digital items, no different from Magic Online, Hearthstone or dozens of other games. If it were gambling, you would have a chance of not receiving those digital items.

Do you have an example of this existing somewhere the ESRB has domain?