...if you’re going to frame it that way, then fine - nothing. If you’re going to take it in this direction, then you might also say - he did nothing wrong. He was just trying to see how far he could take it, that’s all. And what’s wrong with that?

Whoever that someone is, hoo boy maybe if he came up with a more plausible example, there might be more people considering it. But Mila Kunis, get outta here...

So I guess we can’t make any games about even the planet Earth anymore.

Sigh well here we go again. Another reason for grown men to get into fistfights and brawls at your local Walmart over a children’s card game.

Well they did exactly what I would have done. A group of guys pump up my stock? Oh heck I’ll sell.

Is that photo from the US? Here where I am in Canada, I’ve never seen anywhere even half of that many check-out points. There are a few more self-check out points now but I’ve never seen more maybe 10 lines, tops.

Well, they are told that, because hiring their replacement is quick. The hospitality industry is by nature very high turnover.

These used to be the jobs that you had to start somewhere with. The summer jobs for highschool students. But as a teen you would be working shoulder-to-shoulder with people the age of your parents at these places too.

I think the reasons are pretty straightforward and depressing.

And I think it comes down to what you do for the company.

The IP address method is a flawed one, for it doesn’t account for how many unique buyers might reside in the same household. The Internet-facing IP address is going to be the same for all the people within that same house, so it’s not fair to lock that IP on the first purchase made.

That whole thing on disincentivizing the secondary market is something that already exists in the video game world. Where the original buyer has a code packed in the box, and enters that in to unlock goodies within the game.

I think this is far more of people looking for reasons to be offended by what he said. I think he’s right.

And how many times are they actually going to pull the trigger, if you dare them? Zero.

This works for everything except the stuff that ends immediately upon cancellation.

Just curious why the Twitch streamers can’t just go with the royalty-free music stuff that’s available on YouTube?

The difference is that you are interacting with that person on-screen, vs just passively clicking the play button and then just watching what happens.

Here’s why I don’t take any sides in this conflict:

I was reading far too quickly and thought I read “Joe Biden”.

The days of the independent creator where you could conceivably pluck a complete nobody off the stream and suddenly strike it big, is quickly disappearing.