“Playing the middle” doesn’t work when one side is based in facts and logic and the other is based on lies, stupidity, and wilfull ignorance of reality. Trump’s blatant fabrications (which constantly contradict each other) do not deserve the same consideration as verifiable facts. Personal feelings and opinions and…

True, but if we manage to educate enough people, perhaps such tactics will no longer maximize their profits.

Expansion packs.

loot boxes have only really been around in various forms in “AAA” games for the past two or three years. prior to that they were just in mobile games and maybe F2P games.

The whole reason for the existence of Fox News and similar organs on the right was that mainstream, well-respected papers like the Times, Washington Post, etc. accurately pointed out that the claims conservative politicians made often conflicted with observable reality. The result is that the GOP literally abandoned…

And just how are objective journalists supposed to accurately report “grab them by the pussy” or “good people on both sides” without sounding partisan?

Yep, the very fact that they are using loot boxes instead of simply having the items for sale is, to me, an immediate red flag. They are intentionally using predatory tactics when they don’t have to.

DLC you know what you are getting though, not the same thing as loot crates at all.

IMO spending 15 dollars compared to 500 dollars and never getting ur item (which lootboxes are doing) are very different

I mean, obviously. If they wanted you to have the cool things, they give you them for free. If they wanted you to buy the cool things, they’d let you do that at a specific price. With loot boxes, they want you to buy an attempt at winning the cool thing, but they control the odds. They dangle the cool thing in front…

They’re slot machines in everything but name, meticulously crafted to encourage player spending and keep them on the hook.

Right? Guys, Republicans are never going to like you unless you become biased in THEIR favor. How do they not get this?

On the most depressing nights (Gawker RIP, the election) John let us smoke in the office.

This is what angers me so much as a religious person. He doesn’t get to talk about worshipping God. He never cared about God until he found it would earn him votes. He’s just a cynical jerk who quotes “Two Corinthians” when his speechwriters think he needs to sound a little churchy.

Just what I was waiting for: words of wisdom from noted man of faith Donald Trump.

The “Moral Majority” finally get the leader they deserve: a serial sexual predator, adulterer, thrice-married, draft-dodging megalomaniac coward who has admitted to never have asked god for forgiveness.

Fun fact: Colloquially, saying “i’m going to hit my airplane” in Chinese means you’re going to go beat off.

How supremely stupid.

.....holy shit dude.