It’s an unfortunate part of human nature that when people see a conflict, they tend to most easily empathize with the person they see as most like them. I’ve seen this happen a lot with men when it comes to rape accusations - they can’t imagine being the victim of the rape, but they can image being falsely accused of…

Bethesda can probably claim Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA. It’s the same reason that eg. Paramount can’t sue YouTube if one of their movies is uploaded there in full, but instead has to send a DMCA takedown notice. As long as YouTube complies with all legitimate takedown notices, they’re legally in the clear.

Because when FinalVent made their original comment calling those people out, you were the one to jump in and say that this isn’t censorship. I’m pointing out that this is perfectly in line with what they’ve decried as censorship in the past, so FinalVent’s call out of them should stand.

It’s also not censorship for a company to change their game pre-release based on player feedback in the beta, but that didn’t stop the complaints.

This fascination with continuing this chain of comments is undoubtedly bizarre from my POV. Is that just because I’m a Canadian-American dual citizen living in Europe?

I think I’m going to have to disagree with you on the claim that Overwatch constitutes cultural appropriation. Whether it’s cringey is completely subjection, and whether it’s presenting stereotypes is a different issue - I’ll just focus on cultural appropriation here.

Hmm... that’s true. I guess my biggest complaint with the game is independent from this particular issue. I can’t go into that more without spoiling, so consider this a spoiler warning and don’t read below this.

It’s also spoken like quite a number of people who have played it. Sure, the environmental puzzles add to the game, but a lot of people would have been content with just a puzzle pack game that could have been put on smartphones.

I see you’ve decided firmly to come down on the side against the first amendment. Alrighty then. Have fun with that.

Yeah, 5 didn’t really bring anything new to the table mechanically. But it was a good refinement of the job system, so I’d say it’s at least better mechanically than 3. For me, the gameplay really saves it. For instance, there’s a self-imposed challenge for it where for each crystal, you get assigned one random job…

Maybe he sees glue as cheating - a real LEGO sculpture should be able to stay together without it. At least... stay together as long as it isn’t knocked over.

Oh, some are real. There was a story just a couple weeks ago about a guy over in Japan who escalated from Twitter harassment to attempted murder: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/2…

That’s what I learned about some birds. The chickadee is a prime example: It has a very distinctive chirp that sounds a lot like “chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee”:

Advent Children was at least watchable. If you want an action flick based off of FFVII, it gets the job done. ...You know, that might actually mean that it qualifies as the best video game movie (based on an actual video game).

The only good video-game-related movie I know of is Wreck-It Ralph, which has the benefit that it’s not based on a real game, but one invented to serve the plot of the movie.

Well, we can complain about delays or complain about broken, unfinished games being released. And since last I checked, people can’t accurately see the future, picking the perfect release date a year in advance isn’t likely to be an option.

He knows how the white walkers came to be, which might be a clue to how to deal with them.

It’s actually not about money. There’s a strong argument that a lower price would actually make them more money, as they would get more than enough sales to make up for the price difference (this is true just for the mobile market, mind, not other platforms). SE has said in interviews that they do this because they…

Going to the adults for a resolution doesn’t typically help, either. My experience is that most of the time when bullying goes on, the adults are complicit in. No, they aren’t bullying themselves, but they’ll disbelieve the victim if they come forward, and if the victim fights back, they’ll believe the bully and…

The PSN also has a similar problem with country of residence. If you move from one country to another, there’s no way to change it. Worse, if you don’t have a mode of payment in your former country, there’s virtually no way to add money to your account (even the Paypal option won’t work because... um, Sony doesn’t…