Well, the argument is that when you preorder, you’re paying for something before you know what you’re getting, and putting yourself in prime position to be ripped off. For instance, you might be pre-ordering a broken watch that you’ll only get after you spend hundreds of dollars of import fees, but you don’t know this…

“Forcing Captain America to be gay or turning Iron Man into a black teenager isn’t creating diversity, it’s just fan-fiction run amok. And all fan fiction sucks.”

Paypal is a good example of this. If Steam were to go into adult games, Paypal would no longer want anything to do with them. Valve would then have to find a processor that doesn’t mind adult content, and those processors all tend to take much larger cuts. So, going adult could result in Steam’s profits on everything…

I’ve gotta give my nod to Undertale. A unique, fitting theme for every boss (and even most minibosses), plus there’s a cohesion to the whole soundtrack. Tunes build on themselves, with leitmotifs being reused to tie tracks together. Just look at the wiki’s list of them all: http://undertale.wikia.com/wiki/Leitmotif…

It’s a selfie.

Do you not believe Stockholm is in Europe? Last I checked it was, unless there’s been a Swexit since then...

The worst was Nintendo with Pokemon Black 2 / White 2, where they actually locked the *easy* difficulty behind beating the game, or else having a friend that did. (And I believe it was specifically White 2 at that.)

The problem here is that the person breaking the rules isn’t the only one at risk. To extend your analogy, it would be like if someone were to climb over safety rails, there would be a small chance that someone else could get killed. In this case, maybe you do more than simply shrugging and accepting it - maybe you…

When human lives are on the line, it might unfortunately be a necessary trade-off that people won’t be able to do that.

Well, this is Niantic, not Nintendo. Nintendo’s had almost zero involvement with this game. They basically gave out the license, provided the 3D models, and said “Have at it.”

Ah, the good old No True Scotsman argument. How I’ve missed you...

This new system might work well enough for urban (and suburban to a lesser extent) players, but many rural players don’t live anywhere near a Pokestop. Add to that the fact that spawn rates are far lower in those regions, and the only way they could play was with some sort of tracking system. But if the new tracking…

...You did wait until they’d left before putting the locks on your gates, right? I mean, either way is cool, just asking.

But in this case, there’s little reason it can’t be more fair. Imagine if a game came out where blue-eyed players were given twice as many rewards as other players. Would you shrug that off with “Life isn’t fair”? The pokemon spawn distribution is decidedly biased towards urban areas, and there’s no reason it needs to…

Because prominent streamers cheating can normalize cheating, which can ruin the gameplay experience for non-cheaters in any multiplayer games featured. This doesn’t affect Twitch directly, but the legal status of streaming games is unclear, and so they rely on a good relationship with video game companies to ensure…

My guess is that it’s because if you go the normal route and do chargebacks through the credit card company, then Sony has to pay for it (at quite a hefty fee too - can be like $30/chargeback*). Issuing a refund, however, is much cheaper.

According to Google’s reverse image search, that’s Robert Redford.

I knew a woman who was in the New Zealand army,* and when she was in the US she was once attacked by a robber with a knife. She’d disarmed him before she’d even realized she was being attacked, thinking he was giving the knife to her. Trust me, hearing a story like that doesn’t get old.

Damn lucky, congrats! One of the best evolved ones to nab in the wild, and at such high CP too.

The article here says she’s the daughter of Professor Layton, so unless they plan to rip off Futurama, I don’t think she’s going to be one of his ancestors.