“This is why micro-transcations aren’t going anywhere.”

Who says they are predatory?

The only people that loot boxes etc... ‘prey’ on are those who are incapable of delaying their own gratification.

ok then, since you’re equating loot boxes to gambling in casinos, classify loot boxes as gambling and regulate them as such. that’s the real issue.

we can’t blame the pubs or devs for this guy spending so much on them.

The hilarious thing about your comment is how unabashedly sure of yourself you are, juxtaposed with how fundamentally wrong you are. Seriously, there’s like 60+ years of literary theory supporting the concept of the intentional fallacy and here you are spouting off and trying to sound intelligent when in reality…

Art’s power fundamentally rests in its ability to communicate and express multiple things, some of which are even contradictory, all at the same time. I’m rarely interested in what an author intended to say because it’s entirely possible for them to fail in the act of communicating that message.

When writing critically, I’m less concerned with intent than with what a work communicates. Whatever MachineGames intentions were are secondary to what the game actually says in and of itself.

The entire basis for this seems to be that despite him being here under a legal work visa now, he was here illegally before getting that visa. Which ICE gave him. After he fully disclosed his previous status to them prior to getting.

There is fantastic irony in you using Captain Obvious for your post in response to mine. Re-read the OP again, but make sure you have the sarcasm meter turned on to at least the low setting. It shouldn’t have to go higher for my comment.

I’m not mad at Whitlatch, I’m mad at the system that allowed a monster like Whitlatch to thrive within it, even after she more than proved that she should have never been allowed in.

LBJ is going to be pissed if Isaiah keeps playing D like that in the playoffs.

We’ve found Dan Gilbert’s Kinja account.

This trade, this whole offseason really, is Dan Gilbert subtly telling Lebron to go fuck himself, and it’s about time. Gilbert isn’t going to let Lebron fuck over the franchise any longer with his horrific shortsightedness in regards to roster management.

Right, exactly. Who can forget that South Bend was once a part of Ireland, and that we slaughtered the Irish who’d lived there since before recorded history? And that we forced the few survivors to live on reservations while we grew rich off the fat of their land?

Everytime I start to forget how dumb free market cultists are, they go out of their way to remind me.

Ugh, they shouldn’t let Libertarians teach econ.

Yeah dude, people definitely pour their time into a video game because they’re told it’s cool not because they enjoy playing it.

I mean, I’m sure your earnest in sentiment and I’m with you wholeheartedly, but it’s not like you’ve got a ton of other instances to put ahead of this one.

I am a white male and a Marine Corps combat veteran. I have been a Browns fan all my life.