Given PAX was somewhat notorious for circulating the “PAX-virus” during it’s time, the association’s enough for me to give it a raised eyebrow now that getting sick is always an alarming situation. It’s probably unfair of me, given most conventions are no less disease-ridden but gut reactions are gut reactions.

Timing maybe? Maybe it’s only now that she feels she finally put down enough roots to be “un-fireable”? Perhaps she’s even right, she wouldn’t be the first enabler academia has retained even after a very public mess.

Endlessly repeating a predetermined sequence of events trying change the ultimate outcome in some small, but meaningful way? There’s definitely a budding time travel-cyberpunk movie plot in making here. Hollywood and sci-fi authors take note!

This is common practice with some of the more... questionable... mobile games. Rise of Empire Ice and Fire, for example, had a horn you could click every few minutes to launch a short advert. If you watch for long enough, you get rewarded with in-game resources.

I think it’s called the “Shapiro”

It’s still kind of astonishing to me how whites think “we” want to take anything from them.

Sorry. Maybe I got lost in the conversation and replied out of context. Just to clarify my stance, I didn’t say ASMR couldn’t also be used in sex work. I was just pushing back against the notion that it is only some kind of fetish thing. It’s clearly not, and I think we’re in agreement about that.

Not sure it’s really fair to broadly claim ASMR has always been borderline fetish work. Then again I don’t really bother with twitch, so I’m guessing the experience there is pretty close to what you’re suggesting.

Just to add context for those less familiar with first party development and exclusivity:

It makes sense from an investment standpoint. Most first/second party developed games have incredibly high development costs that are almost never justified by their game sales alone. The reason a platform creator can invest that amount of money is because they can be reasonably sure it will also equate to platform…

Honestly worried, personally. Given the mix of IP-type, procedural generation and 3rd party development, I’m getting serious microtransaction cash-grab vibes from this.

I was just a little put out having bought the game on release only to find it available for free on PS plus just a few months later. And now Intergrade is out. Full on kicking myself now. I mean, I expect to feel a bit exploited being a fan of the series. Comes with the territory. Never expected to feel like I was…

Well, yeah, that’s cool and all but did you know that water is WET?! Amazing stuff!

Um... maybe you misunderstood?

You’re right in that the bear was trying to get away, but the dogs didn’t seem likely to break off their own confrontation without the girl’s intervention. Moreover, while the bear was in retreat, it was still taking very powerful swipes at the closest dogs as it backed away. I’m fairly sure at least one of the dogs…

Most folks here appear to be taking issue over the fact that the *law* does not authorize the police to beat people and murder them. By contrast, you appear to welcome a society where the police can kill regardless of the legal limitations on their use of force.

Satellite reign came close to a modern Syndicate. Was covered by Kotaku a while back.

So let’s review:

F*ck Konam—- sorry. Force of habit.

I think trademarks are occasionally the subject of successful “Laches defenses” (which is what you call claiming the other side “slept on its rights” and therefore lost them). You don’t really lose your trademark, but it does, in effect, get more difficult to successfully defend in court.