Police Unions are great example (so thank you for mentioning them) of what happens when the opposite scenario is true — unions with too much power. The right balance (and has never been achieved) is where both parties are on equal terms.

Giving [insert specific benefit here] to everyone is always a better idea than just giving it to some people. But if UBI means you lose access to a host of other benefits, nah, they can take that shit and flush it as far as I’m concerned. Sorry, but this can’t just be about shifting how the value of current benefits…

Meanwhile your child got an elective surgery because he felt like his genitals made him an outcast. I’m not saying that’s you fucking up as a parent, but if you don’t reflect upon that and realize how absurd and cruel it is that’s pretty lame.

Why. WHY.

Sanders is ... staffing up. That’s kind of what people do at the beginning of a primary season. Are you seriously going to sit here and shit on Sanders for hiring some women of color to join his campaign? Oh wait, they’re not the right ones (centrist, neoliberal pieces of shit), so they’re invalid. He’d be totally…

The problem is that it’s thirsty, reeks of an attempt to offset obvious critiques with only a symbolic gesture, and is completely and utterly presumptuous (you pick a VP after you win the nomination, not beforehand). He’s far more damned if he does.

So do people actually ride these things unironically in the Bay Area?

It’s never been about “propping up” anybody. Steam promotes games that become popular, but the games by and large speak for themselves. Steam has never really been about picking winners. That’s 100% what Epic is about, and my entire point is that some good games that might have otherwise surprised the world will be…

While I largely agree with Miyazaki on this isolated point, Japan is not without its own extensive colonial history, and it also has its own well-documented problems with accepting accountability for past wrongs.

The Epic Storefront is bloatware, though. Guess they’re technically telling the truth by not “selling” it to us, though.

The latter. Grayson can’t help but feel constantly scandalized by the abstract possibility that someone might buy an asset flip or shitty “anime game” by accident on Steam, even if this has never actually happened to a real person before.

This is precisely it. Grayson’s getting clicks on every end of “the story.” If Steam is too restrictive, this is bad for indies, and he just can’t see why anybody would want to try and release a game on the platform! If it opens the flood gates, oh my God, you might see a dreaded “anime game” or three while trying to…

You realize that you don’t have to buy “offensive trash,” right?

Why does that matter to you? Do you find yourself regularly duped into buying crap on Steam? Who actually suffers from this supposed issue?

I agree completely. And I find the absolute hypocrisy around Kotaku on this particular issue so glaring that it’s hard not to laugh. The take on Steam used to be that it was horrible for small-time devs because it was difficult to get over the hump to publication. That’s what led to Steam Greenlight, which had its own…

And Epic’s policy will very quickly prove not good enough for indie developers looking for a way in. We went through this whole rigmarole already with Steam. And the crazy thing is that Valve caught all sorts of shit around these parts when their barrier to entry was higher. This is why Valve ultimately adopted its…

I guess I just don’t give a shit about the EC, because everyone has always known what it takes to win a presidential election. Nobody has actually been surprised by these results. I also think that, if it were the Democrats who were hanging on by means of the EC, they wouldn’t have anything to say about getting rid of…

Well, and the big thing is that you can demonstrably sell these people bite-sized experiences on their phones. That’s great. But are you going to sell them on games that take dozens of hours to get through a narrative and clear? I’m not sure there’s a ton of room to grow the audience for “traditional” video games (as…

Yeah, I mean, I’m all for paying housekeeping staff more than $10/hr. But they aren’t making a suppressed wage like waitstaff at most restaurants. I don’t get why they deserve a tip. It would be far more productive to just agitate for a $15/hr minimum wage. I’m sick of people acting like being big tippers makes them…

Lots of jobs people do are hard and thankless. The fact is that people tip waitstaff because they (in most cases) make a suppressed hourly wage, which means they need tips in order to make up the difference. This is why I have no problem tipping at least 20% to waitstaff in the US. But I mean, if you’re not making a…