It really seems like there’s a concerted effort, at this point, to insist that the only form of foul play could possibly have been for one or more people to have directly murdered Epstein. A far more likely scenario is that he was purposely allowed a blind eye and the materials to kill himself. He had already…

Then you don’t deplore the death sentence. The fact is, while people like you approve of it, even under supposedly narrow conditions, the death penalty can and will be used to “punish” people who fall outside of said conditions. You are tacitly approving of all of it when you approve of some of it. So yeah, don’t act…

I disagree that one must become innately less adventurous. I pay less attention to new music, for example, but tons of attention to old music (far older than what I was listening to in my 20s, or whatever). Who says things have to be new in order to be “new”? Digging through the shelves at record stores was what I…

I don’t understand why some people feel the need to dignify microtransactions in general just to give themselves the credibility to trash loot boxes. All of this shit is bad. And the fact is, most big games already ship with multi-tiered editions that are more than $60. It’s common knowledge that, if you’re paying $60…

What role does that have with someone then deciding that it would be cool to go out and buy that gun in real life (or often something physically similar made for civilian sale)?

If there can be no criticism of bullshit so long as people are harassing the folks doing said bullshit, then there can be no criticism at all. One rando on Twitter can shut everything down just by being an asshole to developers or a game company. That’s the argument you people are making.

There are people online harassing and threatening the developers (which I hope I don’t have to specify is bad) so therefore everything the developers do is good automatically!

Nothing excuses the threats and harassment the Ooblets developers have received. Nothing excuses the Ooblets developers’ needless provocation, either, and yet you continue to excuse it, and for what purpose?

I’ll spend money on Epic’s Game store when they stop attempting to choke out their competition via outspending them vs just competing naturally with them.

Surely there will be no more shootings now that people are using a hashtag. Like, seriously, this is news?

I think Seinfeld charted out a subversive vision of what the standard multi-camera network sitcom could be, but unfortunately was quickly overshadowed by more adventurous and innovative single-camera efforts. It occupies this weird space, where it’s kind of arguing for the credibility of an outdated model. Of course,…

Few care.

Epic isn’t real competition. If they were, they’d build actual features so people would want to use their storefront instead of just tossing money at devs for exclusives, and essentially forcing players who want to try those games to use their shitty app.

Literally nobody cares about this game, so I guess it made sense for them to grab for the cash while Epic is in full-on Netflix mode, desperately buying up anything and everything it can in order to fake being better than Steam at something.

Only 13% on previous iOS versions is actually a really good figure. Have you ever seen the fragmentation in the Android space? Oreo still has the largest market share of all Android versions, and it came out like two years ago.

Which polls?

The polls say that most Americans want a choice. So her plan might be more popular with the general populace than Sanders.

in-game advertising.

Seriously. And I’m getting really tired of games journos weaponizing the unacceptable harassment of devs to launder their apologias for microtransactions. This dev was harassed and, simultaneously, microtransactions are, nevertheless, shitty. Somebody facing harassment doesn’t nullify these criticisms.

Please stop acting like games only cost $60, when that is basically the barebones entry level these days for “large” games.