It’s not a monopoly, but it’s a lot harder to explain to 13 year olds what a walled garden is and why it’s bad for consumers. Since nobody buys their phone or tablet specifically for the purpose of playing one specific videogame, Apple is able to dictate terms to anybody who wants access to their consumers, and…

I feel bad that this specific person was fucked over, but I also understand that there are good reasons to hold a purely national competition designed to recognize only national artists and not force them to compete globally. It’s just too bad that the line they chose for “national” happened to exclude this one woman.

Peacock owns a lot of the shows already, which seriously cuts costs compared to other streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. 

I tried signing up for Peacock, but apparently you can’t watch anything if you’re using an HDMI cable? I hope they remove that soon so I can actually watch these things on my TV, because I’ve been waiting for somebody to stream Law and Order for years now.

Yep, those are all sequels and/or side stories then. Though I was pretty sure Enemy Within required the base game to play. Are you sure it doesn’t?

It’s actually far easier to earn a lifetime ban from Fortnite than it is a lifetime driving ban.

That’s a nice list of games and/or expansions you’ve got there. Any particular reason you posted it?

If I have to own A to play B, then B is an expansion. If I don’t, then B is a sequel

The biggest difference is probably that I won’t have to buy OW1 if I want to play 2, which is nice.

She also justified her “present” vote by stating that perhaps the U.S. needed to hold itself to account for the “crimes against humanity” that were U.S. slavery and its treatment of Native Americans before calling out others.

If a restaurant can’t even pay as much as Uber, then they deserve to go under.

I’m with Jessie on this. I’ll tip my barber, my waitress, or anybody else who performs a service worth more than I pay for it, but if I’m ordering food/drinks at a counter, the guy who takes my order doesn’t deserve a tip. They’re not doing anything the cashier at McDonalds doesn’t do, so I’m not sure why one of them…

I’m  really hoping the difficulty will be re-balanced with it in mind. Probably not though.

Most online hotel booking sties will give you the full price when you book too, including cleaning/resort fees. There’s actually a new law in the UK saying they have to, kind of like what this is trying to do.

I work at an online hotel booking site (like Expedia), and we get a LOT of calls from people complaining the resort fees and cleaning fees weren’t properly advertised/were too hard to find. Also from hotels pissed off that we started charging commission on both of them so they can’t scam us anymore. We’ve got…

That’s bullshit, 110%. There is such thing as a tourism tax, or a hotel tax, or any other kind of tax, but resort fees are not taxes.

Skill points come way too slowly and don’t customize nearly enough. By the time you have enough to actually play differently than another person with a different loadout, the game’s more or less done.

We’ve already had a LOT of borderlands, like hundreds of hours of it.  Why would I buy this instead of replaying one of the other 3 games if that’s all it is?

Is this one of those games where you have to grind for new cards like a F2P Hearthstone player/buy them as DLC? Or do you actually get new cards at a reasonable rate?

That hasn’t been my experience, and literally my only job for nearly a year was calling hotels and asking them to cancel/modify reservations on behalf of customers. Generally, they have policies they adhere to whether or not you booked with a third party. We generally speak with low level front desk employees who…