Honestly it’s obvious he was just trolling on Twitter. Karjakin is known for taking quick draws with either color if he thinks it favors him (depending on opponent, tournament situation, etc). He’s one of the few players who’s not afraid of Carlsen. He only lost in tiebreaks in their world championship match and he’s…

It’s a bit sad though, isn’t it? The designer specifically created a game to avoid addictive behaviors... and we humans go and do it anyway.

No quote? How surprising.

“Literally what I wrote”? Ooh, great, then you can quote me... I’m really curious what sentence you projected ethics into.

Not remotely what I said. I’m strictly saying it might be in the economic interests of the rights holders for this to happen, I made no claims at all about the ethics. And you still write like a bot given garbage to train on.

Yeah, it reminds me of arguing with my brother until 5 AM before figuring we were talking about different things and were actually in agreement for the most part. Good times!

You make a lot of great points, but the thing is I’m strictly arguing the economics, not the ethical/moral/legal issues, one side of which you lay out and defend very well. I’m just pointing out it might be in the economic interest of the copyright holder to not strictly enforce their copyright. I think they’d be…

Again, you make lots of good arguments, but you’re not seeing the distinction I’m trying to make. Your bar argument misses the same point. If a sports bar shows a PPV boxing match and everyone goes to the bar to watch the PPV, of course the boxing match people lose money. But that’s because a lot of customers went to…

You write like a machine-learning bot trained on lame Reddit threads. There’s not a single original thought, you’re beating up strawmen because you never tried to understand what I said, and every word and construction in your reply has died from overuse.

I doubt it was safe from Omicron, but nowhere is anyway. Every school day is a basically a super spreader event right now. It looks like we’ll all have some basic immunity from either the vaccine or the virus itself by the end of winter, who knows at what cost if the hospitals can’t hold up, but after that hopefully…

Yeah, I agree it can be good and it can be bad. That’s why I think they should work out a deal where it’s done in a way that’s good for them.

That’s such a lazy way to think. Exposure can be some rinky-dink influencer with 30 followers trying to get a free custom table off a cabinet-maker who doesn’t even need any more contracts. It can also be a superstar wearing a little-known brand and making it mega-popular. It can be a mega-twitch streamer popularizing…

You don’t see the difference with the piracy argument?

Do you really think it’s bad for the copyright holders? Let’s say you watch one of these big streamers and they play a few episode of some anime you don’t watch. You might fall in love with the series and want to keep watching when they move on to something else, no? Maybe it turns people on to anime in general. I…

I agree in general, but in this case save scumming actually changes the nature of the game. It turns a roguelite game into another type of game. Adding easier difficulty levels to a roguelite makes it more accessible for lesser-skilled gamers (for whatever reason), but adding save scumming makes it not a roguelite…

Difficulty is relative, that’s the whole point beating Dark Souls with one button is meant to show. Difficult for me can be easy for you and vice versa. Devs balance their games for the average skill of their imagined target audience, but assuming normal distribution, a significant proportion of players will…

Huh, I’m really happy with the choice I made then. I got to the point where you had to choose between the Railroad and the Institute, decided they were both morally reprehensible, and decided to just keep protecting settlers with the Minutemen. I also mostly stopped playing, though I’d still boot up once in a while unt…

My favorite system from back in the day was Ars Magica. They fixed the “magic is overpowered” problem by making all PCs magicians. You can still have a companion who’s a knight but he’s not expected to be on the same level as someone who can hurl fire around.

I dont get the love for Scuf on Kotaku. They never acknowledge the complaints about build quality in the articles. Even the patent stuff, sounds a lot more like patent trolls to me but they make it sound like they’re these cool innovators. Customer service was atrocious in my experiences with them. Marketing is…

I honestly can’t even parse what you just wrote, so I’ll make the argument simpler. People replay games with endgame content. They don’t replay games where the devs made no effort to make endgame content. Your suggestion that these people should just replay games with no endgame content is obviously not satisfactory…