Making jokes about Florida being backwards and crazy is like making jokes about Trump being a bad president.  There’s no point, because no matter what joke you make, the reality is going to one-up it in the newspaper tomorrow.  

Basically this. When the only emotions you’re allowed to express are anger and stoic indifference, then every other emotion (fear, sadness, anxiety, even love) comes out looking like anger or stoic indifference.

Straight men, in my experience, tend to be some of the most emotionally weak and fragile people I’ve encountered.  I doubt they’ll ever be rational enough to make good leaders.  

They removed the video from their site, that’s really all they can do at this point. Outside of an apology what would you like them to do?

Also, stop blaming Sony, Sony has done stupid shit before but this was probably a contract and they just paid him without doing research or caring.

Absolutely cannot believe that people are actually trying to blame Sony on this like they did on purpose instead of being screwed by a contractor.

Reviewing the work you outsourced before releasing it into the world is not an impossible standard.  

Capitalism has “worked,” certainly. No one could argue that. It’s just that its workings, as a required and necessary feature, involve the grinding down of the poor working class, the slow elimination of any middle class, and the inevitable funneling of nearly all wealth to a small number of powerful oligarchs.

On the backs of the poor, those worse off, yes it does.  

And some people will be worse off for it, as some always are.  

But not as much as you love being a prick and shitting on things other people like, right?

Same! I do this with most episodic games: wait till they’re all out to play the whole saga straight through.

But that’s not the topic of discussion. The topic is a disc-less Xbox that will be pushing digital distribution through its own proprietary marketplace, and the impact that will have on the game retail industry. We’re not talking about a return to console games being sold on solid state physical media.

He thinks that platform holders cutting out competition in the retail space is bad for the economy, because killing competition is generally bad for the economy.  

Not objectively. Not from the perspective of all affected consumers, such as rural folks with poor internet availability, physical collectors, poorer folks who buy used to save money, etc.

That’s an interesting non sequitur about Spielberg, but back on topic: giving fans “what they want” usually ends up something like this:

Things do change.  The fallacy is assuming they change for the better.  

The difference is services like Gamepass are available now to fill the value gap that was previously occupied by used games. If you can get tons of high-quality games for a few bucks a month, not being able to trade in games stops seeming like such a big deal.

Not bad.  How’s the view from all the way up your own ass?

I haven’t carried 220 pounds up the side of a mountain either, but I’ve seen that, and I’ve seen Death Stranding, and I know which one looks more boring.