When you can’t craft cards, like in Artifact, people have to play different things.

A big pool, the horror.

Heated car seats have, like, levels. And if the coolest level is too warm (which, I usually can’t feel it, but I understand some people’s butts are sensitive), the car can usually be coded to lower the temp.

Before reading this article, I thought this was Dubai. So this is happening in Chile, I guess the next big thing is a Disneyland type of park and a couple of IHOPs.

I don’t know about this particular pool, but in many places in Australia it’s common to have beachside pools. Mainly because the ocean is full of deadly animals that will kill or harm you if you go swimming. Australian sea creatures are very on-brand in terms of deadliness.

So “review bomb” is now just the de-facto excuse when developers don’t want to admit their mistakes? Cool.

So...They’re blaming players for not rolling over and accepting a terrible game model?

That’s bold. I don’t have high hopes for their “taking it back to the drawing board” if they can’t even acknowledge that they’re 100% responsible for this.

Yeah I mean our pricing model was fundamentally terrible but it was the review bombs* maaaaan.

“Artifact designer says it failed due to Cards-For-Money system”

Everyone prior to alpha: this system isn’t good and no one is gonna back it
Everyone between alpha and beta: this system still isn’t good and no one is gonna back it
Everyone between beta and the actual release: this system is terrible and we are not gonna…

But it’s not just Valve, sadly. It’s BioWare (Andromeda, Anthem), it’s Epic in general these days, and it’s Ubisoft, it’s EA.

People talk about ‘entitled gamers’ all day long, but no one wants to talk about entitled companies getting upset that you didn’t fall for their lootbox schemes.

Remember when you just plunked down a set amount of cash, and you got a cartridge or CD that had the entire game on it? Those were good times.

The main sticking point with Artifact (which is expressed here, in my mind) is how much of a failure their model was, and they still refuse to acknowledge that it was an absolutely terrible model.

“A user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of women who become conspicuously younger, and then women who pose provocatively in children’s clothes. Eventually, some users might be presented with videos of girls as young as 5 or 6 wearing bathing suits, or getting dressed or doing a split”

How much money does a company need? Why is it so necessary to always increase profit year after year that they are willing to cater to pedophiles to ensure it? 

They make too much money off kid content. That’s not going to happen

Youtube should ban videos of children under 16. They are a private company, they can enforce whatever rules they want.

Yeah YouTube isn’t going to stop this. There in the business of making money.

Look, the obvious answer here is to not put your home vids on YouTube, period, end of sentence.  If you upload your darling 5 yr old doing the splits, you have to know that anyone, (almost) anywhere can view it for any reason, rabbit hole or not.

I like walking and running. Walking is uncomfortable for me in high heels, and running is nearly impossible. Hence, I never wear high heels (anymore. I unfortunately bought into the hype when I was younger, but fortunately not long enough to ruin my feet.)