I’ve seen the videos, photos and demonstrations of people who are absolutely not abiding by correct hygiene spreading droplets to people who then, guess what?, do not abide by correct hygiene.

This world has gone to crap. I am not operating on two fundamentally incorrect premises, I am operating on two correct premises that people utilize pathos to ignore.

I am neither conservative nor troll.  That bothers you, doesn’t it?

#1 you (and me, and others) can wear the mask to protect themselves (and yourself, and myself). If you don’t wear the mask and you get sick, it’s on you. If you wear the mask and get sick then hey, guess it didn’t work as well as you thought? Or maybe you weren’t as careful as you should have been? People trying to…

While I maintain a pack of masks for whenever I leave the house, I absolutely do not think that it is a good thing to start telling people that they can’t go out just because of a medical problem. It is EXTREMELY “ableist” and while I hate when people throw isms around, this is some of the worst. It sounds as…

I support Xbox so I will buy it on Xbox.  :)

Disagree. People aren’t just asking nicely, they are acting like people who don’t do what they are told are the worst of the worst.

This seems like an attempt at creating a virtual Big Brother during the pandemic.

Hey Joe, I’ve recently been researching Chinese gaming & it seems like providence that you make this contribution on Kotaku.  Any chance I can get a hold of you for some more specific details about your gaming history -- most specifically, the games that were made for/by Taiwanese?

I was going to say, when would a Chinese court ever rule on foreign IP.  But I guess less and less is foreign IP to China, these days.

Meanwhile $60 in 2010 is about $72 now, after inflation.

Since he asked about floor demos, I left the microtransactions in to reflect the price of churros and pizza. ;)

Like playing a modern EA game without any patches or DLC.

[Edited to add: I tend to over intellectualize, and I apologize for this. I’m not trying to be a snooty-snoot, even if I come across that way. I really liked, and am envious of, the more personal, heartfelt style of your post]

Let me clarify. We should wear masks but I think I meant that the fear is over dramatic. It shouldn’t be a “I wear masks because I’m scared” or whatever, but that’s how it is being perceived, so the strong-willed feel they need to show they aren’t scared, which makes the actual pandemic worse.

Turned into an essay so I tldr at the bottom.  If you read the whole thing, the tldr is actually my final sentence to the whole thing.

1) if you think nobody on the left is hateful or racist, you are sadly mistaken

The pandemic is overblown, that is a fact, but that doesn’t mean we need to go around trying to get others killed.

I want to share my story, here. I don’t know if I am in the greys, but all bitchy Karens need to hear this:

I see a LOT of absolute trash on Twitter that doesn’t get stopped, so when I see racism & hateful comments from the left (and sometimes on the right) that are left up, then they say Trump’s account is suspended, I can’t even remotely consider that Twitter is a neutral arbiter of morality and peace.