Piker’s general point seems to be that ultra-rich people should not exist, everybody should have healthcare, and rich people should pay higher taxes. Now explain to me how buying an 3 million house (which isn’t even particularly expensive for a nice family house, and which your bank will probably finance for you if…

The concept of “if I buy more, I pay less over the long run” may seem intuitive and obvious to you, but that doesn’t mean that people who don’t know this are stupid.

“Selling people necessities at prices that fit into their budget sounds fine to me.”

“May include references” sounds like it’s referencing these things. Instead, they’re an integral part of the gameplay. I think it’s reasonable to read this, and misunderstand what is actually meant, even though it might also have seemed reasonable to phrase it in this way.

This is a very bad take. It almost feels like you’re intentionally ignoring what happened there. Cyberpunk 2077 contained flashing lights that exactly mirrored lights that medical professionals use to trigger epileptic seizures. This was very different from what other games did. In fact, the game has now removed these…

But the situation you describe (the only way this guy was able to deal with this situation is by murdering everybody) confirms the original poster’s thought that this is very much related to toxic masculinity.

Yeah, how incompetent do you have to be to work at HR, and write this kind of response.

I guess Gigabyte is saying that according to them, roughly 50% of their customers use their power supplies “for long periods of time on load testing equipment”, because that’s the only way all of these people’s PSUs could have exploded.

Yeah, they are. The only way to beat him is to *also* do it in secret, which essentially destroys the community, because now, nobody is sharing their advances anymore, so progress is dead.

Honor, I guess.

The issue is that he benefited from other people’s discoveries and advances, but kept his own hidden. This is obviously unfair to players who do publish their records, and thus help other players get better.

People do have personal growth after they’re 27, though. At least some of them. To his credit, he seems to be one of these people.

I’m pretty sure there is no “fall guys with cars” asset available. If what he’s shown so far is just an asset flip of some kind of car game, then I’m even less confident that this will ever ship :-)

“A lot of software patents are real and needed”

One reason has to be that a lot of other games companies have their own ludicrous patents, which Nintendo likely violates. This creates a kind of patent stalemate, where these companies can’t really sue each other without getting into a decade-long incredibly expensive legal battle.

To me, this actually doesn’t explain what’s happening here. If I buy a PS5, and then put it on eBay with a picture of my PS5, and say “buy this PS5 from me”, I’m doing nothing legally wrong. I’m totally free to use Sony’s trademarks in this way, as long as I don’t pretend to be associated with Sony.

Yeah, the Cosby thing started to blow up around October of 2014. I was certainly completely unaware of any allegations in 2013, and I think that applies to most people. I guess the people in the picture could have in theory been aware of Cosby being an alleged rapist, but it wasn’t common knowledge at the time, and it…

I have a few finished games sitting on my hard disk that I just can’t bring myself to put up on Steam or Itch, because even if there’s only a 0.1% chance that they will trigger anything like this, or what Zoe Quinn whent through, it’s just not worth the hassle.

The fake threats this guy sent to himself are insane. These guys think that “I will kill you for saying something bad about a girl” is actually what somebody who disagrees with them would write. These people are so far removed from understanding the positions of their “opponents” that it’s sadly impossible to find any…

If killing yourself in that game is that important to you, I’m sure you’ll figure out a way to play the previous version. In fact, just figuring out how to play an older version of the game might be less effort than being a snowflake about it on the Internet, while ironically calling everybody els a snowflake.