Clarification: They learn to abuse the meta faster, but when asked about, say, a Destiny Knot, they’re like, “What?” because they have no idea how to actually play.

Unfortunately the competitive Pokemon community is bursting with cheaters and hackers. I’ve made this argument a million times, and I’ll continue to do so. They use data dumps from the game’s code, battle sims, and cheat programs to instantly create battle ready teams. So while they can play test the viability of…

I mean they probably did listen to it. I tend to feel very alone in the world, since it seems everyone around me is so very bad at proper communication, and I don’t know why. I work in tech, with smart people (seemingly) but I’m always frustrated when, say, I write an email with two questions, only to get an answer to…

Right? I still have my wii U, but literally with just smash bros left xD I’d much rather be able to move one from the whole thing, we’ll definitely get it at least announced this year. Sadly my prediction is first trailer for new one at E3, with release the following year holiday, like last time.

Of course not, but it’s very much the same thing, look it up on any government website that covers it, it’s all along the lines of:

That’s another common excuse (Interesting to note: not the one the ESRB tried to use), but is also very wrong. First of all, while cash is the most common buy in/reward in what we know as recreational gambling, it is not exclusive to the definition, nor the problem it represents.

Realization EDIT: And actually, hell, if you really think what I was describing was the same as an arcade, then by all means, give it a shot, buy some slot machines for your garage, invite various people to come play at your “arcade”, and give em a sticker with each pull, see how well that goes over with your local…

That raises another really REALLY good point That I need to add. Digital loot boxes are like a monopoly, existing within it’s own world. You can ONLY buy loot boxes, and at the price they decide on, where no one else can step in and sell competitively priced boxes. IRL objects like trading cards, I honestly haven’t…

I mean, my point was how arcades are not gambling, and that feeds into what I was saying perfectly. I’ve been to plenty over the years; Only reason I say I’m not a huge fan of how they work (in the US) is in the way they are purposefully very tough, designed to pull more money out of you, which fine, you can learn…

1) Call it what you want, it’s still gambling by definition, it’s exploitative and needs to be regulated for the same reasons as other forms of gambling.

No,

And it needs to keep going back to court until the argument is made properly and reason is seen. You don’t own video games you buy, what you pay for is the right to play it, that’s all. The cards though, are yours, you could build a ship out of pokemon cards, and sell it. Sure you don’t own the IP, and can’t make/sell…

Right? Random in real life objects is finite, it runs out, like packs of cards or something. But digital has absolutely no reason for randomness, none at all, other than the single objective of getting more money out of players. “Rarity” is an illusion with digital content. That’s just so disgusting.

While this isn’t news or anything, thank you. It’s important this keeps being said by voices that can be heard.

Every fan servicey anime has to have one. I get that they are trying to cover a broad range of preferences, and that japan is cool with younger, but still... There’s always been stuff, like Love Hina, with that one too young chick...

As a guy who lives in Minneapolis, this song is clearly about me. :)

All of them? Only the first one. After which they were like, “Oops, we over estimated for our first one, we’ll be better going forward.” And they were way easier ever since; none of them failed. If anything they are simply using the same mission goals, come what may.

PSA: Errbody git your booties into the battle agency, it’s hard as nuts when everyone you can pair with is still rank 0!

As a joke I’d love to see Kaplan take one of Dino’s videos, and as a joke, basically just use it as a script, word for word, in single shot xD

Terrifying, yet deeply interesting.