Counterargument 1: There’s no point in gameplay if players tune out of it.

There are two types of Animal Crossing players. I like that the game is slow and kinda obtuse in how it works. The fact that perhaps the most significant aspect of Animal Crossing is that it runs in real-time gives insight into Nintendo’s vision for the experience they’re trying to deliver. I don’t think these QOL…

So about the lack of provenance, I think that perspective comes out of a lack of understanding of how the mechanic works and what you yourself as a player don’t know about the paintings. The fakes in the game are really obvious fakes if you do research on the real life paintings and statues. Every time one of these…

Is it excessively weird that once I saw who your second expert was, I got very excited? I’m a huge fan of Pacific Northwest native art (a taste inherited from my late father), and that museum has the best collection of it in the world. I wish we could see a couple Bill Reid (or other Haida, Tlingit, etc) works in the…

Back in the day I remember being a ninja, a superstar, AND a shark. I rescued Marco Polo, investigated Harlow Thrombey’s murder, and have experience dealing with vampires both in space and on a train.

But, but, hold on now folks, let’s not be too hasty to disregard his capabilities. I mean he did read *25 books* to gear up to bring the world a Mid-East peace deal. Twenty-five!

And, he knows how to aggregate & leverage data so as to shift the paradigm and drilldown into what’s needed move the needle to synergize the…

Until there are riots in the street, the circus will continue.

And now there is this:

Over here in Europe we had news outlets write a week ago that the US would be sending relief masks and gowns to Italy to help them.
A few days later, we got photos of a russian AN-124 full of protective gear headed for the US.
Today, we read that the US was outbidding european states directly at the manufacturers in…

He assigns people to things and the press seems to forget. Remember him saying that Kellyanne is the Opiod Czar? 

In my imagined White House office culture, Jared Kushner is constantly getting bullied by Stephen Miller, who is the very picture of a guy who over compensates on his early male pattern baldness and shortness by being extremely aggressive in office environments.  I picture Jared spending most of his days sitting in an …

Huey P. Long, one-time governor of Louisiana, senator from louisiana, and briefly, regretter-of-arming-bodyguards-with-automatic-weapons-in-a-stone-hallway, Huey P. Long had that as one of the centerpieces of his “Share the Wealth” campaign platform. He would’ve been a serious contender against FDR for President...had…

Seeing as you don’t pay taxes on shares but on the money you make when selling them. You’re example it’s irrelevant. The OP never suggested forcing people to sell stock. The gov wouldn’t be taking your business in any way.

And? It’s not like the country will fall apart without them. Industry will continue and people will move on.

I would contend we have a decreasing level of entrepreneurship because:

Not with that attitude, you can’t.

Yes, because government taxation that gets spent on the vital services that we all benefit from is clearly theft, right?

If punishments were a good and effective way to teach people, the world would have become a much better place centuries ago.

“The incentive to get ahead”? Don’t be absurd.