It’s not a big issue, but it’s worth asking the question: if they were just going to leave a work-around in the menus that allows you to pause anyway, why not just let people pause normally?  

if you can’t put things off in the real world for 1-3 minutes while you log out or warp somewhere, that’s the bigger issue than not being able to pause.

Yawn.

Okay, a troll then, got it.

When playing the game in single-player there’s straight-up no reason to not allow pausing that outweighs the fundamental user-friendliness of a pause button.

So I’m guessing you have neither pets nor children, but yes in fact. Allow me to introduce you to this entirely new concept called “Responsibilities”. Yes. Not being able to pause is in fact a problem.

Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you actually dull enough to not get the absolute basics of why pausing is a good thing for games to let you do?

Car-dependency is not the fault of the car-dependent (usually).  It’s the fault of policy-makers foisting car-dependency on everyone.

Yup, every time gas just gets expensive I just move closer to everything and get a job that I can walk to.

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Too blatant. You have to be way more subtle to troll on this issue since Ukraine is a victim of imperial aggression and has the deserved goodwill of every person who isn’t an empty shell.

Fuck you. Get fucked. Fuck yourself. Fuck you.

There’s zero chance that license is a legit OEM or Retail version of Office. It’s almost certainly part of a volume license program, which is reselling generated keys that violates Microsoft’s volume licensing EULA.

There’s zero chance that license is a legit OEM or Retail version of Office. It’s almost certainly part of a volume…

We used to snort Pixie Sticks or crush up Smarties and snort those when I was in middle school. We also used to try to swing high enough to flip my friend’s swingset. I dunno if that was even possible, but it used to come out of the ground and it felt possible. If I think about it some more, I can probably think of a…

Homophobic people and their incredible interest in gay people, their sexual preferences, and lifestyle is pretty telling, isn’t it?

In Japan, the types of ableist slurs he used have been directed at disabled children as well as people with mental disabilities.

That’s essentially what the Tomatometer is.

As of this writing, the Uncharted movie is sitting at a “rotten” 50 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

Of course, aggregation sites are total bullshit, a copout that boils discussion down to metrics and allows fans to isolate themselves from meaningful critique. But that doesn’t negate that critics are skewering this thing.