For something recent you can read “Influence without Ownership: The Chinese Communist Party Targets the Private Sector” or you can google for any of a numbers of articles from the past decade with all the factual reporting you like. A relevant quote from the article is, “Penetration of large private companies is, by…

It’s a big government and not everyone always agrees. This is actually pretty common when one section of the government believes another is getting too powerful. See also: Jack Ma.

He’s not the minority and you’re just trying to feel better about your problems. If it wasn’t gaming, it would be something else. You have an addictive personality that isn’t tied to a chemical dependency. Get some help and stop pretending the rest of us leading productive lives and gaming as a hobby are all just…

That sounds like a you problem and you shouldn’t be trying to make yourself feel better by saying that everyone else probably has the same problem. Get some help.

College is a joke in China anyway. All the “hard” work is done in high school and university is seen as a reward and that students should be allowed to relax. If you can’t get a degree from a Chinese university you are literally doing nothing.

He’s opening a custom van business with Boris Vallejo.

Translation: Sony isn’t responsible if you go on wish.com and order a Fattydove ssd and it doesn’t work even though it says it meets the specs.

It’s pretty rich, too, considering that if this was six years ago and it was Sony providing an overpriced “custom expanded storage” solution we would call it just what it is, proprietary bullshit.

I’ve walked people with zero experience through the process of installing an M.2 drive over the phone in ten minutes. Stop being one of those people.

I’m sure they’re busy trying to make it meet standards for release in China. Only no Diablo games will ever get approved for release in China because of the themes and content. The Chinese government it just letting them piss away money on employees and offices in China until they get fed up and leave.

And compounded by the fact WoW Classic has 1.22 million daily players. What a bunch of fucking turds.

You seem a little sheltered. There are openly awful people wherever you go. There was that kpop scandal where they were trading spycam footage of women they were having sex with and doing all kinds of illegal shit. There were group chats with police in them. It was nuts.

Strippers? 

I don’t think that’s true. I tend to platinum games that I enjoy and have meaning to me. I hunt achievements that I want, not just all of them blindly. I’d probably have a bit of a sit and think if that was the case with this one and I’m sure other people do the same.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

It’s good that you’re here and that you understand the medium perfectly so we can all learn.

You certainly do sound bitter about a video game, yes.

I’ve just stopped having conversations with people. My life is 100% better.

Newsflash: Work would be better if you didn’t have to see your coworkers and could instead hang out with your friends all day.

Yeah, they should send a dude with a gun or something into a poor neighborhood to lay down the law. Bonus points for a white dude.