Thanks United States electorate for nominating a reality TV star and a person under an FBI investigation as the best choices for what is considered the most important position in the world.

replaced by Trump appointees... Eric Trump.

It’s going to be a rough few years while this winds its way through the courts, but once it gets to SCOTUS, I think Net Neutrality will be restored once and for all. Even though Chief Justice Roberts is a Bush appointee, he has fairly consistently guided the court to appropriate (albeit narrow) decisions on the most…

Gee, if only there was a politician who ran in the last election who would have continued the policies of the prior administration.

FFS we are talking about meaningless cosmetic items here. The game is a blast and you were never going to buy it anyways, so save your self-righteous bullshit for something else, because you look like a tool here.

Exactly. It’s about letting capitalist corporations control access to information. It means that corporations will not only be able to shape and control political information, but these mofos are going to kill science, push their own agendas and remove access to information that shows them in a bad light.

He’s not going to get rid of anything that enables monopolies. He’s just going to make it easier for them to use their monopoly position to price gouge.

Very likely true. But for those of us without a shitton of money, it’s the best we can do. Short of voting, or grabbing up arms and doing another civil war, that is about all a Joe Shmoe can do.

I mean, we have the 2nd amendment, and this is an attack on our freedom, surely we can use that as means to get rid of Pai right? Asking for a friend.

repeal landmark Obama-era regulations

Pai has openly criticized concerns over the death of net neutrality as “hysterical prophecies of doom.”

Neither will that, I’m afraid. Your best bet is to hire an experienced lobbyist and have him bribe as many Congresspeople as possible. ‘Merica.

sure, these are hypothetical, but they’re based on what internet providers have already done even with some regulation. waiting and hoping is a dangerous move if you’re worried about this issue

Yes. Easily. So long as the Democrats control the White House and Senate. But I think any price hikes for streaming services, video games, or home internet will be permanent. Price hikes never roll back.

This is flat out theft from citizens of the United States. We have subsidized telecom since it started in the 1800's and these robber barons owe us unhindered service.

I just got to that point in the game last night and had the same experience. This fucking game, man, it’s just...so damn good. There were a couple points further on in that level with the woodpeckers where I’m like “I don’t think I need this bird anymore, but it’s really fun to use so I’ll hold onto it a little…

By the time I reached the bottom of the stairs, I was piloting a proper tower of goombas.

Good. We need to keep pushing back against this bullshit. We can stop the game industry become this cesspit of shady gambling tactics and micro transactions if we actually try. We need to apply more pressure or they’ll keep pushing the limits of what they can get away with.

One important thing to add (which makes it even more impressive): when you drop straight off the ceiling in RL, you get an unlimited amount of time to use your dodge (or second jump, usually you only get ~1s after your first to use it). So Squishy saved the dodge for right before the defender was going to challenge...…

I figured that was a pretty big assumption so I did a search and, lo, in a 2014 radio interview: