I can’t help but feel that this is yet another example of someone not learning from Prohibition. Banning things does not work. What it does do is create an underground market, and an underground market attracts organized crime. Regulation and taxation is far, far, far more effective than banning anything.

The thing with jokes is, they are funny:

If your idea of fun extends solely to flinging slurs, you may need to reevaluate your life.

It’s never a single word. It’s a barrage of words, every day, from people all around you. It’s the knowledge that all these people think that you are something to be despised.

“Electro” is a genre of music. Given the other messages accompanying it, it’s entirely believable that he’s speaking to a music artist of some sort.

While playing WoW, you spend a lot less on other games. In the end, it’s a net cash gain.

Konami code.

That’s what baffles me, though, the NYT article links to the actual science but draws the completely wrong conclusion from it. I can only speculate that it’s one of those situations where a minority researcher in the group is the one being interviewed and seized the opportunity to express his own views, rather than…

That’s actually what the linked study says as well, so I have no idea where these conclusions are being pulled from.

I have to ask if the New York Times actually read the conclusions of the study they linked to, which read as follows:

I strongly agree with this. A remaster or a remake of the first two games would be lovely and a trilogy compilation would be the best. Show the beginning of the Warcraft franchise some love.

That’s actually the purpose of Jiren, if you think about it. Jiren is the absolute representation of a search for increasing power at the expense of all else, serving essentially to be a cautionary example for Goku. Whether he’ll learn anything from it, well...

Better to have it out in the open, really. Now we all know to keep an eye on this nut. Let’s face it, if you say something like that, whether or not you mean it, you mean it.

You made me chuckle. Have a star.

At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if most publishers go for a subscription service like Microsoft is offering for their first party titles. It’s anti-consumer, but it’s the next logical step in curtailing piracy, even if it leaves some players (notably people with poor connections) out in the cold.

It’s the fact that you pirate games in the first place. Microtransactions and the like are added to games to make up for the fact that people aren’t willing to pay more than $60 for a game, despite both inflation and increasing production costs, causing publishers and developers to find funding elsewhere. Pirate…

It’s people like you that encourage microtransactions in for-pay games.

Frieza’s got it right, though, they are monkeys, not apes, because they have tails (normally).

Technically, it’s Kai-o-ken SSB in that image (the extra red glow), but yeah, nothing like SSJ4.

The reason Games Workshop figures are expensive is because they tie the price of the models to the point value of the figures involved, making various armies relatively similar in monetary value. It’s very much an unusual decision, but it does work fairly well if you’re willing to meet the price.