That feels incredibly disingenuous and blithely ignorant or dismissive of the places that still routinely experience warfare/armed conflict.

Not everyone understands what a “principle” is anymore, unfortunately.

Nothing like “emergency powers” being used to take people’s private property without recourse.

I understand people’s reticence to this, especially if you belong to the cultures this particular fantasy-inspired campaign exists in, but if your example boils down to them wearing some costumes in a silly promo piece that explorers used to wear, then that’s... not a lot.

You see by putting in that proviso they get to sweep that interpretation of their article to the side as illegitimate. I don’t make the rules, but that’s how they work.  This allows them to then proceed to engage in the overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation, because at the end of the day that’s much easier than…

In the end...it really is just Dungeons and Dragons.  It has inspirations from other cultures...sure.  It also has dragons and talking robots and people who can shoot fire from their hands.  Why doesn’t the author make the same complaint of Wizards of the Coast themselves?

I really like the idea of repurposing an old ship into a billionaires plaything. Its far better than scrapping it. More billionaires need to do this with old 747's and what not. 

So they’re repurposing a ship that would otherwise be dismantled in an environmentally friendly manner, and your take is it’s bad, just because it’s for a billionaire?

People genuinely thought that they would make a move for Take-Two. Sony is successful but they are by no means the entity that is Microsoft, certainly not the Playstation branch alone.

I found this quote from the Bungie CEO that really assured me

So sony spent billions of dollars...to get no new exclusives.

I miss when I used to get to read about video games on Kotaku.

Were they? The Xbox 360 was also (somewhat) backwards compatible?

This is super ironic to me. Let me tell ya, I’ve been served, time and time again, the eternal argument AGAINST backward compatibility by Sony fanboys saying that they much prefer Sony invest its money in making new games instead, and that BC was for Xbox losers, that anyone who wants to play old game should just keep…

. There is no reason why the banks who nearly caused a second Great Depression should get .75% interest and students are getting 6% and up. There should be predatory practices.

Can we be real for a minute?

In 2021 Sony has cash reserves of 44 billion. They by no means had the buying power for this acquisition. With Sony’s market cap of 156 billion even an all stock merger would use such a large percentage of their stock that it would be an extremely bad idea.

NO BUT THIS TIME IF WE REAAAAAAAALY SHUT DOWN.

That’s the key. These people will never learn because they don’t want to learn. This has become a game of who’s the biggest virtuous douchebag, who’s willing to sacrifice the most to stop covid. It’s a dick measuring contest of righteousness and martyrdom and nothing more.

I’m sort of hinting at the edges of a cynical point here.

You could have played it on your phone’s browser you giant ass.