no you see, abuses of technology are ‘inevitable.’ we can’t do anything about it, and should just accept it forever no matter how bad it gets. /s

Maybe this trend is bad and always has been and we should stop dismissing it as “progress?”

understanding why a person might pay for art is not difficult, lmao.

Lol. No.

For those who can’t do math,  Elon Musk offering someone $5000 is like a millionaire offering someone $0.03.

Billionaires don’t count as humans, animals, or forms of life in general so there is no way they are self aware. I doubt most would even pass a Turing Test.

Do you not think it’s a little callous to describe the debate around trans rights as “a progressive online circle jerk”? You may not care for the people affected and find it easy to dismiss the concerns of trans people, but these conversations can and do have real world consequences, and like it or not, JK Rowling is h…

I have wanted a truly full, immersive Hogwarts-based game for over two decades now, and have literally dreamed about it in that time. It absolutely kills me that it’s finally coming out, and that I cannot in good conscience buy it and subsidize rowling’s bigotry.

fartttttttttttttttttttttt

I mean, acting dense as to why people don’t like him isn’t doing you any favors.

Elon Musk is an asshole, so nothing about this surprises me.

This made me smile. 

quoting your own tweet in your own article... classy.

I get the ‘flawed’ part, but nothing in this review indicates a ‘gem’.

Sounds to me this is going to be a 3 waits game:

You’re alone on the ship, you’re out of fuel. You desperately search around the few asteroids in the system scavenging what little you can find. But you’ve stayed too long. You hear the footsteps, he’s here. And all that fills you is dread as they speak.

The answer to all of your questions is yes. Not “yes, always” of course, but yes - people still want these things and still do these things.

Absolutely, I’d greatly prefer the game on the 3 discs versus download only. I disconnect from the internet whenever I get a new game to avoid the updates. I will not be buying MW2.

During the 360 era and well into my PS4 ownership I would often operate like this: purchasing physical discs and installing them while disconected from the internet. And unless I was actively engaged with some form of multiplayer part of the game, I would remain offline as I played.