It would be one thing for him to make money doing charity (although I personally believe all charity should be not-for-profit), it’s more that what he’s doing is highly profitable business with a thin coat of charity-flavour paint.

I’m going to be honest with you, I think your response is strange. You made an affirmative claim, you need to back it up. It’s not my job to go prove your argument for you. How other people react to you really has nothing to do with me, I’m not going to wear your problem with them.

Twitch revokes bit donations if the transaction that bought them is reported as fraudulent. Either the troll used a stolen card in the first place, or used their own and then reported it stolen to get the transaction reversed.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the flags. Looking at street view in some places and seeing American flags hanging off every other house and shop is definitely unusual. In Australia they’re flown on landmarks and government buildings, but you’d be lucky to see more than one or two in a whole suburb. Except on Australia Day,…

As a non-American, there are quite a lot of creepy or culty things in American culture. The whole pledge of allegiance thing in schools is one, and gun obsession of course, but military worship is right up there.

You want me to search for evidence for a claim you made that I dispute? Lex, come on mate.

Diablo’s not in 4 because he had to return to his home planet.

That one’s news to me, but it doesn’t surprise me. I looked into the guy in depth a few months ago and all his charity videos are performative - he only spends about 10% of the money he makes on that video on the act itself. Some people pay PR experts to help them build a reputation, he pays his on making big shows of…

Take the steel beam job I mentioned above. [...] What I ended up doing after a few hilariously inept failures, though, was creating a buggy that could just drag the beam precariously across the countryside, which worked so long as I drove really carefully.

They both use the Unity engine. It’s not clear if they’re both using Unity’s built-in cel shader or a third party one, but the settings (flat textures, high edge detection) are certainly similar.

I meant preordering specifically, because we’re weighing the pros and cons of preordering. The fact it affects all buyers, whether they preordered or not, means it’s not an argument against preordering; it’s an argument against nested launchers (which is something I’ve also railed against here in the past).

Strawman bollocks. I didn’t say anything about “lazy devs”.

But perhaps that’s the angle we should be persuing now? Not just “don’t pre-order”, but “return it if it’s not good”.

I’m not keen on dipping into a debate on this right now. You asked me honestly what the benefits were; if you think they’re weak that’s fine, but the drawbacks are even weaker so it’s still a net gain. I’m happy with my approach to preordering, it’s very rarely let me down.

It reminds me of the Logan Paul suicide forest nonsense, although it won’t stick to him as much as it did to Paul because “creator spends 10% of his enormous youtube revenue on reputation massaging through performative charity” is apparently enough for his fans to ignore how full of shit he is.

Generally I preorder games I know I’m going to buy on day one anyway. A few things I care about are discounts, preloading, and preorder bonuses. Preorder discounts are reasonably common if you go through white market stores like GreenManGaming - I tend to find a discount more than half the time as long as they carry…

The leveling isn’t slow once you’ve finished the campaign and unlocked all the features, though. A new character on T2, running solo and with the altars and map unlocked (which are confirmed will carry over into seasons) running dungeons levels about the same pace as they did in D3.

The “never preorder” argument being so black-and-white is exactly why a lot of people ignore it - it’s not that simple. There are plenty of reasons it might be worth preordering, it just has to be done with eyes open, aware of a company’s track record and the risks involved with the game type (like always online or…

My comment described the things they should (and shouldn’t) do after being hacked, so I’m not sure what “but they’ve been hacked” is in response to.

It’s almost identical to Chinese auto-maker Chery’s logo, although Infiniti predates Chery by a decade so they probably have trademark dibs.