Las Vegas. The Las Vegas shooter was only able to kill as many people as he did because he had a bumpstock that effectively turned his semi-automatic into a fully automatic weapon. We can and should ban those. While a bumpstock ban would not have wholly prevented the shooting, it would have saved lives. Hence why we…

If you want to know how you can get through this on a personal level: Leave the U.S. and head for a country where this is not an issue.

Given that suicide by firearm constitutes roughly 0.7% of deaths in the US annually, I’m afraid that someone has misled you with that statistic. 0.004% of annual deaths in the US would total roughly 110. Maybe they forgot to multiply by 100 to get a percentage? It would still be wrong, but would at least be a more…

Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the U.S. gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. Although it has half the population of the other 22 nations combined, the U.S. had 82 percent of all gun deaths, 90 percent of all women killed with guns, 91 percent of children under 14 and 92 percent of young people…

Yep, this is the issue. One side wants to try something, anything. The other side will not budge. I got into it with someone claiming he “wasn’t a gun nut and was reasonable.” I suggested that we have a free registration that they need to renew and he flew off the handle. Something along the lines of:

“Fuck you, HOW…

You fucking control guns like the rest of the world does.

I’m the cynical guy who thinks there is such a wide gap between the populations of pro-guns and anti-guns that lawmakers/government will forever have their hands tied by money from both sides and it will remain a standstill indefinitely—unless every. Single. Fucking. Person. Who wants guns gone stands together all…

I read them. Poked my head in the greys, and saw opinions beyond my thought during the time of bewilderment that another shooting had happened, yet again. It’s true, all of it. That the NRA are to ultimately be blamed, that people fought for these rights. But when I see the second amendment, I don’t see anything nice…

Granted. But when one side says “We should do something about this, let’s talk about availability, training, mental health and other factors and make some changes” and the other side says “Everyone should be concealing semi-automatic weapons at all times in every place”, there’s not a lot of real discussion going on…

That’s hilarious to me that they’re trying to tackle ad blockers.

Seeing how YouTube has tried for years for people to try their premium ‘no ad’ services... how well has that worked out? It’s better to bundle ad free viewing and attribute the price into Twitch Prime... as it worked. People will flock to the best deal…

I’m pretty sure there are well over a few hundred people left in The Last of Us universe. And I for one am happy to see the game finding warmth and humanity in a place like this. I mean, the game is about fungus zombies destroying the world; I think I can suspend my disbelief long enough to accept that a community…

I am loving it, but for a completely different reason. The moment I saw this I was like “would they? WOULD THEY?” and YES!! Gamefaqs is already well on its way with people crying salty salty tears over Naughty Dog making Elly a lesbian. THEY DESTROYED THE GAME, they say. I AM GOING TO DELETE THE ORIGINAL GAME, they…

What’s wrong with being mindful of people’s feelings? It’s not about being “politically correct”. It’s about being respectful of others.

If localizers kept 100% true to the original text, they’d be translators and our scripts would be a lot less colorful and characters less memorable. They make hundreds of these invisible changes to scripts and, going on a limb here, and I’m gonna guess you probably never noticed or cared until it seemed vaguely…

What did anyone lose out on over the change? I’m all for accurate localizations, but the spirit of the game wasn’t changed in the slightest in this case. It sounds like the NoA translators gave focus to the quest and quashed a couple bad jokes, a net positive for the NA version.

That’s going to depend upon what your definition of “worth the time” is.

I’d personally encourage you to finish the game, because if you leave it on the back burner over some internet rando’s opinion (because that’s really all I am in this exchange), you’ll never be able to decide for yourself if it’s something you…

Couldn’t agree with you more.

Hell, maybe I’ll actually have a reason to give a goddamn about the connection between Noctis and Lunafreya by the time they finish releasing everything?

And yes, I know, their relationship is explored to some degree in the ancillary material.

Here’s the thing: Games that are not part of a multi-game arc are meant to be…

Also worth noting: “free speech,” as a legal concept in the US, only prevents the government from interceding in the free exercise of protected speech in public or private venues.

That means you can’t be thrown in Gitmo for saying politically unpopular shit.

“Free speech” does not now—nor has it ever—protected you or…

This has nothing to do with Free Speech.