Please, please spend your money on this game to prove me wrong. I want that more than anything else.

Oh God bless you for just performing the lines highlighted in the article.

I played the Alex Jones game so you don’t have to. AMA.

I’m visualizing him transferring the single point, stepping back from the computer, a gentle smile slowly spreading across his bearded face, then with a slight nod, he whispers to himself “nice.”

Considering Gabe also answers his own email a lot of the time, I’d believe it.

In my headcanon, I am imagining Gabe Newell personally seeing that post, and adding that point himself, without anyone else at Valve involed.

Man that’s so easy to say. What if it’s a family computer? What if you use the playstation to watch movies with the family?

This. The fact that some parenting failures might have been involved does not change the fact that these are extremely predatory practices using specifically engineered means to maximize financial gains at the expense of well-being of people, some of which are particularly prone to such self-destructive behaviors. I…

Also on the console side, each one has parental control features that no one seems to know about.

I agree with the underlying sentiment - regardless of what a company may claim regarding their “official” intended audience you need to consider who the product could be reasonably expected to appeal to and who actually uses the product - but it’s a little disingenuous to conflate video games with smoking.

And ultimately this goes back to personal responsibility, which is at the heart of any addiction.

at least three of the games mentioned are meant for an age group above that of the child. So you can cross those off the list of “marketed to children”.

I know folks keep saying to parent their kids, but it goes beyond that even. These games are intentionally designed to be psychologically manipulative. It’s how they get the money and play time that they do.

Bruv, do you know who leads in the polls? It’s the guy who’s been indicted four times. 

It’s so odd to me that the Party that favors leaving things to the States needs the government to ban things. So odd.

I didn’t watch the debate, so I’m only going by the quote above from DeSantis when I say it sure seems like he just yesterday learned the word referenda.

I made it through about 5 minutes of the debate before turning it off in disgust. Their solution to every problem is to assume a dystopia where they are the ruling class, assume that is what everyone wants, and then assume that it is magically going to happen. They have nothing to offer. And making the whole situation…

If you still believe in the mythological “2023 moderate Republican” then I’d maybe be careful throwing around words like “clownishly.” 

I legit can’t understand how to came to this conclusion.