Damn right I stand with the group that brought in labor laws instead of gunning down strikers. Or that acruatly said the rich were the cause of financial issues and not the jews or the poor immigrants slaving away for nothing a day.

You can’t fight hate with hate and i’d say that calling people you disagree with “Nazis” isn’t really very productive. The data is pretty clear, the right hasn’t really drifted much further right over the last 20 years, the left however... 

He’s a Dem Soc. So the second.

Oh yeah, because your dad’s friend yelling about Democrats at your parents’ 20th anniversary party is how real millennials got informed.

The problem is that a LOT of those older people won’t really change their opinions no matter what you tell them anyway, unless its directly applicable to something that affects them directly. Most people just want to hear reinforcements of things that they already believe to be true. And if you show them that its…

His point is more that the older generations are much more prone to not changing their minds and would prefer to be in their echo chamber, which is exactly how people manipulate the internet to their advantage. So wasting your time with them isn’t worth it compared to generations that have grown up using the internet…

I mean, in his defense, have you looked at a Trump-loving old person’s FB and engagement metrics? It’s insane. I have family members who would kill for Trump, and the old people memes they are are fucking insane lacking in any critical thought.

“This guy doesn’t like the Epic store. Obviously it’s because they love Steam!”

I don’t see how using a group of consumers who are getting fucked as an example justifies replicating the same system on another platform. You’re essentially saying since someone did it and others put up with it we should just accept it as the norm. It isn’t. Lots of console gamers are angry about exclusives.

Here are a few ways it’s anti-consumer:

That’s a poor comparison. What Epic Store is doing is more like if Gamestop purchased exclusive rights to sell Spider-Man for PS4. You can no longer find it at Best Buy, Target, PSN, etc. Oh, and in order to buy it from Gamestop you have to give them your credit card number, which they store in a small plastic bin on…

You are a fucking moron. The term ‘console wars’ exists for a reason.

Hmm, that’s something of a false equivalence. As a console gamer you’re tacitly agreeing that you will play ONLY the games that Sony expressly agrees to host on their operating environment. You play games at the whim of Sony. You literally cannot play a game Sony does not agree to host on a PS4 without manipulating…

yeah they did, especially during the Xbox360 and PS3 wars, man people were pissed at timed exclusives

Console owners absolutely lose their shit about exclusivity and its been a constant wrangling point between the camps every console generation. By this stage we kinda expect it so its loosely tolerated but I have nothing but shade for bought exclusives regardless of platform.

Hot take: it’s a problem on consoles too. What you're saying is it's not an issue because it's already an issue. That's not how logic works.

There’s a reason Valve takes a comparatively larger margin from sales. They didn’t practically set many standards in the gaming industry from nothing. With all those spiffy features we’ve gotten for free from Steam (API’s, cloud saves, etc), on top of managing storefronts in several countries (including taking the…

Says the company that works their employees to death and fires them if they want a weekend off.

Having less choice is a disadvantage for the consumer, so is having to use an inferior client. Console gamers are used to hardware exclusivity, I guess. I’d imagine they wouldn’t be too pleased if they had to download multiple launchers to their console requiring multiple accounts just to play certain games though.

Essentially admitting that exclusivity deals are due to some pissing match between them and Valve rather than being anywhere near an attempt at being pro-consumer.