“AI leaders afflicted with the dreaded spelling bee bug obsess over things like religion, sometimes to their own detriment, because they have no default values for other important qualities.”

I before E, except after C, or when pulling a feisty heist on your weird beige foreign neighbor.

You can’t cheat if you can’t play the game.

All of these companies, however, work for Jason, and delay games at his every whim.

EA is the game’s publisher and DICE’s parent company. People who work for DICE are employees of EA, and people who strictly work for EA are heavily involved with the marketing, sales, and publishing of every single game they put out, including Battlefront II.

I’ve never actually cared enough about cosmetics to spend real money on them, but it’s so crazy to me that apparently companies can make more revenue off slot machines than they would if they just sold things piecemeal in a store. It really is predatory, appealing to the secret (or not-so-secret) gambling addiction…

Cosmetic-only lootboxes are still lootboxes.

If games were the problem then shootings would be a worldwide problem. They are not. Mass shootings happen at a disproportionately higher rate in the US than any other first world country. Wanna know what else we have that is dissproportional to other countries? Disproportionately looser restrictions on guns and who…

Pepe the frog and his amazing internet friends must love what the guy they helped elect is saying about their favorite pastime.

If this meeting actually takes place during the mythical time-space void Trump often calls “next week,” someone will remind him that gun makers actually get money from game publishers who use their name-brand guns in-game. And this issue will never be discussed seriously again — at least until it’s time for the NRA…

“Hello, video game makers and welcome to the First-and-Greatest-in-History-White-House-Video-Game-Summit, starring me, President Donald Trump. I own the name of this summit, by the way, I invented it. If you use it you have to pay me.

Oh fuck! Considering all his other inappropriate appointments and them both being unhinged, I can see that happening.

I post without context:

He’s gonna have his mind blown when he finds out that the video game industry has a ratings system all ready to go, so soon after he suggested it! /s

As a long time game industry guy, would love to attend this meeting, though I don’t think the President would like what I have to say.

SCAPEGOATING!

We can only hope he makes Jack Thompson a video game violence czar.

Yeah, let’s look at video games, something that’s been studied and we have pretty high confidence in having no causative relationship with these kinds of behaviors.

I guess the millions of dollars he got from the NRA during his campaign is really paying off.

Scapegoat harder, POTUS :\

Well they want their games to sell, one would hope they’d go in armed with studies and such showing video games aren’t to blame, and essentially tell Trump he’s a dumb ass.