New video games have cost around $60 for decades.

In all fairness, curiosity about what Tamblyn thinks of the allegations made against her husband is not “holding her responsible” for what he did. It’s expecting someone who’s been incredibly outspoken, especially recently, about these very sorts of issues, to publicly acknowledge awareness of the allegations. Because…

Piracy in response to that is not an ethical choice because you get something (the experience of playing the game) for nothing, and without the makers’ consent.

Corporate sponsorships. That’s 95% of the revenue they see. It’s an extremely shaky, vulnerable basis for any business.

Okay, so does e-sports actually generate money, at this point? Oh wait, it does. It’s just that 95% of it is from sponsorship deals, which is an incredibly poor revenue model.

Nah, the false dilemma fallacy isn’t going to fly here.

I’m sorry but “it won’t work anyway” is never an acceptable reason to refrain from calling out scam artists on their bullshit.

I know it doesn’t seem like it, but in the past we used to care if presidential advisers lied through their teeth. Those were weird times.

There was a way to tell these same stories, and they would have had the same meaning, without lying. She choose to lie.

Yes, you can lie about it. But being only slightly older than Ivanka, and therefore privy to the fashions and fads of her time, I don’t find it even remotely unconvincing that a spoiled little rich girl like her went through a faux-punk phase in the ‘90s. This absolutely passes the smell test. And her failure to…

I call bullshit that a British person hadn’t heard of the c-word before age 13.

You realize this detail about Ivanka’s youth is buried in the pages of an Ivana Trump memoir, right? Nobody is actually going to read this thing (except maybe people paid to write think pieces on the topic), particularly not people who need to be “won over” to the Trump column.

Yeah, I’m sorry, but that sounds like a pretty grasping analysis to me.

She’s aiming for the Gen X/Gen Y vote. More Gen Y as they fall more largely into the demo she’s discussing and they are a fairly large cohort, not as big as millennials but a reasonable sized one.

Yes because it’s absolutely impossible that they might be trying to court Gen X voters and make themselves look progressive and trendy. The Trumps have never tried that move.

Relatable to whom? Who do you imagine is actually convinced by this childhood anecdote?

The difference is that Ivanka is trying to use this (written as an adult, not a teen) to make herself relatable and hip.

In 20 years if Sasha Obama is an advisor to a president and wants to lie about her youth, she should be held to account too.

They use the excuse that they lost the code.

tl;dr version: “I’m off the Miramax gravy train, so I stand to lose nothing by saying now what I should have said 20 years ago.”