Customers (and therefore retailers) tend to complain about nonstandard pricing, though it’s not clear whether those complaints actually yield sales losses. If customers simply “voted with their wallets” as to whether they think a given game is worth its sticker price, rather than buying it anyway then taking to social…

I will say that, while I generally like the idea of having management walk in the shoes of the people they supervise, in some fields the skills and education required of management are vastly different than those needed for their reports.

For everyone getting caught into arguments over the morality of 60 versus 70 dollar games, remember also that there’s another factor at play: price velocity.

Technically there is a way to bypass the constitutional process to eliminate the electoral college’s power: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

You mean Garland. Gorsuch got the seat. 

Most southern states aren’t heavily invested in Washington’s pro football team. More NCAA fans around the south.

I must have been looking in the wrong place. 

I don’t remember seeing negative feedback about wanting SPM not to have a story. I saw negative feedback that SPM’s story was just bad.

The franchise has grown so big at this point that keeping everything artistically in the same “universe” has become a bigger problem than a concept of story canon. Continually doing brand new character designs that depart significantly from those already in existence could eventually yield games that just don’t seem…

Paper Mario was indeed great, but it would have been great even if the new species had been mapped to some existing Mario characters.  PM worked so well because of its script and tightly-tuned gameplay.

There was also some quote given to the press that Nintendo had decided to market its “Mario & Luigi” series as its RPG brand rather than its Paper Mario series.

So, I live in North Carolina near Duke, and I was here during the Duke Lacrosse scandal. I also followed the news around it fairly closely at the time. I’ve also read some of the followup articles discussing how there are still some important but unanswered questions in regard to what actually happened to Crystal…

I’m a little confused why you’re mentioning the Duke Lacrosse case in this instance.

Cuckold is a very old term. I believe it may have even been in The Canterbury Tales.

Agreed.

It’s not the greatest comparison, but it’s an interesting point of history that this is more-or-less what happened with the swastika. Prior to the Nazis adopting it, it wasn’t remotely a hateful symbol.

TERFs started as feminists but have devolved into garden-variety pearl-clutchers. 

Most are not at all coherent in their arguments, but the philosophical nugget at the core of that wing of feminist theory is that *gender* should be abolished entirely while recognizing that *sex* is real in a manner comparable to race (insomuch as women are due social reparations because gender roles have been forced…

If you follow the conversation back, I’m only addressing the comment I replied to:

That is true, and I should have mentioned that more explicitly. I was using it as an example of how public call-outs of infidelity (which would be entailed by equating it to abuse) tend to turn into misogynistic shit-shows.