Real money is used, look a the screen, it uses a special currency in the top right as almost all mobile f2p games do. And you can be damn sure you can pay for this currency yourself either upon release or in a later patch. So yes, you are in fact putting actual money into the slot machine albeit through the use of a…

So wait, video game companies are willing to argue that loot boxes are not gambling and yet here comes NBA2k that literally turned a lootbox/card pack into a literal slot machine?

I was talking with a lot of Transformers fans at SDCC while we all admired the project. We all loved the figure and many, upon seeing it in person didn’t have a problem with the $575 asking price for the figure. The problem really was the timing. I understand Hasbro wanting to use SDCC for marketing and letting people…

One of the strangest Halo matches I ever played with some kid on my team shouting out “We’re gonna rape them; not that I’m gay.” Based on voice I’m pretty sure he couldn’t have been older than 14.

What was particularly odd was that following that some other kid shouted out “Well I’m not gay” then another “I’m not gay…

The old TF2 server I used to play on was this way. The server was mostly regularls and many of which had met each other in real life. We threw around some trash talk between each other but it was only towards the other persons we knew and considered friends - never randoms.

We also had a strict rule against certain…

This is part of why physical card games are great. I play the Transformers TCG and the first expansion along with the original release just reused art from boxes, old video games and comics. The new expansion finally features completely original art. Wizards of the Coast issued a press release stating they were…

Was going to say the same thing.  This doesn’t help my problem at all where I keep flicking the right stick with the joint in my thumb by accident or the inability to comfortably use the d-pad buttons.

As an attorney I’m very proud to live in a state that affords same-sex couples the right to adopt (California). I’ve had plenty of clients who’ve moved here and are concerned that they can’t adopt a child (or even worse) the state won’t let a same-sex spouse adopt their step-child.

It’s always a pleasure to help these…

Hello, attorney here chiming in again. You are correct Nathan, if you do not throw in everything in you can - if you do not you are later procluded from bringing it up under a legal theory of “Res Gestae.” The ysstem was created that way in order to prevent someone from suing another party for a particaular matter and…

My wife is addicted to Starbuck’s Matcha Latte/Frappacino.

Any idea how to help cut the cost of this one?  The problem is most other places don’t serve matcha beverages so it’s not as if I can find a cheaper alternative.  Also do either of these contain coffee?

The only land that basically applies to nowadays is vacant land. That’s realistically it and I don’t think anyone has bothered to push for legislation increasing the number. As for the rate that sounds about standard. I charge roughly the same at my firm though I do offer it on a sliding scale sometimes depending on…

$150k applies to total estate of probate assetts. $50k applies to real property alone. So the estate does not need to be probated if the total assets are below $150k but of that $150,000 no more than $50,000 of it may be real property. below $50k it allows the estate to use the Affidavit of Real Property of Small…

I’m often concerned when people use online service or write their own for many of the reasons stated in this article. I’ve reviewed many online wills and people don’t seem to notice the errors in them because they aren’t versed in the probate code and state’s local laws.

Problems in their documents I’ve noticed often…

I’d still be cautious. In California if your house is worth more than $50,000.00 then unless title is held in very particular ways or unless the house is in trust at the time you pass away then the house MUST go through probate which will take over a year for your family to inherit it and up to 20% of its value could…

Which ironically is what my friends and I have been calling Winston x Hammond slash.

I once found an unopened condum stashed under the mattress.  I don’t think that was housekeeping, just an odd discovery.  I also was in Las Vegas so make of that what you will.

Games on Toilets you say? Sega was WAY ahead of you on that one.

Family experience and what relatives they talk to is a great way to introduce them to their home cultures as well even if they don’t realise what they’re learning is a foreign culture.

I’m half chinese- half caucasian but largley raised by my mother’s side of the family (which is the Chinese side). My grandparents…

I jus twant to ad that I recognize that the photo up top is from Ichiran Ramen which is my personal favorite ramen restaurant the world over. They are located in several places throughout tokyo and I woudl recomend it for the experience alone if not just because it’s literally the best ramen I’ve ever had.

I always found Ardyn the most fascinating character in FFXV.  I’m glad he’s getting his own chapter because from a game where the story was very meh but the character relationships were top notch, Ardyn stood out as the most interesting from a narrative standpoint because he’s one of the few FF villains whose actions…