Just want to echo this point that everyone should be aware of when they vote for representatives.  The democrats hold only a majority in the senate by way of 50/50 split.  But that means that losing a single democrat in a vote risks sinking legislation so they have to bend to whatever will AT LEAST guarantee all the…

Oh good, glad to see someone beat me to this.

Honestly I loved the combat as well. Building teams and paradigms and switching them at the right time made it a game of tactics over strategy and that’s why I loved it. The combat wasn’t about selecting every move individually, rather the player was tasked with coming up with the right build and knowing when to…

Also if anyone is interested in how this has played out in court MANY times here’s a similar lawsuit with regards to MLB cards (although this goes into RICO violations which is a seperate matter) including citations for all the pokemon and other cases. I will also note that the odds of certain cards are distinctly…

Legal definition is based on receiving a “thing of value” which does not necessarily require or mean real world monetary value. The difference for cards, random toys etc is that your money in equals your money out so your net is even. Games do this differently by not only assigning a value to items (in games such as…

No problem, I didn’t misunderstand you, as an MTG player I get it. I just figured this was as good an opportunity as any to explain that the matter has not only been discussed before but actually litigated and at this point far enough in the past that many people who play lootbox games weren’t even born when it…

For anyone that wants to know the difference, there was a lawsuit filed against Nintendo regarding Pokemon cards as gambling back in 1999. The lawsuit was dismissed by the judge.

The long and the short of it that makes a difference vs lootboxes is

1. Your ability to resell the product
2. You purchased something that has…

I suddenly feel a lot less bad about skipping this past WoW expansion and moving over to FFXIV.

I have hayfever, I cannot swap masks every time I sneeze because sometimes I would need to carry over a dozen masks on me for a simple thirty minute period. However, what I do do is quickly take my handkerchief or tissue, jam it up underneath my mask so I try to keep the time something isn’t covering my face as close…

The current test the federal courts have been using for copyright infringement is a transformative test. Seeing if what the secondary user did sufficiently transformed the original work into something new and (largely) unique. The test is more broad than the old tests.

But even given that this fails that test…

Nothing will beat his Cloud reveal IMO.  That was so much less expected at that point.

I don’t even suffer from anxiety and I felt it.

Part of the problem for me is it’s contextually blind. Sure I can “barely” see your logo but during the game I’m not looking on a translucent logo on a black wall. I’m looking at a level and with lights and objects in motion. It would be much more helpful if it played a video of some gameplay or AT LEAST a still image…

I don’t see why it’s so surprising. I knew back in March/April when TV and movies were all saying that programs were met with delays into 2021 that the video game industry would be the least effected for a while. Most games for several months would already be in a close enough state to completion that covid wasn’t…

Kiryu does tend to though I won’t pretend that it doesn’t come off as a problem within the game itself.  The problem is that all the trans characters Kiryu runs into are also thugs in their own right (which to be fair is most of the people Kiryu runs into) but Kiryu himself does acknowledge trans people as women (even…

Nice, I never picked up Shadows of War despite loving the first because I hated the lootbox mechanic ruining the systems.  I was finally tempted to pick it up when they removed them but just never got around to it.  Now my procrastination pays off!

Any info on when or where the pre-orders for the special edition will pop up?

It’s still an incredibly hot game, just Among Us stole a lot of its thunder relatively quickly but the community is still alive and well and finding matches is certainly no problem.  I’ve played it just about every day since launch since it’s a relaxing way to get in some quick multiplayer after work.

Honestly I think spiders is a fair enough line to draw. Anything else (especially where narratively relevent) I think a trigger warning would suffice. Enough of the population suffers from this that it can result in buying a game that they find out they just can’t play and they find out too late. This is particularly…

It’s good that she understands the problem and has no malice towards Nintendo on this one. To answer the question posed in the article, the difference is largely optics (if she’s a big Tiktok entertainer then Nintendo would absolutely notice her more than random etsy or deviantart pages) and two her intent to…