This bothers me so much. Seriously. World War II was over in 1945. 70 years ago. The vast majority of the people who should be upset about *anything* that occurred during the Japanese occupation of Korea are *dead.* Why do people hold on to grudges from times before they (or even their PARENTS, in many cases)…

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People buy them (and spend outrageous sums for them) because they're made to believe there is value in them. Society teaches them these behaviors. It's ridiculous, and honestly we need to be rethinking how we value things.

Sorry, not all 'online gamers' are in it for competition. I love gaming online, but prefer co-op.

I don't admire them. It usually indicates an unhealthy obsession.

You missed one, related to #3:

You can change the past, but the changes take some variable amount of time to propagate to the future, thus you are not immediately affected.

Seriously though, how is this not considered gambling? You pay money to get a randomized chance to win something that is actually worth money but are not guaranteed to get something that will be worth at least the money you spend, and thus could lose money. The odds are set by the House (in this case, Valve/Hidden…

LOL. "It provides no bonuses, it just looks different." So how is it worth $100? If it has no useful bonus, what's the point?

"this is basically how the real world economy works but instead of buying virtual CS:GO guns and TF2 hats people are buying stocks in companies and gold and silver."

"this is basically how the real world economy works but instead of buying virtual CS:GO guns and TF2 hats people are buying stocks in companies and gold and silver."

That may be true, but stocks, bonds, gold, and silver are not *virtual* and affect the real-world economy.

I feel the same way about people who freak out about getting a "$30,000" Black Lotus, too: It's ridiculous.

However, it's worse here. Why? Here's the problem: Virtual items have no *actual* scarcity or rarity. It's not rare because very few of them exist; it is rare purely because the developers say it is.

I actually got it for free. lol

Don't miss the very Xbox One-centric advertising language.

Stupid idiotic timed exclusives, or; How you can tell Microsoft dumped a ton of money on 2K and required that certain language be used in this press release.

The part that gets me about #4 is this: We can look in any direction and see the same distance, give or take a relatively small amount. That implies, at least to my brain, that the Milky Way is at or very near the center of the universe, literally, but I know that isn't true. Considering the fact that the galaxy is…

No, his point is that if that civilization only broadcast that message for 50,000 years, but stopped broadcasting it 52000 years ago, we'd never know because it has long since passed us.

What?? Faith makes us think we are not alone? Bullshit. Statistics and mathematical probability make me *know* we are not alone, not "faith."

*sigh* Well, I guess I should be glad for you that those scientifically explainable things make you believe in something absolutely unscientific, but it's difficult.

There have been other browser add-ons and plug-ins that offered this kind of functionality, and they were shut down by content creators. I wouldn't doubt they'll get some sort of lawsuit against them soon.

Seriously. Half-Life is the very reason we *have* narrative-driven, story-based FPSes instead of just run & gun Doom/Quake/UT style games. That style of play was completely unheard of.