Truly.

I could do without sea lions.

I’m sorry people are angry and aggressive over people giving money to someone who advocates for legal restrictions that directly leads to the suicide of trans youths. Thankfully, you’re spending your time angry about the right thing.

“What I’m bothered most by all of this hate and policing streamers and calls for boycotts is all of these people are so happy to jump on forums, TikTok, etc. and announce that they don’t support the game and anyone who does is a bigot.”

So that’s the part of the discourse that bothers you, and not the transphobia? Some…

I don’t think it was an idiotic thing done by a stupid kid. It was vague, yes, but should he have really expected this result? Is it that intuitive? The email was just comic hyperbole, I feel bad that he send it to the teacher expecting them to maybe get a chuckle out of it and they thought he was about to come in…

Why can’t we just consume product and then get excited for next products?

Yeah, but Nike isn’t a competing video game press event. It strikes me as if a store in a mall moved out and started running a kiosk in the parking lot. I know that’s not 1:1 because the building across the street doesn’t belong to E3 or the convention center, but I thought there were regulations addressing that kind…

I was thinking more because it’s blatantly leeching off E3. As the OP notes, they’re essentially taking part in E3 without E3 getting anything out of it.

I’m surprised it’s not lawsuit territory. 

You seem really pissed that the guy has a bunch of other shady stuff in his past and that she is, at worst, guilty of lying about those things being new information to her. TJ Holmes could turn out to be the Zodiac and you’re gonna be like “How could Amy Robach do this?”.

I do think Nintendo is egregious because they put things on pathetic discounts that feels legitimately insulting.

It’s not about having a chance to find out if you like it, it’s about playing the demo and finding out you don’t like it quite enough to justify the price. Factorio may provide three hundred hours of entertainment to a core audience, but there exists a middle ground between that and complete non-interest.

“Potentially” is an important word here, though. Even if someone really enjoys the demo, they might only get a much shorter time out of it than the hardcore audience. A game’s initial launch is for people who would rather pay more than wait and will put those hours into it. For them, the price reflects how much…

Sorry for getting heated. I basically agree with you, but I think what I object to is Vice and Jezebel’s presentation, where it’s clear the simple textual content is in and of itself meant to be outrageous. The victim was pressured into a “relationship” that even this article describes as her “seeing” him in the…

This is such ridiculous semantics, except at least most people who argue semantics are at least right. You do realize that rape is, in fact, non-consensual sex, right? That’s literally the definition of the word. If someone has a kink and is forcing someone into this relationship and to play into their kink, that’s…

Do you know where you could read that the victim was raped by Tate? My fucking post.

I don’t know why you put “and/or actually raping and strangling a woman”. No part of my post advocated or defended “actually raping and strangling a woman”, so I’m really confused as to how you thought the concept of a man “actually raping and strangling a woman” is relevant. 

Andrew Tate is a sex trafficking rapist and this woman’s complaints are 100% accurate. That is not question as far as I’m concerned. However, this text isn’t evidence, because it’s obviously kink talk or at the very least, even if isn’t - I just don’t think even this douchebag is that moustache twirling - it’s so ident…

I was running defense for Tom Cruise in my other comment, but man, this is a fucking terrible argument. It’s ridiculous strawman hyperbole for one thing, considering there’s plenty of shit that isn’t made by awful people, but even if literally all of it was tainted in someway, fine. The medium isn’t more important…

The feeling I’ve always gotten is that Tom Cruise is a genuinely great, moral person who tries his best to be a light in a dark world while simultaneously being utterly brainwashed by a cult that doubtlessly ensures he’s given special treatment keeping him from seeing it for what it truly is.