I don’t want to read this headline.

Technically this particular origin is THE first origin story ever written about the Joker

*sigh* the US and its guns - why can’t they just throw Molotov’s or pipe bombs, like in civilized countries?

Not really. It would be sticks and stones otherwise. Maybe a sling and some spears. We’ve been killing each other for a loooooong time now.

literally unplayable

I refuse to believe it. Burt Reynolds cannot die. He just... drove away.

i mean it takes up the same volume of space no matter what but folding into uniform cube-ish shapes makes it easier to store more of them in less space. how many guns shaped like guns can you shove in a closet? then how many guns shaped like cubes can you shove in a closet? the cube ones can fit together uniformly and…

It’s primarily a liability dodge. It allows the service provider to say that they have filters in place, and it’s not their liability for bad info from users (ie people incorrectly entering their birthdates intentionally or otherwise)

“It’s Better Than Nothing!”™

Do people think minors are too dumb to realize they can just enter bullshit information? What is the point of this other than wasting people’s time?

Oh, fuck off. This has absolutely nothing to do with the lootbox shit, one can shit on them for doing bad things and give them props when they do good things.

...I get the cynicism about EA, but they are exactly 0% at fault for what happened in Jacksonville. It wasn’t at an event they were running (just going “oh, yeah, sure, your event counts”), their game is a fucking football game and not a game that involves weapons of any kind.

This is a bad take.   

Dear Lord that was long...

If I tried to enter a country on a tourist visa and they determined I was there for business, this is exactly what I would expect to happen.  Not sure why anyone is acting like this was unexpected or out of the ordinary.   

Im no fan of Trump, but this exact thing would have happened under Obama. These rules have been in place for decades. You cant enter the country with the wrong Visa. Nothing mysterious about this. Basically their paperwork was wrong.

A lot of takes already here, but Cecilia points out that the fault likely lays with the artists or whoever prepared their visas:

Having a lot of fun with ITB! Also fuck this fucking game.

Stevie made fun of himself on Saturday Night Live, so stop with the holier than thou politically correct bs.

Eddie Murphy got a lot of mileage out of Stevie Wonder disability jokes in the early 80s.