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| Topic | Many people who smoke are inconsiderate |
| _AdjI_ 02/15/18 10:10:39 PM #28 | gravy posted... Besides, saying the smell bothers you or having to have second hand smoke? Do you drive a car? Those emit fumes that smell and are toxic to those around you. What about when people fart around you? You're pushing poo particles into the air when you fart...GROSS. The key difference being that smoking is voluntary and serves no other purpose. Cars are pretty much necessary in most cities (and there are plenty of initiatives in progress to reduce their impact on air quality). Farting is a natural consequence of bacterial activity in the gut, and typically can't be controlled (and when it can, those who choose to fart around other people are in fact being highly inconsiderate). Smokers, however, are stinking up my air with their choice. gravy posted... Just walk away until the smell stops bothering you Given that you're the one creating the smell, it seems far fairer for you to walk away until the smell stops bothering them. Expecting people to go out of their way to accommodate your voluntary smelliness is hardly reasonable. gravy posted... I know it's unkind to those who find it offensive and care about their health, but I'm no mind reader Then I'll read their minds for you: Nobody likes you. At best, anyone who isn't lighting up beside you is ambivalent, but most would rather you not smoke around them. Given that, coupled with your inability to tell when people are allergic, asthmatic, or otherwise particularly sensitive to smoke, choosing to smoke around anyone else is impossible to defend as anything other than a dick move. Just don't do it. |
| Topic | I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Witcher 3 simultaneously |
| _AdjI_ 02/12/18 6:52:19 AM #12 | CarefreeDude posted... Dikitain posted...You get far enough in Xenoblade and you can basically let the game play itself. You're going to have to be more involved soon. Around chapter 3, enemies start being major damage sponges to give you an opportunity to practice with the various combos and the chain attacks that you'll unlock shortly. |
| Topic | Playin games cause you want to " Escape reality or suffer Depression " |
| _AdjI_ 02/12/18 6:38:37 AM #27 | What a knob. |
| Topic | 34 y/o Oklahoma Mom agrees to be STERILIZED in exchange for a LENIENT SENTENCE! |
| _AdjI_ 02/08/18 6:45:30 AM #14 | KaptainKiro posted... _AdjI_ posted...That's a reeeeeally dangerous precedent to set. Significantly more. |
| Topic | 34 y/o Oklahoma Mom agrees to be STERILIZED in exchange for a LENIENT SENTENCE! |
| _AdjI_ 02/07/18 10:00:55 PM #5 | That's a reeeeeally dangerous precedent to set. |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| _AdjI_ 02/07/18 9:58:48 PM #29 | SushiSquid posted... The pronunciation of Coruscant bothers me. Same for Connecticut and Tucson. Scissors? |
| Topic | Holy fuck i seriously want to fuck her |
| _AdjI_ 02/07/18 9:55:30 PM #63 | Revelation34 posted... No such thing as caffeinated milk. https://www.amazon.com/Milk-Magic-Caffeinated-Infusions-4-Flavor/dp/B00P6UKOCI |
| Topic | Why are there so many people here who have none of the current consoles? |
| _AdjI_ 02/07/18 9:29:22 PM #25 | Revelation34 posted... Kyuubi4269 posted...PC gaming is what adults graduate to. It's like gaming, Master Ninja. That's becoming less and less true these days. Most major releases are multiplat, including a PC release. Exceptions exist, and some ports are less playable than others, but the trend is definitely toward there being very few library differences between non-Nintendo systems. Hence PC+Nintendo is the way to go. |
| Topic | Mr. Rogers cared about families. |
| _AdjI_ 01/25/18 12:48:36 PM #12 | Mead posted... He was just a dude that would sit there and talk to kids, with short breaks to the weird puppets. Every once in a while hed check the mail or go to a factory, but that was about it. He was very staunchly opposed to the then-growing trend of children's shows that were flashy and had little substance, meant to catch attention more so than really engage. He singled out Sesame Street in particular for being a show that was similarly meant to educate kids, for its approach of jumping between short, relatively exciting scenes. His approach was more one of taking the time to actually connect and engage children, which was great. Unfortunately, the approach of holding kids' attention with flashy content works a whole lot better and more reliably for advertising purposes, so his approach really didn't stand a chance outside of public television (which is part of why he fought so hard to keep PBS alive, and can probably claim near-singular responsibility for the fact that it didn't get canned back in the late 60's). TV was never going to end up where Mr. Rogers would have liked it to, but at least he managed to secure a spot for something different for as long as he was around. |
| Topic | Yo how do I get my hands on the new sex robots ai? |
| _AdjI_ 01/25/18 12:38:21 PM #7 | Dynalo posted... adjl posted...and spend the rest of the money on ice cream or something I'm not seeing the problem. |
| Topic | Fucking FMA:B dude |
| _AdjI_ 01/25/18 12:36:10 PM #11 | Krazy_Kirby posted... fma > fma:b I would say that Brotherhood is better, provided one has seen the first one first. It blows through the shared material too quickly to effectively stand alone, skipping a lot of character development in the process, but having watched the first series several years prior, I felt it did a great job of recapping the material and reintroducing the characters. |
| Topic | C/D Cereal is soup |
| _AdjI_ 01/11/18 10:06:50 PM #17 | Depends how long you leave it, and how much of the cereal's flavour leeches out into the milk. Soup is defined by broth, which is more than just a neutral liquid like water or milk. You have to flavour the liquid with something else for it to qualify as broth. |
| Topic | Do you use a personal assistant often (Siri, Google, Cortana, Alexa)? |
| _AdjI_ 01/09/18 6:59:10 AM #8 | I edited the registry to turn Cortana back into the system search function I actually want. |
| Topic | Game of the Year? More like weeb of the year. |
| _AdjI_ 01/09/18 6:57:24 AM #4 | It came in second place on the PS4 day. As happens every year, this GotY poll is populated by taking the winners of each individual system's polls. Because Horizon did not win PS4 GotY, it isn't on the overall GotY poll. It's very simple. |
| Topic | ...... I didn't expect this sight to hurt me this badly... |
| _AdjI_ 01/08/18 8:58:01 PM #5 | *E-hug* |
| Topic | You win a million bucks |
| _AdjI_ 01/07/18 9:19:51 PM #9 | TheCyborgNinja posted... _AdjI_ posted...TheCyborgNinja posted...A million bucks are worth more than a million dollars. Joke's on you! Regardless of who you sell them to, you're going to need to store them somehow while the sale's being processed. That's going to take rather a lot of space and food. You'll be able to recover those costs pretty comfortably after making the sale, but until then, you're gonna need a whole lot of capital. |
| Topic | You win a million bucks |
| _AdjI_ 01/07/18 9:06:16 PM #6 | TheCyborgNinja posted... A million bucks are worth more than a million dollars. Joke's on you! Cashing in on that would be challenging, but otherwise this. |
| Topic | Not enough people played Hollow Knight. |
| _AdjI_ 01/07/18 9:04:29 PM #7 | Lokarin posted... I'm interested - but there's no reason to buy it on non-sale while I have a backlog. I'm certain the game is worth full price, but there's no logical reason to pay full price while I have other games in progress Basically this. I have too much other stuff to play to be able to justify paying full price for anything that I know will eventually be much cheaper. |
| Topic | Americans arguing Electoral College vs. Popular Vote are missing the REAL issue! |
| _AdjI_ 01/07/18 8:58:18 PM #10 | Grendel posted... shipwreckers posted...then equally funnels all of the liberal candidates down to the most extreme warrior for hyper-PC, social-justice liberalism (Hillary). She was trying to be the first female president. Obviously that means her entire platform was a SJW circlejerk. |
| Topic | 0 Degrees Fahrenheit here right now |
| _AdjI_ 01/06/18 5:11:21 PM #24 | MannerSaurus posted... _AdjI_ posted...OneTimeBen posted...GastroFan posted...Welcome to global warming folks. This will become the new normal soon. I don't think anyone's suggesting that the globe is warming fast enough to prevent cold winters. |
| Topic | 0 Degrees Fahrenheit here right now |
| _AdjI_ 01/06/18 5:07:48 PM #22 | OneTimeBen posted... GastroFan posted...Welcome to global warming folks. This will become the new normal soon. Because increasing the planet's average temperature causes disturbances in normal weather patterns, including more extreme winters. Please tell me you're not going to act as though the "it's cold outside, so much for global warming!" argument has any actual merit. |
| Topic | alright perverts, it's now ok to lust after marina, ok? |
| _AdjI_ 12/01/17 1:15:56 PM #5 | Canon age doesn't matter much with fictional characters. You can just say they're 18+ in the more compromising art, and just didn't develop much before then. |
| Topic | I'm playing Xenoblade wii. It's fun. Any tips/things to keep in mind? |
| _AdjI_ 12/01/17 1:11:44 PM #13 | streamofthesky posted... Game can easily be beaten at level 70, if I recall correctly. I wouldn't necessarily say "easily," since it does require some fairly specific setups (either capped Night Vision and Agility games, or a setup with Melia's spell accuracy skill) and knowledge of how to take advantage of those setups, but yeah, it is quite possible. With the Melia-Sharla-Riki party, I was farming the level 99 T-rex thingies for Double Attack gems at like 80. streamofthesky posted... I intended to do NG+, but after 130 hours of playing, I didn't feel like it. Plus, you're just so stupidly overpowered for the first 2/3 of the re-play that it wouldn't even be fun. I did a quick NG+ run right before XCX came out just for the sake of playing through the story. Being overpowered worked for that, and I finished in like 20 hours. As an actual playthrough, though, I doubt it would have been that fun. |
| Topic | I'm playing Xenoblade wii. It's fun. Any tips/things to keep in mind? |
| _AdjI_ 12/01/17 12:38:40 PM #10 | culture_den posted... Would like to know more about skills, chain attack and maximum efficiency of chain attacks The most important thing to keep in mind in chain attacks is to use skills that are the same colour in sequence. A chain of 5 will give you a damage multiplier of 15x, which is huge, and that bonus continues for subsequent abilities if you can keep the chain going (it caps at 15x). Also, Talent Arts (white abilities) count as a wild card, so a chain of, say, Red>Red>Red>White>Green will still hit that 5-chain bonus. Melia's extremely useful for this because she can use her Talent Art any time she has a spirit up, which relaxes everyone else's colour requirements considerably. Melia's also extremely useful in chain attacks because the damage multiplier applies to DoT effects even after the chain attack ends. The DoT from her Summon Earth ability lasts a whopping 90 seconds, and if you get the 15x boost on it, you'll get a phenomenal amount of damage. Also, cooldowns are completely ignored during chain attacks. This is great for the party member you'll get later who has an ability that forces Topple but has a 120 second cooldown. As for extending chain attacks beyond three attacks, that's based on affinity between the characters, plus a bit of luck. You won't always get the longer ones, especially before you max out affinity, but when you do, it's a good time. culture_den posted... as well as those crystals and gem crafting. When crafting, you want to get the highest possible number for your desired gem. Ideally, if you get it over 300% (I think), you'll get the next tier up of gem, which is the only way to get Rank VI gems. To do this, you want to start with two cylinders as close to 99% as possible, then get a lot of red flames to boost that one stat . I believe Shulk and Reyn (in that order) are the best pair for that (but it's been a while and I could be wrong), with the most affinity you can get. To get those cylinders, put together lower-value gems to get as close as possible to 99%, then get mostly green flames to make sure you get cylinders instead of boosting the desired stat past 100% (which would get you a gem right away). Lower affinity's better there so you don't have too many rounds and have less chance of getting a red or blue flame. I forget which pair is best there, but just pick one with more green flames. For both steps, save scumming comes in very handy. culture_den posted... Also would be nice to get more quick step gems, being faster would be so nice. http://xenoblade.wikia.com/wiki/Quick_Step#Crystal_and_cylinder_sources That's a list of where you can find them, if you want to craft more. The wiki also has a guide for crafting, but it includes some spoilers, so you may want to hold off on that until you've got all seven party members. ernieforss posted... im 110 hours in. and so close to the end, but i'm to underpowered to do anything. yeah for grinding. How? I took ~80 hours to reach the end while being fairly thorough with sidequests, no actual grinding, and that left me very much overlevelled for all of the actual story content. The last boss is only 85ish. What is it you're having trouble with? |
| Topic | EA's stock lost $3 billion in value over BF2... |
| _AdjI_ 11/29/17 10:15:20 PM #11 | TheCyborgNinja posted... joemodda posted...Clearly they needed to add more microtransactions to compensate for their expected loss through the backlash. They're a company after all, they just want to make money!! Bonus points because Battlefront 2015 did have an abundance of cosmetic unlocks, so it's not like there's no precedent for it in the series (and it was done without grievously violating the canon, no less, as much as that means anything in a fanservice crossover game). |
| Topic | How the hell can people still listen to music on the radio? |
| _AdjI_ 11/29/17 9:23:21 PM #41 | I've got Sirius in my car, which doesn't have nearly as much pointless chatter between songs. I've usually got it on the Classical station these days, and letting them curate the music for me has definitely introduced me to new stuff that I wouldn't otherwise have heard. |
| Topic | EA's stock lost $3 billion in value over BF2... |
| _AdjI_ 11/29/17 9:20:21 PM #6 | Mead posted... Maybe this will motivate Disney to partner with some half decent developers with any new Star Wars games. Id even take Ubisoft over EA as a publisher. They're contracted until 2020, and aside from this debacle, EA has definitely been making them money with the Star Wars brand. It may depend on how well they recover from this, but I doubt this alone is going to be enough to keep them from being able to renew the contract. |
| Topic | What does a 37 yr old man want for Christmas? |
| _AdjI_ 11/27/17 11:41:59 PM #23 | Cookies. |
| Topic | Traded Breath of the Wild at Gamestop for $15 today |
| _AdjI_ 11/26/17 8:26:48 PM #46 | Really, while OoT is a fine game, and formed the foundation for the rest of the series, every other 3D Zelda game has improved on it in some way. I'd put it in the middle of the pack at best. The only one I'd definitely say was worse was TP, which mostly suffered for trying too hard to be like OoT and not doing anything interesting. I'd probably rank the original WW lower as well, but WWHD is a serious contender for Best Zelda, so I'm not sure how best to count that. |
| Topic | I challenge you to name something more screencappable than the Simpsons |
| _AdjI_ 11/26/17 8:17:49 PM #12 | Rockies posted... Moot point when the vast majority of screencaps people share are from a set of about eight seasons Which becomes unmoot when you consider that most shows can be expected to have a similar fraction of their content be screencappable. That, and even eight seasons is still more content than many shows, so the point doesn't even need further justification. |
| Topic | Black People are OUTRAGED over this EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE Sign!!! |
| _AdjI_ 11/26/17 8:13:18 PM #17 | TheGreatNoodles posted... I see people talking about the whole 'make stuff too expensive for minorities' scenario, but unless I'm misreading this what would the coffee shop have to do with that? This is a gross oversimplification, but the gentrification of a neighbourhood tends to proceed as follows: -Higher crime rates in an area cause businesses and higher-income people to move out -Property values drop due to the lack of businesses, lower-income people concentrate in the area because of cheaper rent -Cheaper rent attracts students and recent graduates, particularly arts ones (most of whom are going to be white, as opposed to the over-representation of minorities seen in regions of lower SES) -Influx of higher-class (but still lower-income) residents dilutes the crime rate, such that small and niche businesses take advantage of the lower commercial rents to cater to the artsy hipster types that are flocking to the neighbourhood -Niche businesses start attracting better-off artsy hipster types, which in turn brings more money into the area, which in turn attracts higher-value businesses, and so on -Eventually, the neighbourhood becomes trendy enough to attract mainstream attention, at which point property values start increasing rapidly (though they will have started to increase when the businesses came back) -Property values and business development stabilize at whatever equilibrium the neighbourhood's geography permits, and you have a fully-gentrified neighbourhood Coffee shops fall somewhere in the cycle described in the fifth point, since they tend to appeal to artsy hipster types, but also tend to be pricey enough that they won't be supported by a lower-income neighbourhood. The coffee shop in question isn't single-handedly causing the process, by any means, and the process would proceed whether they were capitalizing on the development or not (somebody would fill that niche), but it can still claim to be part of it. |
| Topic | Black People are OUTRAGED over this EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE Sign!!! |
| _AdjI_ 11/26/17 7:54:08 PM #15 | Questionmarktarius posted... http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/23/16/46A2B0B900000578-0-image-m-9_1511456361975.jpg Nah, it's still your home even if you're renting. It's somebody else's property, but if you live in it, it's your home. That, and while it's most likely going to be rent hikes that drive poorer people out as an area gentrifies, gentrification does drive up property values regardless of whether or not it's being rented, which in turn increases property taxes. That can end up being enough of a financial strain to drive out homeowners as well as renters. |
| Topic | Hypothetical topic: who is more evil between these two |
| _AdjI_ 11/24/17 7:33:00 AM #10 | Engineering people's deaths is worse than taking people's candy, regardless of who the people in question are. |
| Topic | Do you like Christmas music? |
| _AdjI_ 11/23/17 11:05:00 PM #13 | For the most part. A lot of it tends to get rather aggressively overplayed, which results in me being kind of tired of it by the time the Christmas season wraps up, but it's generally good fun. |
| Topic | Posters with depression, how should I initiate the discussion for medication... |
| _AdjI_ 11/23/17 10:57:11 PM #4 | SmokeMassTree posted... Have your general doctor recommend a psychiatrist and go tell them your symptoms. Eeyup. Don't go in with "gimme the drugs, man," because that's both the wrong approach and a pretty flagrant drug-seeking behavioural flag that will get you nothing. If medication is the best option for you, your psychiatrist will be the one to decide that, as well as decided what your best option will be. Whatever happens, your doctor will know how to proceed from "I think I've been depressed lately" and a list of symptoms, so start there. |
| Topic | OH MY GOD what are you doing here on a THANKSGIVING DAY??? |
| _AdjI_ 11/23/17 9:49:36 PM #15 | Thanksgiving was a month and a half ago. |
| Topic | Top Commander will DEFY Trump if he orders a NUKE Attack on North Korea!!! |
| _AdjI_ 11/23/17 9:46:45 PM #10 | Zeus posted... *snip* Lol somebody's triggered. |
| Topic | Christian Man DEFACES George Michael Mural after Gay Marriage WINS in Australia |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 10:05:35 PM #12 | Zeus posted... JT using homosexuality as an insult. Really classy. That's not using it as an insult so much as it is recognizing that this guy really doesn't want to be gay, and mocking the cognitive dissonance that would come with that in response to his open hostility. It's not that it's funny when people are gay, it's that it's funny when people end up looking like hypocrites because of fierce, self-hating denial. |
| Topic | Remember that guy that wanted to perform the first human head transplant? |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 10:02:52 PM #22 | Sahuagin posted... it's not like the blue wire connects to the eyes, and the red wire connects to the arms or something. It kind of is, actually. The spinal cord is not a continuous mass of nerve tissue. It's a bundle of a very large number of individual nerves, which branch off at the appropriate points to innervate the target tissues. The arrangement of those nerves relative to each other is not identical from person to person, so the nerves coming from the head might not end up attaching to the correct nerves in the spinal cord. which could result in some very odd and unpleasant effects (including, as you mentioned, the autonomic nervous system failing to connect to the involuntary processes that are necessary for life). |
| Topic | Trump Parents are OUTRAGED their Son couldn't wear FAKE NEWS to a CNN TOUR!!! |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 9:33:51 PM #11 | Zeus posted... instead of offending every American in the country. And they call millennials "fragile snowflakes"... |
| Topic | Christian Man DEFACES George Michael Mural after Gay Marriage WINS in Australia |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 9:26:08 PM #8 | Fun fact: The same book of the bible that people typically quote to forbid homosexuality also forbids tattoos. Seems this guy could stand to do a bit of additional reading. |
| Topic | Senate may approve drilling in Alaskan wildlife refuge with tax bill. |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 6:29:38 PM #19 | Zeus posted... As for the probable allusion to the lead poisoning That was an allusion specifically to Fort Chip (I'm sure you're used to downplaying that one already, having been a fan of Harper), actually, and more broadly to any community located near a body of water that's affected by oil operations (lead's primarily a neurotoxin, not a carcinogen). Because of how property values work, poorer communities are disproportionately subjected to environmental contamination like that. Zeus posted... Somehow it seems like there's a middle ground between "no damage" and "the sky is falling!!!!" More importantly, minor disruptions to wilderness isn't quite the same thing that people think of when they hear "environmental damage." Commencing oil operations in a wildlife reserve does not constitute a "minor disruption" to the wilderness, nor did anyone say anything about apocalyptic environmental damage. You're the one that seems to think there's no middle ground here; the rest of use are quite concerned about local damage, whereas you're downplaying it as nothing because it's not globally catastrophic. |
| Topic | What would you do if someone accused you of sexual assault / misconduct? |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 6:06:20 PM #28 | Snuggletoof posted... There is absolutely no recovering from a rape accusation. Even if found innocent, everyone knows how much the public will believe that. Your reputation will be permanently destroyed and you'll have no future at all. *Looks at current president of the US* |
| Topic | AS bad as gaming has become, at least it's not all brown anymore... |
| _AdjI_ 11/19/17 6:04:10 PM #15 | green dragon posted... I think that's extremely debatable. DLC overall is great for gaming. Yeah, there is the terrible dlc, like you mentioned, but there is also amazing dlc that developers make after the game is released (or at least made at the end of the base game's development ). Oh, the options definitely exist, and that's great. The worst of the industry's practices now, though, are far, far worse than they were in the past, and have gained far more mainstream presence than anything so awful should ever have been allowed to. There's a lot to be upset about in today's gaming industry, even if all of that bull**** can be avoided. I also do agree that, by and large, DLC is a good thing. It gets abused (a lot), but when it's done right (i.e. the natural evolution of the expansions of old) it's a great opportunity to get more out of a game you like, and continue to support developers that are making something good. Some people fundamentally hate the concept, but I really don't agree with that at all. |
| Topic | EA's bullshit response to community outrage becomes the most downvoted comment.. |
| _AdjI_ 11/13/17 12:53:42 PM #131 | Ben111 posted... Blightzkrieg posted...Assuming everybody who downvoted is a lost sale, that's still less than a million sales for a game that's going to sell upwards of 10 million copies. It'll still be less than a million, and most of those aren't people that would be buying microtransactions anyway, so EA cares subtantially less about them. |
| Topic | EA's bullshit response to community outrage becomes the most downvoted comment.. |
| _AdjI_ 11/13/17 12:51:12 PM #130 | ZiggiStardust posted... we'll see. for now, they seem to be doubling-down on the plan moving forward, ok? They do, but I don't see it going too much further. A lot of the shenanigans they've pulled so far have been relatively subtle, such that consumers that don't regularly discuss games aren't likely to really notice a problem (even if every single person that says they'll boycott EA actually chooses not to buy the game, I'd be surprised if that results in even a 10% loss of profits, especially where those players would have ignored the microtransactions anyway). Locking Darth Vader behind a paywall/40-hour grind, however, is pretty blatant. That's going to rub more than a few people the wrong way once the game hits shelves (they won't have heard of it before then), and may actually go so far as to hurt this game's microtransaction revenue (even whales are going to balk at paying for Darth Vader) and/or result in a premature decline in the online community. |
| Topic | EA's bullshit response to community outrage becomes the most downvoted comment.. |
| _AdjI_ 11/13/17 12:34:31 PM #123 | ZiggiStardust posted... you know what would make EA truly worried? if people actually meant what they said, and stopped buying their products, ok? It'll happen, and EA will ease off on the model and find some happy medium where the base game is good enough to not alienate too much of the fanbase, while still allowing them to take money baths on the backs of the tiny handful of whales that provide the vast majority of the microtransaction revenue. As it stands, a lot of people feel that it's okay if they buy the game but just don't buy the microtransactions if they don't like them, which is exactly what the publisher budgets for. When the basic game gets unpleasant to play if one doesn't buy microtransactions, though, people do actually stop buying the game altogether, and the publisher will be expected to ease up on them. |
| Topic | EA's bullshit response to community outrage becomes the most downvoted comment.. |
| _AdjI_ 11/13/17 12:25:05 PM #121 | Far-Queue posted... You can unlock Darth Vader through normal play, its just a grind. Apparently, these whiny children feel like just because you have the option to pay a premium for unlocks, that youre somehow forced to? I dont get it. The issue is that, as much as they'll say it's just an option, the publisher doesn't want it to be optional, and will do as much as they can to take that choice away without actually doing so. The whole philosophy behind microtransactions relies on making players want to spend more money on the game. Some companies do this by just making a good game and relying on people who love the game choosing to support it (Path of Exile does this quite successfully), while others do so by making the base part of the game grindy and obnoxious to encourage people to pay money to speed the process up. This is an example of the latter, where the game is actively made worse for people that don't pay extra, and that's just a dishonest, underhanded way of trying to squeeze money out of players. Toss in that this is on top of a game that people already paid a perfectly reasonable price for (EA does not need to nickel-and-dime customers to make money off of Star Wars. Period.), and the backlash is pretty reasonable. This is the sort of psychological manipulation that belongs in a F2P game, not one that people already dropped $60 on only to find they got a quarter of a game. |
| Topic | ph shit bois, amd and intel are teaming up |
| _AdjI_ 11/10/17 3:57:00 PM #5 | helIy posted... Red_Frog posted...Anybody that uses PCs should be praying Intel and AMD don't merge. A one-off line of chips? Sure, that could work. I don't even want to imagine the stagnation and pricing if there were only a single CPU vendor, though. For this, yeah, but merging all of AMD with Intel would be a disaster. Monopolies are bad. |
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