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  • Project any harder and we could have this conversation on the face of the full moon.

    This shit is like gambling - where it’s not literally just gambling. ‘It can’t be wrong if it makes money!’ is amoral libertarian crap. People had this foisted upon them, until the widespread demand to stop fucking doing it could be dulled to background noise. People haaated lootboxes, and yelled about it until they went away - replaced by slightly more lubricated mechanisms for the same abuse. And now they’re just bringing 'em back, because fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?

    You can’t even keep these excuses consistent. I know you don’t like paying for this shit, because you said so. So don’t roll your eyes and insist someone somewhere must love it. They all know it’s a shit deal, as surely as you know it’s a shit deal. You’re just bargaining around it and refusing to acknowledge that any amount of this is too much.




  • Ban the entire business model. It’s an abuse. There’s no form of it that is separable from deceit. Bickering about numbers means nothing.

    But here you are bullshitting me about how these lootboxes won’t cost money, when that’s what lootboxes are, and I gotta get raked over these specific coals before I’m allowed an opinion about raking anyone over coals. Fuck off. You can’t sneer your way out of denying the blindingly obvious. I spotted where you were going from the first asinine denial and already fucking told you, ‘you don’t have to pay’ doesn’t change that you can in fact pay, and fuck that.

    Fuck any game where you can spend money. It’s a scam. What I like has nothing to do with it. It’s exploitation that’s ruining the entire industry.







  • I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol’ book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.

    The one that made me put the book down and go ‘yep, atheist’ was “the argument from magic.” You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.

    Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don’t actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There’s a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. Consistency and logic are neat features if you can manage. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.