Hobart’s hairbrush.
Sarah Connor shakes the fence.
Multistage suborbital rapid disassembly.
Cramped right up. Hell of a coincidence.
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.
Orrr he’s the last scion! Boom, super miracle!
It’s objectively abusive. Games convince you to value arbitrary worthless rewards - that is what makes them games. Attaching a price tag exploits how humans are bad at distinguishing forms of value. There’s no conversion ratio between soccer goals and hamburgers, no matter how badly you want a few of each.
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.
You’ll pay to pay to pay to pay. At some point a game might occur.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
If we allow this to continue there will be nothing else.
Only legislation will fix this.
They plainly fucking can.
If you mean to start insisting payment is somehow optional - shelve it. I am against any excuse for charging any player any money for any thing inside a video game. Getting one free lootbox per game or whateverthefuck does not excuse the millions that cost five actual dollars.
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.
South Park: “I’m afraid it was the Mormons. Yes, Mormon was the correct answer.”
Pedestrian safety means a clean chop through the femur.
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
That’s just loot. You don’t like lootboxes - you like when games function as games. The part they’re bringing back is charging five actual dollars for gambling on bullshit that should just happen through gameplay.