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Good to know there’s some context available if you want it. Thanks for taking the time to reply!

Is there though?

I know this sounds sarcastic, but I’m genuinely curious as I have never used TikTok at all. It there any way to verify the stuff that’s being shown? Do news accounts link to articles or any supporting information?

All I’ve ever really seen from people sharing stuff has been new typical meme stuff and AI generated crap that people keep sending me thinking it’s real.

How can you tell if what you’re seeing is real?

You absolutely have to get the fuck off the internet to get an idea of what people are actually like. Most of the shit you’re seeing isn’t even written by humans anymore, and even what is real tends to be the craziest 1% of the population, because they say the crazy things that drive engagement and feed the algorithm.

There’s no one way people are, there is more diversity and variety around you than you can possibly imagine. It’s not necessarily easy to find somebody you’re going to gel with, but I promise you they are all over the place.

I understood your point, I just don’t agree. There’s a fundamental difference in how it psychologically affects people, and your insistence that lootboxes aren’t that bad kinda just lends credence to my point.

Let’s not pretend either of us has any influence at all over what becomes law. Our stupid debate will certainly never affect a damn thing regardless. If I was writing laws, it’d be a very different place and general and I’m sure you wouldn’t like most of my ideas. I can complain all I want, nobody is listening anyway.

Regardless, I’ve enjoyed the spirited debate and you’re certainly entitled to your opinion!

Random distribution in a game is fine, the problem is entirely being able to use cash to get them. The solution is very simple, as you’ve pointed out, hundreds of games have already figured out less predatory ways to add content and keep a game alive.

The cash for randomization is fundamentally what makes it so insidious. Everything you’ve mentioned is wildly preferable to paid mystery bullshit. Seasonal outfits, battle passes, whatever. If you know what you’re getting before you choose to buy it, that’s your choice.

The part you can’t quite get is the outright advantage that loot boxes will sometimes give people decent stuff without having to grind, which all the current alternatives don’t do. I’d take randomized tables over mandatory grind any day, but I certainly don’t want to ban either.

This is the most Stockholm Syndrome shit I’ve seen on here. You do realize that the grind only exists to push people into buying the bullshit right? Games should be fun to play, with rewards coming regularly from normal play. If you’re ‘grinding’ through a mess of bullshit to avoid paying, or if you’re paying to skip the grind, then why are you bothering to play a game you don’t actually like playing? A little grind is understandable and fun, I’m looking forward to a little boss farming in BL4 later tonight. But that’s the fun part of the game, playing it and hoping to get something good.

It’s definitely appropriate that every other item on your list is illegal for minors in almost every country on earth. If I thought we could reasonably keep ‘blind boxes’ an adult indulgence I wouldn’t be opposed. But they are so deeply tied to children’s toys, I don’t think you could ever have them available for adults in a form that isn’t just begging for children to figure out ways to buy them anyway. It’d be incredibly hard to justify banning them only for children, especially on the admittedly abstract basis of psychological harm.

Setting aside that, I believe they should be fully illegal simply on a consumer protection basis. A business should not be allowed to sell a mystery product. There’s no justification for it IMO. There is no reason we should allow businesses to sell us useless bullshit and hope we get something we actually want. You can still have MTG, you can still have mobile games. But let people buy the shit they want, or don’t. If the business model can’t work, somebody else will figure it out.

But of course, there’s no fucking chance of that happening here in the US, so I keep hoping somebody else will tackle it (though Brazil’s attempt here wildly misses the bar unfortunately).

Gambling is at least ok in my book because it’s only legal for adults and in specific, regulated locations. It’s still fucking idiotic behavior to engage in, but whatever, adults can waste their money, I don’t really care. It’s easy to avoid unless you live in Vegas.

I’m sure I’ll alienate most of the user base here, but anything that involves turning money into ‘pulls’ should be illegal for minors, and honestly probably just entirely. Magic, Pokemon cards, blind boxes, the stupid Lego minifigs I love to collect. Ban all of it, it’s bad for our psyche, it’s wasteful, it’s anti-consumer bullshit that should never be allowed. If you can’t make money selling your product directly, then you don’t deserve to run a business.

You’re right though, the gambling analogy perfect. I doubt paid loot boxes are significantly worse than letting children gamble. But still, there’s a reason we don’t let children gamble, and loot boxes certainly aren’t any better.

Gambling involves the opportunity to win something that actually exists. The fundamental issue with loot boxes is your gambling for code that can’t be sold, traded, or preserved past the lifetime of the game.

It’s a disgusting practice that preys upon people’s psychological reward centers and has been normalized by our obsessive consumption. It should absolutely be illegal.

Reboots and remakes are the oldest complaints in Hollywood. I’m way more sick of seeing this ancient criticism rebooted every week as if there was ever a point in history in which Hollywood was full of original ideas.

Hint: it wasn’t. Even the early days of movie making were absolutely dominated by movies made from books. Everything is a remake, rehash, retelling of some kind. That fact has no bearing on the quality of the media created. There are just as many shitty original films as there are shitty remakes, and plenty of sequels, remakes, reboots, and reimaginings that surpass the original inspiration.

You’re drawing nonsense conclusions.

People like to “protect” basic logic. This time it just happens to relate to someone rich. The person pointing out the basic logical flaws is certainly just as happy to do it in other situations.

Your assumption that it has anything to do with the wealth of the subject matter is your own bias at work.

Honestly, why isn’t this just standard procedure for dealing with the dead? Especially if they’re already being cremated. It’s very weird to me that people are so pearl-clutchy about what happens to a dead body. I would much prefer mine goes to something helpful to someone over sitting on a mantle or frozen in a sterile box.

Obviously the consent part is a valid issue, I (somewhat begrudgingly) wouldn’t want to force this on people with deep religious reasons to keep a body whole, but I’d have it be something you have to opt out of.

Honestly yeah that’s even better. How great would it be to watch Chrome slowly die out while funneling money to fight climate change?

Seems like it allows a non profit to assume control of a company without having to pay out funds to actually purchase it. They apparently have to reinvest all profits back into the company rather than directly benefiting from it. Though the article does mention under the proposal, some unspecified portion of Chrome profits would go toward ‘climate action’, so there’s some vague positive out of it.

Seems like it would be pretty great honestly, so I can’t imagine it’ll be accepted.

Didn’t they fix this like a year ago? Or maybe there’s an option to turn it off now. I just know I haven’t seen that in ages.

Making Elizabeth invincible is the only way that game is playable for me. There’s no chance in hell I’d play an entire game that’s one long escort quest where I’m constantly worried about the useless sidekick that I’d rather be without. She may not have added much, but a superficial narrative device is a thousand times better than a crippling gameplay decision.

Well since you obviously didn’t open the link, it’s a girl in a fully covered bikini. Literally not softcore anything, it’s as racy as sports illustrated.

It’s more like ‘not commit their life to one person.’ Jedi are encouraged to love, but forbidden to prioritize an individual over the greater good.