I think you’re making large reaches in your analogies. Are we supposed to have the government come in and bad cosmetic DLC, and then fight a war over it that splits the country (or world) in two? Lol

My point is that cosmetic DLC (and expansion packs) isn’t the problem – the problem is loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions.

I have to say that the customer holds some of the blame. If people are obsessively buying cosmetics that do nothing and that’s the only way the game is being sustained…either the game is that good already, or the players are the reason the game sucks.

When players need to spend money to be competitive, I think it’s fair to place the blame jointly on both the devs/publisher and the players. When spending money doesn’t change the game OR provides new content, it generally indicates that the player base is happy with what they’re spending money on. I don’t think that’s a problem.

I think there are far bigger problems with modern journalism than being technically correct in favour of the affirmative voice.

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If game companies are firing their developers upon launching a game and not doing the same to their design team, there are probably bigger problems.

My point about expansion packs was related to my original comment – I gave an example besides cosmetics of DLC I thought was ok

Oh, definitely. The one issue with cosmetic DLC is that they used to be unlockable. Sometimes paid cosmetics are more development work than the kinds of things that were unlocked in-game back in the day, but not always.

Sometimes cosmetic DLC is a way to support the developers. Sometimes cosmetic DLC is a cashgrab. But if the game stands on its own, players generally aren’t missing much if cosmetics are paid DLC. Smash Bros. Ultimate comes to mind – there’s plenty of stuff to unlock in the game even with lots of costumes and such being behind paywalls.

I don’t see these as a problem with what I’d said for two reasons:

• The people making cosmetic elements are generally different from the people coding actual features
• If an expansion pack is successful, what’s the harm in putting future development hours towards more expansion packs?

imho, cosmetics are fine, as are sizeable expansion packs on games that were worth the money without them.

But generally, yes. In-game purchases usually suck.

Yeah, there are subcultures within “Internet culture”…but these days, I don’t think “Internet culture” is cohesive (and omnipresent) enough yet to call it a “culture”.

It’s complicated and messy. Hard to define, lol

Thank you. That’s a shame. I was hoping it was one of the newer members of the band, but nope, he joined in the 80s.

Him and fans try to play it off as a joke, but it definitely means something when you keep making the same kinds of jokes and not changing after the first time people tell you it’s terrible

What’s the problem with Pantera? I know almost nothing about them aside from an album plus a few singles

I’m a gamer, but I don’t know who that is.

Is it one of the playable characters from GTA5?

Some of this was probably against Pro-Palestinian protests. How much of it was against pro-Nazi demonstrations and similar?

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Ethnicity, no.

Culture, I think that’d be a bit of a strong claim.

Sub-culture, definitely.

Dude admits to lying/explicitly making shit up and his followers will be like “No, he just means that he’ll explain things in meaningful ways even if it’s exaggerated a bit so that people will pay attention”

Funny how they all have different vibes.

Stalin looks like a bully. Hitler looks like he’s been bullied and is going to be a school shooter.

Many of the others look like pompous twats and/or spoilt rich kids.

The article that we’re commenting under said:

Public opinion: Not great, but improving

Pretty much everything is better except public opinion.

Makes sense! Lol

Metal takes inspiration from lots of different types of music. A lot of guitar solos have clear inspiration from Classical music