Quinn wrote on Jul 4, 2017, 13:55:
I didn't actually mean what you think i meant I meant that there's most poverty among blacks. I should've written "On poverty, blacks are the absolute winners."...

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jul 4, 2017, 12:30:
That's very flawed logic. It doesn't mean that poverty has nothing to do with it. It means that poverty alone isn't necessarily the cause. Nobody is claiming that the cause is poverty alone.

it's a cultural issue, not one of economic status (although I am not blind to it being a contributing/aggravating factor).

Quinn wrote on Jul 3, 2017, 09:40:
Poverty among blacks is the absolute winner.

Quboid wrote on Jul 4, 2017, 11:22:
I should say, I mostly agree with RedEye9 et al. Regardless of whatever complexes they are prone to, these groups are victims and stirring things up is the only way they can get people talking.

Any successful protest movement will be unpopular with many in its day. If it was popular it wouldn't need a protest, the alternative to being unpopular is to be ignored which is what many want to do with BLM. It starts off reasonable, we'll listen as long as you're not violent. Actually no, we'll listen as long as you're not violent and you don't talk to us in the theatre. Wait no, we'll listen as long as you're non-violent, don't talk in the theatre and stand for the national anthem ... bullshit, now we're trying to find a way to ignore you. That doesn't make violence and rioting acceptable, but it does make it inevitable.

Would we be having this conversation if BLM didn't exist?

Dacron, that article is deeply flawed, disputing a point no one is making (poverty alone isn't the problem) and the blatant antisemitism isn't helpful.

If the source is "too racist" I can link many more confirming this.

Rattican wrote on Jul 4, 2017, 01:55:
Comments like "What a pathetic list of games" and "The only decent game on that list" kinda burn me up inside. I mean a lot of these games clearly showing lots of high quality work that would have taken a lot of time and effort from so many talented people. Just dismissing that so casually is very annoying as a content creator myself (just not of games).

I mean it's not high art and not every game is going to appeal to you, but the hyperbole seems a bit unnecessary if you can't appreciate an era of having so much quality entertainment available.

Quinn wrote on Jul 3, 2017, 09:40:
Poverty among blacks is the absolute winner.

‘Yet, The violent crime rate for Appalachia in 2010 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 56.76%’

Cutter wrote on Jun 25, 2017, 21:43:
Whatever, devs struck lightning, good for them. It could have just as easily gone the other way. I wish I had that kind of luck.

aka_STEVE wrote on Jun 16, 2017, 19:53:
Yeah, pretty sad.....Valve now only needs people from foreign countries to pretend to answer tech support questions & count their money rolling in from steam fees to every transaction anymore, no need for actual developers , designers or the like....

Tipsy McStagger wrote on May 23, 2017, 14:24:
I played 100's of hours into every GTA except for the last 2.

It's kinda weird that I didn't play the latest actually.

Cram wrote on May 14, 2017, 19:24:
I found the repetitiveness of the expansion/dlc very...VERY trying (if you played it you know what I mean). But I couldn't stop, and when it was over I was wishing it would have kept on going.

What a strange game, that is the complete package. I hate it, and yet I love it.

Yes it's worth $3, and your time.

Flak wrote on May 10, 2017, 02:08:
19 million players and yet the active player count is not that much higher than BF4. Hard to believe so many suckers paid $50+ for that...but actually now that I think about Battlefront which was pretty much the exact same soulless husk of a game that stupid asshole gamers paid a lot of money for.

BF1 (aside from Hardline...spin-off doesn't count) is the first Battlefield game I haven't purchased at launch, let alone it's launch year.

The cheapest I can find it for from a 'key' site is $35...that's a joke for the base game, I wouldn't pay more than $15 on it's best day.

Double-bonus edit: Oh, and EA can fuck right off as long as they keep fragmenting their community with their dumbass premium MAP DLCs.

Creston wrote on May 5, 2017, 15:06:
The story is truly god-awful, but just skip the cutscenes and do the missions, and most of the challenges are quite fun, as are some of the achievements. (NY to LA in, I believe, 45 minutes is a cool one to try to get.)

SimplyMonk wrote on May 4, 2017, 15:55:

I stopped putting effort into my points when my fellow conversation participant compared selling Porches to Video Games.

Log in and play GTA Online on PS4, Xbox One or PC at any point between now and Sunday, April 30th to be eligible for a GTA$425K tax refund compliments of the San Andreas State Treasury Department, to be deposited in your Maze Bank account during the month of May.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 24, 2017, 02:06:
Video Games Aren’t Addictive.

jacobvandy wrote on Apr 23, 2017, 21:30:
They weren't even trying to make a whole game, just import the RDR map into the GTA V engine. It's been done with almost every other GTA game by now and they get away with it because they don't provide any of the actual game files, just a tool that pulls from copies of the games you provide. It almost makes you wonder why they're being especially protective of RDR...

MeanJim wrote on Apr 23, 2017, 18:33:
If Take-Two are smart, they would hire them and will give them what they need to do it properly.