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Phanatic posted:It's TK-421. Now I know why he's not at his post.
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https://twitter.com/latimes/status/933441260907565057
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Nov 23, 2017 05:34
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Freude on you, I beat you :p
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Nov 23, 2017 05:38
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Jesus christ, the entire Schengen area? Good job, idiot. Couldn't have happened to a better person.
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Nov 23, 2017 05:49
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cool how do we ban him from the rest of the countries. Is banishing someone to the wilderness too savage for the modern day?
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Nov 23, 2017 06:27
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I see the Poles are making the first move this time
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Hihohe posted:cool how do we ban him from the rest of the countries. The area of Bir Tawil is unique in that it is unclaimed by any sovereign nation. It's also a 40-mile stretch of sun-blasted hellscape. Perfect, I feel. quote:In 1899, when the United Kingdom held authority in the area, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement for Sudan set the border between the territories at the 22nd parallel. However, in 1902 the UK drew a separate "administrative boundary", intended to reflect the actual use of the land by the tribes in the region. Bir Tawil was grazing land used by the Ababda tribe based near Aswan, and thus was placed under Egyptian administration from Cairo. Similarly, the Hala'ib Triangle to the northeast was placed under the British governor of Sudan, because its inhabitants were culturally closer to Khartoum.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:42
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God damnit, I watched the whole thing.
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That's extremely impressive and disappointing.
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Because of EA being a bag of dicks with Battlefront 2, loot boxes are now being investigated by multiple governments around the world, with Hawaii state representative Chris Lee calling the game a "Star Wars themed online casino". Australian gambling analyst says loot boxes 'constitute gambling' by legal definition Belgium's Justice Minister calls for loot box ban in Europe (Updated) Belgium and Hawaii look to ban loot boxes, ask others to do the same
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Measly Twerp posted:Because of EA being a bag of dicks with Battlefront 2, loot boxes are now being investigated by multiple governments around the world, with Hawaii state representative Chris Lee calling the game a "Star Wars themed online casino". quote:Wolfe also leveled an unmistakable and rather sinister-sounding warning to anyone in the business hoping that this will all blow over: "It is perhaps unfortunate for these companies that gamers have infiltrated most areas of government; be assured that knowledgeable and interested parties are undertaking a large body of work in relation to issues you noted. And if an avenue of investigation or enforcement is found, then we will most definitely pursue it." In his full correspondence, Strategic Analyst Wolfe dropped this in which I found funny: quote:For me, instead of playing certain Star Wars games I was looking forward to, I will be concerting my efforts on collecting EVERY.SINGLE.MOON in Odyssey. But yeah. Suck all the dicks EA.
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Nov 23, 2017 08:13
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That skate park goes on forever. It's huge
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Nov 23, 2017 08:35
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Proteus Jones posted:In his full correspondence, Strategic Analyst Wolfe dropped this in which I found funny: the real 'freude is on gamers when the legislation about game mechanics starts
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Nov 23, 2017 08:38
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Konami really hosed up by getting out of the video game business and into the gambling business. They should have just paid off legislators to legalize loot crate gambling and exploiting that. Oh well, maybe deep pockets EA will figure it out.
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:the real 'freude is on gamers when the legislation about game mechanics starts But they aren't talking about the mechanics. They're talking about buying a full price AAA title and getting bled dry of either time or money or both to unlock the most iconic characters in the franchise. It's like 40 hours of game time just dedicated to getting those characters, ignoring any other progression in the game. Or a few thousand dollars. That would be analogous to buying a Zaxxon cabinet (sue me, I *loved* that game) but still having to pump quarters in to play. Then Sega comes to collect them every week. I'm not a "gamer" by any stretch. Hell, the last game I played was Witcher3 on Easy. But EA is definitely being predatory here.
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Actually, the big objection is not that they're selling pay-to-win garbage. Regulators would be generally fine with that - while you as a consumer would be an idiot to buy it, you know going in what it's about, so it's really your own drat fault. Not that much different to Train Simulator having thousands of dollars of DLC. The big problem is that they're selling lottery tickets. To minors.
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As I understand, the "loot crate" mechanic is being investigated as gambling because you buy the crates with real money (actually "crystals", in-game currency bought with real money, but same difference), but the contents are random; and among those contents can be "credits", another in-game currency that's used to buy upgrades and more crates (a crate costs 200 crystals or 4000 credits, so the exchange rate is 20 credits for one crystal). And since if you already have an item when you find it in a crate it's directly converted to credits, the system works like a slot machine: put a certain amount of money in it, get X (unknown value) money back. Literally gambling. Which is illegal to do in most countries unless you are specifically licensed. Mikl has a new favorite as of 09:05 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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Nov 23, 2017 09:02
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Yea they're at home slot machines.
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Pokemon ended up removing the slot machine and gambling minigames because it was pushing up the games rating in some countries for gambling references. (there's even a reference to this in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, implying that the Game Corner was recently shut down because of new laws and the former owner gives away the remaining prizes) Not surprising that when companies get too greedy with loot boxes lawmakers eventually start taking notice and realise they're priming kids on gambling with no oversight.
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KoRMaK posted:That skate park goes on forever. It's huge This is Woodward, they have like 5 places where it's just a training camp for skateboard/bmx/rollerblades(and it wouldnt surprise me to see scooters). I'm guessing this is the one outside of LA since it doesn't really look like the PA one.
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Every update to the imgur website just looks more and more horrendous. I'm convinced it is self sabotage.
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KoRMaK posted:Konami really hosed up by getting out of the video game business and into the gambling business. Konami wasn't the only JP company to do this. They just happened to spotlight themselves by letting popular franchises vanish and being horrible to their employees.
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Grand Theft OughtaBroughtABiggerBrick https://i.imgur.com/jpFUi3U.mp4
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Grand Theft OughtaBroughtABiggerBrick Kinetic energy increases at the square of the velocity  Should have brought a smaller brick! Or a tiny bit of spark plug.
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Apologies for the Facebook link, but lol at the perfect ending here https://www.facebook.com/TheSunStuff/videos/559898777691948/
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Mu Zeta posted:Every update to the imgur website just looks more and more horrendous. I'm convinced it is self sabotage. "Self" is absolutely right, but "sabotage" maybe not. I think the right word may be something along the lines of "let's make our users prefer using the mobile app which doesn't have adblock". We're beating that genie back in the bottle by gimping it reeally really hard, and dolling up the bottle with pay-to-win sequins. Karate Bastard has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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It's nice to be warned about the incoming schadenfreude ahead of time. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...tm_content=2051 quote:On Saturday, a limousine driver plans to launch himself on a mile-long flight over the Mojave Desert in a rocket of his own making.
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Moon Slayer posted:It's nice to be warned about the incoming schadenfreude ahead of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZar0WYB5ec&t=80s
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KoRMaK posted:That skate park goes on forever. It's huge It's Camp Woodward which is a summer camp for skateboarders/BMXers. It's ridiculously nice.
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 The scootin' fruity is on us
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My understanding was that the charges they're going with are more severe than whatever hate crime they could have been charged with instead.
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KoRMaK posted:That skate park goes on forever. It's huge Regrettable posted:It's Camp Woodward which is a summer camp for skateboarders/BMXers. It's ridiculously nice. DiggityDoink posted:This is Woodward, they have like 5 places where it's just a training camp for skateboard/bmx/rollerblades(and it wouldnt surprise me to see scooters). I'm guessing this is the one outside of LA since it doesn't really look like the PA one.   
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What is the schadenfreude in the bmx video? I was hoping he'd bag himself at the end or something.
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CommonShore posted:What is the schadenfreude in the bmx video? I was hoping he'd bag himself at the end or something. It's on all of us, watching that entire thing through to the end, leaning closer and closer to our monitors every time he wobbles, or looks like he's going to pass too close to some obstacle, or loving every goddam second of his ride. The shadenfreude is on all us ghouls hoping some stranger falls and breaks some bones, and getting ghoul-blue-balls out of it. Dammit, now I want a proper nutshots video or something.
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A Bug posted:My understanding was that the charges they're going with are more severe than whatever hate crime they could have been charged with instead. Yeah, the prosecution didn’t “drop” the hate-crime charges, they upgraded to aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping, which carry much heavier penalties. (Bonus: Blair Cottrell is the leader of the ultra-right-wing United Patriots Front in Australia, and is up in arms about the hate crime charges being “dropped” because HE was convicted under hate-crime legislation in September.)
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