The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.

At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.

I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.

I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.

Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.

Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.

Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.

No. Trump is saying that political violence against the left is justified. He’s a fucking monster.

I have no empathy for him.

But his children lost their Dad. Kids aren’t evil, and they don’t deserve to lose their parents. He may have seen empathy as a negative, but since I didn’t consider him a paragon of virtue, I value it.

I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.

I’m horrified about how his life ended, because I abhor violence. I feel deep sympathy for his family for losing someone they loved. I’m terrified about the future of our country and escalating political violence.

But all that being said, I can’t say I’m sad he’s dead. He caused unthinkable harm, and the world is better without him in it. But I do wish he’d died in a less-violent manner that wouldn’t be used to justify further violence. He died a martyr for fascists, and that’s terrifying.

They were great until the dude on the left broke up the band to join Drive Shaft and got super into drugs before drowning on an extended trip to the beach.

Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

They even admitted they could’ve interdicted the boat, but chose to kill them instead.

It was 100% absolutely, unquestionably a war crime.

And even if Trump is immune, the rest of those involved are NOT. Some of them are lawyering up, because war crimes can carry a death penalty.

I think it’s entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he’s no longer in the world.

But she didn’t suddenly lose it.

She wiped out cities full of people before. But it took her doing it in Westeros for people to see that it was because she was insane.

Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

I thought it was rough-cut dimensions.

Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.

It’s also a really slippery slope when the justice department can blanket declare entire swaths of people mentally ill. Soon, anyone who doesn’t vote would be banned from owning firearms due to their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” being classified as mental illness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals need to consider arming themselves while they still can. Guns have caused a lot of harm, but right now 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists. I’m hoping I never need guns, but I know I don’t want to find out I need them after I can’t get them.

They’ll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.

The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.

The language prohibiting the ownership of guns for the mentally ill is someone who has been adjudication as mentally defective (as in: by a court declaration), or who has been committed to a mental institution.

As for gender identity: the ATF added the option of non-binary gender to the 4473 5 years ago, so it clearly didn’t have an issue then.