Exusia

Does North Koreas population support the combat losses? Or are these conscripts auxiliary and/or non-combat to ensure they aren't lost so quickly?

It mentions Korean women in factories, so...what there? Eventually NK has such a low population China just finally absorbs the territory?

I agree here, this continues to be self inflicted by lifetime players, but is also natural failing of legislation to get involved. After the ESRB in the US formed (since that's my experience) it seems the government simply handwaved any need to get involved ever even as games came online and marketplaces got added.

Parents similarly cannot simply just know the intricacies of every hobby their kid slides in and out of, and few hobbies are quite as insidious to may or may not allow extra purchases quite like gaming. Not even all millennials grew up as gamers, and can pass off that knowledge. And many more just play fifa with the boys on weekends and just wanted a product that works - they treat it like an online NES. Turned it on and go with no deeper thought or realization of the market it supports.

It's an ad this time.

Yeah this happens every fucking time. This time it's 6 hours. Next time it's a week.

This is how DLC started. "It's not like we cut content from the game to sell!" Was only true for that batch of games for a year or two. The industry's scum sucking knows no limit and will absolutely pay wall more for longer if this isn't denounced properly. It is never, ever "just" anything when it comes to these parasites.

"$80 for 80%"

Can't make people pay to stream board games and dnd. Which, coincidentally, I am buying guide books for because shitfucks like this are actively making gaming harder and harder to continue to justify morally to myself.

They: don't pay their staff but give executives massive bonuses (Game company CEOS are among the highest when you look at pay disparity charts), indulge in layoffs on failure or success (listing non-paid wages in the quarter as profit to shareholders) , continously justify gambling as not because it's digital (lootboxes, "player packs" boosters), actively erode consumer rights (liscense vs ownership), actively treat their consumers like dogshit (the ps3 WILL cost $700 and if you do not like it you can...get an Xbox? Lol?), cutting content of products to add back as paid extra content (moving up deadlines and prioritizing XYZ at the end so it's "not done" by deadline so it can be added back later for a price to beat the "we intentionally didn't include it" allegations)

Gaming's shitty practices are ruining other markets and the governments of the world's refusal to reign them in is causing spillover into other things.

This is because the average arch user does not enjoy their experience. The average enjoyer is so far beyond a mere "user" when it comes to self-flaggelation

I can fucking smell this truck and the layer of oily grime it leaves everywhere.

20k and a bottle of everclear

Commentary from 1996 still relevant today

I will savor its germ

Im here for the corny jokes and COBbled together memes

I love pointing out that in the US, a base ps5 is now what you risked paying a scalper when they were new, except now it's not a scalper listing it on Walmart, it's just straight up Walmart charging it.

My ps5 purchase helped a guy pay his rent after he made a dumb fucking decision in 2022, people buying now pads Walmart pockets.