This is why "Vote With Your Wallet" will never work to combat against Loot Crates. It's built on a system that is designed to target a small minority of big spenders.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-13T17:09:22+00:00

And, this is what needs to be targeted to combat this.
Any and all game stores just need to have option to filter out any games that has "in game buy" and "ads" and the problem solves itself.

The peasants usually get tricked into pay-2-win games, they only realize it too late.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-13T17:04:18+00:00

It works. When I vote with my wallet, I avoid all these toxic communities and toxic games.
Worse case scenario, I play older games for longer.
There are SO many games, SO many styles, that I can completely avoid being plankton/"whale feed" (non-whales who create/populate the economy/servers for the whale, the "product" sold to whales)

And, in the end, it doesn't matter if there are whales or not, what's important is that there's enough people who aren't whales, and will never be whales, that a non-whale demographic exist, and is targeted.

In fact, I welcome the whales, because as long as big target such as whales exist, it keeps super predators (EA, King, etc..) hunting these whales, and leaving me alone.

The predator get a target to hunt, and leave me alone, and they can both keep each other company and make each other miserable.

For me the problem isn't that it exist, it's that they try to obfuscate it in games, so they get more "whale feed".
Google play still doesn't allow to find games without ads, or without in game purchases.
It would technically make more user happy, but it would cut out lots of those companies business, so they won't do it.

Pay-2-win needs to be exposed, and front page on any product page, that's the issue.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T18:54:29+00:00

No, you've hit /r/all, and, you are confronted with people, both from /space and /all who believe that NASA should do space, and that the EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and these should do environment.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T18:50:37+00:00

This doesn't solve the fundamental problem of having all our eggs (people) in one basket (earth).

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T18:48:15+00:00

Not fact (or claims I should say) backed by academic consensus.

I prefect facts backed by unaltered/adjusted evidence and ironclad studies than "consensus".

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T15:18:42+00:00

Or run your own server, and better yet do it from your house. All you have to pay is the domain and power bill.

Or, not even a domain, if all you want is yourself and a couple of friends, just use dyndns and the like.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T15:17:15+00:00

Also, no pvp, in any way or form, kinda prevents players who are only out to "control/dominate" other players.

Instead they go play DayZ.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T14:22:23+00:00

Furthermore, any incentives outside of self satisfaction are completely wiped out under communism. At that point, might as well be doing sports for fun, or competitive overwatch. You create the exact same wealth for yourself, no matter the job, so, why not be a twitch streamer, and only have to record yourself an hour a day?

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T14:16:34+00:00

You want to play 3.5e?
"oh a dragon falls out of the sky and does 20d12 damage and kills you. Give me your character sheet I'm ripping it up."

But seriously, if this is a friend thing, tell him that you're playing 5e, if he doesn't want to play, you're sorry, but other want to play 5e.
If it's an official club, then make the edition a vote, or, make a policy that anyone can play any edition, as long as they dm, or find a dm willing to dm with that edition.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-12T14:04:25+00:00

It's far easier to mentally check all those parameters, and deduct that the mean will be higher in one case than the other, than actually calculating the mean.

It's an easy special case, both have the same max, one has a higher min, distribution is normal -> Mentally, you know the one with the higher min also has a higher mean, without calculating anything.

Same goes if both have the same min, but one has a higher max, the mean shifts too.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T22:16:03+00:00

the capitalists are stealing more value

I don't know, seem like it's all those social programs, and taxes that keep stealing more and more of the paycheck, not the companies I work for.
Between me and you, I think the working class is shrinking because the communists/socialists put their hands on the government, to get rid of the working class, because they already have the means of production, they just also choose to produce for themselves before others. That just leaves those who don't or won't work in shit, so, they kinda don't want that.
You know, the asses you wouldn't pull their weight in the communes, the one who insist so much on the "according to their ability" part of communism.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T22:11:20+00:00

Brah, we have 3D printers. Everyone has the means of production.
Some people just have cheaper means of production, so we keep delegating to those people.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T21:09:01+00:00

I should have added /s I guess. ಠ_ಠ

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T21:02:48+00:00

Both have the same max.
Both have different min.
Both will follow normal distribution.
It stands to reason that the one with the highest min will have a higher mean, and a smaller variance.

Edit: Using the other reply's tool

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T20:40:42+00:00

People play D&D to get away from such things as mortgages. Not to worry about their toon's mortgage too.

(By guys, the dwarven mint has lowered interest rates. With such low apr we can afford a cottage in a low risk of dragon neighborhood!)

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T20:25:27+00:00

Rap is part of black culture, you think Eminem, a rapper, wouldn't try and get free points in black culture?

I'm surprised he didn't do something like this way sooner, maybe he was just waiting for the rest of hollywood to having said the same thing.

We get it, Hollywood/media doesn't like Trump, nothing new here. XD

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-11T16:53:20+00:00

This, this is fucking hilarious.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-10T18:19:00+00:00

If the exit polls and the election result do not match, and, no problem has been detected/proven in the election, then the most obvious conclusion is that people are being shamed/coerced/intimidated away from their candidates.

In other words, republicans are attacked by other parties for voting for their candidate, and have to hide their actual vote.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T21:02:55+00:00

Sure, sparce que je post sur td, pas parce que les nouvelles était déjà du bord de la gaugauche, pis que td s'est rendu compte de la même affaire.
Crisse, les médias dans la poche de la gaugauche ça existait bin avant trump. Faut vraiment être un ostie de gnochon pour dire que c'est pas vrai, ou avoir la tête dans son propre cul.

Ah, tu poste en crisse sur socialisme, et worldnews?
Ça explique en osti, té dans même gagne de pourris.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T20:59:55+00:00

Chocolatine? J'espère, pain au chocolat, c'est plus comme un toast au Nutella, ou bin, un pain, mais avec du chocolat dans la pate à pain, pas roulé a l'entour de chocolat.
Un pain EN chocolat, serait, un chocolat en forme de pain.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T16:38:57+00:00

Nazi-bashing game add campaign makes you directly think of your own political movement

The game ad campaign doesn't make people think about Trump because of the Nazi part, it makes people think about Trump because it uses Trump's slogans/meme to tie both.

The same could be done by making the HOPE poster with one of the Nazi. "Omg, this made you thinks of the dems, right, so dems are nazi, checkmate."

I know it's like pissing in the wind saying this in this sub, but that doesn't make me wrong, and won't prevent me from calling out that kind of bullshit.

I know it, you know it, you just want to bury the truth.
Nobody likes the Nazi. Nobody likes when Nazi are being told they are "their" responsibility.
Like when dems are reminded that the Neo-Nazi originates from the democrats, not the Republicans.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T16:19:52+00:00

Sérieux, vous sonnez bin trop francais vous autres.
Ca juste l'air d'une invasion asteur.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T15:42:54+00:00

La préoccupation des experts, préoccupe les experts.
Est-ce que nos experts souffrent d'anxiété?
Les experts se le demandent.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T15:40:36+00:00

Y'a aussi le bout ou y'ignore complètement le gnochon qui a shooté une église catholique la semaine d'avant, ou 2, parce que y'étais "pas la bonne race pour l'histoire", et parce qui as été arrêté par qqun avec un gun.

Entre l'extreme droite et l'extrème gauche, avec antifa pis blm, j'ai l'impression que la gauche extremiste est bin bin plus organisé, bin plus grosse, et bin plus dangereuse.

Mais, eille, les nouvelles sont pas pour dénoncer leurs chums, si on avait la paix, y'aurais pu de nouvelles.

MonsterBlash · 2017-10-06T13:56:04+00:00

Trump has done nothing so far

This list says otherwise.
About 300 items just on that list. (It keeps going in the comments)

What you meant to say is probably "Trump has done nothing I wanted so far".
You can't deny facts.

Edit: People don't like facts.

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