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@Nals said:

Oh wait, Valve is offering to fully cover the cost of Arbitration/Small Claims.

I think this is something I keep skipping over and over. I see that they're DENYING US OUR RIGHTS, but then I also see that they're going to take care of the aspect that makes class action necessary to begin with. I suppose it's just the nationalist in me and the paragraph at the end of the article.

You won, Patrick! You got me to gloss over the facts with your propaganda! It's like I'm really watching Fox News!

However, do individual claims always enact change in companies? That one lady sued because her coffee was too hot. Now they label their coffee as hot. I guess that's precedence maybe sorta'?

I usually read through the class action lawsuits that I get in the mail, and typically I end up not bothering with them. Typically the benefit has nothing to do with the pay-out one receives--which is always minuscule, except for the fat chunk the lawyer gets--but has more to do with the change the company then instigates.

While I despise the use of your patriotic language in the final paragraph, Patrick, as I am so tired of the tone of these articles and their use of this cheap tactic, you are correct that there is no benefit in the removal of an option that really had no negative effect. Sure these lawyers exploit the system to make fat bank, but the companies do institute change. Though sometimes this change is to remove options so their consumers don't exploit them to enact a class action lawsuit, the change is more often so that the companies don't exploit us.

While Valve is absolutely right that individual claims are almost always much better for both parties involved, they enact change less frequently.

I will not state a call to arms, because that is not my business. I will not infer a nationalistic duty to fight for your right (to paaaaaarrrrrrtay), because that is your choice. I'm just sharing an opinion, apathetic as it is.

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@patrickklepek said:

@Stugoo said:

Patrick, you appear to have LaunchPad in your dock.

Crap! I don't know why. Leftover from Mountain Lion upgrade.

Patrick, you appear to be using Mac OS rather than Windows.

What's wrong with that?

Everything.

Nothing! Another Windows user puting down Apple, without having any real experience with it. So jealous of Windows best R&D house, which has always been an inferior copy job to me. Took a decade to get a half way decent copy on the desktop. The tablet? Well, a decade and counting. Thank god the iPad came around to give the tech sector some direction. Almost there!

Oh God, people, let's not go down this dark road.

Take it to Jamie and Adam's Tested if you gotta'.

@Brackynews: I find the Android app works well for general purchases and doing that kind of management.

I mean, if you're using it on a Mac, I don't know how that makes it better than a PC when it works exactly the same as it does on a PC, except you can't play all the games. I can also just use a Windows PC if we're going that route.

If your argument is portability, I'd say the iOS or Android app are your best bet. They have all the functionality of the big boy versions in regards to management, but they'll fit in your pockets.

@Scotto: It's not that the headers are there, it's how they read:

Hey, You Should Play This

Something about the style it's written in and the fact that it outright tells me what I should be playing/listening to/watching is entirely pretentious and hipster. It's a buzzword, I know, and it is often thrown around with little regard to its meaning, but that's the tone I get when I read it.

It's bothered me from the beginning, but like I said: it's probably just my own personal anus devastation, so don't pay it too much mind.

@Video_Game_King: You might be thinking of Adventure for the Atari 2600, which is in fact what @patrickklepek linked, but what he really meant was Adventure, the text adventure game that typically went by other titles, most officially "Colossal Cave Adventure", but "Adventue" is how everyone referred to it and how it became known as colloquially.

Or something like that.

I dig the feature, and you often have insightful stuff to say, and it's nice to see things I didn't know about, but the headers for every section bug the ever-loving fuck out of me. It's just so passive-pretentious-hipster-bullshit; it drives me quite mad: buttmad if you will.

I read through these every week, but a mere glance at those headers ignites my anal fluster every time.

If you ask me, I'd rather give up an IP if the product is made and done already. Personally, I have a distaste for sequels most of the time, especially if the first product is exactly the way I liked it. Let the publishers have the IP so I don't have to be a one note artist, and so I can go on and make whatever I want later. Stagnation is bad for this industry, and if creative heads only want to iterate on the same concept and setting over and over, then publishers will let them.

That said, Sony is not in a position to push hard like that for indie games that generally end up being smash hits. They need more heavy hitters to be relevant when they're in second or last place. However, had Sony gotten this game, I don't think it would have been as big, since most people don't care about games released on current Sony devices, regardless of quality, due in part to the way this generation has been playing out, and to the fact that Sony doesn't quite push enough. They need to put those Indie games at the same level of huge blockbusters, because that's really the best thing they have going for them.

Microsoft has the mainstream captivation. Sony needs a firmer grip on the Alternative audience. Sony's Android to Microsoft's iOS.

@Undeadpool said:

@King9999 said:

@Allison: IMO, linking anything from Kotaku should be a crime in itself.

I disagree: it's the easiest way to circumvent their front page, I think he should get a damn medal.

Personally the best method I've seen is for someone to just screen cap the page and then copy the text into a paste bin.

When a blogger writes articles like these, they're just aiming for all the negative hits, because regardless of the feelings of animosity, it drives up their numbers with current controversy and they get paid more. It's journalism that's worse than even those gossip rags you find in the super market, because those rags don't pretend to be something that merits any intellectual value, whereas Kotaku . . .

I really detest all of this politically-driven bullshit about women and games. It's fucking disgusting to me that an entire group of journalists is so ready to leap into a group of barely-feminists' arms simply because they are women.

You see one group of children shouting obscenities and slurs and you are too damn afraid to look at every side of the picture. Either you're an INTERNET ASSHOLE or a GLORIOUS NEW-AGE FEMINIST HERALDING IN THE NEW ERA.

The fact that all these would-be-feminists get a free fucking pass because they are women completely undermines the true nature of feminism in the first place.

I would love to see one professional journalist, JUST FUCKING ONE, take a moment to look at the big picture and analyze from all angles, not be afraid to criticize a woman, and come to a realistic and thought-out conclusion, even if he/she still sides on the pseudo-feminists.

At least then it would be an educated opinion instead of a shouting of holier-than-though platitudes of "This needs to stop" or "Gaming needs to grow up."