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I feel kind of bad for the guy who brought this lawsuit because his reasons are valid (even if his legal complaint might not be). Unlike the complainers who are upset about the costs of the game, or the ones who complain because it's taking so long, the developer literally changed course in development and is no longer creating the type of game he originally sold to the public. The plaintiff was expecting a game that he'd be able to play, but because of his ailment, he literally can't compete in that new type of game. For PR reasons, they should have just worked with him, but they took the asshole approach instead. And yeah, they're legally allowed to do that, but it's caused people, like me, to think there's no way in the world I'd give money to an entity like this. The plaintiff didn't sue the company because of the amount of money. I get the impression that he's not suffering a financial burden but sued more out of principle than anything else. But I still feel bad for him, which is never a justification a court has ever used for deciding in one's favor.

I'm putting my guess on Bob from Accounting.

Oh, that's cool to know. And I think we bought the same bundle, cause it sure sounds like it. Was thinking of buying one of the farming games, cause, well, I'm an old guy, and that's what old guys do when we're not chasing kids off our lawns.

That looks awesome. I knew it was going to be a high learning curve the second the trailer had me try to figure out my date of birth. Nonstop action AND remembering my birth date. That's awesome.

So, was thinking of buying an XBox One, and then just bought one during the Prime Day sale. So, any advice on games I should be looking out for? I figure if it's on PC, I've probably already got it, but any Xbox specific games out there that I've been missing out on?

The amazing part of this whole shit show is that it will be considered water under the bridge in a few days, and we'll already be onto something equally ridiculous and repulsive he's said or done that shows there's no hole deep enough to cause him to stop digging.

To be honest, she has a very short window to she needs to rehab her image. If the show launches without her, and it does well, she's forever gone. She needs to gain forgiveness (whatever that means) and then bounce back onto the show right before it's going to be taken off the air for ratings so she can "save" the show by returning after her "rehabilitation".

It's not just that. I suspect a lot of the problems of the Solo film were twofold: First, people were really pissed at Kathleen Kennedy and her attack on fans as some bizarre approach at serving the customers. When she did that, I just shook my head and said, yeah, that's gonna end well. Second, the whole allure of Han Solo is his mysterious background. That's the ONE character you DON'T want details filled in. People imagined his background, and they were happy with that. Any attempt to provide more information was going to get immediate responses, kind of like if someone decided to change any part of the story we do know about Solo, like maybe having the bad guy shoot first when we all remember him shooting first. Think of it this way. I always imagined that when Solo met Chewie, it was probably an awesome story. Seeing it kind of ruins it for me because I'm always going to assume it was a lot more awesome than Disney is going to make it.

I'm in the same boat. I have zero desire to play a game where ANYONE has the option to gank me just for the fun of ganking me. If I wanted to be ganked, I'd step outside into the real world where real gankers live.

It took them long enough. For the longest time, it seemed pretty obvious to me that the "mental illness" involved with the state of being transgender was the amount of backlash such people received from non-transgender people who treat anyone different as complete trash.

Surprise racism and racial attitudes continues to shock me no matter where I am when I experience it. A few years ago, I moved to Marshall, Texas to teach at Wiley College (an HBCU where The Great Debaters was about and filmed). Some random guy at a gas station struck up a conversation with me (cause I have military plates) and when I said I was professor at Wiley, he started in about this black guy here and that black guy there in the most racist diatribe I'd ever heard. But he assumed because I was military that I totally was on his side about the whole thing. The amount of hatred coming from this random guy shocked the crap out of me in a town where one of its largest employers was the demographic this guy seemed to think was horrible enough that he'd bring it up in conversation.

Yeah, employers have gotten really bad at actually communicating with those who apply. And they've always treated it as if they're the rock stars with the jobs and everyone else just has to do as they feel. I'm not all that upset that the ball is in the other court now. And I think far too many people are trying to treat this as an age thing (ridiculing millenials) when it's really not connected to that.

People are quite capable of producing all sorts of cognitive dissonance. In the end, if you're overweight, you're overweight.