How long until it's relieved he's paying for gay prostitutes or touching kids?

Edward Bernays is a bastard.

Also regular media.

Maybe because NYC(and LA) are stupidly over represented in the media.

Because you don't need critical thinking skills for a degree.

We may need to rewrite the constitution before this is all over anyway.

Neo Ranga is an old anime about how the Yakuza fund politicians. Guess what else the Yakuza fund? You could tell that anime had no budget.

Remember when schools were having a War On Christmas and removing all signs on Christianity and Christmas displays? So much that South Park made strawmen of the schools to make fun of. Pure projection.

Major game publishers aren't known for their good ideas.

I wouldn't be surprised if the game industry isn't also using bots to inflate the numbers to make people procrastinating not feel the need to contribute and make the petition look less valid.

Are you thinking of Columbine?

We have had that exact model for decades. Hosting companies use to and probably still offer rack space for arena shooters. The main company managed the master server, which was just a listing of IP addresses, but there were only ever a few official game servers with defaults loaded.

protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist

Nanny State BS. If someone runs a private server, it's their responsibility to moderate it.

and would leave rights holders liable.

No it wouldn't.

In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only

Unreal Tournament games are online or multiplayer only games. Even though Epic shut down the master servers, you can modify the .ini file to redirect to a community server. "Online-only" translates to predatory monetization models.

So twitter is going to be banned in Germany, right?

Egotism often translates to charisma and confidence, but falls apart eventually.

Also, a reminder, the "Con" in con-artist is short for confidence.

17 minutes.

But in short, PirateSoftware had a fall from grace for narcissism and with his previous opposition to the petition, became a "villain" to unite against.

uh, it's really easy to cut the valve stem on any car.

Shows how much I care about the output of either company.

These people think all compassion and "wokeness" is preformative because everything in their lives is preformative.

Well, the Gravemind is definitely not dead as it's mind resides in either the Domain or an adjacent dimension. Hell, the Flood aren't even sterilized from known infection locations. But like you said, the factions all have a clear purpose. Even the Flood in Halo 1, before the Gravemind was even introduced, were working towards a goal though consuming the minds of the species it encountered and fixing the Covenant ship. Hearing Cortana say that the Flood were fixing that ship was chilling. Zombies repairing an FLT capable spacecraft?!

A lot of my disappointment in 5 was how irrelevant and misleading the advertisement was. Nothing even remotely similar to this happens in the game. Hunt the Truth had so much better writing then 5 did. Let those people write a spinoff game.