I can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.

OH, are they maybe talking about all of the inflatable animal costumes worn by protesters in the US? There’ve been a lot of pictures of that recently due to the No Kings protest over the weekend.

@OP If this is what you mean, it’s part of a protest movement. It’s a symbol, and it’s making a mockery of the narrative that the protesters are violent extremists. It was popularized by one individual in a frog costume standing up to riot-geared police, and it took off in a big way last weekend all over the country.

Because we find it enjoyable; what more reason does anyone need to engage in an activity?

If your space is conducive to it (and if your motivation is just to game with your feet up, not actually to travel with the handheld), have you considered just getting a decent sized TV and mirroring the laptop’s primary monitor to it (and putting it in front of an armchair or whatever) so you’ve got somewhere to game that isn’t at your desk, but doesn’t require buying a whole new PC?

I play D&D whenever I can find a group to play with, and kobolds have long been my favorite ‘race’ to play as, so I’ve accumulated a collection of kobold characters. Many of the folks I chat with online know me through that lens, so I made it my online identity. A coterie of kobolds, if you will.

Plus, the mental image of a group of kobolds sitting in front of a computer - maybe with one on the mouse and two on the keyboard, typing away together NCIS style, amuses me.

How much bullshit would you propose we put up with before developing an opinion about someone? They got banned, then made a new account and came here to complain about it with frankly juvenile rhetoric and while throwing insults at mods. That’s all I need to form an opinion of someone. If they want to change that opinion, they’re welcome to take steps to do so.

Username checks out?

I know nothing about the situation that resulted in the ban and won’t comment on it, but based purely on your attitude and rhetoric in this post, I’m inclined to think that it was warranted and that, honestly, we’re probably better off without you.

Nothing, it’s a new account that’s clearly created to advertise, look at the name.

Elder Scrolls games by and large suck out of the box. The prolific mod community is what makes them worth buying / playing. I’ve got a few hundred hours in Skyrim and I’ve never actually finished the main storyline. Don’t know how it ends, don’t care.

Mistborn books 1-3 would make an absolutely fantastic 3-season show.

Her best card, in my opinion, but still janky because of the shard mechanic. It limits how many of her cards you can reasonably run in a deck which I just dislike. Great game, though!

Just wish her cards weren’t so janky!

The X series (X3 and X4 in particular) might be fun. Very sandboxy. The late-game turns into more of a management game than a ‘fly around blasting stuff’ game, but you don’t have to go that route if you don’t want to.

He did at least once; he streamed it and had no idea how to play the game, spent hours in silence being heckled by chat.

He should make it interesting. Pledge, say, 300 billion to a number of humanitarian charities if he doesn’t succeed in making a highly reviewed AI game in 2026. Put it in an escrow account in the meantime.

He should absolutely try it anyway. Maybe after the Fed mints those coins with his face on it. Just give him a room full and let him dive in head first.

…which makes it so baffling. They could buy a lot of goodwill if they just made the store more consumer-focused, even if they earned less from it in the process. But no, they have to just commit whole hog to just being the worst.

Spyware cum!

Ah, but you have heard of them!