I really like this PBS Spacetime video, which is at least a little related. Great channel for diving into these subjects further, but in a more casual way than a textbook.

Wow. I’m so used to this comic being presented from a left perspective that I completely missed what explodicle was actually saying.

ohmygod ilovethis

I’m not gonna go looking for scans or anything, but KnowYourMeme lists the popularity of this one as starting between 2013 and 2015, and I definitely remember seeing this phrase in a textbook around 2010 or 2011. So honestly, I might blame Pearson or McGraw Hill.

Now thar be a question for the mushrooms.

Cum is produced for the orgasm, so the trick to a big load is to have like seven simultaneous orgasms.

You could start by setting up different porn videos for each of your eyes.

Yeah. See, the real 1984 is when a guy in a tweed coat beats you up while saying things like “2 plus 2 is 4” and “5 times 9 is 45” because then you learn to hate correct answers.

But imagine for a moment a world in which a flash dance mob can erupt in the middle of an Ohio mega-mall to confetti, jazz-hands, and live music specifically to convince you, the one standing in the center of a See’s Candies, that clean water is good actually and the city could do a bit better maybe about keeping it that way.

Yeah, that would be the ideal protest. Chocolate and a show. Some good wine, also, they should do that too.

I have since bought stock in some road surface producers

1, I don’t believe you.

2, cuck shit.

“Oh~ a guy mugged me, now I’m actually pro murder, yep, that’s me, I love killing people now, la la la”

Nooooo-ho-ho-ho, no it does not. You can justify a lot of evil shit with that line of thinking.

Nobody’s safety is at risk here

Correct. Very astute.

but the solution is simple: don’t pay for it.

Sure. But of course, the point of doing that is to suggest to companies that this is naughty behavior. This is naughty behavior, isn’t it?

This is kind of off topic from “people should stop pre ordering video games”, though.

It is. I just pegged them as libertarians, and I was right.

If I’m being honest, I thought they would have perceived the bait and pretended to care about public health, but alas.

During the third or fourth time I was mad that 3D hadn’t taken off like technicolor, I though “fine! I’ll just look at trees and hallways in real life then!” And yeah, it kinda works.

There’s a lot of beauty in the world if you just, you know, look at it.

the people making these things will just innovate around whatever the regulations are

This is why I asked if you think laws are useless.

And yeah, casinos and whatever will skirt the laws (if they’re able), but the point of regulating a practice is to keep things from getting out of hand.

Predatory gambling games are basically just fancy theft. You create games that are unwinnable, and then you goad suckers into taking the bet. It’s regulations that keep a lot of them even marginally fair.

This is a behavioral problem,

And what of the business’ behavior? Should we not teach them to be better?

That’s where I’m coming from. Save the legislation for truly important things

I don’t disagree, but I feel you’re kind of assuming everyone is capable of rationally engaging with these stupid games. It’s the irrational ones I worry about. Loot boxes and gambling addicts, for instance.

That said, though, the validity of blaming companies for the bad decisions they make knowing they’ll catch so many fish in their net is all I’m really here for. I’ve no idea how I’d “regulate early access” or if that’s even worth doing.

Oh wow, I really riled you up.

the real problem is the idiots who are paying.

I mean, I think that this is contentious enough to be worth picking apart.

I can’t imagine calling someone an idiot unless I thought they kind of deserved what was coming to them. It’s this schadenfreude you seem to feel that I take issue with.

I’m especially curious about that one.

Oh, that would be this, actually:

demonstrates more contempt for one’s fellow man than decreeing that they shouldn’t even be allowed to make their own choices.

You are, for some reason, arguing against the concept of rules. I never asked you to do that.

I see the word commission in a lot of your art posts. Do you draw? It’s good stuff.

A plastic casing over a table saw “limits what choices a person can make.” This is a very anti-covid-vaccine argument you’re making.

But that’s fine. I suppose being victim to an unregulated casino means you deserve to rot in Rancho Charleston or whatever.

Wow. I wasn’t expecting so much contempt for your fellow man.

And any consumers who, in such a situation, do not say no to a bad deal have nobody to blame but themselves.

Do you suppose that choosing not to wear a seatbelt, a very bad deal, should be left entirely up to individuals, um, “stupid” enough to take it?