Rare cards are only worth real money because there is a secondary market for them.

As I understand it, the same is true for lootbox drops. The only difference is in how rare an item actually is, but that is also reflected in price, since the resale is entirely market driven.

You could say that Valve rigs the drop rate, but you could say the same thing for Magic. It’s all manufactured shortage.

You could say that Magic items are tangible…but honestly I don’t see how that’s an argument in the modern digital-first era.

I’m not trying to defend lootboxes…not directly, at least. Just trying to understand the hypocrisy in the gaming community comparing these two.

BREAKING: Liberal media is closer to mean.

–Fox News

What’s really funny is that the only thing I even know about Barbara Streisand is that picture.

The Streisand Effect has immortalized her to a whole new generation.

I was hoping for a reenactment of Our American Cousin during halftime, myself.

I get the hate for lootboxes, but as a casual who hasn’t played PC games in forever…what makes the lootbox mechanic any worse than CCGs?

Couldn’t it be said that MtG and other CCGs have been guilty of the exact same thing since their inception?

Sure more Mel Blanc episodes would be great…but I think you have to realize a couple of things…

1, part of what made Looney Toons great in his era was the writing and animation style. The animation style can come back, sure…but the writing is (probably) long gone.

The casual racism and stereotyping might be “acceptable” soon, but the level of cartoon violence has little room in modern family screen time.

2, part of what makes the greats “great” is the finite amount of work they’ve contributed to. This is as true for voice actors as it is for any other art.

Let’s look at a modern example…Jim Cummings is probably the biggest and most well known voice actor today. He’s had tons of memorable roles over the years and many of his characters are uniquely his, such as Monterey Jack and Pete (Goofy’s villain)…to the point that my kids are giving eye rolls when I say “Is that Jim Cummings”, look it up, and of course, it is.

Jim is in his 70s now and likely doesn’t have many professional years left.

The idea of having an infinite amount of Jim Cummings voice work actually sounds tedious. I love the guy and all his work, but if they use his likeness in AI for anything, I’d hope it be to gracefully retire his recurring characters…not immortalize him with infinite new content. That’s the type of sendoff a legend like him deserves. Not for his kin to hear him do things he never did.

Better than the early days of COVID when they were up in arms about having to smell their own breath.

cough.

Most governments are designed, intentionally, to move at a snails pace.

Historically this is a good thing. You don’t want waves of populism leading to super powerful leaders that turn the government on its head their first week in charge.

But our society is advancing way faster than we did historically. My kids world is a totally different one than mine…my world is totally different than my parents…their world is totally different from their parents. Before that, the world didn’t change that much in a generation or two.

As a species, we have to figure out a better way to work together than nation-states while also being able to smooth out the wild emotions of the general public. We have real-time information and communication now. We have the entire sum of human knowledge in a pocket-sized device. We need an overhaul…but not like this.

These scientists got a chill with the AI and surveillance tech and work on making a refillable toothpaste tube ffs.

They don’t know or care what DEI is. They just know that white men like themselves now have to compete with non-white non-men for jobs.

So now they have to make themselves marketable, or shut that whole thing down so they can go back to living in the boys club. And since self-improvement is “woke”, they choose the latter.

They get it fed to them during their 2 Minutes Hate and that’s all that matters.

It used to be Antifa. They were staunchly against antifa. You know what you call someone who is anti-antifa? Fa. You call them fa.

I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

I’ll leave this here…from 3 days ago: Teacher asks ICE to raid his school, says many students ‘don’t even speak English’