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by pfisch 8y ago
I seriously doubt this is true. Porn makes up like 20-30% of traffic and searches on the internet. Even if only 10% of users are paying it would still be a very high number of transactions.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Too many people don't care. Just look how many people are plugging away at AI even though it could easily lead to extinction level events. Even before that people were making the H bomb and even other smaller scale weapons. Too many
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by pfisch 8y ago
> There's no evidence they've done everything in their power to eliminate grey market transactions. It's in their power, for example, to remove transferability of items (or maybe just items from loot boxes, though I'm
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by pfisch 8y ago
Even the present would be mostly unrecognizable to someone who lived 1000 years ago. 1000 years from now will certainly be even stranger to us.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Mostly what mmt1 said, but also what you are describing is against the tos of steam. They have done everything within their power to make this not legitimate. If an operator buys a game that normally gives out tickets and uses it as an ille
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by pfisch 8y ago
> what about when the Google assistant near perfectly mimicked a human making a restaurant reservation That seemed pretty staged.
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by pfisch 8y ago
"it's likely 1000+ years away." That seems like a pretty high number when you consider the exponential rate of technological advancement. 1000 years in the future is probably going to be completely unrecognizable to us given
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by pfisch 8y ago
> I thought it was well established that there is value and that, in some cases, it could even be "legitimately" (even according to the rules of the game provider) traded for real-world money. I have never heard of any game pro
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by pfisch 8y ago
What is that websters? That is not the legal definition of gambling, and all court decisions on the subject clearly indicate that gambling requires real cash value to the prizes and not just entertainment that has no actual value. Loot boxe
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by pfisch 8y ago
I think it is more clear that a CCG is a form of gambling. Loot boxes do not give you anything that you can redeem for cash.
551.
by pfisch 8y ago
Let me clear it up for you. The entertainment you derive from a scratch lottery ticket is not the "prize" element of gambling. The prize is the money you win from the scratch off. Gambling devices pay out a prize that is worth a
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by pfisch 8y ago
This has nothing to do with whether it is gambling or not.
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by pfisch 8y ago
No, that would not be the appropriate comparison at all. That is the comparison that is more similar to loot boxes, but not to the definition you have decided upon. Loot boxes give you variable entertainment, but for that to be gambling you
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by pfisch 8y ago
You seem to have accepted that loot boxes are a form of gambling even though that is not really the agreed upon legal definition of gambling.
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by pfisch 8y ago
> Loot boxes are using addictive techniques to encourage people to spend in an irresponsible manner, should be considered gambling, and should be regulated. Gambling should be considered gambling. If paying for variable and unpredictabl
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by pfisch 8y ago
I'm not fear mongering at all. I was there for like 3-4 days and had upwards of 3 encounters with people attempting to separate and rob my group on the metro. That is insane. I'm not like some country bumpkin either, I am from N
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by pfisch 8y ago
If you just walk in looking like a tourist to almost any metro car in barcelona people will attempt to rob you. I have never been to a place with so much blatant crime and I am from New Orleans. https://www.worldnomads.com/
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by pfisch 8y ago
When att makes it free to use their video service and not free to use everything else, that hurts unestablished players. Net neutrality also helps users. Do I really need to explain how?
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by pfisch 8y ago
You are both getting into a weird sort of definition fight here. Pay is a reflection of market demand, not the monetary value you bring to a company which is not easily quantifiable. Walmart wouldn't function without someone at the reg
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by pfisch 8y ago
Outlawing the sellers creates more and bigger problems than the users. Large parts of south and central america are awful places because drugs are illegal in the US. Drug and alcohol prohibition create massive cesspools of corruption that
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by pfisch 9y ago
That is bullshit. I'm sure there are already 100 other sites doing this. This is like shutting down piratebay. No one really cares except the owners. As if you would shut down your very profitable human trafficking business because b
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by pfisch 9y ago
I mean this proposal is sort of ridiculous. There is just no chance this is going to happen at all. Stopping global warming is far less ambitious and we clearly can’t do that.
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by pfisch 9y ago
They release less than 2 a year most years
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by pfisch 9y ago
TV show episodes aren't released years apart. TV seasons are.
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by pfisch 9y ago
j-walking, at night, no reflectors, in the dark. Even if the camera was brighter uber isn't at fault anyway....
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by pfisch 9y ago
The 1st reason you listed here was basically corruption by drug makers and hospitals. Single payer would exacerbate this problem even more. Right now medicare can't lobby for drug prices. How that level of blatant corruption could be
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by pfisch 9y ago
freecreditreport.com
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by pfisch 9y ago
They also don't have cartoons where the hunter gets the rabbit, or the coyote gets the roadrunner.....
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by pfisch 9y ago
The truth is this is really a populist movement of gamers who don't like lootboxes for reasons unrelated to gambling or addiction. They only latched on to this addiction/gambling argument because it suits their purpose. Very sim
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by pfisch 9y ago
Why do you think it will be legal for a truck to operate without a driver anytime soon? I mean that is possible but I'm skeptical about us being that shortsighted with so many jobs on the line.

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