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So... what game is it?

It's a shame they wouldn't fit in the 4th circle of Dante's description, really. Best fit would probably be the 10th bolgia of the 8th circle, which I guess is sorta' a multiple of four, somewhat. Is something, I guess.

I guess they could be shoved into an invented 12th bolgia?

Uh, enig? Today's friday, chummer.

Look, just... maybe next time leave them in the other room. Without line of sight to the printer. Maybe wrapped in tinfoil and in a leadlined box, I'unno how possessed warptech printers with a hunger for electronic peripherals work. Better safe than infested with technopathic nurgle pox.

I'unno, there's an argument that negative attention is better than none whatsoever -- at least the subject is noted and being spoken of, even if the riot itself causes negative sentiment. Opens the way for discussion and attention where there wasn't before. If these riots hadn't occurred, would gorram anyone be talking about the situation in baltimore at the moment? Would the non-violent protests actually garnered any note worth note? We have protests and pushback pretty regularly, from what I understand, and most of the time basically no one outside of the people protesting (and maybe cops or who have you that come in to abuse people a little for the jollies or whyeverthehell they decide to assault peaceful protesters) notice.

Riots are a helluva' lot harder to ignore. You can argue that they're ineffective for opening communication, but that's a question I'd personally say is not clear cut.

That said, as I've seen noted elsewhere, the violent folks involved in these things are usually a pretty minor, well, minority, of protesters. Most people up in arms aren't looting drugstores. There's people coming in to take advantage of what's happening, but that's far from most of the folks there. And there are people that are just pissed off and lashing out and whatever's closest.

As the aside, folks aren't really saying that rioting and looting is a legitimate expression of rage, just an expected one. Tellin' people that this is sorta' what happens isn't saying it's a rightful thing, just trying to convince people that, y'know, maybe we should try to avoid it reaching this point.

... if the numbers beth used was actually accurate (8% of purchasers using mods), that might be an argument to make, nenj.

And Ro, I've seen multiple modding communities that have experienced exactly what I was talking about. It happened to WC3 and Civ IV just off the top of my head, the latter within the last year or two. You do, actually, see patches come out for games with multi-year breaks in between, that play merry hell on established mods. It's a damned sincere concern, especially when the company is rolling out major changes to parts of their infrastructure (like providing for paid mods, or changing multiplayer methods, or correcting long-missed security holes, and so on, and so forth).

Welp. SOMEONE in the marketing department is getting fired.

Maybe, maybe not. Pepsi's been running the "Drink this and die" slogan for a while now. Mickey Boozerton may be here for the long haul.

The hashtag is definitely accurate, if nothing else. That appears to be their active campaign.