or make the parents be the casinos’ first line bouncers

Or, you know, we could just have bouncers on site. Such as a system which asks you to prove you’re older than 13 before you’re allowed to access it.

I mean, this sure is a lot of pontificating and wondering about how the legal system could ever handle such an absurdly vague and difficult task when it already seems to be doing that.

I’m going to invoke a comparison here that you’re not going to like very much. I promise, you shouldn’t take it personally.

I have had 1,000 arguments with fascists who looove tilting this way and that about how philosophically undefinable their behavior is. Zeno’s paradox, the ship of theseus, what really is a “casino” anyway? I’ll tell you this: I’m fine with 80% success. “Oh, but what if someone who is 19 but doesn’t have an ID is rejected by the system? They won’t be allowed to play. :(” Uh, that sucks for them. Oh well. I guess they’ll have to go back to Atelier Ryza.

I have too little power to do that,

Damn, that sucks for you.

but what can you do? lawmakers wont make laws …

You elect lawmakers.

just let me remind you that that happens offline, and it is provable if copies are not preserved.

Fascinating.

if someone cannot properly configure their phones, then they need to be made liable

So, this is exactly the problem I have with you and the other person. It’s this contempt you have for your fellow people. It’s extremely selfish. This isn’t how you talk to your neighbors. You’re not getting invited to any cookouts or block parties with this attitude.

If you and I can agree that children shouldn’t be in casinos, then they shouldn’t be allowed into the casino. I am open to your suggestions.

Wow. The world sucks then, doesn’t it?

No, you’re making it one to sidestep an issue.

If this bad parenting happens often enough to be a real problem, then whining into the wind that “no one has any common sense anymore,” or whatever you’re doing, isn’t a solution.

I do blame the game a little because it’s a game that really, really, really wants you to spend money on diamond gem funbucks.

Let me ask you this question, hm? You don’t want to show your ID even though we all do that for alcohol—fine. Why not: $80 up front, all banners are periodic DLCs, some of them free, there is more than enough korok seeds in game to get all of them, and they never expire—infinite time to twiddle your thumbs before completing them. Would this not solve your ID problem?

That is, unless you would like to spearhead this global movement to teach underprivileged parents how to configure their phones?

Okay. So argue about that then. What does bad parenting have to do with it?

Okay. So is requiring under-13s to ask their parents. I don’t see what the issue is.

Damn, got 'em. Actually, they deserve to lose $16,000 while raising a gambling addict because they didn’t pull up their bootstraps and micromanage everything their preteen does in “that colorful game they play.”

Mate, asking under-13s to get parent permission is provoking that good parenting you seem to care about anyway—what on earth is the problem?

Jarvis, explain to this man the concepts of “scale” and “size.”
Jarvis, rotate this man’s eyes ninety degrees clockwise.

That’s great. We can schedule it like heroin for professional use only, then.

Yes. Fuck the owners and fuck their machine guns.

ICE agents under the republican-elected Donald Trump’s republican administration arrested the wrong brown person, and after realizing this, said “take him anyway.”

This is it, possiblylinux. That’s the SS. We have the gestapo. There is no more “fiscal conservative.” There is no more “classical libertarian.” We are nazis now.

You can either be a classical american war hero and strongly oppose this, or you can be a nazi. Those are your options. I’m not saying this euphemistically. I’m not saying it as a metaphor. I’m not exaggerating for dramatic effect.

If you do not live in the US currently, and you do not want to be relocated to Guantanamo Bay or El Salvador, then you should not come here.

the cartoon implies that anyone who says violence isn’t the answer is lying/hypocritical.

No… it doesn’t. By its adversarial nature, it heavily implies the answers “no” to the first two questions.

Like, your main criticism is that the comic doesn’t make any sense if the answer to either question was yes, but that’s the definitive reason I wouldn’t read it that way.

A rhetorical question that you know (or are insisting you “know”) your opponent disagrees with is a very common language trick.

because it’s sort of how the food chain works,

If you’ll notice, it’s not very often a vegan advocates for cheetahs to stop eating antelope.

Then go and do that. I mean, what are you waiting for?

That was a good read, thank you. :)

You realize that costing more does satiate the greed a little bit, right?

Like, yeah, we all know that line-goes-up capitalism isn’t sustainable, but there are still other reasons call of duty has loot boxes and battle passes now.

We’re still talking about ~3 mil to ~150 mil. If the software dev costs for Mario 64 were closer to ~1.5 mil, what does that have to do with the argument being made?

You might like this video by PBS Spacetime. I’m not sure how this relates to your centrifugal force idea, but we do actually know a few things about “what gravity is” that are really interesting.

Human beings have a soul you can appeal to?
Not every single one, but enough.

Me too, man, I miss the 3DS era. I need to go back and replay A Link Between Worlds, at least.