They don't just shoot more people. They shoot massively more people. We're talking orders of magnitude. That means that dealing with US police officers - especially for people of color - is significantly more dangerous in the US than in other countries. Thus why they would not want to call them in a crisis situation.

The phrase is "A few bad apples spoil the barrel". Not "A few bad apples don't count against the others". Defending their worst members makes the entire blue gang complicit.

There's plenty of jobs more dangerous than being a cop, but you don't see those getting the supposed "respect" for the danger. Besides that, nearly half of all cop deaths are from their own reckless driving, not from any kind of violence. US police are massively under-trained and over-excitable compared to any other industrialized nation.

And we're 5-10 times higher than any other industrialized nation. Why are we comparing murder rates in the USA to third-world countries?

When it comes to law enforcement, the USA statistically looks like a third-world country.

Props for not posting anon, at least. Be proud of your backwards social stance. Cry it out loud, so people can better avoid you.

You want to know some of the biggest FPS gamers around? Deployed soldiers.

And isn't likely to happen in the near future, either, considering that they basically canned their entire hardware department for over a corporate culture conflict.

I have nothing at all against devs making this decision. I meant that *law enforcement* should be doing something about this. If someone made these threats over the phone, they'd be arrested. People need to get it through their skulls that the internet is not a free pass to do anything.

So start treating these as actual threats and prosecuting. This isn't 'obvious joke' territory like the stupid kid with a facebook post about eating hearts. Treat threats as threats. Maybe some actual consequences will clean up BS like this.

I am not an economist so I may be missing something obvious, but it sounds like your model has two possible economic models: 1) Take large personal losses for what is essentially a "labor of love" and shows you no return on your time... OR 2) Magic. I would actually love to be corrected here. What community are you speaking of and where do the funds to support it come from?

Fallout had the different Pipboy screens mapped to F1-3. Better than just tab, but only a little. Unfortunately, you needed mods to extend that any further.

There's nothing inherently wrong with cinematic games, though. Compare a snore-fest like LA Noire to the Mass Effect series. Both are very cinematic, but in Mass Effect, what you're doing feels like it matters. you're having fun because you're playing it. LA Noire was a barely-interactive 20 hour movie which ground onward inevitably with or without you.

This can easily be extended - with just as much basis in reality - that profit corrupts, regardless of the source. Or, to put it in a more classic phrasing, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Microtransactions are just the latest variety of profit that can be turned to profiteering.

Chance+opportunity+rationalization-risk = criminal action. Even a weak rationale is better than none. "I deserve this more than they do" "It's a big business, they won't miss a little profit" "I'm not actually hurting anyone" See: Software piracy on that last point. And yes, I'm referencing personal experience.