{"id":18013,"date":"2019-05-13T21:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=18013"},"modified":"2019-07-25T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T03:00:56","slug":"bethesda-plagiarism-pitchford-fit-loot-boxes-and-ea-line-of-sight-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/13\/bethesda-plagiarism-pitchford-fit-loot-boxes-and-ea-line-of-sight-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda Plagiarism, Pitchford Fit, Loot Boxes, and EA! Line of Sight #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0Qv592nTZo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight #12! In the last we saw a ton of news come out so it was difficult to pick through which topics to cover. We ended up deciding on Bethesda and the plagiarism of a 2016 D&amp;D Adventure Module \u201cThe Black Road\u201d, we\u2019ve also got the recent Randy Pitchford nonsense over the Borderlands 3 claptrap voice actor, Loot Boxes and Pay 2 Win legislation proposal, as well as EA blaming marketing for the failure of Anthem during their Q4 2019 Earnings Call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight #12! 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