GeneralSwitch2Boycott [none/use name] @ GeneralSwitch2Boycott @hexbear.net

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Debt cannot be destroyed, only transferred. Like the curse ailment in Dark Souls.

Tell them you need to put them in the labour camp to get the nation out of debt.

A diplomat and his family were tragically killed last night when an expired Plasma TV detonated in a home in the North Greely Estates. Police say, "sometimes plasma TVs will just do that." Experts say it's time to get an American-made OLED TV.

I've bought 3 CRTs in preparation for the coming Years Of OLED political strife.

He is not, in fact, good at games.

The Redditoid vote-addicts making it seem like everything would be fine with Harris is so fucking annoying. No reason to read Reddit comments.

I thought that was like a wireframe Boo from above for like 10 seconds.

Not sure if I disagree or not. Sorry if I'm seeming pedantic. I guess it's denial.

I don't think it's purely denial but uh, what's that term for when you project a series or umbrella of things onto a single thing as like a form of psychological sublimation (don't think that's the right term either). It's like synedoche but in reverse I guess? (EDIT: scapegoating I guess?) people are refusing to refer to the entire phenomenon and instead fixating on one example pretending the rest don't exist. People can't actually pinpoint the price of a lot of commodities, they just kinda' know that they got less food in their grocery cart or they're bank account has less money. Eggs and gas prices are the only thing I can think of, maybe meat-by-the-pound and milk too. Video games, at least console games, have had pretty clearly pegged prices and seeing that happen is just more obvious to people, especially when it's going from 69USD to 70-80USD than eggs going from $3-5.550 or whatever. People also have the option to not buy a video game whereas they're more powerless about food prices so there might be more political will to complain about it, especially when it's even more obvious that the game prices don't need to go up and Nintendo can't even bother to give excuses why whereas the dairy, meet, egg lobbies have propagandists throughout society saying why prices go up sometimes.

Edit: Might also partially be that video game prices jumping strikes into the middle-class consumer bubble more than food prices. Also kids and younger folks living at home are consciously affected by the game prices because they might spend their allowance, etc. on it while they're not usually buying groceries so there's probably more young people talking about game prices on social media than slightly older, more responsible people.

This is the answer.

Also, you can see people empathize a lot more with Nintendo than they do the people buying and playing the games. They enjoy putting themselves into Mr. Nintendo's shoes and how they'd price games and make profit in the company. They do not enjoy thinking about if they were poor and couldn't afford it at all.

Yeah, it's what anti-marxist and anti-intellectual society does. The most energy someone will put into an internet argument is repeating a fake stat they saw someone else say on social media. And the $90USD price people kept repeating incorrectly.

It's me. I'm Mall.

I can't remember who described social democrats as liberals in a hurry, but the US is double-fascist with the Republicans being fascist in a hurry.

Can BDS get Nintendo added to that list?

Yeah, it's like hubris mixed with group psychology (a lot of "we's" gettin' used) mixed with weird (over-)entitlement. Also see it be used in a semi-ableist way were people say it'll be some autistic person who cracks it (either custom firmware or emulation) and stuff and they'll just wait for them to do all the work for them. Like autistic people are their treat servants.

Online gamers are like this with Denuvo and video game DRM and piracy stuff too. As if piracy hasn't gotten harder in the past 30 years and people are torrenting less and less. People used to distribute Amiga game cracks on floppies pretty openly and now you need to get a VPN or get on private trackers sometimes . We are not winning right now. We can't even convince people to play the original Paper Mario: TTYD, a lot of people demanded it be ported to Switch before they'd replay it or try it for the first time.

@dril
age 0 (baby): I want my Dada .
age 25 (Millennial): I want my Data
Do you see how fucked this is?

CGP Grey but even more neolib somehow.

How I envy their ignorant bliss right now.

Probably about video game prices once the Switch 2 game price news hits them.