Same people that think if you slapped rich people with 90% tax rates they'd just suck it up and pay it out of their own pockets.
None of them took to the streets when American factories were closing to make Wall Street an extra buck.
"You'd sell your mother for a nickel" used to be an insult. Replace "mother" with "your countrymen" and it's Harvard Business School first semester.
I knew the indexes would drop but I never imagined they would fall so much. I think we all knew "fuck the US" was part of their profit plans but it's really shocking to see exactly how much of the profits are built from this.
The reality is that the price was decided no less than 3 years ago.
No company just cuts R&D loose to build whatever. There is always price at the heart of the design (cost + profit). There are compromises that can nudge things north or south, but that stuff was already hashed out before even the Republican primaries.
And Nintendo's pricing strategy is less a symptom of the economy and more about Nintendo not having "games people" in charge. Furukawa's ascension to president basically sealed the deal. No games experience other than accounting.
Argument with leftists:
"Why would they make them in the US, they're a JAPANESE company!"
They make their shit in Vietnam.
"It takes too long to build a factory!"
Nintendo doesn't own that Vietnam company, they contract. Foxconn owns it, I think. Anyway, there are loads of EMS companies that would probably offer excellent pricing to be THE Nintendo OEM in the Americas, like Jabil, Benchmark, Key Tronic, Zytech, and more.
"American workers cost too much!"
Suddenly the left doesn't care about the working man's plight, working in deathtrap SEA factories for slave wages and aging out at 35 due to cancer.
supposed Cons are just as retarded as Libs when you bring up race
Where did you think the recent bloom in numbers for "conservatives" came from? Anyone post-2015 joining are liberal ex-pats for whom their side got too crazy even for them.
But their ideas on race, religion, and rights are still the same libtarded opinion as they've always been: race doesn't mean anything, fuck Christianity, and women need more of them, in that order.
Democrats can't discern between truth and claims. You either are a citizen or you are not. Claims don't change factual truth.
But I guess nobody should be surprised because we're now a decade plus into "my truth, your truth"
I didn't, but only because I expect it's a false bottom.
hoping someone listens to you is not a business strategy.
Did they even ask? I know, I know, urinalists didn't bother investigating. But such large companies, that contribute much to their countries, surely can do more than just hope.
It wouldn't surprise me if those conversations did take place, but TDS prevailed so they're going to be steadfast.
I like how the thought of lowering tariffs against the US to get a reciprocal lowering of tariffs from the US doesn't even cross their mind.
Everything is on the table, except not fucking the US.
When I would buy consoles, I would generally not connect them to internet. This was to prevent a cool exploit being discovered that I wouldn't be able to try because it would have auto-patched.
At least with the games I thought I might enjoy and purchased, being disconnected meant they couldn't detect an update was required and would still run. That said, my style of game hasn't been AAA bugfests for quite a while. Sometimes they would beg and whine that I should join PSN or something like that but they're dismissable.
(full disclosure: I don't remember the console exactly, but I do recall getting a system update baked into a game that installed itself anyway, despite being perpetually disconnected, so discretion is still advised.)
Pirat_Nation (like him or not) raised a point recently about how the casual piracy culture of the Napster/Limewire eras have turned into feverish corporate dick-sucking.
If anything, modern concepts of "you don't own it software as a service" already make the case that piracy IS the moral and ethical option.
I don't think anti-piracy messaging has been that effective (certainly not more than anti-drug messaging), so I do think there's a connection between the modern day virtues of obedience and boot-licking, particularly by NPCs, and slop like you describe.
The game carts are empty, except for a game key. All games are now download only, with a fancy DRM version of code-on-card.
It wouldn't be surprising to me if the codes then get locked to the console and used games will now be a thing of the past.
Nintendo was the one to break the download-only cease-fire in the console space. Never let the fanboys forget this one.
Same happened to me when they stole Bayonetta
Kid sounds pretty successful. Don't know why he wants to fuck it up by going to Harvard.
MAGA: Make Art Great Again
That's one way to get your 15 minute city
Since games are now not even feature complete on release, you can't buy anything from anyone you don't actually trust because they can troon out on a dime.
It just took so freaking long.
Menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> hit water level gem -> WAIT
The challenge was actually sitting through playing it instead of figuring something difficult out
"Indigenous people"
People on the right hear "Indigenous people."
People on the left hear "non-White."
Supreme Court has been a joke since Wickard v Filburn. Maybe even longer than that but I'm already angry enough.
Oh no! The first time government has ever fucked up ever!
"Leave criminal street gangs alone!"
Entire buildings have their elevators switched to sabbath mode where they run the entire day, occupied or empty, automatically moving to and opening doors on every floor.
I've unfortunately worked in enough places to know you gotta hire like 3 or 4 jeets to replace someone who actually knows their shit. It's truly pathetic.
On the other hand, a moral panic that suggests men can just take over at any time is a good reminder to all men that you can just take over at any time.