I wouldn't even call it holding value
If Nintendo can get away with not lowering their prices it is exactly that. I mean, as you said these games even have high prices on the secondary market. This wouldn't happen if people weren't ready to pay these prices.
Also: They have every right to demand any amount of money they deem reasonable. It's up to the customer to accept the proposal. As I always say: I will never blame the one that asks for ridiculous amounts of money for worthless garbage.
As far as I am aware the university cangoroo-courts were/are worse than only that. Like not accepting evidence that would help the accused to not even hearing him/his side.
But it's been some time since I read into it, so I might misremember.
There has been a push for some while to do away with mens rea in rape cases. Some countries are further along the way than others but it all comes down to redefining rape as something that doesn't need intent anymore. If a "victim" feels they were raped then they were raped (actually only female "victims" need to apply)
It's actually quite disgusting. But as society thinks rape is the worst crime that one can commit (seriously. You want to show that your villain is a monster? Have him rape a woman. Murder? I sleep. Rape? Serious buisness) we go along with it in the hope that we can prevent rapes. Even rapes that never happened. Especially rapes that never happened.
Unless we start to very seriously punish people that falsely and knowingly accuse someone of a crime (any crime) it will only get worse.
Yah, that was what I referred to.
Or Amazons AI for sorting out applications that actually apropriatly sorted out certain demographics (even when it didn't know what they were, afaik they didn't include things like sex or race)
I mean, pattern recognition engines are bound to recognize patterns. But these patterns make some people feel uncomfortable so we have to pretend they don't exist.
I'm shocked. Well, not that shocked.
In almost every field imaginable being female is the only advantage women have over men. Just like when they tried to remove gender from applications which lead to women getting less job opportunities.
But alas, when you believe your own hype (men as a group opress women as a group) you're bound to make this mistake.
We’re accused of being pedophiles and of grooming children.
Then stop pretending that shoving your sexuality in childrens faces is completely normal and should not be condemned? No?
We’re being accused of being a social contagion
Then stop harassing everyone that doesn't want to participate in your little fetish? Also no?
Well, you reap what you sow, good luck. Actually no, luck is the last thing I want you to have.
They spent so much time deluding themselves that they are the opressed ones that they can't fathom anyone thinking otherwise. A lot of them really believe that women are opressed when that's not even true in islamic countries (they may be opressed relative to their western counterparts but they aren't relative to 90% of islamic men)
Which means that while they think that questioning echo-chambers hurts their enemy it hurts them way more, because the establishment, educational institutions and MSM have turned into a giant echo-chamber that represses any dissent.
And when the combined power of the establishment, educational institutions and MSM come down on you, there's no way to be brainwashed enough to believe that these instituions are the opressed underdog.
Eh, I don't think it's wrong to tell children to clean their plate. It only ever gets a problem when you have no idea how full the plate should actually be in the first place and when you let the kids consume snacks and soda all the time.
I mean, most adults have no idea how full their plate should be. Serving sizes in restaurants don't help either.
It still shouldn't exist. We have way to many rules here. About 16 to many.