GeneralSwitch2Boycott

Do you remember that NYT article arguing that centrists are basically fascist? They hate democracy more than "left" and "right" and view themselves as philosopher kings.

I don't think it's 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.

Was looking up what the FAAT, FABT, etc. codes for Turbo CD game rips meant because some games have multiple rips and I guess Redump has these versions labelled for thoroughness even if the actual data on the disc is the same. Found a Reddit comment where a guy is literally just making up what FAAT, etc. mean saying FACT is factory-stock, FABT is FAN Audio Bootleg Translation, etc. For all the codes. It sounded like bullshit when I was reading it and then see someone else explain that's it's actually factory printing codes and that checks out.

Check out the liar's profile and he's a gamer-misogynist piece of shit as usual, commenting on porn subreddits and all that. Don't know what it is about retro game subreddits and attracting these freakish liars, I've encountered this before where they just straight-up lie about things they know they don't know like if a recently released video game prototype will work on a stock console or some such. You're not even getting attention for your shit, dude. You got no upvotes for this.

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.

Read a different book. Watch a different movie. Play a different game.

It was a repeated claim/sentiment by The Wallstreet Journal, Bret Stephens (on NYT), and Nate Silver. Also apparently Adams was repeating this claim himself in a victory speech at some point.

It's me. I'm Mall.

I still don't get the scalper fear. Especially from consumers. Nintendo has millions of these things made and can keep pumping them out, it's not a one-time concert. Do we have numbers of how many PS5s were actually getting scalped?

I'd think market volatility is playing a part but since they're not discounting digital games literally at all when they should be scalper and tariff-proof I think it's Nintendo riding Switch1 success high alongside the premiumization of hobby goods generally with smaller sales at higher rates of profit and less risk.

Edit: as of 2021 it was estimated that 157,000 PS5s got scalped via eBay and StockX, which was like 10% of the initial stock for the first 3-ish months. Honestly doesn't seem like it was that big of a problem outside people being impatient. I know the scalping situation with the Switch2 would be worse because of the increased profit margins since they'd be competing against the USD MSRP from a lower standpoint and can afford to drop the price lower and lower until hitting USD MSRP levels and buy more initial stock, but still.

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.

No Such Thing and Trust by Hal Hartley. Hot Fuzz.