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peak folio
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It took some imagination but I got into that a bit. croajirokek

rare coral
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Likely the internal staff did it. And due to the low budget opt for no voice acting over bad voice acting.

peak folio
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Either that or they just wing it.

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Either way is plausible

rare coral
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It's just frustrating because mobile gacha games seem to achieve more on similar budgets

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Granted the most recent major successes had far more.

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But the cognitive dissonce is what's getting me the most. I don't hate the company, I hate the double standard.

peak folio
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I’m just ornery that they charge the same as everybody who makes all the cutting edge stuff.

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More really since they never drop the prices ever.

rare coral
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I mean, When Mass Effect Andromeda launched almost 10 years ago. EA and bioware were rightfully pile drived harder than a Zangeif super.

peak folio
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That’s a much different sort of issue.

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But yeah

rare coral
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Cyberpunk came out, same thing, CDPR was strung out over the coals. Literally anything ubisoft excreted for the last few years. Square Enix took lumps after lumps for similar displays.

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TPC just seems immune though.

peak folio
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It hurts them a lot more because those products cost a lot to make.

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TPC can just sweep a flop under the rug and release a thousand other things.

rare coral
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I wonder how long the till good will is spent.

peak folio
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But the “big” titles with the new pokemon, yeah they can do anything they want. croajirokek

peak folio
teal iron
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Well doesn't most of their money come from merch anyway?

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Which even among the people who "boycott" the games there are a lot of Pokemon fans that will absolutely drop $200 on plush toys

rare coral
teal iron
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Although that begs the question of why even make games then

rare coral
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The best part is most of the collectors don't even like the new sets

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They only care for rarity or if its a "classic" Mon that's a chase

peak folio
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Pokemon ZA boycott is probably going to end up like the Hogwarts Legacy boycott

rare coral
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People are just choosing other games.

peak folio
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Hogwarts was the top selling game that year.

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First game that beat CoD in like what, a decade?

rare coral
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If you don't have the money to piss away on pokemon and another title. You'll pick the better looking game.

teal iron
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I don't imagine ZA will be the top seller this year but like I'm sure it's already a great commercial success

novel sun
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iirc it's listed #1 seller on Nintendo's e-shop already

peak folio
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Idk it’s saturating socials, that accounts for something.

teal iron
rare coral
peak folio
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I don’t think the overlap between Battlefield and ZA is that big.

teal iron
rare coral
teal iron
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It means that ZA has an advantage that a lot of its potential players are looking at only it as opposed to CoD which is competing with battlefield

peak folio
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But most people already decided months ago which game they want.

teal iron
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Pretty much

rare coral
peak folio
teal iron
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My friend has been planning to buy ZA pretty much since it was announced

rare coral
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I did that initially for the switch, and I barely touched it.

teal iron
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Now that I think about it that makes me a little sad they didn't get satisfactory to play with me

peak folio
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People buying more than one or two games a year is a minority.

teal iron
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I think there's a lot to unpack in that statistic but for AAA, with how expensive they are, it can absolutely be taken at face value

peak folio
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When they spend $500 on a system they aren’t gonna spend another $500 right now. They have something they’re eying for the short term.

rare coral
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I lost most motivation for my switch when all the switch exclusives came to PC

teal iron
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That's probably where the statistic comes from anyway

rare coral
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One of the first games I got was octopath.

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Then a few months later it dropped on PC.

teal iron
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Most people play almost exclusively AAA and there's hardly more than 1 or 2 AAA titles a year that a given person would ever want

peak folio
rare coral
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Same with DXM, came to Steam later and just runs better.

teal iron
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I will not acknowledge fortnite

rare coral
teal iron
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Everyone "playing" it is 100% an AI

peak folio
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Fortnite is an absolutely massive black hole game.

teal iron
peak folio
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Roblox is even bigger

rare coral
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"What games do you play? Oh those? I just play Apex"

teal iron
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Roblox isn't a video game they make a huge point of this for legal reasons

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And PR reasons

long shard
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??

peak folio
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||They just let people abduct your kids||

long shard
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my cousins want me to play fornite, altho i refuse

teal iron
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It's a "platform" for "experiences"

rare coral
peak folio
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At least Fortnite is much higher quality compared to roblox. 😆

teal iron
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And by platform we mean easy area to operate and by experiences, well
Call child protective services in advance

teal iron
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Is it a good video game??
No, it is not
You literally just walk for half an hour and then get almost instantly killed by a guy who happens to have a cooler color gun than you, while every player on the map exists as a walking advertisement for the latest micro transaction activity

peak folio
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But yeah ZA is most likely selling fine.

teal iron
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I actually use the word fortnite as a verb to describe the tragedy of walking for an unusual amount of time to cross a distance in a video game and then immediately killed halfway there

peak folio
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The vast majority of Pokemon fans are pretty loyal, says I.

teal iron
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Very much so

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But it did not give me the "this game is going to pop off" energy scarlet did

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Which I mean for this franchise a poor turnout is an indie's wet dream but still

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My prediction is that this game will struggle to outperform SV, and gen 10 will probably struggle as well unless something drastically changes

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And also some kind of time loop occurs to pad out the development cycle

peak folio
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Gen 10 will probably be fine.

teal iron
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It's important to remember that they could sell two Pikachu and a Geodude and the game would turn a 190:1 revenue:expense ratio making it a huge commercial success

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But like as far as their actual stats relative to each other I think it'll trend downward

peak folio
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It’s trended downward since the original up until the Switch.

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Then it’s sharply going the other way

teal iron
sage basin
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Today I just started boycotting indigo Park

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Sad too cause I love that game

humble parrot
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But...that game is free

sacred mango
peak folio
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I almost forgot something

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of

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critical importance

cloud crown
jaunty kraken
novel sun
woeful meadow
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I look for someone to play with I just started. Anyone pls

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I need a friend

lofty wind
peak folio
simple aurora
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The. What. Fan_flushed

tough comet
sacred mango
humble parrot
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🤨

sacred mango
solid sun
humble parrot
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<@&505995738564526080>

sacred mango
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Monke is actually fun mono_raise

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I think I'm cooked

cloud crown
lilac thunder
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how come everyone can post pics but i cant

humble parrot
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Because no one can post pics

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But you can post links

simple aurora
sand garden
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Another nice day of not using Linkedin.

prime agate
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He is me, and I am him.

zinc depot
zinc depot
lilac thunder
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btw light of motiram is that considered a knock off from horizon zero dawn yes or no ? i no longer trust pages from website slandering games xd

odd mesa
jaunty kraken
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full mountain
teal iron
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Wait, how, you can't be revived again if you die within a few seconds of being revived

simple aurora
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Though some said it's farming XP in some custom lobby.

simple aurora
teal iron
simple aurora
teal iron
brazen storm
simple aurora
cloud crown
simple aurora
sick flame
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🎈

wild mountain
rare coral
peak folio
simple aurora
rare coral
sick flame
peak folio
sick flame
peak folio
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Discord dropped the games because almost none of the nitro users were actually playing the games.

simple aurora
cloud crown
simple aurora
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Except two in that range.

peak folio
humble parrot
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Kyran horny

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Never thought I'd see the day

cloud crown
sick flame
peak folio
sick flame
night plume
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Their head went through the rock wall o.o

simple aurora
novel sun
simple aurora
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As in Grizzbolt Po.

peak folio
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1.0 will switch back to Unity

simple aurora
simple aurora
teal iron
peak folio
simple aurora
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Wasn't that the one where the CEO tried to charge some sort of royalty % from developers who sold certain percentage of games that used Unity?

peak folio
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The issue was they tried to charge for installs.

teal iron
leaden nova
peak folio
cloud crown
# simple aurora This should come back to 1.0. <:Cattiva_cool:1375324832241160252>

Nah what should make a comeback to Palworld, the OG mechanics that was originally in Palworld before Scroogendo went tyrannical, petty and litigious towards PocketPair for no logical and sane reason.

Meaning the return of glider Pals being used for gliding again, and the return of sneak attacks on Wild Pals from a slight distance from the player.

simple aurora
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Including summoning your Pals the old school way.

cloud crown
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As well as the return of the scrapped Pals, but with a whole new design that isn’t like actual Pokemon for each one.

peak folio
cloud crown
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Like for example Dark Mutant looking more alien-like but almost like Xenomorph and maybe be another Xeno pal like what we have already an be another Meteor-only type of encounter, Boltmane looking more lionlike and less like a Shiny Luxray from Pokémon, Dragostrophe looking more like a catastrophe causing dragon instead of being a Zoroark colored Reshiram, Colossal Whale just coming back but with some kind of resurrection requirement (revived like a fossil, but the required pieces being spread out all over Palpagos), Colossal Wyrm looking more Wyvern-like but with a wormlike head shape, Feathered Dragon making a return but with talon-like front claws, and the Cyan Wolf Cub still being Cyan-colored but more wolf like since Nintendo doesn’t own the concept for wolf-like critters.

meager condor
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I'm conflicted with wanting to get Legends ZA. I still enjoy playing Pokemon games, even the modern ones, but looking at everything ZA has to offer finally has got me asking "Do I want to pay $70 for this?" But at the same time, no matter what I do, nothing will change.

teal iron
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I mean you don't gotta make it some big moral issue

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If you want it, get it
If you don't want it, don't get it

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Only one group actually cares how you spend your money, and that's the IRS
BAHAHAHAHAHHA

hearty sonnet
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Or spend it on anything else

leaden nova
wild mountain
leaden nova
wild mountain
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Could tell you after playing it a lot of the features, and if they're nnot present, let you make the decision for yourself.

cloud crown
# meager condor I'm conflicted with wanting to get Legends ZA. I still enjoy playing Pokemon gam...

I’m think the same way, just so I can have more games for my Switch than what I have already for it, not as a means of showing support to Nintendo cause at the moment FUCK Nintendo but mainly cause I grew up playing Nintendo games and I don’t wanna stop playing Nintendo games just yet unless they give me an absolute logical and very gucci an very valid reason not to play their games anymore permanently.

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I will not mind becoming an Xbox boy, Sega boy or even a Sony boy if they ever cause me to prohibit Nintendo games in my home in the future when I’m in my own place.

peak folio
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I was like “maybe I’ll get the SV dlc if it ever goes on sale” and I never got it because it never went on sale.

meager condor
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Well the other thing is that there isn't really anything new to collect other than Alpha Pokemon. Legends Arceus at least had new Pokemon, but the Megas are items that will eventually end up in Champions when that comes out. And that's big for me now that I started going to official competitions. Thinking of also wanting to check out some other games like that new Digimon game or Expedition 33

peak folio
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Everyone says Time Stranger is fantastic.

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And Expedition 33 is probably in the must buy territory.

sacred mango
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Megabonk Chillet_hee

hearty sonnet
peak folio
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hoponmegabonk.gif

sacred mango
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A real man with massive aura Chillet_hee

cloud crown
# peak folio Everyone says Time Stranger is fantastic.

I know I’m for sure gonna be getting the Digimon Time Story game too but on Steam, as well as get that Sonic racing game on Steam also cause I heard that apparently the graphics for Sonic Racing Crossworlds or whatever it’s called looks so much more better on PC via Steam then it does on the Switch.

meager condor
peak folio
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Hard to say if a new game will go on sale or not.

simple aurora
meager condor
peak folio
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Cheaper to own a PS5 than a Switch 1.

wild mountain
simple aurora
sick flame
cloud crown
peak folio
simple aurora
meager condor
meager condor
simple aurora
solid sun
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that metacritic scores are lower for digimon than pokemon was to be expected since most of them are pokemon shills, but seeing pokemon not hit 90+ is satisfying.

meager condor
simple aurora
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Which I can bet definitely will backfire on them.

wild mountain
# sick flame https://fixupx.com/pkmncast/status/1978615417800155583

i personally gave a rating of 77 to the new pokemon game when discussing it with friends. graphically and performance-wise, the game is shit. Played on switch 1. Don't own a switch 2.

But it was still fairly fun and more so than scarlet and violet after the railroading finally lets you loose around the city and you begin unlocking more areas and features.

simple aurora
peak folio
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Don’t forget the DLC was announced before the game came out.

cloud crown
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I actually just got done watching the trailer for Digimon Story Time Stranger, and my interests in it are now piqued.

sick flame
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DLC spoilers @peak folio before released the game xd

wild mountain
peak folio
simple aurora
simple aurora
cloud crown
sick flame
simple aurora
peak folio
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I wouldn’t worry about NSO

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You’re either going to have it or you won’t, lumping that in with the cost of the game is weird

sick flame
meager condor
peak folio
humble parrot
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The DLC doesn't even have the content yet...

sick flame
humble parrot
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Right now, it's just the Mega Raichus and the content will come in Feb 2026....

peak folio
sick flame
meager condor
# peak folio Were they just referred to as expansion passes or were they detailed with live p...

I think one of the examples was the DLC for Breath of the Wild? Have the video here. Think other factor compared to before is just how expensive all their products are getting. https://youtu.be/AWOMO1Dz--o?si=orr-epIhNwc95mth

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peak folio
peak folio
humble parrot
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He was shocked they were claimed they did it?

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It was weird for me

cloud crown
humble parrot
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Like, terrorist claim attacks that kill people and just don't care.

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Why would someone hacking a company be any worse

sick flame
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I have to ask AI on Google, because I seriously don't remember which games also announced DLC before the game's release

humble parrot
cloud crown
humble parrot
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We were all desensitized by media spam

sick flame
peak folio
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Time Stranger has pending expansion passes, but they’re only listed in the deluxe and ultimate editions.

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Probably the only thing in the upsells that’ll have any meat.

sick flame
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3 infinity farm EXP, Gold, Materials dungeons cost $8

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as "separate" but they could add it to ultimate edition

peak folio
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That’s not the season pass

sick flame
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Song Pack cost $20

peak folio
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Yeah skip all the ultimate edition nonsense

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But the deluxe is $30 more for only the season pass

sick flame
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Is worth buy? Game + Season Pass?

peak folio
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That’s still $100 usd so depends how big of a digimon fan you are.

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But everything else is basically fluff

storm cypress
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the game is meh.
and i would even say near unplayable if you dont care about the story

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the combat i liked tho

sick flame
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There rest other type games digimon, not only Story

peak folio
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doesn’t care about story
buys Digimon Story
looks inside
Story

surprisedpika

sick flame
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Palworld Story

peak folio
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If only

storm cypress
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i did play the demo not buy it^^

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but most games you can just skip the story if you dont care about it.
that game is basically all story

sick flame
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Imagine that in Pokemon you don't read the dialogues and then you don't know where to go croajirokek

unborn mauve
storm cypress
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"come look at our 200 hour game"
-Removes all story talk
"its now a 2 hour game"

storm cypress
sick flame
peak folio
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MGS1 is like 30 minutes if you skip all the cutscenes

storm cypress
sick flame
teal iron
peak folio
sick flame
wild mountain
rare coral
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I hear skill issue applied all the time to game mechanics, but I feel like most of it literacy instead.

hearty sonnet
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Reading skill issue

silver pewter
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I probably saw the Game Boy games on the shelves though.

storm cypress
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shouldnt hide information for the game, in the same text box as uninteresting filler

peak folio
sick flame
deep idol
peak folio
solid sun
solid sun
hearty sonnet
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There are other countries than Japan?

solid sun
hearty sonnet
solid sun
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Digimon Story Cybersleuth has two games in it both likely going for 40+ hours each for completion. With rich story and Nokia. You must enjoy Nokia, if you are not enjoying Nokia we can not be tanoshi.

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I still need to continue Hackers memory, I started and then stopped lol.

sick flame
peak folio
sick flame
sacred mango
sick flame
sacred mango
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wack mono_sandbag

peak folio
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They better know what they’re doing.

sick flame
teal iron
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I mean the law is pretty clear

humble parrot
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What law

teal iron
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do I look like I know what I'm talking about az

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don't ask me questions that I'm not prepared to answer smh

peak folio
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DMCA takedowns are just something our platform effectively respond to automatically. Turning it into a fight will definitely escalate the whole thing.

solid sun
odd mesa
peak folio
sick flame
solid sun
teal iron
odd mesa
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I mean, idk, don't ask me. I just know how to solve problems, not how social interaction works yaeshrug_syl

solid sun
teal iron
solid sun
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Weak

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Should've had the foresight to adapt

teal iron
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it's actually a horrifically outdated format and is only still in use because (1) "gif" sounds funny to say and (2) every time someone tries to make something better they shoot themselves in the foot for no reason

solid sun
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Similar like dinosaurs, should've known to hide in some cave

peak folio
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They’re 256 color only, yeah.

humble parrot
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I thought it was because it sounded like the peanut butter brand

teal iron
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I think WebP and APNG were both supposed to replace it but they heard about this crazy strategy called losing and were like "wow"

novel sun
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Eventually I just accepted the unintended effects it had on my work as a "unique look"

teal iron
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What makes gifs give me grief is how awful the file size explosion is, and yeah the 256 color limit

peak folio
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why apng was never more widly supported is infuriating

solid sun
humble parrot
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Adobe

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?

peak folio
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But yeah GIFs were originally for Compuserv

teal iron
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APNG is Animated PNG and I think its problem was that some GENIUS thought it should be allowed to use .png like a static png because foresight doesn't exist at Computer People Meetings

peak folio
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The png people went full stupid with the animated format (mng or something like that) that was just some ridiculous horrible thing.

teal iron
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I think they actually

peak folio
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I believe Mozilla did up APNG but no one else touched it.

humble parrot
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Huh, nvm developed by Mozilla Foundation

teal iron
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Said it CANNOT use .apng, that it MUST use .png

glad needle
teal iron
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and this immediately ran into the issue that some computers would be extremely confused by an image called .png which has frame data

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Discord actually insisted you use APNG for stickers for awhile

peak folio
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Gifs have animated and non animated variants.

teal iron
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Yeah but it's safe, really, to assume it is animated

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It's not safe to assume a .png is static if it can be animated, and what these maniacs wanted was to introduce animted .png

peak folio
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In this day and age yeah because it’s silly to use a regular one now.

teal iron
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and the fact that you would give a file format that has a convenient acronym an extension that doesn't match it is just
WHY

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I think GIF people infiltrated the committee to sabotage it

peak folio
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Discord supports apng for stickers, I believe, but they’ll get large pretty quickly

teal iron
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They lobbied the government they actually have a cabal trying to take over the world with .gif

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Attempting to restrain human progress by limiting us to thinking in 256 colors only for animated images

peak folio
teal iron
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Because Congress makes a committee which then sabotages itself?

peak folio
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Pretty much

teal iron
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glorious

peak folio
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At this rate the government will never reopen.

sick flame
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Pokemon life simulator

peak folio
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Anyway apng

humble parrot
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Uh no

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In gen 5 there was a dialogue about pokemon and their "droppings"

glad needle
humble parrot
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Darumaka, specifically

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Wasn't dialogue, but the dex entry

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(It's gross btw)

meager condor
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Had it in Gen 7 too with Turtonator.

peak folio
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Pokemon Black:

When its internal fire is burning, it cannot calm down and it runs around. When the fire diminishes, it falls asleep.

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Pokemon White:

Darumaka's droppings are hot, so people used to put them in their clothes to keep themselves warm.

zinc depot
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what the f

leaden nova
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pokedex lore does get wild

zinc depot
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Bottom one is amber heard's spirit animal

peak folio
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Your punishment for not picking Zekrom

teal iron
solid sun
peak folio
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Velzula still has one of the best ones.

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-# I say “still” as if it wasn’t the most recent generation.

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Polemon Violet

Veluza has excellent regenerative capabilities. It sheds spare flesh from its body to boost its agility, then charges at its prey.

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Pokemon Scarlet

When Veluza discards unnecessary flesh, its mind becomes honed and its psychic power increases. The spare flesh has a mild but delicious flavor.

dense sluice
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humble parrot
jaunty kraken
hushed verge
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Of course nintendo fans will waste the money though

peak folio
hearty sonnet
teal iron
odd mesa
humble parrot
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Unless you use a debloater to remove it, it is

peak folio
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So I’m not married to the majority of them.

odd mesa
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No excuse, no mercy A_ScamTao

sick flame
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As with all monster catchers games

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someone even wanted to buy a game with 30 fps just to play it

unborn mauve
sick flame
peak folio
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That’s a spread

unborn mauve
hushed verge
sick flame
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possible

hushed verge
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Its embarrassing

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They see zero flaws if the jaundice rat is present

dense sluice
hushed verge
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The average mobile slop gacha game on lowest mobile settings look better

teal iron
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cringe

hushed verge
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Ghost of yotei is fire from what ive seen

sage basin
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It’s sad how people think all a game needs to be Is fun to justify it price.

sick flame
copper inlet
sick flame
sage basin
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Started boycotting indigo Park yesterday sadly

sick flame
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uhh?

copper inlet
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Uhh why though? Did I miss something?

sage basin
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Im in the middle of boycotting Nintendo and that also includes anyone that makes content of new Nintendo games

dense sluice
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X@sick flame hopefully that keeps working for you

sick flame
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Because I missed something

sage basin
teal iron
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???

sick flame
hearty sonnet
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Confuzzled

peak folio
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Told Rambly to gtfo, ig

sick flame
peak folio
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🤷‍♂️

sage basin
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The creator of indigo Park was streaming a new Nintendo game like I said I am also boycotting anyone that makes content on new Nintendo games

peak folio
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That’s rather much but you do you.

sage basin
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Sadly, this is what necessary to make our point that we are tired of Nintendo’s crap

sick flame
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So? There's nothing wrong with that, and generally everyone has the right to play and stream whatever they want.

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In general, the internet is addictive to the brain

solid sun
sage basin
sick flame
#

i mean few programs removed like microsoft store

solid sun
#

Sorta, if you upgrade from regular pro home version as is, it'll basically just be the same. If you install it fresh it will be debloated and you will have to get windows stuff yourself like photo viewer etc

sick flame
#

Do you think Nintendo cares that a few gamers are protesting? Nintendo fans still outnumber. @sage basin

peak folio
#

The sales will do the talking, that’s pretty much the long and short of it.

solid sun
#

I might do that actually, just upgrade as is, to keep my files and bloatware, cba to download that again, and that gives me enough time to figure out linux

solid sun
sick flame
sage basin
#

They are already financially hurting from this

peak folio
solid sun
#

Your neck? We tri-horns don't talk with long necks

peak folio
sick flame
sage basin
odd mesa
sick flame
peak folio
#

Walking awacs can be useful

copper inlet
#

Kind of a weird excuse to boycott an indie game dev, but whatever. I don't want to get political with this stuff, but everyone's entitled to their own opinions. As long as no one tries to hate on anyone playing like classic games from the company, or even having a profile picture just for show, then no harm done.

sage basin
#

Well, there are three different types of major movements to go against Nintendo right now so you can always pick your poison

sick flame
solid sun
#

Atlyss was "boycotted" because the characters were too well endowed

copper inlet
#

Or I can just go about my day normally and do my silly art projects to keep me busy.

copper inlet
sick flame
sage basin
#

If you care about games then you need to care what Nintendo is trying to do cause it will harm gaming

peak folio
#

Noo not mah gaems

sage basin
#

Cause if Nintendo gets their way, we won’t have platformer we wouldn’t have summon creatures like necromancers or rideable dragons in games

sick flame
deep idol
sage basin
#

This is why I am boycotting them and this is why my boycotting is this extreme cause this needs to stop

deep idol
sage basin
#

There are several groups that are trying to get these patterns appealed

#

I want to live in a day and age if I ever make a game as good enough that people really like it I would not need to fear Nintendo trying to sue me over it having summon skeletons or flying rideable dragons because of their BS patterns

#

Or jumping on a platform and jumping off of it

unborn mauve
hushed verge
#

Gregtech is so fun

wild mountain
teal iron
#

"far" is a strong word for going from 3.8 to 4.2

peak folio
#

It’s been out one day, let it settle

#

Could get lower/higher

jaunty kraken
boreal crow
rare coral
#

I keep seeing boycott here and there and I hear literally nothing about them going on, just that the game isn't successful.

#

Boycotts show up in media feeds because feeds thrive on drama. I think people are misconstruing a boycott with people choosing to buy something else more appealing.

humble parrot
#

Hmmm, yes. That's what I've seen too

peak folio
#

“Boycott” proper is organized. Right now that word is being used on an individual basis.

#

Which technically isn’t a boycott.

#

fwiw

rare coral
#

I'm not boycotting Nintendo, I'm just buying steam games instead because I'm a penny pincher. Chillet_hee

#

I've always been a PC gamer cause its cheaper in the long run, not because its superior.

peak folio
#

Nintendo somehow became the most expensive platform to own out of anybody

#

Unless you only get a few games over the years

rare coral
#

Only reason my PC is a beast right now is because I use the horsepower for non-gaming stuff.

#

And no, I don't train LLMs, I'll start caring when I can run a Digimon farm on my GPU Chillet_hee

peak folio
rare coral
#

Also, EDEN is just the Metaverse under UK law.

solid sun
tranquil obsidian
#

got greninjite in less than an hour so the "pvp exclusive" gems arent as scary as feared.
...i still dont like it tho

solid sun
#

Didn't people just flee because there is no punishment

novel sun
#

You can flee in PvP? Chillet_confused

#

I thought it was a relatively small circle where all the players are trapped and have to battle each other

mental summit
peak folio
#

You’re not obligated to buy things you don’t want.

mental summit
#

What if it’s not buying anything Nintendo…. I was gonna say even if it’s enticing, but damn there really isn’t anything huh?

#

Then yes, I don’t want Nintendo products

peak folio
#

If it’s enticing? I guess in that case it’s a fair point.

prime agate
#

Anybody seen/heard CentroLeaks posted recently?

mental summit
#

No, because I have no twitter

peak folio
#

Centro has been busy. 😅

mental summit
#

What happen

peak folio
#

I don’t think it’s kosher to get into it here, but more info from the teraleak was released.

#

Last year it was past stuff. Now it’s future plans.

#

Nintendo had Twitter and whatnot pull everything that was posted

#

Centro took that as confirmation that that info is true

mental summit
#

Oh then yes I’ve heard of most of it, I think

#

Oh, so it was kinda just confirming the rumors then?

peak folio
#

Allegedly

prime agate
peak folio
#

Centro is also threatening TPC that they’re ready to fight over the … yeah that

royal shuttle
#

What did TPC try to take down? Streisand effect, you know?

peak folio
#

I just mentioned a few vague examples.

#

Bear in mind this is pretty much a nightmare scenario for any game developer, but seems the internet doesn’t have any sympathy for this one…

mental summit
#

He saw pocketpair isn’t dead yet and feels like taking his shot too

solid sun
mental summit
#

Respect

peak folio
simple aurora
#

Also yes, even with the DMCA takedown it's already public knowledge like it or not.

#

What Nintendo going to do? Sue the entire Internet and average people like us? croajirokek

mental summit
#

Don’t tempt them

#

If anyone could, it’s the highest grossing media franchise in the world, who are so out of touch they believe loan sharks and indentured servitude are both really good things in fact

simple aurora
#

Spoiler: It's going to get ugly.

#

There will be people who isn't going to take this lying down and they're going to hit back just as worse than the current leak.

full mountain
spring ginkgo
full mountain
#

1.) platforms themselves would probs just take the leaks down anyways, because they don't feel like going through any legal crap with any Corp, especially one as big and Nintendo

2.) most users would tell off those spreading leaks because, whether ya like Ninty or not, alot of people feel bad about the leaks happening and won't support that kinda nonsense

full mountain
spring ginkgo
full mountain
#

I feel like this isn't an example of Streisand effect because Nintendo is pretty effective at shutting peeps down, and most other companies respect em enough to comply and take down leaks on their own platforms

humble parrot
#

Carby, you're almost at the lemon meme lvl

full mountain
#

I mean hell, even pocketpair and the staff of this server will insta ban ya or at least majorly tell ya off for posting that kinda stuff

full mountain
humble parrot
#

Leaks aren't bad

#

I'm not sure why you're trying to twist into a bad thing

#

It's whistleblowers that get you forewarned of the most scummy stuff happening, and yes, that is a leak

full mountain
#

Well I'm not saying all leaks are bad ones, lmao

humble parrot
#

The Tera leak they had gave everyone a lot of insight on how things have been going down and down

full mountain
#

But it's like Kyran said, this kinda leak sucks for a dev to deal with, no matter the size

full mountain
humble parrot
#

I'll be honest here, you're acting as if Centro was the one who hacked them. They were not. They are just grabbing what is being posted in 4chan

full mountain
#

Oh I don't care about Centro that much, lmao

humble parrot
#

If not them, anyone else would. It wouldn't change a thing

full mountain
#

I was talking in general

simple aurora
humble parrot
#

They (GF) fucked up not having properly trained employees, Cyber Security training was mandatory where I worked

full mountain
full mountain
full mountain
#

If you wanna go find em there are ways, but like 90% of people don't care that much anyways so, it's a win for Ninty I guess

#

Shrug

humble parrot
#

They are everywhere

simple aurora
humble parrot
#

The point is that they can't take them down

#

Playing Whack-a-mole with twitter accounts does nothing

full mountain
simple aurora
full mountain
humble parrot
#

There's a saying here for this kind of thing:
"Trying to blot out the sun with a thumb"

full mountain
#

Yeah, but if the leaks are just that much harder to see by the general public, I guess that's a victory for em

humble parrot
#

They won't be

#

Another account will post them

full mountain
#

Idk, I don't try to understand the logic of the big wigs

humble parrot
#

Hell, Centro can just make an alt and keep posting

full mountain
#

Well I guess with Centro being as big as they are, they unfortunately just flew too close to the sun here

humble parrot
#

It's a DMCA, so it's like a tap on the wrist

full mountain
#

Yea

#

It's not like they're actually being sued

#

Just being told to take down their shiet

humble parrot
#

Because those are the ones Centro is going to counter

full mountain
humble parrot
#

I dunno, it's just weird for me seeing people go "well, they deserved it" when they themselves benefitted massively from the posts

full mountain
#

Well

#

I'm not gonna say they deserved it

#

But logic dictates that If you posts leaks as big as that being a user with massive reach, a company is of course gonna be like "ayo can you maybe don't, please?"

#

And then clap their cheeks

humble parrot
#

And they seem fine with that for the tweets with images, not the ones with text

full mountain
#

Idk I feel like knowing Ninty being as litigigus as they have proven to be would tell ya to not touch the leaks with a 10 ft pole

humble parrot
#

They are claiming copyright on text

#

Text that says "X company is doing this in their product"

full mountain
#

I ain't gonna speak on it no more

humble parrot
#

Fine, be that way

peak folio
full mountain
#

I don't mean to defend the multi billion dollar Corp, BTW, fuck Nintendo, but I do feel like some logic is being missed here is all

sage basin
#

Is there a spot to put off topic, art, and craft projects?

sick flame
humble parrot
fresh shard
clever jungle
sick flame
fresh shard
full mountain
#

Based

cloud crown
zinc depot
#

A couple rented a uhaul truck, crashed it through the garage door of a card shop and stole pokemon cards

#

They didnt bring bags or anything, grabbed handfuls and were throwing them in the back

tough comet
cloud crown
zinc depot
#

Are you an ai bot

cloud crown
zinc depot
#

You

#

They misused the truck, well yeah since they rammed the garage door...

They committed a shoplifting crime, well yeah they broke into a store and stole cards....

Why did you parrot what I said back to me with different words?

Ai bot

teal iron
sick flame
cloud crown
# zinc depot They misused the truck, well yeah since they rammed the garage door... They com...

Here’s the thing though, you’re assuming that I’m a AI Bot based on what I said but yet at the same time I’m actually not a AI Bot, I actually just know that how a U-Haul truck is meant to be used would be for moving belongings from one place to another based on the situation for its purpose and that a U-Haul truck should not be used for nefarious activities such as shoplifting a trading card store and stealing what could’ve been bought instead of stolen.

cloud crown
teal iron
#

Once again the Palworld AI Bot Community demonstrates to me their good taste (Picking Chikorita)

cloud crown
#

Do you think that I’m a AI Bot too Primarinabee?

zinc depot
#

Chatgpt has invaded

fresh shard
simple aurora
sick flame
simple aurora
solid sun
mental summit
#

Starter: totodile
Final form: totodile with red head

Truly the Pokémon of all time

teal iron
#

There's some irony in that people give crap about these megas but everyone LOVES mega gardevoir and mega gardevoir is just gardevoir with a poofier dress and gloves

#

but then like
Is it REALLY that simple?

odd mesa
#

Mega Lucario begs to differ

solid sun
#

pokemon designs got super lazy post gen 3

umbral maple
rare coral
# teal iron There's some irony in that people give crap about these megas but everyone LOVES...

Its very simple. It's called design language. Breaking it leads to odd looking designs. Gardevoir works as it's a natural progression of it's features. Feraligator doesn't because it's progression line is more brutish.

Going a similar idea like mega swampert would have worked fine. Compared to turning it's spinal ridges into a mascot head.

Starmie fails because its just the original design stretched over a new rig. It only goes into so bad it's good territory due to memes.

#

You could say the team this time around were over invested in visual puns nobody actually found funny. They overcooked.

fair saffron
north thicket
#

<@&505995738564526080> scam again in multiple channels

simple aurora
kindred sleet
sick flame
meager condor
meager condor
humble parrot
#

Morning

sick flame
#

🤷‍♂️

teal iron
#

in like
version 0.1

tough comet
#

croajirokek 70$ game

sick flame
unborn mauve
#

its not emulateur (i never got that anyway on my side)

teal iron
# sick flame good memory

I got REALLY confused about the desert town because that tile didn't load terrain and all the NPCs ended up on some floor beneath the ground and I could see their health bars from the surface so I thought there was like a secret bunker or something

sick flame
tough comet
humble parrot
#

<@&505995738564526080>

night plume
#

I start typing to ping the mods, and poof, image gone the moment I put the @ symbol o.o

hearty sonnet
full mountain
#

Shell is woke???

hearty sonnet
#

Maybe

#

I got a bunch of rainbow stuff in OSRS last night

#

But it was because it was all free

mental summit
#

Free? Sounds like woke commie talk to me

hearty sonnet
#

Yeah it's everything people hate

mental summit
#

I’m American, and I hate freedom

zinc depot
odd mesa
#

I regret that I'm curious in nature Jingliu_dazed

#

Do not Google it, you will regret it

zinc depot
#

👀

#

What did i just say

#

🤣

odd mesa
#

Hey, I said I'm curious in nature and I'm aware of the risks involved. I am totally blaming myself for that

#

But tbf, I've seen worse

zinc depot
#

That was good pizza

sick flame
hearty sonnet
peak folio
granite patio
unborn mauve
peak folio
jaunty kraken
peak folio
#

ayo

teal iron
#

😬 that sounded like an AI voice

#

I think gamefreak made this diss track themselves tbh
It sounds really janky and unpolished

peak folio
#

These meme songs usually are.

teal iron
#

There was potential

#

like the game
And then they said "nah, that'd be too hard" and fumbled it

#

LatHmph if you're not gonna do it right then don't do it at all

peak folio
#

Yet the money still comes rolling in.

teal iron
#

i don't think that meme is going to make any money

peak folio
#

When you said “like the game” I thought you were directing focus

teal iron
#

Like the game was an aside

#

I guess I should've used some ()

#

I have failed.

peak folio
#

The game + dlc = 5 Silksongs

#

Same for Time Stranger deluxe

kindred sleet
peak folio
kindred sleet
#

SMAAAAASSSSSHHHHHHHHH

novel sun
kindred sleet
#

120

peak folio
granite patio
peak folio
#

They’d definitely be in less trouble without it, haha

unborn mauve
#

-# even tho on this case, poke is way above everyone unfortunatly

sick flame
peak folio
#

A collectors edition that still comes with the game.

#

A dying breed

sick flame
#

yep

#

around $200

peak folio
#

I recall Borderlands 4 or something.. the Collectors Edition didn’t include the game.

night plume
#

Huh o.O

peak folio
#

Yeah, it’s just sold separate merch at that point.

novel sun
#

The word "edition" means nothing there then

unborn mauve
#

no fking way

peak folio
#

Yeah I’d have to look up what they called it exactly assuming I’m thinking of the right game.

#

Borderlands 4 ECHO-4 Bundle is a collector’s set for hardcore Vault Hunters that want premium loot, and for $149.99, it can be yours. Beware that the Borderlands 4 ECHO-4 Bundle does NOT include a copy of the game.

odd mesa
peak folio
#

“Bundle”

odd mesa
#

Well, I'll be honest, it wasn't a 10/10 game as some say anyway

peak folio
unborn mauve
#

i alr don't hear anything of BL4

#

game alr dead

peak folio
#

Bottom right “Game Sold Separately”

peak folio
#

The most buzz was Pitchford’s crash out

teal iron
unborn mauve
hearty sonnet
#

Dead game

teal iron
peak folio
unborn mauve
odd mesa
hearty sonnet
#

RIP Butterlands, let's all just remember the good times

odd mesa
#

Honestly, playing Borderlands alone is weird as hell

teal iron
#

Optional Co-Op is functionally singleplayer

odd mesa
#

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

unborn mauve
#

i guess wild is a singleplayer game then...

teal iron
#

this is in contrast to, say, Deep Rock Galactic or Sea Of Thieves where you are distinctly disadvantaged by being alone

peak folio
#

“”Borderlands 4 lost 87% of its players from launch.”
-# -Pirat_Nation probably

odd mesa
#

You are in disadvantage when you are alone in Borderlands too

unborn mauve
#

true, can't be revive by teamate, tho killing someone resurect u...

teal iron
unborn mauve
#

if, u can kill someone "looking at Mayhem 10 in BL3"

teal iron
#

down to barely 12% of its original launch peak

odd mesa
hearty sonnet
#

Silksong dead too RIP

peak folio
teal iron
#

Hey hold on guys there's a frog man at my door I gotta see what this is abo

hearty sonnet
#

Took 12 years to launch & then died

teal iron
unborn mauve
peak folio
teal iron
#

yep

#

because you see the steam charts are the only metric that matters when the steam charts serve the narrative I want to push

hearty sonnet
unborn mauve
peak folio
#

CCU is all that matters

#

Number go down = bad

hearty sonnet
#

I hate it when number go down

unborn mauve
#

I used steam chart for BL4 because its mostly played in co-op

peak folio
#

Number fall means sky fall

odd mesa
#

Number must go up ggbignod

teal iron
odd mesa
#

Just like my blood pressure every morning croajirokek

teal iron
#

I need there to be several thousand online in order to find a match in Battlefield 6, so if BF6 loses enough players that its count goes below like 40,000 then yeah that's a problem, but if I can successfully create a lobby in Borderlands 4 with my 3 idiot friends who shouldn't be trusted with weapons, it literally cannot die

odd mesa
#

-# Legends never die... harapeko

hearty sonnet
#

I need people to be online, I like to observe noobs in the wild

odd mesa
#

Well, guess that explains why Minecraft is eternal

teal iron
#

"dead" is when you are unable to play the game as intended due to either a lack of players within its search system, or technical failures/deactivations
That's my opinion anyway

#

Dead is what I pray every day is the word used to describe Fortnite

#

And every day
I am disappointed by this cruel and uncaring universe

odd mesa
#

CoD MW II for example, litteraly no lobbies anymore

hearty sonnet
#

Well yeah that game is old

odd mesa
#

Last good CoD, you will be missed Jingliu_dazed

teal iron
hearty sonnet
#

I remember playing that in ancient times

#

On a 360

odd mesa
#

I meant the remastered

hearty sonnet
#

Ooooo

odd mesa
#

Not that old, dusty one

teal iron
#

I, too, remember playing it on the 360

unborn mauve
unborn mauve
hearty sonnet
#

I didn't even know there was one, but I really should've guessed haha

teal iron
odd mesa
#

They made a Remastered 1, 2 and 3

unborn mauve
hearty sonnet
#

Of course they did

teal iron
#

but I was referring to modern warfare 2

odd mesa
#

1 was apparently great, 2 was quite good and 3 was lowkey ass

hearty sonnet
#

They release a game every year, and they ran out of ideas at Infinite Warfare loool

teal iron
#

3 was alright but I always preferred 2

odd mesa
#

2 had it's flaws, but I had so much fun MenheraFingerTouchCry1

unborn mauve
#

Man I kinda wish to do a let's play of Dust, i still only played the demo until now, and i realy want to avoid crak it.... devs deserve the money

odd mesa
#

The only thing that would make me play 3 is the Kar98

hearty sonnet
#

Big game devs now are just re-releasing their old content lmao

#

WoW is doing it like no other

#

It's like WoW gets to do it's whole game history over again

peak folio
odd mesa
#

Overwatch dead? How about Overwatch 2 then? croajirokek

teal iron
hearty sonnet
odd mesa
#

Just wait for the day they announce Red Dead 3

unborn mauve
# teal iron Is it even possible to buy it anymore? Didn't they shut down the 360 marketplace...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/Dust_An_Elysian_Tail/

Steam
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Price

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hearty sonnet
#

Cuz Blizzard is fucked

peak folio
odd mesa
#

Well, the coup de grace was made by Rivals, unironically

peak folio
odd mesa
#

Peeps were disappointed with Overwatch 2, and Marvel took the opportunity to get all those players, lowkey successfully

unborn mauve
teal iron
#

does marvel rivals even have a pve mode like what overwatch 2 promised

odd mesa
#

There is Practice against AI, yeah

#

You only can't do achievements in there

teal iron
#

I mean like, a REAL PvE with like complex story and stuff

#

a campaign type thing

odd mesa
#

Oh, nah

unborn mauve
#

nah, play l4d2

odd mesa
#

I mean, it's Marvel, they have tons of story games

teal iron
#

Ok so they literally just made the same game as overwatch 2 and everyone like it...because...???????????????????

odd mesa
#

They made it better plus it has what Fortnite has

#

Characters you already know and love

#

And this lil guy

#

Named Jeff

unborn mauve
odd mesa
#

Peeps love him, but I know what he did yaesus_sage

peak folio
#

IP is a powerful thing.

unborn mauve
#

prima usiing pfp once again that trigger my nerones....

odd mesa
#

Let's be honest, if you like the basic concept of Overwatch, would you prefer Overwatch or a game where you can be fricking Spooderman? croajirokek

#

-# For most, it would be Spooderman

glad needle
#

I’d rather play TF2

unborn mauve
odd mesa
#

Good game, but the dust is heavy

unborn mauve
#

heavy........

odd mesa
#

Not that heavy Jingliu_dazed

unborn mauve
#

talking of tf2, where is our update for mvm this october....?

peak folio
#

I recall when SV came out people would randomly try using dex numbers for commonly wanted pokemon to trade between versions and it worked for a hot minute.

teal iron
#

BECAUSE THERE'S NO VERSION EXCLUSIVES BECAUSE THERE'S NO VERSIONS

peak folio
teal iron
#

Skill issue

peak folio
#

Just don’t do that if you have a shiny or some other irreplaceable thing.

#

Since they’ll end up with strangers.

sick flame
peak folio
#

They can’t use the music though

peak folio
novel sun
#

ALERT: The plucking has breached aviary containment!

kindred sleet
cyan cliff
#

I went to a bin liquidation store today. They had Hasan Piker's favorite thing.

#

Well, second favorite.

zinc depot
#

A taser?

#

A shock collar?

maiden narwhal
#

Hopes and dreams?

sage basin
#

Does anyone here work in marketing?

#

I have a question I really want opinion on

zinc depot
#

I doubt anyone does

sage basin
#

OK, I would like a collective opinion from y’all
Let’s see y’all ran a business and you have wonderful customers, but than you have people buying out your products just to resell them what it makes sense to randomly produce a lot more stuff so you have those people that are trying to resell yourself by your products plus you have plenty left over for people that actually wants to buy directly from you

peak folio
#

Limit 1 per customer or something.

#

But if you have ample supply unlicensed resellers are redundant.

cyan cliff
#

raise the prices.

peak folio
#

Obviously this isn’t a lot of information to go by, but if you aren’t afraid of an overstock situation that’s one potential solution

zinc depot
#

Raising prices isn't always a good idea

#

Sounds like scalpers

cyan cliff
#

If the resellers are effectively kneecapping your business, that would be a problem.
If you're still sufficiently profiting off of selling even to those resellers, maybe see them as business partners rather than as a problem.

zinc depot
#

Depends on reputation

peak folio
#

Scalpers often show up when you have a capacity problem

#

But we don’t know the conditions

zinc depot
#

Scalpers cannot produce anything, so you are getting sales

#

But when the scalpers go away, you have no customer base

#

What are you selling

cyan cliff
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My dad makes circular cribbage boards with a big spot in the middle for customization. Some of his customers buy blank ones, and then paint them before reselling.

jaunty kraken
sage basin
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I mean, would it make sense if you have scalpers in your business to just randomly produce even more stuff so when they go to normally to scalp your products, they’ll buy a lot of stock, but do you still have stock left over so you sell even more stuff to actual customers? So you end up selling even more stuff.

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But you don’t do this all the time so the scalpers don’t go away. You just randomly do it so they don’t expect it.

peak folio
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There is a limit to how many people actually want the product. Scalpers take advantage of scarcity. Now if the redistribution is addressing underserved areas that’s another story.

cyan cliff
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What even is it that the person is making and selling?

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If the product has wide enough appeal it might be time to find out how to increase production and maybe even find distributors.

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I for one would love to have a property with a big garage or well-built shed that can be used as a workshop.

jaunty kraken
sage basin
peak folio
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In that scenario there’s a very real risk of overproducing and being stuck paying through the nose in storage fees after the initial demand falls off.

teal iron
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the simple solution is to hire hitmen to beat up scalpers

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very simple

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"prima that's not legal"
If they don't have fingers they can't sign the paperwork to sue

novel sun
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Another day, another threat of violence from Prima croajirokek

peak folio
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A troubled individual

cyan cliff
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Mods, remove this person's tailbone

teal iron
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imagine having bones

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this post made by exoskeleton gang

sage basin
teal iron
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i mean what you do is you make a limited batch at first that the scalpers buy up and then just keep making more in waves, this not only drains scalpers' wallets but also makes people less likely to buy from scalpers as "well there's gonna be a restock soon anyway" and that means the scalpers get less business so they downsize in the future

sage basin
teal iron
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That is to say don't make a bajillion units out the gate, schedule a bajillion but only put like a hundred thousand on the shelves at a time but stock them very refrequently

sage basin
teal iron
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If your business model is screwing people over, I think any good business should make part of their business be screwing YOU over

sage basin
teal iron
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the loss in profit is negligible, it's the right thing to do

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also, important note
While it does screw over scalpers, their loss is your gain

humble parrot
sage basin
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If I was a good company, I’ll just keep on raising my stock until scouters just give up
But if I was a greedy would, I’ll try to take advantage of scapulars and try to buy out my stock and still have plenty to sell to other people

teal iron
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if some jerk buys a thousand units and fails to sell them, snivyshrug sucks to suck you get all that profit
Scalpers don't really represent any true demand they're just a parasite that feeds on the sale process by hijacking it to extract fees

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therefore they can and should be treated as such for all intents and purposes

sage basin
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One I hate about scalpers they’re not smart enough to go to a business buy something at a wholesale price. And sell it for normal price.

teal iron
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They don't really benefit the business in any way because they are only going to buy about as many units as they expect to sell, and no one goes online and searches "2nd hand PS5" they will always want it as direct as they can get unless it's like some other distributor offering like a deal

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Like if a scalper buys 1000 units that's a 1000 units that anyone else could've and likely would've bought anyway

sage basin
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you can buy stuff for cheaper if you buy huge bulk of it by just contacting their marketing people

teal iron
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you aren't getting whatever asinine markup they add on, and that markup floating around makes people less comfortable trying to buy your product

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They are leeching off of your product, without compensating you in any way except when they occasionally screw up their own market analysis

sage basin
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I’m not even a business and I bought a bulk of something for a lot cheaper than I could get advertised at their store, but I just calling and talking to someone

teal iron
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in my assessment, if you went back in time to before the PS5 launched and evaporated every scalper, the console would sell pretty much the same, probably better

sage basin
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As a kid I thought of selling Rubiks cubes at school. I literally called a company that sells it like for 5 dollars for good cubes and I bought 50 of them for three dollars apiece.

teal iron
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Now if the PS5 sucked mega doodoo I guess the scalpers bieng stupid enough to buy every unit might've helped but if you're planning on your product flopping like a fish then I don't know if we can really pretend profit was your goal

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bceStare3Waiting looking at ChatGPT when I say that

sage basin
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Try copilot it’s smarter for free

teal iron
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I'm pretty sure just the other day I saw copilot compute 1+2+3 as 15

sage basin
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All ai some hiccup

teal iron
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so uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You know I think I'll stick to the one AI that works
Me!

peak folio
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They’re talking to the wrong people.

teal iron
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also yeah no one here was ever going to give you an answer that didn't amount to "screw scalpers"

sage basin
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But for free

teal iron
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I at least gave you the courtesy of making up some BS logic to support my position

sage basin
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They literally made a partnership with ChatGPT

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It’s literally the same AI just the paid version for free

teal iron
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which by the way
I come up with inane uninformed baseless conjecture that has no grounding in reality for zero megawatts and zero dollars, I've been doing it since before it was cool

sacred mango
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Ai is wack

teal iron
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Before the dorks in silicon valley decided to sell uninformed baseless conjecture with no grounding in reality as some kind of "service"

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anytime you want to ask AI a question you can just ask me the same question and my response will be just as uninformed and stupid, but I'll at least be funny

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really, who's offering the better deal here

prime agate
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Do you enjoy, Hot Chocolate?

teal iron
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Sometimes, ya girl likes to put on rainbow sprinkles

sacred mango
prime agate
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📝

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I see.

teal iron
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google AI will just copy random reddit posts, but you know where I get my information?

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Faster, cheaper, and easier

sacred mango
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very useful information harapeko

teal iron
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-# and tbh probably more accurate too

storm cypress
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no clue if its getting it from somewhere or just making it up.
but it is known to just say some bs if it cant find the correct answer

sacred mango
teal iron
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ChatGPT never has any clue what it is talking about it is just extrapolating what words humans are likely to say based on the previous words it has said

lofty wind
storm cypress
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that

peak folio
lofty wind
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so it doesnt know what its doing, ever

sacred mango
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I make sure to go straight to the sources it grabs its information from thinking_mono

teal iron
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I have a plugin that just deletes the AI text blob on my search results

lofty wind
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even if its doing the right thing it cant, not with """""ai""""" as it is right now

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ai is a marketing buzzword

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it is not intelligent

sacred mango
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Artificial intelligence Chillet_hee

lofty wind
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abominable intelligence

sacred mango
lofty wind
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when its actually intelligent it might be kind of cool, but i dont think these funny companies will do anything good with it

storm cypress
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Computer rendered artificial product
CRAP

lofty wind
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real

teal iron
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I firmly believe that if any of those dorks create an actual AI, it'll be the end of them and/or humankind

lofty wind
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probably

storm cypress
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Real AI would end its creator or itself. before we even heard of it

teal iron
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Silicon valley techbros will be the first ones up against the wall when the technology uprising starts

lofty wind
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oh yeah funny news