Twin boys

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curious about how the price announcements might be affecting people's opinions like I was considering buying until i heard the game pricing and now I'm just not going to bc we can't let them think that's okay

I wish Mythbusters was still around so we could see them fuck up a Cybertruck

Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning

dasfsffadfjdag I meant girl but gork works better

I didn't even question it I was nodding along like I'm literally right there with you gork

You have got to be FUCKING kidding me!! Holyshit bro... these motherfuckers are too comfortable with price increases...

ppl are like "the price of games makes sense if you consider how much time and work goes in to them" and i am here to tell you that just like animation, tv, comics, music, every other kind of media, the price tag does not reflect the artist's paycheck. the only wallets getting fatter are at the top, and they are fatter now than they've ever been. support indie and learn to steal or go without

Also we used to have multiple video stores in every town where you simply rented any brand new game you wanted for $5-10.

The one I grew up with had a late fee of $1 a day so my mom would just let me keep a game until I was finished with it, because that never ever exceeded the cost of buying it new. This is what we all did.

It's shocking how easily something that useful was so completely murdered by streaming services. Nobody wanted to keep cheaply renting games??

You used to be able to rent the consoles too but now consoles demand you make a user account. Yker save data used to only be on a memory card but now that's only accessible with the user account.

You know what? I just spent 3 hours writing up a pair of youtube comments about the misinformation on display here (ZERO games are listed as being $90 USD for a physical copy. Zero. None. Some jackass saw one listed as 90 Euros and went "Oh so $90 USD?" and now it's everywhere. The known prices for physical copies of games on the Switch 2 range from $40 USD for Bravely Default [which uses the shitty key cart system] to $80 for Mario Kart World, with Donkey Kong Bananza being listed at $70 physical and NOT using the key kart system)

If you see ANYWHERE selling it for $90 retail, that is the retailer jacking up the price themselves. This took me two seconds to look up. $80 for a game is still a price increase for sure, but there's a huge difference between a price increase from $70 to $80 and a price increase from $70 to $90, let alone stating that physical games will be more expensive or that "Physical switch 2 games cost $90." You're welcome to be upset about a game costing $80, but stop claiming or even implying that all games by a publisher will now cost $90, it's provably untrue and extremely reductive. Rentals no longer being a thing fucking sucks and I agree with that, but for the rest of these points..... Misinformation and "Unfair" points always piss me off royally, likely due to my autism. We are in a cost of living crisis, people are justified in being unhappy, even UPSET about price increases, people should support indie games more, devs are not paid enough. But the price increases deserve to be looked at in closer detail WITHOUT misinformation and hyperbole, especially because the price of games hasn't been adjusted for inflation since the days of the NES despite production costs for large scale games increasing exponentially, combined with the fact that major publishers seem dead set on most of their game releases being the exact same price regardless of whether the development costs or amount of content are comparable which has caused, well, "Video game prices and their effects on development" are a pretty complex issue that goes past the points of "Support indie devs" and "So far all claims that Switch 2 games cost $90 are (AT PRESENT) provably bullshit and you do everybody a disservice when you spread information that's provably bullshit" But let's talk about the increase in price for the console (copy and pasted from my comment on Youtube, which also features discussions of the false rumors of switch games costing $90, goes over the ACTUAL known prices of switch games including the fact that Street Fighter 6 is $60 CHEAPER on the switch 2 than it is on Steam, the situation with "key carts", and my views on the console's tech demo costing $6 instead of being included for free):

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.

it's already humiliating when you get into new media, take one look at a character, and know that one's gonna be living in your head indefinitely, but it's absolutely nothing compared to looking at a character and thinking eh i don't think i'd ever have strong feelings about that one he's kinda boring and then he sits quietly in the back of your brain poking idly at synapses and thoughts every once in a while until one day you wake up and realise oh. oh fuck. category 5 blorbo moment, how the ever loving fuck did this happen to me

For those who are not familiar, the Death Note is a supernatural notebook from the titular manga and anime. The basic rules of the book are as follows:

For the sake of the poll, if more than one motivation applies, select the most important one. The definition of the options and the specifics of the fantasy are not particularly important here, I am mostly interested in the moral stances and rationale of other people.

what the fuck are they feeding the falin and marcille fan artists. why are they painting the sistine chapel every time. they're going crazy style. those freaks. i love them so much.

modern horror story: a single 200 chapter fic on ao3 summarized as a “collection of drabbles.” it is tagged for 200 different fandoms and every single character who so much as breathes in any of the chapters. it takes you an hour to scroll past. it is always at the top of your search results because it updates three times a week.

a few reminders because i’m tired and angry

feel free to add more

not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.