NOT_RICK @ NOT_RICK @lemmy.world

My name’s not Rick.

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They’re clearly an anticompetitive monopoly. Wish I could say I’m optimistic that the DOJ can pull off something positive in regards to this case, or anything really.

Guess I should try to start some sort of grassroots campaign accusing Live Nation of being woke

Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy

They should spend more time devving and less time mod actioning wrongthink

What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice

I remember thinking when fandom got them “well they can’t be a worse steward than red ventures”

Welp.

This guy sure looks like he gets what nerds want. Eat a dick, Perkins.

Except in the US. Wondering if they’ll pull the trigger on raising the US price now too

Was just thinking, the hardcore show I just went to was the same situation. Dream Theater prob even worse

EGS has reviews as far as I can tell. I still think Steam is better, but this is a welcome move out of them. Competition is a good thing

Edit: downvoted for pointing out that EGS has reviews. Y’all are weird lol

I mean, that still sounds pretty fun. Their horde mode in TF2 was fun so I’d imagine this would be too

Considering how rough most of the modern games are… I’m cool sticking mostly with romhacks

Looks at Pokemon

You can take pikachu from my cold dead hands

Their crunch culture is def bad (they’re going to kill Sakurai one day), but there is quite a few things they do right. They don’t lay people off and their executives take accountability. Iwata took a significant pay cut when the Wii U flopped.

There’s a host of factors, I’ll try to outline the ones I can think off off the top of my head

1. Industrial base: The UK was bombed during WWII, the US was not. That gave the US a production advantage.
2. Natural Resources: The UK was dependent upon many resources from their empire while the US was using a lot of their own domestic resources for production.
3. Decolonialization: the UK’s resource base, as mentioned in the last point, were largely seeking independence in the wake of the war. The US brand of imperialism was more economic in nature than political so they didn’t have the same issue.
4. Population: it’s tough to outproduce a nation that’s 3x the size (UK pop was about 50 million in 1950; the US was roughly 150 million)
5. The Marshall plan. It’s hard to overstate how much of a boon rebuilding Europe was for the American economy.
6. Debt: military goods aren’t cheap. The UK sourced a ton of war material from the US. I just looked it up; the UK made its final WW2 debt payment to the US in 2006. Sheesh!

Currently, in our bank account, we have £2100 (around $2800). It's not even enough to pay the rent for one month," explains Joseph Redon, head of the Japanese Game Preservation Society. He's describing the end of the non-profit organisation he set up in 2011 with the aim of properly safeguarding Japanese gaming history before it is lost forever.

Bummer, it looked cool

Shhh, we’re jerkin here

Shirt

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

They’re going to talk about all the criminals that have been deported and ignore or minimize those who have been wrongly swept up with no due process. Expect lots of “gotta break some eggs to make an omelette” style rationalization. Lots of myopic focusing on the cost of eggs or gas, probably some “trust the process” hand waving about the chaos of the tariff debacle. Probably some culture war nonsense sprinkled in.

It’s pretty crazy that some 4chan schizoposting broke through into the mainstream with this Q shit

I don’t expect it to drop much if at all; the OG switch is still at its launch MSRP. Same thing with the games, they never put them on sale. Maddening for sure, but that’s Nintendo.