@TheZeldaZone and it sadly ends in,a cliffhanger with no resolution to the plot or a sequel due to poor performance in retail.

• I mean it's a good game but not a €60 title at launch. People would've enjoyed it more for €50 and they would've sold 10x the amount for €40 or as a €20 bundle as download title.

Since the end of the 7th generation there hasn't been any good game cataloge IMHO to justify paying €500+ for a console.

• Only the absurd #GPU prices in comparison make them "reasonable" but I'd say unless one loves console gaming and it's restrictions that's still a nope to me.

I'm still busy going through the #Xbox360 games I sniped before #GameStop closed in #Germany.

@inthehands @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist

I'm not a share trader by any definition. But I was a #Gamestop smooth brained ape () so I know a tiny bit more about trading than most peasants.

The large brokerage houses ("market makers") can engage into many shenanigans that either skirt the boundaries of legality or are downright illegal. They can get away with it, because even if prosecuted, the financial penalties are less than the profits.

A "market maker" can run any number of Calls, Puts and Buys/Sells to keep a share price at a given level or move it up and down.

I'm sure if you do desire, you can find out trading geeks who are dissecting the order books right now.

As I alluded above, I haven't really spent a lot of time talking about Trump's objectively unhinged tariff policies for two primary reasons; first, I'm actually pretty busy writing about the overt Gestapo shit the regime is doing, and second a corporate media complex that is far less interested in properly examining all that Gestapo shit, is singularly obsessed with covering the economic damage caused by Der Führer's tariff regime - likely because this portion of the fascist agenda negatively impacts the type of rich maggots who own and invest in corporate media companies. Unfortunately, these tariffs are also bankrupting a huge portion of the American labor class, and politically speaking this carnage is probably the first time we've seen any of the awful shit Trump is doing actually produce fractures in the cult-like unity of the fascist coalition that brought Trump back to power. Billionaire broligarchs and deluded MAGA rubes who thought massive tariffs and mass deportations would somehow make them rich too, are both, in their own way, offering some degree of pushback against Trump's tariff policies precisely *because* now the fascism is hitting them where it counts (as far as they're concerned) - in the wallet.

In the grand scheme of things, does that actually mean anything? To be honest with you, I'm not sure. The fact is these people are still very much ideologically united around an authoritarian Christian Nationalist agenda, and as long as the Trump regime keeps handing them dopamine hits by "owning the libs" and actively trolling the targets of the regime's cruelty and assault on civil rights, I don't see the coalition breaking any time soon. That having been said, the billionaire broligarchs paid to put Trump into power because they believed it would be profitable for them, and even labor class MAGA rubes have to put food on the table or save for retirement; the material pressure the Trump regime is putting on their own support network is not totally irrelevant, I'm just not sure any of these people are capable of logically connecting their enthusiastic support for white nationalism and the cult of Trump, with the carnage the regime's policies are inflicting on their bottom lines. Only time will tell whether "doing white supremacy" matters more to them than making money, or if the perceived gains (for white nationalists) of Trump's fascist policies will outweigh the measurable financial impact of the regime's economic policies on their lives.

To examine what some of this fascist on fascist (rhetorical) violence looks like, let's flip over to this 15 minute video summary by Mike Figueredo of the Humanist Report; if nothing else, the schadenfreude is delicious.

The Humanist Report: Trump’s Biggest Boosters CRY About Tariffs Costing Them MILLIONS: “Kamala Come Back”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bfEk0Xvw9I

"Pro-Trump influencers like Dave Portnoy, Adin Ross, DJ Akademics and Ben Shapiro are now complaining about Trump’s tariffs despite using their massive platforms to boost him before the election. They even joked about wanting Kamala Harris to “come back.” Furthermore, tech CEOs who endorsed Trump—or donated to his inauguration fund—have lost a combined $1.8 trillion in market value due to Trump’s tariffs. Additionally, GameStop’s CEO, Ryan Cohen, promoted Trump endlessly on Twitter before the election, but half-seriously stated that he’s turning into a Democrat due to Trump’s tariffs. But oligarchs and executives aren’t the only ones mad about tariffs; gamers are outraged that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 have been postponed due to Trump’s tariffs, and some of Trump’s own supporters are horrified after losing thousands of dollars from their retirement funds because of the tariff-induced stock market plunge. In this video we’ll talk about these reactions to Trump’s tariffs."

@mudkip yeah, #GameStop ceased to be good when they shoved all that shitty #merch stuff into their brances.

• They were peak when they offered new and used games and consoles!!!

@heiseonline Nix #GameStop #ToTheMoon