Cook the books by claiming $500 million in profits? That’s a lot of tax money and a lot to risk over just keeping investors happy for a short amount of time.

That was part of my point and why I said that those prices were what I could buy them for.

Yeah. There are places where monkey meat is common. Some places eat the brains, too.

You’re not wrong, but I don’t think it went up $300 over what it was when they released the OLED model. The micron 2230 1 tb ssd is like $200 right now (micron was a major provider of 1 TB steam deck storage, but Valve used several) and that’s what I can get it for. They were like $140 when the OLED came out in 2023, they went below $100 like a nearly a year later. Ram has definitely shot way up, but I doubt even that has straight up 5x on the price, to constitute the rest of that $300 increase.

I’ll still say this will be a lot more about making the steam box have less sticker shock.

Rum ham!

At this stage, the price hike of the steam deck is probably more about making the price of the upcoming Steam Box and VR headset look like an easier pill to swallow, and not about actually needing to raise the price of the steam deck.

Walmart has been crazy about this over the years. Things like a big box of 45 ziplock bags cost $3.50, but 15 packs are $1.00.

People just assume that pricing will make sense and bulk purchasing is a better value, but sometimes Walmart is like “nah”.

You’re a fantastic individual.

All ET’s fault.

I agree. If companies had their license to operate removed for doing it, the problem would solve itself. Be shut down if you get caught.

This isn’t all that true. For many blue collar jobs, at least.

It’s very hard to be a roofing company and stay in business without using immigrants in many area, for example. No one in the US will work for less money than the immigrants who are mostly sending money back down to Mexico. Everyone wants to pay as low a price that they can for their roof job. Not using immigrants means you have to charge a higher price. That loses you work because you’re constantly underbid. You either use immigrants, or you struggle to keep the business and employees going.

I worked blue collar for quite a few years around new construction homes. I’ve literally watched this go down and making an Office meme doesn’t make it less true. In a perfect world it wouldn’t happen and no one would hire immigrants and pay them less money, but we don’t live in that world, so once a few people start doing it the option often becomes “Do it as well, or go out of business”

8 times.

12 if I gotta pay taxes.

You mean like the billion physical DEF delete kits that have been sold and installed?

Sigh. This will be a huge pita. I have probably over 100 things saved into bitwarden. Where’s a good foss alternative.

GabeN, please don’t die before me.

I’ve got “narcoleptic anal glaucoma”.

I can’t see my ass getting out of bed.

For a moment, I was trying to overcomplicate this and didn’t get it. Then it clicked.

The unit of measurement in this instance is completely irrelevant to the math involved.

That is DEFINITELY not what’s in that picture. Lol

Be plenty doable then, but that glass is a lot bigger than you thought.

That’s a 16 to 22 oz cup, so you’re going to add a lot of ice to water that thing down