I’m just stating facts. When people die, houses go onto the market.
That’s a fact that goes all the way back in history, not anything unique to the boomer generation. Though I think there’s a tendency I see often in the boomer generation: Wanting things to be worse for future generations for some reason.
Does it really bother you that after you die, someone else is going to be living in your house and that will be something that will improve their lives?
I wasn’t aware that they had a ball throwing mechanic in the game. Considering the context they put a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover, yeah they were just copying someone else’s shit.
No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game.
Do you really believe the similarities are coincidental? Like if Pokeman didn’t exist, they would’ve had the character on the cover look like that and would’ve had players collecting creatures with balls?
They’re obviously just ripping off someone else’s ideas.
That’s not how the law works. It’s not a thing where this company sued another company for patents and won, therefore all future lawsuits on patents automatically win. There may be some precedent about specific details in the case, but there’s no reason to assume a future judge in a future case wouldn’t rule in the same way even if this case never existed. Seems to me precedence paranoia is just some internet lawyer thing.
The strangest thing about this case is that Nintendo didn’t sue for trademark infringement or copyright. I assume Pikachu is trademarked and this company had a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover of their game. Looks like an easy win for trademark infringement, given everyone referred to it as Pokeman with guns.
I like how you think of wealth solely in terms of money. That’s just a number in a database.
There’s a lot of houses owned by boomers and the housing market is insanely expensive. When all of those houses go on the market, people might be able to afford to buy a house again. Owning a house is wealth.
There’s a saying in Jamaica: If you throw a stone at a group of pigs, the one that squeals is the one you hit.
I mention antisemitism and now you’re doing a whole lot of squealing about it.
This is basically the plot of The Boys, except instead smashing cars they splatter people.
I understand the statement “Jews secretly control X” fits the pattern of how antisemites talk. I see many people on this site fitting that same pattern.
If it walk like a duck, and talks like a duck…
I also note there’s a broad movement to discredit any claim of antisemitism before it even happens. What’s the goal of this?
I’m pretty sure it’s still a federal crime in the US.
Here in the True North Strong and Free, weed is legalized at all levels of government and I can confirm that I can indeed buy weed with a Visa card. I can even buy it online and have it delivered to my door by the postal service. That got me through the pandemic.
Sorry your country kinda sucks about this, but it’s not really a credit card thing. CC companies suck for many reasons, but this isn’t one of them.
When you’ve become accustomed to using rhetoric that makes you indistinguishable from an antisemite, you have a couple of ways to go.
Having Alexa automatically order stuff is really insane. Like it’s just going to buy stuff without checking the prices and and comparing products.
But I suppose it makes sense to Jeff Bezos who doesn’t care about the price of anything and has a human assistant that checks product reviews and such to make sure their boss gets a good product. So of course everyone will want to have a crappier version of what billionaires have and no one cares about the price of the things they buy, right?
I buy weed with a Visa card all the time.
Do you mean you can’t buy weed in places where it’s been only decriminalized but not fully legalized? Decriminalized means it’s still illegal but the government just decided to stop enforcing the law. It’s not actually the same as legalization, and yeah it results in all kinds of stupid situations. And yeah, a big company isn’t going to engage in something that’s technically illegal even if the law won’t be enforced.
I think someone is secretly manipulating you, but it’s not the Jews or the “Zionists.”
People always quote Queen Victoria as saying “We are not amused”. But this was a misquote. What she actually said was “We will, we will rock you”.
“Slavic adventure” doesn’t give enough context to consider it not to be a white power kind of thing.
If they were runes within the game it’s fine since you’d know from playing the game it isn’t about Nazi type shit. But the subject line of an email that just says “slavic adventure” followed by the SS symbols isn’t really enough.
But wouldn’t that be velocity of money, not GDP? GDP is a measure of final goods and services, not money. Unless you have a poop fetish and consider the eating of poop to be a final service, then this wouldn’t impact GDP.
Here the point is that they’re passing the money back and forth. That’s like the AI companies right now - passing money round in a circle and that being presented as if it were the same thing as the industry as a whole making money
The stock market value isn’t the same thing as GDP though. The GDP measurement is never really a great measurement of economic well being because of inequality, but even then, we really don’t know what it is in the US because Trump fires anyone that gives out a bad report.
The people handing money back and forth quickly was actually what happened when the pandemic ended, the increase in the velocity of money resulted in inflation but people blamed it on Biden. Now Trump is President, the economists have been fired and fraud has been decriminalized.
Culture is always evolving. Some words and symbols have had different meaning in the past than they do now. With context it can be fine to use them without association with the stronger cultural associations. If I see a swastika on a Buddhist temple, I’m not going to assume the Buddhists are Nazis. But if I see a symbol or word without context I’m going to assume the strongest association to that symbol in my culture. Just how culture works.
You aren’t required to participate in gay pride celebrations this month. You can instead go watch the He-Man movie and enjoy a fun action movie about totally straight men.
You’re supposed to don your gay apparel in December.
Isn’t this just the broken window fallacy but with a poop fetish?
It’s amazing how people will pretend an image of a pikachu isn’t a pikachu because they feel like supporting one company over another is some kind of rebellious act.