Escape From New York: Louis Rossmann Edition - Hopefully he does not make Texas a bughive

Sharpeteer said:

I like seeing more letting people know how bad of a service Amazon has become. The amount of throwaway fly-by-night Chinese sellers on Amazon is simply amazing. Back when I used to buy from Amazon towards the end of that time, it got increasingly more difficult to find the actual quality brands, as opposed to the throwaway ones like Louis describes. For that, and the absolutely horrific return experience (very important when it comes to cheap quality crap products like what's shown), I've given up on them entirely, and use eBay for almost all my online buying.

I keep one particular email exchange between Amazon's outsourced customer service and I hung on my bulletin board in my office as a reminder to never do business with them again, even if it's the easier option. The headache is not worth it.
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I tried to leave a review for a deep fryer which had an improperly fitted power socket and exposed wiring on the power cord. Amazon refused to let me post an honest review about the deep fryer because I had requested a refund.

Also, if you leave too many bad reviews on Google, they will render all future reviews invisible to anyone but you and the business you're reviewing. I don't know exactly what the magic number is, but it's south of ten bad reviews.

Sharpeteer said:
Ah yes here they are.

There's also the ones from that podcast he does, but it's pretty much the same, very surface level.
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In that first video, Marques Brownlee compared right to repair the products you buy to printing counterfeit money. How is wanting to repair the items you have bought the equivalent of defrauding the government (i.e. taxpayers) by producing false currency? What a fucking buffoon: he had better break out the big clown shoes and nose, because he's the biggest clown I've seen. Funny how he talks about people wanting control - it's what companies want over their patrons, and I can see their greasy hands up his ass, moving his lips.
 
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Deadwaste said:
thats because he isnt. he's indian.
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He says at @1:52 in that both his parents are Nigerian. He was born in Mumbai, but his parents are Nigerian and mostly he grew up in Australia. He's black.
I don't even know who this guy is, I've never seen his channel, all I did was watch the first two minutes of the video you posted.
 
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If anyone here remembers Alan Rosinsky, he was the broker who helped Louis early on in the real estate saga. It's been awhile since I heard anything from him or about him, so I decided to revisit the YouTube channel he started posting on when he got very popular after Louis shouted him out.

Well the channel is pretty much deserted.
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Been 11 months since a video was posted. Too bad, as he was actually putting some more effort into the videos towards the end. Although, I guess since a lot of his growth was from Louis fans, and Louis left for Texas, it makes sense that those people would look at NYC with a much more critical eye.

I hope Alan's business is doing well at least.
 

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It warms my heart to see Americans like Louis Rossman wonder how the fuck can major companies pull shit like this?

Every time an American who used to brag about regulations complains that corporations are fucking them in the ass, an European gets to smirk.

10 decades of lawsuits settled outside the court and pushback against safety measures is what got you here. Sure those corporations had to pay $200.000 to settle those suits, but it was worth every cent...
 
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I'm stunned someone actually used Redbox's streaming service. That said, what did he expect? The company is dead. It can't afford to host movies forever.
 
Quarterback Rex Grossman said:
I'm stunned someone actually used Redbox's streaming service. That said, what did he expect? The company is dead. It can't afford to host movies forever.
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You should probably pay attention to the video before commenting on it. He didn't use redbox and he isn't demanding a dead company host content. His point is that people shouldn't use services like redbox to begin with, because they essentially lie about what they're providing when you "buy" remotely hosted, streamed content. Access to that content you "buy" can be revoked at any time, meaning you don't actually buy it, so don't actually own it. It's part of a wider position that people have traded ownership of their own property for the appearance of convenience.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
You should probably pay attention to the video before commenting on it. He didn't use redbox and he isn't demanding a dead company host content. His point is that people shouldn't use services like redbox to begin with, because they essentially lie about what they're providing when you "buy" remotely hosted, streamed content. Access to that content you "buy" can be revoked at any time, meaning you don't actually buy it, so don't actually own it. It's part of a wider position that people have traded ownership of their own property for the appearance of convenience.
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Just look at the video game scene as an example. Anytime a game becomes digital only, it always has a short lifespan because once the new console comes out, the servers hosting the game shuts down and you can never access it or even buy it again if you heard about it too late. Back in the day you could go to your local FuncoLand and buy any game you wanted for an older console and they would play 100% hassle free (outside of physical issues like scratched disc or what have you, but even then the store would make sure it was running fine before they sold it to you). Now if you want to buy a Wii for whatever reason, you're practicaly missing out on a good chunk of digital-only games that have never seen a re-release since then.

Hell, there are games that just outright do not work anymore because they EXCLUSIVELY rely on online servers to do ANYTHING (i.e. always connected). These usually relate to multiplayer games and are pretty much cursed to a HUGE chunk of mobile games. As an example, SNK announced they are terminating AllStars on mobile in October... a game that has a HUGE amount of support and player-base and god only knows how much money whales sunk into the microtransactions. Their excuse basically boils down to "eh, we just don't feel like supporting this any longer". People are begging for them to release an offline mode (like Megaman X Dive did), but their delusional if they think that's actually going to happen.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
Now if you want to buy a Wii for whatever reason, you're practicaly missing out on a good chunk of digital-only games that have never seen a re-release since then
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You're not wrong in the most strictest sense, but the above example is absolutely not true. It takes 5 minutes to homebrew a Wii, connect a USB HDD and have the whole console library on it, more than you could ever play through.

This is the case for pretty much all consoles nowadays up (with the Xbox One being the one that's not cracked, and PS5 is still in it's early stages). In fact Nintendo consoles specifically get cracked early on by an rabidly autistic fanbase and all of it's titles and even network infrastructure get preserved - Pretendo was being announced months before the WiiU/3DS services got shut down.

That being said, if you pay for online-only games you are niggercattle and you get what you fucking deserve. Give me discs or cartridges or get fucked

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These usually relate to multiplayer games and are pretty much cursed to a HUGE chunk of mobile games. As an example, SNK announced they are terminating AllStars on mobile in October... a game that has a HUGE amount of support and player-base and god only knows how much money whales sunk into the microtransactions
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Aren't they all gacha games?
 
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Aren't they all gacha games?
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The thing about gachas is that alot of them are RPG's or hybrids, and yea, a lot of them are shit. Gachas in general, especially with the Free-To-Play market, are absolutely bad, and require a fuck-ton of grinding and luck, there's no arguing about it. If you took away the gacha aspect of some of these games, they wind up being really good and fun, but that's an entirely different argument.
 
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The thing about gachas is that alot of them are RPG's or hybrids, and yea, a lot of them are shit. Gachas in general, especially with the Free-To-Play market, are absolutely bad, and require a fuck-ton of grinding and luck, there's no arguing about it. If you took away the gacha aspect of some of these games, they wind up being really good and fun, but that's an entirely different argument.
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I don't mean to be mean but you circled around my question like a tranny being asked if they wanna fuck kids. If they're gacha then they shouldn't really be considered games, and thus nothing of value was lost. If they're not, then yea, shit sucks.

To make a specific example there was some Nier game for mobile, and it of course was a gacha. But some dude recorded the parts of the game that actually mattered stripping away all the grinding gacha shit. It wasn't a game at that point mind you, just a story, but that's all of substance people wanted out of it anyway - Yoko's writing
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
If they're gacha then they shouldn't really be considered games, and thus nothing of value was lost.
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Tangential, but you know what sucks? So many gachas, particularly licensed gachas, have such great art. KOF AllStars had some of the best portrait art the franchise has ever had, cool animations reenacting the games' story, and beautiful illustrations of almost every move for every featured character. Which, unfortunately, they didn't get to feature every character in the series.

All of that is stuck in that game which is shutting down. And even if you rip it (which I did for a long time, a service for the community), it's all in low res.
Release a digital artbook at least.

If other shut down games with similarly great art are any indication, they won't.
 
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D_Tractor said:

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription​

Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.
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Eat a fucking dick. What a terrible idea. Why the fuck would I need constant software/firmware updates to keep a mouse usable? It's a basic HID USB driver. Fuck these people, I hope they get gang raped to death by immigrants.
 
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