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retarded non-economists who don't understand tariffs and just focus on their nintendork games think that the very successful, very powerful, bigly working trump tariffs are causing higher prices for their video games.

in case you don't know, the vast majority of US tariffs and taxes on japan are on automaking and aluminum.

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Switch 2 was gonna be expensive no matter what. It wasn't gonna be $299 like the switch. Just wait a few years for the price to some down once scales of economy kick in.

Blame Nintendo for putting in a 1080p hdr 120hz screen into the system. FFS, the steam deck oled only has a 90hz screen.
 
retarded non-economists who don't understand tariffs and just focus on their nintendork games think that the very successful, very powerful, bigly working trump tariffs are causing higher prices for their video games.

in case you don't know, the vast majority of US tariffs and taxes on japan are on automaking and aluminum.

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Bunch of fucking retards, Nintendo is overpricing the international market because they are underselling the domestic market in order to maintain a stranglehold on the Japan video game market. Tariffs don't effect electronics between the U.S and Japan, and even if it did that doesn't explain why they're selling digital games for 80 dollars, because tariffs 100% don't effect digital releases.
 
They keep saying "physical games" so I'm guessing buying them on the nintindo store won't incur the tariffs. Worse comes to worse, just pirate them and play them on a switch emulator like a real nerd.
Speaking with a coworker today, he told me there is something funky about the physical cartridges now where some games won't release physical except to be a "game-key card" to download the game from the Nintendo store. They don't contain any game data and knowing Nintendo, that probably means you can't share it or resell it as that key will already be tied to your Nintendo account.

So perhaps Nintendo just wants to get out of the physical cartridge business altogether now, kill game reselling/sharing entirely.
 
You aren't telling me anything I don't know, I saw it live on this thread. My question is more if Musk has produced a proper smoking gun that can't be easilly handwaved away.
The state of the modern American left is such that it wouldn't matter if they had actual video evidence of fraud and documented communications detailing every level of the fraud, 80%+ of Dems would NUH UHHHHH FASCIST FAKE NEWS and would ignore it. You may convince some of the moderates but they aren't going to have the will to do anything about it. As for the left, the truth is entirely secondary to their confirmation bias and feels.
 
You aren't telling me anything I don't know, I saw it live on this thread. My question is more if Musk has produced a proper smoking gun that can't be easilly handwaved away.

I dunno what "smoking gun" would be good enough.

I've been thinking about this since the 2024 election but the sheep of the Left can now just refuse to believe anything and they will be supported by a large chunk of society.

Even if Musk came out with something undeniable do you think that would change their minds? That the MSM wouldn't bleat on and on about disinformation and hoaxes. There are just far too many people who would choose to not believe and would be able to find others to re-enforce that false belief.

Let's say some DNC bigwig comes out and just openly sez "yes we cheated and here's how" what would happen?

"he's a Rethuglican plant!"
"he's been blackmailed by Trump"
"this is all a set up"
"it's all disinformation and lies"
and so on ad infinitium

I really do think that a disturbingly large section of America is now so lost to their internal biases that no matter what you showed them, no matter who told them what they would choose to not believe it. And it's not just like that on the Left.

The MSM would support them, the media would support them. Where ever they turned they could find other people who would agree with them. News articles that said what they wanted to read. The bubble is so big now you can literally escape into from political reality.

I dunno maybe it's just my cynicism but there is such a gulf between the true believers and reality that they are lost forever to their beliefs.
 
Yeah Reagan was so great causing the country to become filled to the brim with spics
You know, I'm starting to warm up on Mexicans. I mean, not like, the retarded violent banger ones or niggas linked to cartels, but the normal ones who just go around being racist to black people and constantly voting red now. It's almost comical that the American-Mexican moved from blue and wanting more freedom in border crossings, to now screaming nigger out of a Ford F-150 and demanding that instead of deporting dumb fucking venezluan pigs, they instead need to be genocided.

It's like... they are becoming real Americans with real American values.
 
Speaking with a coworker today, he told me there is something funky about the physical cartridges now where some games won't release physical except to be a "game-key card" to download the game from the Nintendo store. They don't contain any game data and knowing Nintendo, that probably means you can't share it or resell it as that key will already be tied to your Nintendo account.

So perhaps Nintendo just wants to get out of the physical cartridge business altogether now, kill game reselling/sharing entirely.
this is a replacement system for the current one that they have for games that don't justify a cartridge release, but spergs want cases for. currently, they print a code in an empty game case. this will give the physical collector an object, which is a big criticism people have had of this system.

still completely unaffected by all the tariffs from the US on japan. the only part of the economy that has an effect on it is currency inflation.
 
I just checked and the Nintendo Switch 2 is now $799.

It’s over.

You know, I'm starting to warm up on Mexicans. I mean, not like, the retarded violent banger ones or niggas linked to cartels, but the normal ones who just go around being racist to black people and constantly voting red now. It's almost comical that the American-Mexican moved from blue and wanting more freedom in border crossings, to now screaming nigger out of a Ford F-150 and demanding that instead of being deporting that dumb fucking venezluan pigs, they instead need to be genocided.

It's like... they are becoming real Americans with real American values.

I prefer them to blacks that’s for sure
 
he finally fucking said it. thank fucking god, i've been waiting for anyone to say "it's not our job to pay for your country being shitty" for over a decade.
The dumbest part is a lot of these countries can compete without the tariffs. They're just greedy little shits.
You really are the world's biggest nigger. I'm revoking your nigger pass.
Fatpacks is more charming that John Badman at this point.
 
There were smoking guns: an expert testifying on the perfect ballots, Dem poll watchers blocking Republican counterparts, Biden outright saying, “We have the biggest voter fraud organization in US history (paraphrase.)” They don’t matter. It’s already too late, the damage is done.

I'm not disagreeing brother I'm just saying it's not enough and nothing will ever be enough to convince "true believers"

It's like those flat Earthers...no matter what you show them they just keep believing in their dumb theories. A lot of Democrats are going to be like that, show them facts and they will reject those facts.

It's not a political party it's almost a religion to some people.
 
seems like the governor of maine, after fucking around near the start of trump's new term, has begun to find out.
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maine's averaged federal funding just for education, if that's all this covers, is between $250,000,000 and $400,000,000. makes up about 10% of their total education budget, so this is not an insignificant amount of money that was just yanked, and that's if they ONLY yanked education funding.
 
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