Help, I Accidentally Bought Mario Party Instead Of Smash - hee incompetent game journos hee

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https://kotaku.com/help-i-accidentally-bought-mario-party-instead-of-smas-1830937662

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Help, I Accidentally Bought Mario Party Instead Of Smash

Gita Jackson
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After last night’s announcement that Persona 5’s Joker is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I finally decided I was going to buy the damn game. Then I bought Super Mario Party.

I don’t know how I made this mistake. Maybe I was just being hasty. Maybe after so many hours of Game Awards my brain was slightly fried. Maybe I just can’t read. But after going to the Nintendo Eshop and then turning on my Switch to check that Smash was downloading, I realized that Mario Party, a game I hate, was downloading instead of Smash, a game I enjoy.



The first thing I did was tweet about it.

People asked me how I did this exactly, and I swear to god, I still don’t know. I have no idea how I did this stupid thing. I immediately turned to my close friend and Smash aficionado Maddy Myers for advice, and she suggested getting a refund. I googled “Nintendo Eshop refund,” and here is what I found:

I tweeted about that too.

So this is my fate: I am now a Mario Party owner. The only thing left to do was attempt to justify my purchase, somehow. So I texted my boyfriend.

So, that’s good, even if he’s not very good at games. But one person isn’t enough for a party. This morning, still angry at myself for my mistake, I texted my roommates.

So at least people will play this game with me. Let it be known, though, I that I also bought Smash.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Possibly the best way to sum this article up.

 

[The Manglement]

So this is the equivalent of somebody's grandma getting them the wrong game for christmas, except the grandma in question is ostensibly a games journalist.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Mario Party is literally just a prequel to Smash anyway.

 

[Slap47]

The fact that you can't refund Nintendo games is an actual problem and this is a normal mistake but damn, the shitty way they write articles makes reading this painful.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

This article was written by a strong black female game journalist who apparently can't read. Thanks Kotaku

 

[eldri]

What brave and honest journalism

 

[The Last Stand]

THIS IS NEWS?! Waste of time.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Is the new Mario Party any fun?

 

[Lysenko]

How the fuck does someone accidentally buy the wrong game? Can they not read the label on the game package? Can they not read the title on the e-commerce site?
Kotaku is really hiring some well-educated black women to write their articles of late.

 

[Kamiii]

I've always found Mario Party to be more enjoyable

 

[Porque no los dos?]

Unless the eShop is magically different on the Switch, you have to go through like. At least 3 confirmation screens which all have the name of the game you are buying on them, so how does any functioning adult fuck it up.

 

[Gorosaurus]

How the fuck does someone accidentally buy the wrong game? Can they not read the label on the game package? Can they not read the title on the e-commerce site?
Kotaku is really hiring some well-educated black women to write their articles of late.

It is when you don't have to play with a tranny.

 

[AnOminous]

https://kotaku.com/help-i-accidentally-bought-mario-party-instead-of-smas-1830937662

Remember when Kotaku games "journalists" were just so stupid and incompetent they couldn't make it past the tutorial of games and lost intelligence contests to a pigeon?

Spoiler: "journalist" losing IQ contest against pigeon

Now they're literally so stupid they can't even buy the game in the first place?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

How the fuck does someone accidentally buy the wrong game? Can they not read the label on the game package? Can they not read the title on the e-commerce site?
Kotaku is really hiring some well-educated black women to write their articles of late.

I also don't think they should issue refunds because they had multiple chances to halt the d/l and read what they were actually buying.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Is she fucking proud of her dumbass? Why write this?

 

[AnOminous]

Is she fucking proud of her dumbass? Why write this?

They already hit black and woman with this diversity hire, why not hit retarded too?

 

[CrunkLord420]

Gita Jackson is legit retarded and only has a job as a diversity hire at Kotaku because of nepotism relating to Austin Walker/Patrick Klepek.

 

[SiccDicc]

Is she fucking proud of her dumbass? Why write this?

Bait.

They don't even realize it when they do it, but this is purely for attention. Same shit happened with Polygon's DOOM, same shit happened with Dean losing to a pigeon... they live in a bubble with no one to be their straight man pointing out they're stupid. So they post this thinking it's good enough, get some "poor you" or "I know the feeling". Then when they find out it isn't good and everyone else can actually rub two brain cells together they collect on the outrage. They win no matter what because they get to be coddled regardless instead of getting the proper switch for incompetence.

TL;DR: They're Dale, Bill and Boomhauer without Hank.

 

[MaxiMax]

I don't even understand why this article exist. It's not even a journalist article but some sort of... written vlog. On a private blog I would understand but why published this shit on a "serious gaming journalist site" ? Who gives a damn about a story like that ?