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In a market where dozens of new releases across several platforms are beckoning me to purchase the latest games, I have a lot of options. I have absolutely no want to support loving abhorrent practices used by Bungie and Activision; it's honestly downright despicable. From this day on I will never purchase or recommended a game from either company again. I'm not trying to start a trend, but I will feel better knowing my hard earned money is going to the right hands. I've done the same with Breyers "frozen dairy desserts", and I'll do it again here. I'm a consumer, not a cash cow used to "paying a premium" or "throwing my money at my screen." We don't work for them, they work for us. Yours sincerely, Nintendo64Cartridge warning: reddit link
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wot if i told u dat u cud danse around a bit on the telly? y ud thro money at da screen mate
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Jun 25, 2015 07:07
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activision reaped again
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Jun 25, 2015 07:12
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i'm done with the company that makes hot pockets. they're not even hot, in fact when i buy them they're frozen solid and i have to heat them myself. in the microwave!
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Jun 25, 2015 07:12
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Final Fight 2 greatest game ever you don't need to play any other video game just play final fight 2 and you will be happy forever
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i sure am unhappy about the business practices of the companies that make the lovely loving console fps games i play with a retarded loving controller
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Jun 25, 2015 07:19
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Hell Yeah posted:i'm done with the company that makes hot pockets. they're not even hot, in fact when i buy them they're frozen solid and i have to heat them myself. in the microwave! And even then there is always a cold pocket in the middle somewhere 
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Jun 25, 2015 07:26
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you can laugh all you want, but video games *audience continues to laugh* I said, VIDEO GAMES ARE A LEGITIMATE *audience laughter grows, nerd is increasingly inaudible* LOOK, IT'S NOT A LAUGHING MATTER, VIDEO GAMES HAVE CONTRIBUTED *audience begins to guffaw and throw things, nerd dies*
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Jun 25, 2015 07:30
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is this about the shootymans game or is it the batman game they had to stop selling on pc because it was so broken
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Jun 25, 2015 07:35
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BeefThief posted:is this about the shootymans game or is it the batman game they had to stop selling on pc because it was so broken it's both
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Jun 25, 2015 07:35
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the important lesson is pc gaming is dead, it's finally fully dead
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Jun 25, 2015 07:36
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ethanol posted:it's both Batman can't shoot people what the gently caress this is wrong.
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Jun 25, 2015 07:36
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burritolingus posted:Batman can't shoot people what the gently caress this is wrong. batman uses his tank to shoot people in the newest batman get with the program Ive killed at least 4 people by smashing into their car at 140 mph I'm not proud but I killed those people and I am the batman so
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ethanol posted:batman uses his tank to shoot people in the newest batman get with the program What an rear end hole.
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Jun 25, 2015 07:52
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I've done the same with Breyers "frozen dairy desserts", and I'll do it again here. I'm a consumer, not a cash cow used to "paying a premium" or "throwing my money at my screen." We don't work for them, they work for us.
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Jun 25, 2015 07:58
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i wanna know whats so bad about the iced cream company
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Jun 25, 2015 07:59
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agreed with the op chapmans is far superior to breyers in every way
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Jun 25, 2015 08:03
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lets gently caress
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Jun 25, 2015 08:28
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ethanol posted:I'm not proud neither are your parents
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:i wanna know whats so bad about the iced cream company Breyer's Ice Cream. This brand used to be the epitome of high quality among the throngs of pedestrian grocery store brands. Rich, flavorful, and natural were a few adjectives that used to describe their products. Eventually, the company was sold to Unilever who didn't waste much time before changing the recipe and loving the poo poo out of the brand. Some time around 2008, the 1.5 quart (ice cream is sold by volume) dropped in weight from 56 oz to 48 oz. Additionally, the number of ingredients in their vanilla ice cream literally doubled. To make matters worse, the cream (widely considered to be the most important ingredient) fell from the second most used ingredient to fourth behind sugar and corn syrup. By volume this means that the amount of sugar in relation to cream has at the very least least doubled. Today, there is so little cream in the product that, according to IDFA standards, it is not technically ice cream. In fact, Breyer's must now legally package their products as "Frozen Dairy Desserts". Another affect of the recipe change is that the product is no longer legally allowed to be marketed as "All Natural". If you take a look at the current packaging, the bins now say "Quality Since 1866" which is kind of ironic since the current recipe is noting at all like the old one. Now, let's take a step back and go over the change in weight. The industry term for the air whipped into ice cream is "overrun". Generally speaking, higher quality ice creams have less overrun and lower quality ice creams have more overrun. The difference in texture that overrun makes is astounding when it comes to ice cream. This is why Breyer's used to be thick and solid but is now airy and flaky. Not only are the consumers now paying for cheaper artificial ingredients but they are also being sold almost 15% less ice cream by weight. Breyer's is managing to get away with all of this because of a recent marketing trend that has affected the landscape of supermarket ice cream products. Mother loving "Light N Fluffy". Also known as "Slow Churned", "Smooth N Creamy", "Light N Creamy", "Double Churned", "Smooth and Creamy", etc. It goes by many names but they're all clever marketing terms that convince consumers to pay more for less. Featuring less fat, less calories, more overrun, and cheaper ingredients, the "Light N Fluffy" wave has been an coporate investor's perpetual wetdream. All of these products use synthetic chemicals in order to mask the taste of ice cream that lacks the basic ingredients that are supposed to make it taste great. The scariest part of this how movement is that it's working beautifully and most national ice cream brands now offer an entire line of "Light N Fluffy". With so many people cleverly tricked into believing they like their ice cream lovely, I've run into a lot of opposition where people say thing like, "Well what if I like Light N Fluffy ice cream? Maybe people just genuinely like Light N Fluffy things, did you ever think about that?" Yea, well a lot of people genuinely like Beats headphones. You may think that the pretty tub of whipped artificial flavors tastes great but you'd be as wrong as the guy comparing his Beats Studios to Sennheiser HD 800s. Ice cream, by definition, is made from milk fat and is meant to be a dense and fatty. That's why any half decent ice cream parlor serves rich and thick ice cream. It's because they're not aerating corn syrup and carrageenan in the back. Anyways, I've gotten a little off topic but Breyer's fall from grace is really indicative of the downward spiral that is the ice cream industry. I tend to use Breyer's specifically because they used to be my favorite ice cream company. It's terrifying to me because even after all the obviously awful changes that Unilever made with the brand, people are still buying enough of it to keep it in store shelves.
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Tenacious J posted:Breyer's Ice Cream. sing it brother
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it's like an MMO except instead of paying $15 a month you pay $190 a year, and instead of the hats costing $2 they cost $20
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Jun 25, 2015 09:11
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ethanol posted:activision reaped again in the taint?`??!
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I could list quite a few names of the people working on my favourite games, unlike some other games I liked that were just made by nameless people at a company I didn't feel like I had a connection with.
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