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I'm trying to remember when this was, since I worked at Gamestop twice, but I'd say the Dreamcast Holocaust was 2004 or so, I think. The console was largely obsolete by then, since Sega discontinued it in 2001 and we were dealing with PS2 and X-Box at the time, which was a much larger and expanding market, so I figure they were losing money on stores buying used Dreamcasts. I know the destruction of the inventory was largely to prevent dumpster-divers from reclaiming parts (if they could get into Gamestop's compactors), because it was largely supervised by LP and I figure that selling the wrecked parts to recyclers was a way to get back some money.
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because corporations are people and people are assholes.
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I like it when people confuse having a predatory compulsion to manipulate others since birth with being talented. hehe, makes me chuckle
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the king of sweden himself decided to play the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXk7o84MZPo $100 million well spent
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Imagine the employment threads for ships. People asking for references, interviewing you to work on their ship, negotiating pay and shouting at you if you are late. Blacklisting you and screaming at you and sending you emails to fire you. Then proudly posting blogs about having people working for them or whatever. I mean it's not going to happen, but still.
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 At least we don't hand out 7 days probation to pedo mods but what do I know.
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I can take some things seriously, but this isn't one of themRobo Reagan posted:the king of sweden himself decided to play the game Oh poo poo, we have to abandon ship! 
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Lonos Oboe posted:Imagine the employment threads for ships. People asking for references, interviewing you to work on their ship, negotiating pay and shouting at you if you are late. Blacklisting you and screaming at you and sending you emails to fire you. Then proudly posting blogs about having people working for them or whatever. Every "captain" is going to be irl unemployed in order to concentrate on their Anime-named ship
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WIn the powerball and come out with a space sim that costs 100m and is out within 2 years just to mock star citizen fans.
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Microwaves Mom posted:WIn the powerball and come out with a space sim that costs 100m and is out within 2 years just to mock star citizen fans. No, that already happened. I mean someone trying to do just that happened. A very cone-shaped man won the lottery and declared that he will make the ultimate MMO. "The best way to describe this MMORPG is think of all the good things in Second life, WoW, Rift, SWTOR all rolled up into one game." Then he started a Kickstarter because he needed more money. I've no idea what happened with that, but I don't think it was anything good. That William Shatner video doesn't even work. There's this, but that's from 2012: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-14-lottery-winner-takes-to-kickstarter-to-fund-pie-in-the-sky-mmo http://kotaku.com/5892917/millionaire-wants-your-million-dollars-to-make-his-first-game Then he came back and tried to Kickstart some sort of awful Facebook knockoff. That didn't work either. All in all, pretty funny, but no competition for Star Citizen.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:No, that already happened. I mean someone trying to do just that happened. A very cone-shaped man won the lottery and declared that he will make the ultimate MMO. "The best way to describe this MMORPG is think of all the good things in Second life, WoW, Rift, SWTOR all rolled up into one game." Then he started a Kickstarter because he needed more money. I've no idea what happened with that, but I don't think it was anything good. That William Shatner video doesn't even work. Was he the one with the hooker bots?
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Pebergehund posted:Was he the one with the hooker bots? I believe so, yes, but I'm sure it's also a Star Citizen feature.
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Jesus Christ, these people are worse than the Tea Party Community
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I have to say, some of these Oculus rift people make a lot more sense when you consider how much they want to implement it into Star Citizen. You drop $600 on the device, you need an especially bitching PC to play it. With something like 3 or 4 usb 3.0 ports. (I only got a new custom pc last year and it came with 2 of the suckers.) and considering you are dropping at least $200 on a nice HOTAS before you even spend a penny on your jpgs. And people are still crazy to get their hands on it, even though all it means is you can look around your stupid cockpit. I have one of those google cardboard things and its a cool novelty. But I could not wear it for more than 30 minutes without some serious eyestrain. I know the rift has a higher resolution, but still. Do they strike you as the kind of people who play for an hour or two at a time? I can only imagine the lawsuits. EDIT. (Read this in the voice of your grandmother.) Lonos Oboe fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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