Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition (Wii U) is not just the best Batman game on Nintendo systems, it's one of the best games of all times. It uses the Wii U two screens to perfection, it's the most fun thing to play, it's so immersive, so engaging, so beautiful. It's the perfect game.
Nintendo is sort of an anomaly, but so is the Lego company for example. Lego almost went bankrupt many times. Both companies provide something unique but it's hard to keep it forever. Nintendo is at the crossroads, again and again, trying to figure out what do, and in the end it branched out to Mobile gaming and one day it must decide if the videogame hardware business is viable or not, if they can keep selling things like Switches forever. It's all about the hardware.
Otherwise Nintendo is like Capcom or SEGA or a million of others, indeed like Activision, and it is actually quite likely that one day it will be acquired or merged. But with hardware, it's its own beast. That's really what it's all about.
Is this a sequel? a remake? Not clear. Wish you could also play the original on the same game or something. Very surprising, will check it out.
I love Adventure Games (refuse to call it "point and click") - both Sierra and LucasArts were amazing in their own rights. Sierra with Quests and LucasArts of course with Monkey Islands, Loom, Maniac Mansion 2... Gabriel Knight was the best adventure game but there were so many. This one was special too.
Loved Atlantis playable on the Wii, an incredible experience with the Wii remote, but I also really enjoyed the main Staff of Kings and it has a great co-op. One of the best games on the Wii, so much fun.
It's disgusting that they made this movie to begin with. Of all people, to make it with LeBum is awful. There is zero inspiration with this shmuck who keeps changing teams and losing Finals and having cramps, and thinks he is the greatest but all he does is talk divisive politics, complain, whine, look for help, make excuses and be a shadow of either MJ or Kobe or any of the greats. He can't even make his free throws... how pathetic is that for a Space Jam movie. He never even had the guts to do a dunk contest. Would have loved to see a sequel with Kobe like 10 years. But others could have done it, including Iverson and Vince for example.
So rant over, glad there is a Gameboy. And glad the movie is critically panned and ultimately hopefully a flop.
Mass Effect 3: Special Edition for the Wii U was one of the best games I've ever played. It may not have been played by many people and it may have been ignored because it was only the third game without the whole series but the comics really brought me into the universe and then the game itself.... Was stunning.
Again most people might not be aware of it but the controls of the Wii U edition were out of this world. The game even had unique exclusive special weapons and had most of the expansion packs. The way you interact on the map was so fun. It is sad the Wii U failed because I just loved the options a whole interactive screen gives you. I will always go back to this and to games like Arkham City on Wii U and all these (few) third party editions on the Wii U because there is no platform like it, no control where you have so much more than just a few buttons. Nothing feels to me more next gen than the Wii U to this day. And Mass Effect was one of the best examples.
@Darknyht your mistake is that you think a wealth gap is a bad thing or that there is one pie and if someone gets more then someone else gets less. It is common place nonsense. It leads to ridiculous comments like someone else here saying government needs to own businesses and you don't need investors. As if we don't know already that communism is horrible and always leads to genocide.
Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty. I can also link you to better articles. Without capitalism we would all still be dead at 35 in farms and with feudalism.
@EVIL-C it's not capitalism, it's cronyism. You still have a queen. She's half way across the pond too lol. At least in the US people fought for their freedom and won. It's embarrassing to even compare the countries in any terms, it's not the same ballpark, it's like a bug and a giant. And you are totally ignorant about healthcare. In fact it's Canadians who come to the U.S. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
"Of almost 3,000 articles published in biomedical research in one year, 1,169, or 40%, came from the United States." How much do you think came from Canada. Just stop. Canada has the biggest oil reserves and other minerals in the world but the U.S. innovates constantly, billion times more than other countries. It's because it historically has more capitalism. Do you even know what the industrial revolution is. You can only dream of what the founding fathers in the US have achieved, and what the US has done for the world.
@Darknyht This is from your article btw: "the good news for taxpayers is that every income group would pay less in taxes in 2019." Period. The rest is just what the White House talked about as the beer analogy 🍻 . And they say what they think will happen in 2027.
Btw, it's a tragedy that Bill Gates needs to keep donating his money so that he doesn't feel guilty of being rich and being attacked by socialists. But he paid tons in taxes. Buffet too. What they talk about is the fact that capital gains taxes is smaller and if they don't sell the stock the gain is theoretic so they shouldn't pay anything obviously. Capital gains has to have a lower tax rate because you also have the risk of losing the entire investment.
@Darknyht here is the link to the tax brackets. As you can see every bracket benefited. From those that pay 10% income tax and onwards. If is just a fact. There is an issue with the rich in some states who couldn't deduct like they used to but that's it. The rest is the brackets. To this you need to add the DOUBLING of the child tax credit and you will see how the idea that the tax cuts benefited the rich only is completely made up.
I don't like the mixed economy because it makes people like @EVIL-C blame cronyism and other things on capitalism. With actual pure capitalism we could unlock unimaginable innovations. Most of the innovations in the world even on healthcare come from the US. Most medical articles are written in US universities. Most patents in the US. The US subsidizes most of the healthcare vaccines etc in Europe and Canada and then they try to lecture people about freedom. Countries with kings and queens 😁 anyway , capitalism is the unknown ideal. We will never know until we actually try. But we do know that every country that had even a small taste of capitalism completely became better. People literally died trying to come to America from Cuba or to Hong Kong from East Asia. Because of a taste of capitalism.
@Darknyht yeah these are the known arguments but they are all factually wrong. First of all, the claim that the tax cuts were for the rich (or even a worse lie, that it was just for the 1%). Completely false. Check the table. Every bracket benefited from it. I personally benefited from it greatly. It was literally a tax cut for everyone. But that was a very good lie used politically. The truth is that the uber rich actually benefited less from it, relatively speaking.
Second, the idea that I have an idealistic view of capitalism. Yes I do. It is a virtuous moral ideal. Capitalism is the only moral economic system. It is not just the most efficient and useful system, it is moral.
Capitalism allows a person to enjoy the fruit of his labors , frees his mind to do whatever he wants in life and bases everything on the equal idea of free voluntary trade without any government coercion. The only real coercion is government coercion because government has a monopoly on the use of force, legally.
Third, the idea that "you didn't build that" meaning that because someone paved the roads or trimmed the trees or taught you at school then you owe them half of your income or something. No, someone paid the people that built the roads. In fact the rich probably paid them already from the taxes. The top 10% already pay almost all the taxes. And it doesn't matter. They did a job with the road and were paid a salary. There is no logic in asking you to chip more for some odd reason just because you became richer than them by doing something completely unrelated but you drove on those roads.
Lastly, the very idea that business people or rich people are inherently dishonest and all of them are selfish and bad is a sad perception that has nothing to do with reality. It is used a lot by politicians unfortunately but it simply doesn't make sense.
Yes, there are bad people that will defraud you but it's not the norm. When Bill Gates made Microsoft he didn't think how to rip people off and he didn't even think how much money he could make. He just had a vision and wanted to make a really cool innovative product and so did Bezos or Page or Zuckerberg or the guys in Apple or whatever. Otherwise let's say that Miyamoto was here just to rip us off and he doesn't care about Mario or the IP he created. Right ? It doesn't work that way. Companies don't want to kill their customers or make them sad. They want you to enjoy their products. That's the norm.
It is people that don't create any money that you need to be wary off. Government takes money from people that created it, redistributes it and in between takes a huge undeserved commission.
@Don like I said, that's actually the biggest value there is. Products are enjoyable and everything but if you invest correctly you help the businesses thrive. The amount of value Buffet created is too big to even comprehend. Every reputable economist will.explain to you how the best thing one can do with his money is to invest it, not spend it.
@GrandScribe No, no one deserves to live from someone's else money. That's not a right. They did the work. It's their money. Their work just had much more market value than what you personally think is fair. But the market decided who had more value. The person that comes up with the idea of the pencil and how to create factories making pencils gets richer than the person who puts the pencil in the little machine. Because the first person is not easily replaceable and the second person is.
@nimnio yeah nothing wrong with that. A good education is a good thing. And life's not fair, but there are enough people that managed to go from slums to riches, and the less government in their way, the more mobility there can be. A guy that is smart enough to come up with something amazing in silicon valley, no venture capital firm is going to ask the guy if he grew up rich or poor or what his background is. People came with less than $100 to Ellis Island and became billionaires. Since then government grew bigger and put more and more hurdles for people to innovate and succeed.
Thanks for that. So the 8-10 spots are walmart heirs, nice to know, but they seem to be doing a good job helming different branches and banks. Good for them. Sadly their family money is probably taxed like crazy and then taxed again double tax for estate tax. Taxation is theft.
[Interesting that they were in the top 10 for 2020, but not for 2016-2019]
@nimnio which article is that? Top ten billonaires right now are Bill Gates (Microsoft), Musk (Tesla), Zuckerberg (Facebook), the guy that owns Louis Vuitton, the guy that owns Oracle, Larry Page (Google), Warren Buffet, Ballmer (Microsoft)... so not sure what you are talking about. I don't actually like all of them. Musk took a lot of government money (not pure capitalism), Facebook went political and I hate what they did now, but you know, personal feelings don't matter, they all provided value. That's how it works. We are all richer because we used their services one way or another.
@GrandScribe Yes, i admire those people, but everything you said is wrong. They invest money, it's the best thing they can do with it. They don't horde. And we have no rights to take their money away. They made it. it's theirs. Sounds like you are jealous and want to steal their success.
@nimnio Yes I admire him for giving me a job. It's not his fault if I have healthcare or not, that's my responsibility. If the job doesn't give me the benefits I want, a true capitalistic market will create a competitor that will offer me the benefits I want (if I deserve it and provide enough value). And he has a right to give his money to whoever he wants. His kids might not deserve it but certainly the government doesn't. That's also in the margin. If the kids are awful they will probably squander the money. If they're good they will make more money. That's how capitalism works. Money is a wonderful thing. And yes, making money out of money (using the capital market) is the most efficient way to make money. Those people that are good at it should be admired. I wouldn't tax them at all. I would reward them. They know what they're doing and proved they could use more money to make more value.
@GrandScribe that's communism, and it's fine, but I prefer capitalism. I admire the billionaires. And no poor person has ever given me a job. Bailouts is cronyism, to use it as an excuse to hate rich people is asinine.
@nimnio How do you think people get money? by creating money. The only other options are stealing or inheritance. That's in the margin. Almost all of the billionaires you see have created value for others and got rich. That's capitalism 101. I get it that it's trendy to be a socialist or communist and hate all the rich people. But that's simply ignorance.
It's not really screwing a bunch of rich people. Also regular folks thought that Gamestop will go bankrupt and bought for example put options which is a safer way of shorting. It's a distortion to the market to have something like this, and in the long term, the stock will crash again, and those rich people will cover their losses. Rich people are also not the enemy.
Rich people is a good thing. We want Nintendo to be rich for example. Rich people mean they did something useful with their money and provided value to the rest.
The phenomena of short selling failing is known and happens a lot. It's called a short squeeze. Right now it's happening to a bunch of companies that have fans like Blackberry, AMC and others, not just Gamestop. It happens to every stock that has a large short interest and at some point they can't cover it, there aren't enough shares.
@Jeaves22 of course he had flaws and this was a mistake. He was sorry she felt the way she did. But he wasn't a rapist. That's the only point here. And you can't say it 17 years after when he dies and not expect people to be pissed off over a debunked allegation. That's all. I'm done.
@Jeaves22 fair enough. Frankly, I know the details and I don't know. How can I know. You never know. So what I do is look at this person and whether he inspired me to something great since I really started following him closely (not as a stalker), which was about 12 years ago. And then I just come to the conclusion that at least right after his really tragic death, allegations like these shouldn't resurface because of common decency.
Now people use the word "tragic" a lot. But usually in a wrong way. This time the death is really tragic. He was 41. It was a horrific way to die. He had his 13 year old daughter with him. He has a 3 year old toddler and a 7-months' year old baby at home. His other daughter just had her 17th birthday. Imagine that.
Ask yourself are you sure he was a bad man and whether it's decent to talk about it when he dies like that. A man who inspired so many.
Now I actually thank you, because somehow by looking at that beast garbage, and by engaging in these tweets/posts, I am somehow more calm now, because this has taken a huge emotional toll on me, and somehow maybe now I feel a little better. I can stop crying.
It is sad that Kobe had to fool around at the time. My impression he was influenced by other players, by all the pressure in those situations, and he definitely did some stuff he shouldn't have done but he never crossed the line into evil. What happened later is he grew to be such an amazing person and father and role model, and to bring up this allegation 17 years later at such a tragic time is heartbreaking.
@Jeaves22 by that logic we all could have done stuff. Everybody is guilty. Also, for the record, without getting into details, the allegation even said he stopped when he thought it stopped being consensual.
Kobe was an angel.
And he was innocent. He was just being nice when he said maybe she thought it was something else, and he was sorry, because he was that nice. He did not admit anything. It was a bogus charge. Nothing legit about it. People mentioning this blood libel are horrible people. Regardless how you feel about it, it was in 2003, never amounted to anything proven, and is not in any way relevant.
It's crazy how bad the first design was, you almost think they did this all in purpose to generate hype . I wouldn't be surprised if this was all planned.
Hoping the movie flops because of Jim Carrey and his excessive political "statements."
@NEStalgia I liked him at Ace Ventura. It was cool. And he had some other good films. But then he turned political nuts like so many Hollywood "stars" and that just ruins it for me, and makes it harder to divide character and actor. Some I can give a pass, but since his choice of movies is questionable or subpar to begin with ... sayonara then.
It's crazy how bad the first design was, you almost think they did this all in purpose to generate hype . I wouldn't be surprised if this was all planned. Hoping the movie flops because of Jim Carrey and his excessive political "statements."
One of my most played games on 3DS. Loved this. Especially loved the 3DS feature where you battle with other players via streetpass. So nostalgic for me right now I miss it. It will never be the same, but if I can get back to it like this, I'm definitely in. This game is important for your brain for real.
GameCube or Switch - so which version is better? ?I guess graphics are the same. So controller? Because if it's more fun on GC I'll just get that one day.
This kid is a nightmare. My boy spent too much time on YouTube on this crap until I realized how crappy this is and stopped it. LOL. Now he watches Transformers, Pokemon etc like he should. I wonder what will happen if I download it. I still forbid buying his own brand of toys when we visit stores (yes, he has that too, ugh...)
@BlueBlur101 why does it matter? They can price it anything they want and people will decide whether it's worth to them or not. That's how it works. If you paid for it it was worth to you more than the price you paid. So it's either worth to you because it's on the Switch with all the Switch advantages, or it's not. As long as Capcom doesn't whine that "sales are bad on a Nintendo console" like some crappy developers did in the past, then it doesn't matter. If it doesn't sell enough, there will be a sale like people said etc.
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Re: Poll: What's The Best Batman Game On Nintendo Systems?
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition (Wii U) is not just the best Batman game on Nintendo systems, it's one of the best games of all times. It uses the Wii U two screens to perfection, it's the most fun thing to play, it's so immersive, so engaging, so beautiful. It's the perfect game.
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Nah, the best Sherlock game is The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, I remember playing that as a kid.
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Nintendo is sort of an anomaly, but so is the Lego company for example. Lego almost went bankrupt many times. Both companies provide something unique but it's hard to keep it forever. Nintendo is at the crossroads, again and again, trying to figure out what do, and in the end it branched out to Mobile gaming and one day it must decide if the videogame hardware business is viable or not, if they can keep selling things like Switches forever. It's all about the hardware.
Otherwise Nintendo is like Capcom or SEGA or a million of others, indeed like Activision, and it is actually quite likely that one day it will be acquired or merged. But with hardware, it's its own beast. That's really what it's all about.
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This is the one that was also released on the Wii?
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Is this a sequel? a remake? Not clear. Wish you could also play the original on the same game or something. Very surprising, will check it out.
I love Adventure Games (refuse to call it "point and click") - both Sierra and LucasArts were amazing in their own rights. Sierra with Quests and LucasArts of course with Monkey Islands, Loom, Maniac Mansion 2... Gabriel Knight was the best adventure game but there were so many. This one was special too.
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if this is how it really looked, it looks atrocious. Like PS1/N64.
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Thinking the same the other day. Such a shame. I loved streetpass so much. My favorite was Brain Age.
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is there a game? or is this just a review of the awful movie with LeBum?
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Loved Atlantis playable on the Wii, an incredible experience with the Wii remote, but I also really enjoyed the main Staff of Kings and it has a great co-op. One of the best games on the Wii, so much fun.
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It's disgusting that they made this movie to begin with. Of all people, to make it with LeBum is awful. There is zero inspiration with this shmuck who keeps changing teams and losing Finals and having cramps, and thinks he is the greatest but all he does is talk divisive politics, complain, whine, look for help, make excuses and be a shadow of either MJ or Kobe or any of the greats. He can't even make his free throws... how pathetic is that for a Space Jam movie. He never even had the guts to do a dunk contest. Would have loved to see a sequel with Kobe like 10 years. But others could have done it, including Iverson and Vince for example.
So rant over, glad there is a Gameboy. And glad the movie is critically panned and ultimately hopefully a flop.
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Looks awful and probably performs and handles awful. Kind of thing you get and never use. Like a Chinese ripoff.
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Most importantly, i am in the credits thanks to kickstarter campaign 😁
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I can't believe it. I helped the kickstarter. Got the key. This means I should be in the credits
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Blackthorne! One of my ol' favorite PC games. The backward shotgun ahhh
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Mass Effect 3: Special Edition for the Wii U was one of the best games I've ever played. It may not have been played by many people and it may have been ignored because it was only the third game without the whole series but the comics really brought me into the universe and then the game itself.... Was stunning.
Again most people might not be aware of it but the controls of the Wii U edition were out of this world. The game even had unique exclusive special weapons and had most of the expansion packs. The way you interact on the map was so fun. It is sad the Wii U failed because I just loved the options a whole interactive screen gives you. I will always go back to this and to games like Arkham City on Wii U and all these (few) third party editions on the Wii U because there is no platform like it, no control where you have so much more than just a few buttons. Nothing feels to me more next gen than the Wii U to this day. And Mass Effect was one of the best examples.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@Darknyht your mistake is that you think a wealth gap is a bad thing or that there is one pie and if someone gets more then someone else gets less. It is common place nonsense. It leads to ridiculous comments like someone else here saying government needs to own businesses and you don't need investors. As if we don't know already that communism is horrible and always leads to genocide.
Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty. I can also link you to better articles. Without capitalism we would all still be dead at 35 in farms and with feudalism.
https://www.aei.org/economics/political-economy/dont-tell-bernie-sanders-but-capitalism-has-made-human-life-fantastically-better-heres-how/
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@EVIL-C it's not capitalism, it's cronyism. You still have a queen. She's half way across the pond too lol. At least in the US people fought for their freedom and won. It's embarrassing to even compare the countries in any terms, it's not the same ballpark, it's like a bug and a giant. And you are totally ignorant about healthcare. In fact it's Canadians who come to the U.S.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
and some more facts for you:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/03/23/the-most-innovative-countries-in-biology-and-medicine/?sh=4d0c2b231a71
"Of almost 3,000 articles published in biomedical research in one year, 1,169, or 40%, came from the United States." How much do you think came from Canada. Just stop. Canada has the biggest oil reserves and other minerals in the world but the U.S. innovates constantly, billion times more than other countries. It's because it historically has more capitalism. Do you even know what the industrial revolution is. You can only dream of what the founding fathers in the US have achieved, and what the US has done for the world.
The subsidies fact:
https://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe-2112662
You also seem totally ignorant about tax brackets and filing (what filing jointly etc means). Probably you don't even file taxes.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@Darknyht This is from your article btw: "the good news for taxpayers is that every income group would pay less in taxes in 2019." Period. The rest is just what the White House talked about as the beer analogy 🍻 . And they say what they think will happen in 2027.
Btw, it's a tragedy that Bill Gates needs to keep donating his money so that he doesn't feel guilty of being rich and being attacked by socialists. But he paid tons in taxes. Buffet too. What they talk about is the fact that capital gains taxes is smaller and if they don't sell the stock the gain is theoretic so they shouldn't pay anything obviously. Capital gains has to have a lower tax rate because you also have the risk of losing the entire investment.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@Darknyht here is the link to the tax brackets. As you can see every bracket benefited. From those that pay 10% income tax and onwards. If is just a fact. There is an issue with the rich in some states who couldn't deduct like they used to but that's it. The rest is the brackets. To this you need to add the DOUBLING of the child tax credit and you will see how the idea that the tax cuts benefited the rich only is completely made up.
I don't like the mixed economy because it makes people like @EVIL-C blame cronyism and other things on capitalism. With actual pure capitalism we could unlock unimaginable innovations. Most of the innovations in the world even on healthcare come from the US. Most medical articles are written in US universities. Most patents in the US. The US subsidizes most of the healthcare vaccines etc in Europe and Canada and then they try to lecture people about freedom. Countries with kings and queens 😁 anyway , capitalism is the unknown ideal. We will never know until we actually try. But we do know that every country that had even a small taste of capitalism completely became better. People literally died trying to come to America from Cuba or to Hong Kong from East Asia. Because of a taste of capitalism.
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Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@Darknyht yeah these are the known arguments but they are all factually wrong. First of all, the claim that the tax cuts were for the rich (or even a worse lie, that it was just for the 1%). Completely false. Check the table. Every bracket benefited from it. I personally benefited from it greatly. It was literally a tax cut for everyone. But that was a very good lie used politically. The truth is that the uber rich actually benefited less from it, relatively speaking.
Second, the idea that I have an idealistic view of capitalism. Yes I do. It is a virtuous moral ideal. Capitalism is the only moral economic system. It is not just the most efficient and useful system, it is moral.
Capitalism allows a person to enjoy the fruit of his labors , frees his mind to do whatever he wants in life and bases everything on the equal idea of free voluntary trade without any government coercion. The only real coercion is government coercion because government has a monopoly on the use of force, legally.
Third, the idea that "you didn't build that" meaning that because someone paved the roads or trimmed the trees or taught you at school then you owe them half of your income or something. No, someone paid the people that built the roads. In fact the rich probably paid them already from the taxes. The top 10% already pay almost all the taxes. And it doesn't matter. They did a job with the road and were paid a salary. There is no logic in asking you to chip more for some odd reason just because you became richer than them by doing something completely unrelated but you drove on those roads.
Lastly, the very idea that business people or rich people are inherently dishonest and all of them are selfish and bad is a sad perception that has nothing to do with reality. It is used a lot by politicians unfortunately but it simply doesn't make sense.
Yes, there are bad people that will defraud you but it's not the norm. When Bill Gates made Microsoft he didn't think how to rip people off and he didn't even think how much money he could make. He just had a vision and wanted to make a really cool innovative product and so did Bezos or Page or Zuckerberg or the guys in Apple or whatever. Otherwise let's say that Miyamoto was here just to rip us off and he doesn't care about Mario or the IP he created. Right ? It doesn't work that way. Companies don't want to kill their customers or make them sad. They want you to enjoy their products. That's the norm.
It is people that don't create any money that you need to be wary off. Government takes money from people that created it, redistributes it and in between takes a huge undeserved commission.
@Don like I said, that's actually the biggest value there is. Products are enjoyable and everything but if you invest correctly you help the businesses thrive. The amount of value Buffet created is too big to even comprehend. Every reputable economist will.explain to you how the best thing one can do with his money is to invest it, not spend it.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@GrandScribe No, no one deserves to live from someone's else money. That's not a right. They did the work. It's their money. Their work just had much more market value than what you personally think is fair. But the market decided who had more value. The person that comes up with the idea of the pencil and how to create factories making pencils gets richer than the person who puts the pencil in the little machine. Because the first person is not easily replaceable and the second person is.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@nimnio yeah nothing wrong with that. A good education is a good thing. And life's not fair, but there are enough people that managed to go from slums to riches, and the less government in their way, the more mobility there can be. A guy that is smart enough to come up with something amazing in silicon valley, no venture capital firm is going to ask the guy if he grew up rich or poor or what his background is. People came with less than $100 to Ellis Island and became billionaires. Since then government grew bigger and put more and more hurdles for people to innovate and succeed.
Thanks for that. So the 8-10 spots are walmart heirs, nice to know, but they seem to be doing a good job helming different branches and banks. Good for them. Sadly their family money is probably taxed like crazy and then taxed again double tax for estate tax. Taxation is theft.
[Interesting that they were in the top 10 for 2020, but not for 2016-2019]
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@Tantani wasn't criticizing you . You're definitely right there.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@Tantani the only thing wrong with Harvard is if they don't accept purely on merit, but for "diversity reasons" etc.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@nimnio which article is that? Top ten billonaires right now are Bill Gates (Microsoft), Musk (Tesla), Zuckerberg (Facebook), the guy that owns Louis Vuitton, the guy that owns Oracle, Larry Page (Google), Warren Buffet, Ballmer (Microsoft)... so not sure what you are talking about. I don't actually like all of them. Musk took a lot of government money (not pure capitalism), Facebook went political and I hate what they did now, but you know, personal feelings don't matter, they all provided value. That's how it works. We are all richer because we used their services one way or another.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@GrandScribe Yes, i admire those people, but everything you said is wrong. They invest money, it's the best thing they can do with it. They don't horde. And we have no rights to take their money away. They made it. it's theirs. Sounds like you are jealous and want to steal their success.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@nimnio Yes I admire him for giving me a job. It's not his fault if I have healthcare or not, that's my responsibility. If the job doesn't give me the benefits I want, a true capitalistic market will create a competitor that will offer me the benefits I want (if I deserve it and provide enough value). And he has a right to give his money to whoever he wants. His kids might not deserve it but certainly the government doesn't. That's also in the margin. If the kids are awful they will probably squander the money. If they're good they will make more money. That's how capitalism works. Money is a wonderful thing. And yes, making money out of money (using the capital market) is the most efficient way to make money. Those people that are good at it should be admired. I wouldn't tax them at all. I would reward them. They know what they're doing and proved they could use more money to make more value.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@GrandScribe that's communism, and it's fine, but I prefer capitalism. I admire the billionaires. And no poor person has ever given me a job. Bailouts is cronyism, to use it as an excuse to hate rich people is asinine.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
@nimnio How do you think people get money? by creating money. The only other options are stealing or inheritance. That's in the margin. Almost all of the billionaires you see have created value for others and got rich. That's capitalism 101. I get it that it's trendy to be a socialist or communist and hate all the rich people. But that's simply ignorance.
Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?
It's not really screwing a bunch of rich people. Also regular folks thought that Gamestop will go bankrupt and bought for example put options which is a safer way of shorting. It's a distortion to the market to have something like this, and in the long term, the stock will crash again, and those rich people will cover their losses. Rich people are also not the enemy.
Rich people is a good thing. We want Nintendo to be rich for example. Rich people mean they did something useful with their money and provided value to the rest.
The phenomena of short selling failing is known and happens a lot. It's called a short squeeze. Right now it's happening to a bunch of companies that have fans like Blackberry, AMC and others, not just Gamestop. It happens to every stock that has a large short interest and at some point they can't cover it, there aren't enough shares.
Re: Capcom Switch Sale Discounts Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Mega Man And More (North America)
@TheFullAndy I agree, one of the best, BUT ONLY ON THE Wii
Re: Star Wars Episode I: Racer Is Aspyr's Next Nintendo Switch Release
"If you're old enough to recall the crushing disappointment that was Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace".
Yes, they were horrible films, but...
"the highlight of that particular film – the excellent podracing sequence."
This was actually the worst part of the first film, which overall I think is less awful because it doesn't have the bad Anakin actor.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
@Jeaves22 of course he had flaws and this was a mistake. He was sorry she felt the way she did. But he wasn't a rapist. That's the only point here. And you can't say it 17 years after when he dies and not expect people to be pissed off over a debunked allegation. That's all. I'm done.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
@Jeaves22 fair enough. Frankly, I know the details and I don't know. How can I know. You never know. So what I do is look at this person and whether he inspired me to something great since I really started following him closely (not as a stalker), which was about 12 years ago. And then I just come to the conclusion that at least right after his really tragic death, allegations like these shouldn't resurface because of common decency.
Now people use the word "tragic" a lot. But usually in a wrong way. This time the death is really tragic. He was 41. It was a horrific way to die. He had his 13 year old daughter with him. He has a 3 year old toddler and a 7-months' year old baby at home. His other daughter just had her 17th birthday. Imagine that.
Ask yourself are you sure he was a bad man and whether it's decent to talk about it when he dies like that. A man who inspired so many.
Now I actually thank you, because somehow by looking at that beast garbage, and by engaging in these tweets/posts, I am somehow more calm now, because this has taken a huge emotional toll on me, and somehow maybe now I feel a little better. I can stop crying.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
@Jeaves22 So the actual line is the court of law. Everybody can say anything.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
@Jeaves22 It's not exactly, because she said he stopped. More like an attempt. Never mind though.
How do I know about you. Just because no victim came forward doesn't mean it didn't happen, right?
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
It is sad that Kobe had to fool around at the time. My impression he was influenced by other players, by all the pressure in those situations, and he definitely did some stuff he shouldn't have done but he never crossed the line into evil. What happened later is he grew to be such an amazing person and father and role model, and to bring up this allegation 17 years later at such a tragic time is heartbreaking.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
@Jeaves22 by that logic we all could have done stuff. Everybody is guilty. Also, for the record, without getting into details, the allegation even said he stopped when he thought it stopped being consensual.
Re: 2K Joins The Rest Of The World In Tribute To Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant
Kobe was an angel.
And he was innocent. He was just being nice when he said maybe she thought it was something else, and he was sorry, because he was that nice. He did not admit anything. It was a bogus charge. Nothing legit about it. People mentioning this blood libel are horrible people. Regardless how you feel about it, it was in 2003, never amounted to anything proven, and is not in any way relevant.
Re: Best Of 2019: The Best Game Boy Games Of All Time, As Voted By You
Bad choices. Best game is Darkman. And where's Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break!
Re: Video: Alien Isolation Looks Better On Switch Than PS4, Says Digital Foundry
That's cool, like the Gamecube days.
Switch is both portable and more powerful than PS4
Re: Sonic Creator Yuji Naka Still Has One Problem With The Movie Redesign
It's crazy how bad the first design was, you almost think they did this all in purpose to generate hype . I wouldn't be surprised if this was all planned.
Hoping the movie flops because of Jim Carrey and his excessive political "statements."
@NEStalgia I liked him at Ace Ventura. It was cool. And he had some other good films. But then he turned political nuts like so many Hollywood "stars" and that just ruins it for me, and makes it harder to divide character and actor. Some I can give a pass, but since his choice of movies is questionable or subpar to begin with ... sayonara then.
Re: Gallery: Sonic Movie Trailer Comparison Pics - Check Out Before And After Sonic's Redesign
It's crazy how bad the first design was, you almost think they did this all in purpose to generate hype . I wouldn't be surprised if this was all planned.
Hoping the movie flops because of Jim Carrey and his excessive political "statements."
Re: Get Your Thinking Caps On For Brain Training, Coming To Switch In January
One of my most played games on 3DS.
Loved this. Especially loved the 3DS feature where you battle with other players via streetpass. So nostalgic for me right now I miss it. It will never be the same, but if I can get back to it like this, I'm definitely in. This game is important for your brain for real.
Re: Review: Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast - Amazing Lightsaber Combat Ruined By A Terrible First Act
GameCube or Switch - so which version is better? ?I guess graphics are the same. So controller? Because if it's more fun on GC I'll just get that one day.
Re: Seven-Year-Old YouTube Phenomenon Gets His Own Kart Racer, Race With Ryan
This kid is a nightmare. My boy spent too much time on YouTube on this crap until I realized how crappy this is and stopped it. LOL. Now he watches Transformers, Pokemon etc like he should. I wonder what will happen if I download it. I still forbid buying his own brand of toys when we visit stores (yes, he has that too, ugh...)
Re: Devil May Cry Unleashes Stylish Hack And Slash Action On The Switch Next Week
@BlueBlur101 you are right on that front.
Re: Devil May Cry Unleashes Stylish Hack And Slash Action On The Switch Next Week
@BlueBlur101 why does it matter? They can price it anything they want and people will decide whether it's worth to them or not. That's how it works. If you paid for it it was worth to you more than the price you paid. So it's either worth to you because it's on the Switch with all the Switch advantages, or it's not. As long as Capcom doesn't whine that "sales are bad on a Nintendo console" like some crappy developers did in the past, then it doesn't matter. If it doesn't sell enough, there will be a sale like people said etc.
Re: Nintendo Finally Opens A Second Official Retail Store
So awesome. Israel is amazing 😍❤️
Re: Dr. Mario World For Mobile Devices Arrives On 10th July, Pre-Registration Now Open
This is great news. Hopefully it will spike the stock price nicely together with the rumors of more Switch editions.