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Re: What Exactly Is Going On With GameStop's Stock Prices?

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@KateGray Try watching The Big Short, it's a movie about the finanical crisis of 2008. They decided the best way to explain the techincal finance things was with unusual methods like Margot Robbie (who's not actually a charcter in the film) popping up to tell you whilst she takes a bath to make sure you're not bored whilst hearing it.

Re: Several Huge Games Publishers Were Fined £7 Million For Geo-Blocking Sales

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@sandman89 Nope, it was largely because "Brexit" as a concept wasn't defined at all when the referendum took place so when the reality of Brexit came in of either Hard Brexit or Brexit with a Deal (and what exactly that Deal should be) their votes got split between them despite being for Brexit. It was inevitable since both the real and (the court proven) propaganda promises of it are at odds which each other making a successful Brexit to all literally impossible. The last minute deal put together by Boris Johnson (who promised it would be an "oven ready" deal lol) was voted through as there was no time to renegotiate to avoid a no deal scenario and was actually a worse deal than the one proposed by Theresa May. You are also ignoring that article 50 was triggered before negotiations had even started which literally put the UK's workload behind before it even started which isn't really clever since the EU as the larger economic power had the advantage when making the deal.

In any case none of that really changes that the UK is literally worse off now than before.

Re: Several Huge Games Publishers Were Fined £7 Million For Geo-Blocking Sales

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@sandman89 I've got no idea what you're on about.

The EU has been around since the 50s and has firmly established itself and it's influence with nothing to suggest it's about to collapse.

The UK initiated article 50/Brexit 4 years ago, it's only early days as it took 4 years for the leave campaigners and government to figure what leaving actually meant. lol

Re: Several Huge Games Publishers Were Fined £7 Million For Geo-Blocking Sales

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@sandman89 The UK has always been able to make its own laws. However there is an irony to the Uk now having to follow EU rules & laws still to continue it’s no quota & no tariff trade with the EU as part of the deal but as the UK is no longer apart of the EU it now doesn’t any say in those EU rules & law making process so the UK cant now change, debate or object to them which is opposite of the sovereignty which was promised with Brexit.

Re: Several Huge Games Publishers Were Fined £7 Million For Geo-Blocking Sales

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@clvr A more accurate way of saying that would be New York games would not be allowed in Texas or any other combo of states since the US is the same region/market whilst Canada or Mexico are different markets to America.

@sandman89 You realize that means the UK now no longer has that kind of price protection as it's not part of the EU...

Re: Several Huge Games Publishers Were Fined £7 Million For Geo-Blocking Sales

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There was one tidbit I found interesting "Meanwhile, the five publishers formed deals with each other restricting cross-border sales of games, the EU found", that to me seems like it crosses into breaking competition law too.

@stinky_t it's because Europe is one region and these countries are in that region. Europe is one market and the companies didn't treat them like that.

Re: Random: Brie Larson Doesn't Want To Be The Clown Villager From Animal Crossing

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@Rayquaza2510 She's an Oscar winning actress for the movie Room and plays Captain Marvel in the Avengers movies. She was also in Free Fire, Kong Skull Island, 21 Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim and a few other things.

Nintendo hired her to be a celeb spokesperson so she appears in commercials for them and mentions Animal Crossing/Nintendo in her social media.