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ICastFist, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity
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Future museum
“And here we have yet another product of double human stupidity: one for stapling an electronic and another for buying the entire thing for over 120k dollars”

otacon239,

I don’t think the person surrendering $120,000 actually cares about the console so much as they’re donating to charity.

drmoose,

Gamifying altruism kinda works

otacon239,

Yeah, even if it’s a big brand attachment or whatever, I’m never going to complain about a big charity donation. (as long as it’s not a bogus charity, of course)

ICastFist,
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Isn’t Gamestop also running HumbleBundle? I kinda expect the final amount the charity gets to be 60% of the auction, tops

Odo,

IGN owns Humble.

LlilL, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity

The frequently bought together section on that listing is wild. TIL that you can buy patents on eBay.

captainlezbian,

Makes sense. Individuals regularly get patents in America and individuals regularly get cancer in America. It’s just an asset albeit one that may have emotional value. But cancer will cost you your heirlooms here too

nekusoul, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity
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I’m actually a bit impressed this feat was done using a regular office stapler and not an industry stapler.

prole, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity

Oh ok, it’s got a piece of paper that says it’s real so it must be

HeyJoe, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity

Its now at 220k… I get its for a charity, but wow. It’s always crazy how much dumb money people have sometimes. 220k would be life changing for me…

Sagan_Wept,

You should bid, for the lolz

sugar_in_your_tea,

Best I can do is tree fiddy.

AstroLightz, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity
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This is that duct tape banana all over again.

Supervisor194, do games w Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy
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Christ I have to stop browsing Lemmy in the middle of the night.

LettyWhiterock, do games w Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy
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  1. Looks disgusting like the mobile game ads I see on tumblr
  2. Looks fake like the mobile game ads I see on Tumblr.
Agent_Karyo,
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Tumblr is still around?

RebekahWSD,
@RebekahWSD@lemmy.world avatar

Quite active, actually. Despite the owners trying to kill it by removing porn, it keeps on trucking. Just you, your dashboard, and the never ending urge to curate the feed.

innermachine,

No kidding. I haven’t used tumblr in I think a decade and change now? It has been a long time. Might have to check it out again

RebekahWSD,
@RebekahWSD@lemmy.world avatar

I check in occasionally for inspiration for writing, still very good for that! No idea how the porn is going. I’m assuming fine, I don’t think they actually managed to get rid of a lot of it.

Squizzy, do games w Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy

“whishlist”

Zedd_Prophecy, do games w Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy

I had that game and I think it was a late 80s thing. Even more fun if you replaced it’s original rubber bands with much beefier ones.

kryptonianCodeMonkey,

“Haha. You lost! You have to point with your middle finger from now on!”

_cryptagion, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity

The auction also includes the stapled Switch 2 console and box, the staple that did the damage, and a pair of the GameStop CEO’s underwear, which I will explain within.

you know what, I’m actually not that curious.

melroy, do gaming w 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
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Please be sure to sign it if you are from the EU. We might need 1.4 million signatures, since some people signed from outside the EU. And those will not count.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

joelfromaus, do gaming w 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
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But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit 👉👈🥺 - AAA Game Publishers

Poopfeast420,
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Not really what this is about.

They could even still keep doing that with Remasters, Remakes, Ports on a new Console, Special Editions, whatever.

sanpo,

Yeah, what they really do is worse.

They just remove your ability to buy/play the original, so literally everyone loses.

Poopfeast420,
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I mean, SKG is about keeping the game still playable, not buyable forever.

joelfromaus,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

One of the biggest controversies at the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2. Frankly it’s amazing we haven’t seen that more often with the near identical sequels such as the Madden, FIFA, F1 etc games.

No one’s forcing you to buy a remaster… unless they are because they revoke your right to play the original so it’s your only option.

Remasters and remakes will still happen but companies won’t have as much freedom to yoink a purchased product from your pocket years down the track in the name of some profit strategy.

Poopfeast420,
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But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit

One of the biggest controversies at the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2.

I know about The Crew, but it’s not like Ubisoft had a Special Edition or something lined up that replaced the original game, and you had to buy it again. There was no reselling, the sequel is a different game.

Nothing in the SKG initiative is against Sequels, Remasters, Remakes, whatever. It’s not even about keeping a game in stores forever. It isn’t against yearly releases of Fifa, Madden, NBA 2k, that get removed after a few years, as long as you can still play your copy of Fifa 26 in twenty years.

No one’s forcing you to buy a remaster… unless they are because they revoke your right to play the original so it’s your only option.

That’s the thing though, does this really happen? Usually games that get completely removed, that you can’t even play anymore are multiplayer games, live service stuff, that are just so dead that nobody is even remotely interested in a remaster, so the game is just gone.

i_am_not_a_robot,

People could still play the Overwatch that they paid for if the game hadn’t been designed to require Blizzard’s continued support and approval to function. In some number of years, Fortnite will be shutdown or replaced with something different and the people who grew up playing Fortnite will never be able to go back to play it again.

There’s clearly interest in online-only games that are killed. World of Warcraft and Runescape have classic versions so you can play a variation of the game how it used to be.

Poopfeast420, (edited )
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True, didn’t think about games like this, but that’s the case for every online-only game, even if the changes might not be as drastic as OW1 -> OW2. It’s not like you can roll back a patch in FF14, Siege or Destiny and play on that version, if you don’t like the direction the game is going.

I don’t think a part of SKG is making sure all different patch versions of a game are available and playable, once the devs end support for a game.

BTW I’m not against SKG, I’ve signed the petition, but when people say this would keep companies from selling the game forever, kill yearly installments of some franchise, or would “force” devs to make old version of their favorite game available, that’s not what SKG wants to do.

ViatorOmnium, do gaming w 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games

It was Nicolae Ștefănuță from the Greens–European Free Alliance which was always going to be one of the political groups more likely to support this initiative.

We need to convince MEPs in the PES and EPP to really get a directive approved.

themurphy, do gaming w 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games

Nice. The movie industry must be shitting themselves if this goes through. They are next.

xthexder,
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I don’t think this changes anything for movies unless there’s somewhere you can “buy” a copy of a movie but they don’t let you download an offline copy. If they “rent” you the movie or you “subscribe” to a streaming service, none of this applies.

themurphy,

I know the option for buying movies exist. You can do it on Apple Store. You can download offline, but only into their own ecosystem.

That would be a case, where you are forced to let them download out of Apple Store.

But it’s more realistic, that they just remove that option, than letting people download it out of their shop.

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