And in your honest opinion, that's why WSB is buying Gamestop?
If your answer is no, your whole post is irrelevant. (which it is, by the way)
No its not. But that doesn't make the post irrelevant as I disagree that moving completely to streaming is a bad idea for the consumer probably. I mentioned the difference between streaming and cartridges or VHS exactly to show that WSB doesn't care about Gamestop's business model. Not to start an actual discussion about streaming and cartridges (or options or markets or monopolies or corps or Netflix or Hulu or game servers etc.). Since comparing streaming to gaming cartridges wasn't clear enough, next time I'll use blacksmiths as a counterexample to make sure everyone understands it's undoubtedly meant as a metaphor. |
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Do you really think we should keep shops selling games physically opened, and stop streaming games and movies and instead go back to cartridges and VHS or so (which will, by the way, again, be produced by mega corps)?
And no, I don't like corps either - at all, which I've made clear often enough in the last 3 years on these boards, at least when they have too much power and when there's abuse of power. But let's not confuse things here.
But there should be choice in the market for everything. Competition and variety of choice benefits the customer. Think about it like this...moving over to an all-streaming model has the same limitations that people face when moving to all-streaming models for TV shows and movies. A LOT of content is geo-restricted in many countries for streaming, while still being available for buying at a local Blu-Ray store. Lots of copyright issues and restrictions, not being able to watch stuff offline, only being able to download X number of episodes per X shows per X number of days. It's all becoming increasingly bullshit. You want to watch A show, its on Netflix. Oh you like B? Hulu for that, no-go on Netflix. C? Well Disney+ for that. This is the exact problem the streaming services set out to solve, that was the problem that forced people to switch over from cable. Many services offer movies for rental at even same prices that cost to just buy the bluray. Wouldn't you like having access to stuff when you're offline, and keep having access instead of paying X, Y, Z amount of money to each streaming and rental services? Plex family servers would go out of use. As for games, there are a lot of games whose creators have stopped maintaining the servers and the only way to play them is to play on privately-maintained servers by players. Moving to a Stadia-like model (streaming games) will eliminate that, not to mention that even the fact that I can play in my free time or not would depend upon how Stadia's servers are working at that moment and how much of the bandwidth is saturated. Currently, the solutions aren't feasible at all. That's not to say we should just stop streaming. It's convenient. Just that we should have options imho. And in your honest opinion, that's why WSB is buying Gamestop? If your answer is no, your whole post is irrelevant. (which it is, by the way) |
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Maybe it's even worth it in some twisted way....
Of course it is and it's called integrity, worth a lot more than $100. What's $ anyway?  |
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Do you really think we should keep shops selling games physically opened, and stop streaming games and movies and instead go back to cartridges and VHS or so (which will, by the way, again, be produced by mega corps)?
Yes, we should keep every brick and mortar store of any kind open. These are the lifeblood of the economy and society. Most people are never going to be able to fill high tech jobs. We need stores that dumb people can work at so they don't have time to commit crime and can feel like they're doing something productive. That's the way to a peaceful society. Streaming is fine when you're feeling especially lazy and depressed but getting off your ass and going to the store is better for everyone. Also, everyone who hates mega corporations should stop using any product or service offered by the Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. I use NOT ONE of the services you mentioned.It's not the point as I said above and forget my reply, I got seduced into replying to your remarks which are irrelevant to the subject, and therefore am taking it back. |
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Do you really think we should keep shops selling games physically opened, and stop streaming games and movies and instead go back to cartridges and VHS or so (which will, by the way, again, be produced by mega corps)?
I never said that. I said choice is good. Options are good. Having only 1-3 mega corps where they have a complete monopoly where you are forced to download all your movies and games is not good. Btw, Gamestop employees 14,000 full-time and 22,000-42,000 part-time workers worldwide. If it goes away all those people lose their jobs. But I guess what's another several tens of thousands of unemployed people amidst tens of millions already, amirite? ' course not and I concur: every job lost is a shame and the more options customers have, the better. You don't think I applaud job loss and monopolies, right? But that's not the point here and that's not what WSB wanted to protest against. Some people suddenly seem to faint with ecstasy whenever someone pronounces the name "Gamestop". This is not about Gamestop, this is about shorters using their influence to artificially push prices down even further. It's about abuse of power. And that's indeed unacceptable. |
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On a side note. GameStop is not going anywhere. Bankruptcy is off the table. They have 60 million plus shares in their treasury that they bought back in 2019 for <$5 a share. Even if they just sold a portion at the recent prices, they can fund their operations for years.
This makes me happy. I know people say their business model is dying, but hopefully now they will have a second chance to figure out their future and thrive. A world where you could only download/stream your games through the mega corp likes of XBox Cloud, Stadia, or Apple TV would be a very sad world indeed. Seriously mate, this has nothing to do with Gamestop. Gamestop has around 5500 shops worldwide, so in case you forgot: Gamestop is a mega corp, too, albeit one with a dying business model. Gamestop was only the object used to bring a loud and clear message to shorters that they've reached a border which they shouldn't cross, and that enough is enough. Rightfully so. So the message was: we hate shorters [edit: abusing their power], and not: we love Gamestop. Do you really think we should keep shops selling games physically opened, and stop streaming games and movies and instead go back to cartridges and VHS or so (which will, by the way, again, be produced by mega corps)? And no, I don't like corps either - at all, which I've made clear often enough in the last 3 years on these boards, at least when they have too much power and when there's abuse of power. But let's not confuse things here. |
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The name Elon Musk
Sounds just like Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
Also rhymes with dusk.
Just so you know.
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I saw Elon Musk making and breaking bitcoin trading.
And I don't like it.
After all these years, guy still makes me think of Francisco d'Anconia. And after all these years, still not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. |
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Many dips today. Wonder what it means...
I'd rather see peaks
Dip I usually prefer
Only with nachos
#nomexican
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very good! also possible: Viel Spass mit deiner Armut! Mann kann nicht "Armut" sagen, ohne "Mut" zu sagen?  (oder "rmu", of course) |
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Oh guys, have we given up on reporting since the beginning of 2021 or so? Here's my modest contribution! I hit 4000 reports last week. No extremely high number of reports, compared to some, but almost all of them were marked Good! (and most of the Bad ones, were actually my mistake of double reporting...)  Now, go go go guys, hit that report button!! |
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I still want to see 25k USD before going back to normal  Meh, me not I want to see $100 million trillion for every member of the WO who's hodling. I'd love to see $0,001 for every corp that bought in the last 6 months. Damn why is this pissing me off so much. I should be happy about 15x profit, but I'm almost at the point where I'd be willing to sacrifice my whole bag just to see this gang of corps suffer severely for their hypocrisy. Not having spent more than I can afford to lose helps to remain principled...  |
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Why don't you let the over 70s here help you with your English, that could help you to understand some of the posts you find difficult.
What? Told you the guy's a comedian  |
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OT: Wow...just look at stonks like Gamestop and Blackberry. Ridiculous pump and dumps everywhere.   Dude, seriously. |
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OT: Wow...just look at stonks like Gamestop and Blackberry. Ridiculous pump and dumps everywhere. Yeah it's a joke atm... Lazy "Robinhood" fiat investors buying every fraction of a rumor on one side, on the other side banks & corps enriching themselves thanks to the Bitcoin they still despised hardly 3 months ago. Bah. Makes it easier to gain a bit rapidly, but it's not what I would call morally acceptable. Also, Bitcoin was created against banks and corporations, not to make them richer. |
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(...) 
Will be the closest we'll get
To the Alps this year#nohomo #noskiing |
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Almst 3734,7K. Highest price in 4 days... About time, I was getting bored seeing BTC at 30x its value from 3 years ago. |
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"booked approximately a $200,000 profit" Goddamn that's pathetic, for the amount of coin they sold. They never deserved to HODL in the first place. What's $ ? Hope they stay out. |
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Now THAT is a work of art! Hear hear. Isn't it funny how no-one seems to whine about copyright or plagiarism, whenever someone posts photos like this one? Because the whole universe like tits and ass so they were busy looking at it rather than complaining.XOXO.  Oh now I understand. |
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Now THAT is a work of art! Hear hear. Isn't it funny how no-one seems to whine about copyright or plagiarism, whenever someone posts photos like this one? |
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