r/SocialistGaming • u/Suspicious_Stock3141 • 1d ago
Gaming News Nintendo Halts Switch 2 Pre-Orders Over Trump's Tariffs
https://kotaku.com/switch-2-preorder-price-tariff-trump-nintendo-185177476434
u/NowakFoxie 1d ago
They targeted gamers.
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u/Peach_Muffin 1d ago
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
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u/coldgravyblues 1d ago
I hope the price sky-rockets in a few days. God I hope the tariffs add another 100$ on this thing lol
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u/Teriteko 1d ago
Japan's tariff of 24% would add $120 to the $499 Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch 1 was produced in Vietnam, where the tariff would be 46% or an additional $230.
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u/OldEyes5746 1d ago
I'd rather prices not go up and this psychotic clown just not be allowed to crash the economy. Not exactly thrilled that half a week of groceries just for myself runs me into triple digits.
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u/Liawuffeh 1d ago
I hear you, yeah, but as things stand there's not really a whole lot we can do about it aside from get out on the streets so I at least want fuckers who voted for this to suffer as well or worse for their stupid choice. If that makes sense?
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u/OldEyes5746 1d ago
It makes sense, but I'd rather they just come to our side when the reality hits. The faster we bolster numbers and get vocal, the closer we get to unfucking this situation.
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u/Liawuffeh 1d ago
I feel you, but you literally can't reach these people. My hope is at the very least a crashed economy helps some of them have a wakeup call. It's what they wanted, it's what fuckface is literally bragging about on his social media rn, so maybe we'll get lucky. Idk.
I worry that even if we do unfuck the situation they'll be like that gif of the deer that gets helped out of a pool only to dash right back in, like the last election all over again.
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u/OldEyes5746 1d ago
Idk, more of the redhats i know irl were already not happy with how much the price shot up on everything two months ago. Only ones i see sticking behind him are also compulsive assholes who root for whatever outcome upsets the most people, regardless of how much it hurts them. If there was a recall election today, a lot of his voter base would abandon him.
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u/SatisfactionRude6501 14h ago
I love how the MAGA gamer bros like the Quivering are trying to defend this shit, but you can tell they're absolutely fucking fuming underneath.
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u/Sergeantman94 22h ago
"They came for the gamers, and by 'they' I mean 'I' because I voted for the 'trigger the libs' candidate and didn't think his policies would affect me until they did. Sure, I triggered the libs, but also unloaded an entire magazine into my own dick."
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u/Dr_Zulu2016 12h ago
"I can't believe the leopards ate my face."
-- Gamers voting for the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party.
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u/acelgoso 1d ago
In America.
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u/acelgoso 1d ago
America is so fucking self-centered that you deserve this orange turd.
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u/OldEyes5746 1d ago
That turd barely scraped by with a record low voter turnout thanks to decades of laws to purge the rolls. Don't presume the majority of us actually wanted the fuck-mook in office again.
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u/InvcIrnMn 1d ago
Not exactly a solidarity mindset, is it?
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u/SpiritualAd9102 22h ago
Calling Americans self-centered while taking a victory lap over something that affects everyone. Good job.
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u/Suspicious_Stock3141 1d ago
I hope "Saving gaming from wokeness" was worth it in the end
We're in this mess because YOU can't handle ANYONE other than Cis Straight white characters in your games or ANYONE other than Cis Straight white men working on your games