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I think I stopped using it in 2014? It was rough haha

Not defending AI here, but this sounds like people who are sick with some kind of illness are going down a rabbit hole with AI, and are unable to differentiate between imaginary and reality.

We had a family friend who worked with jewelry his whole life. He got some kind of poisoning from something he worked with. Lead? Mercury? I cannot recall

Anyways he started believing he was some kind of messenger from God. Nobody figured out it was poisoning for years. He was such a nice guy. He just wanted to help people. Once they figured it out, he was treated and went back to his normal self.

Every time I read more about Facebooks BS, the crazier it sounds. But I remember having a very similar issue with it. It kept feeding me political content I would get upset with. It was great at that, and so I stopped using it all together.

It truly seems like it's a perfect storm of manipulation.

Ahh, that's something I didn't consider. EA did that recently with the Sims 1&2. Something like that at least. I hate that. At the very least, both options should be available.

In the case with the Sims, they didn't include regional variants of the game, and they also were missing an ikea dlc due to licensing

Oh sorry, I wasn't defending them. Haha yeah I agree with you completely. They are absolutely going to jack up costs. I just meant I don't think Nintendo is generally struggling. They seem like a standout in the market

One thing that should be noted is Nintendo is roughly the 10th best company in Japan and has billions in reserve cash.

Do you guys think these companies will retroactively raise game prices for older titles?

There's a couple of Nintendo games that never go on sale that I've been waiting on. I have a gift card, so I'm thinking maybe I should snag em now before things get stupid expensive

Sometime in October 2025

Oh for sure. I usually wait 1-3 years before buying games so that I can grab em on sale. It's really quite rare that Nintendo games go on sale, though. So it's kinda tough when you want to eventually play them.

I'll sometimes buy games new, but as it is, most of my purchases are during sales. I've been mostly playing old titles. It just surprises me when I see statistics of Nintendo running out of pre-orders etc.

Hmm when I look it up with this bank of Canada website it claims a game from 2011 that cost 60CAD would be $83 today. I'm wondering if there's other tools I can use to cross reference? Just curious how you got to the $200 number. Maybe I'm wrong.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/

The thing that is incredibly frustrating for me is the rising cost of games. Nintendo of all companies is starting the big push for raised game prices. Frankly, I can't afford that. It was a stretch for games prior to this. But now I can't justify it.

Games are currently $80 CAD. In some rare cases $90CAD. If they were bumped up by inflation from 2019 to today. Games would roughly be $96.Still hurts, but alright, sure, I get it.

But Nintendo wants to jack up games to $115 CAD. That's a massive jump of $35 or 43% if my math is correct. And somehow, people seem to be able to afford this? It feels like I'm trapped in some kind of bubble where I'm just working poor while everyone else is making their money somehow go much further than I can.

I'm working full time, but I am supporting my family. I don't have kids. I make well above minimum wage. I just don't get how people are making this work unless they're all just taking on extreme levels of debt

I agree completely. Over the past 5 years, I've noticed so many people have been able to fail upward with their businesses all because they have income that allows them to do so. It's incredibly frustrating knowing that with the right backing, most people could likely be as successful or better.