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Amiibo people are worse than bronies because atleast you can find the toys at stores months from now and they have supply ready and waiting.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:02
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What is Social Justice? Baby don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more
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Apr 7, 2015 03:05
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The Taint Reaper posted:Amiibo people are worse than bronies because atleast you can find the toys at stores months from now and they have supply ready and waiting. i dont even understand what the gently caress this comment says. but i can tell you there are some amiibo that are already "out of print" and will never be restocked, because nintendo is fuckin dumb and thinks the priority is what the toys activate on consoles, rather than "holy poo poo official nintendo figures of characters besides mario" so you get a bunch of stores piled with five overproduced characters, like mario and DK and pikachu, and then all the figures people actually want are one-offs, leading to pre-orders for a fuckin jigglypuff toy selling out within 2 minutes of going up on amazon some of these people haven't slept in like 3 days because wave 4 preorders were late going up on amazon
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Apr 7, 2015 03:14
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Excels posted:
why are they doing that, though? 
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Apr 7, 2015 03:19
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Being young and obsessive about stuff that won't matter in 6 months. Amiibo is the new beany babies.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:20
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the gold mario amiibo is hella funny because it gives off the illusion of value simply by being gold, regardless of how rare it is. poo poo is gold, nuff said
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Apr 7, 2015 03:20
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Bicyclops posted:why are they doing that, though? because if they miss the instant those preorders go up, there is a good chance the toy they want will then be unattainable without paying several times the retail price. some places are selling out so fast that you could be second in line and still be too late to get one.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:23
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I generally enjoy Nintendo's products but it's amazing how they've been a business this long and still can't manage basic things like supply and demand.
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I wanted to say that I am waiting for one game this month and it is gta 5 for pc, I hope that the online runs well because this is the big reason I am getting it. On console(360) the online was just awkward because thing sometimes didn't load properly and it was obviously unable to handle it in a way that is enjoyable. edit: For the Amiibo I think Nintendo doesnt give a gently caress and know that everything will sale. Switching production line fast make it harder to make fake Amiibo.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:24
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Excels posted:because if they miss the instant those preorders go up, there is a good chance the toy they want will then be unattainable without paying several times the retail price. some places are selling out so fast that you could be second in line and still be too late to get one. okay... so why are they doing those things?! it'll suck not to have the toy but not as much as staying up until 4 AM or paying like 50 dollars for it.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:25
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Excels posted:i dont even understand what the gently caress this comment says. but i can tell you there are some amiibo that are already "out of print" and will never be restocked, because nintendo is fuckin dumb and thinks the priority is what the toys activate on consoles, rather than "holy poo poo official nintendo figures of characters besides mario" Again still worse than bronies because Hasbro has waves for transformers and all it's toys that have figures that are absent in future waves. And yet they do not have a problem making more money than Nintendo by providing actual toys instead of loving statues. You can go into a store right now and buy pretty much the first few waves of Combiner Wars with no issue.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:27
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Lurdiak posted:I generally enjoy Nintendo's products but it's amazing how they've been a business this long and still can't manage basic things like supply and demand. to be fair i don't think nintendo was anticipating insane people like the guy who bought $4000 worth of Rosalina amiibos out of actual genuine autistic hatred of the character. gamestop employees are also putting themselves at the top of preorder lists, or just withholding stock just to see which ones they can take home and resell. there's a lot of hosed up poo poo happening in the amiibo trading world right now.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:28
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Bicyclops posted:okay... so why are they doing those things?! it'll suck not to have the toy but not as much as staying up until 4 AM or paying like 50 dollars for it. They're getting scalped like concert tickets and people really really want them before that happens because they go from literally 20 bucks in-store to 100+ once they get into the grubby hands of some chode who bought it just so they could do that 
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Apr 7, 2015 03:28
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People want toys, have no self control and have nothing better to do.
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Excels posted:to be fair i don't think nintendo was anticipating insane people like the guy who bought $4000 worth of Rosalina amiibos out of actual genuine autistic hatred of the character. Oh yeah sure a Japanese company that is located in Japan has no idea how insane collectors are out there. Land of the loving 800 dollar blu-rays sets because people will gladly pay 800 dollars.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:29
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The Taint Reaper posted:Oh yeah sure a Japanese company that is located in Japan has no idea how insane collectors are out there. it's actually kind of amazing how ignorant japanese businessmen are about a lot of things. nintendo is only just now taking baby steps into markets that other companies cornered a decade ago. the internet is still sort of a mystery to them
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Apr 7, 2015 03:32
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At least they still know how to make games.
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Excels posted:it's actually kind of amazing how ignorant japanese businessmen are about a lot of things. nintendo is only just now taking baby steps into markets that other companies cornered a decade ago. the internet is still sort of a mystery to them The internet in Japan is still in it's infancy. They just got pop-up ads a few years ago and geocities are still a thing. The limited collector's mentality of amiibos has existed in Japan for decades, they just tried to apply it to other countries where this poo poo really doesn't happen anymore. I'm glad that I thoroughly do not give a poo poo about them. Seriously you want Zelda and Firemblem statues? They have them and they're larger and cheaper than amiibos of all the characters you could ever want. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 03:34
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did this thread suddenly get filled with angry World War II veterans?
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Apr 7, 2015 03:36
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why are there people talking to taint reaper
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Endorph posted:why are there people talking to taint reaper Are you questioning my vast and infinite knowledge of plastic anime knick-knacks?
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Apr 7, 2015 03:39
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I wont get an Amiibo but it's seems great for kid and the asking price isn't so bad. It just I dont really see the point to own more then one of them.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:40
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The reason people can't buy enough of the robo-toys is because major economic power and developed country, Japan, is a backward island nation, with strange natives who have yet to discover the word "business" -goons
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Bleusilences posted:I wont get an Amiibo but it's seems great for kid and the asking price isn't so bad. It just I dont really see the point to own more then one of them. 13 dollars for a plastic statue is pisspoor, same with infinity and Skylanders. for 13 bucks you could buy the World of Nintendo guys who are not only larger and can move, you can buy more than one.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:43
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Endorph posted:why are there people talking to taint reaper i don't know, why did he get forums cancer and then get it lifted, instead of just being banned
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Apr 7, 2015 03:43
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The Taint Reaper posted:13 dollars for a plastic statue is pisspoor, same with infinity and Skylanders. Arent they memory card of something like that that you just swipe to load your stats at a friends house?
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Bicyclops posted:The reason people can't buy enough of the robo-toys is because major economic power and developed country, Japan, is a backward island nation, with strange natives who have yet to discover the word "business" You have no idea how backwards japanese-centric businesses are. It's a real thing and it's why so much poo poo is run differently than their American and European branches. There's a documentary on how KFC came to japan and how it stayed despite a ton of other major players failing. You can't treat a business in japan like you can in America. seriously ask microsoft. Bleusilences posted:Arent they memory card of something like that that you just swipe to load your stats at a friends house? That's only for smash brothers. And it's only for the ones that are compatable with the ingame counterpart.
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Bleusilences posted:I wont get an Amiibo but it's seems great for kid and the asking price isn't so bad. It just I dont really see the point to own more then one of them. too bad like half of these things will never even reach store shelves, and several will never reach the hands of the kids they are aimed at because of nutjob scalpers
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Noted business experts, "The Taint Reaper" and the Sonic Hedgehog guy who gets his news from 4chan have got Japan's socioeconomic problems licked.
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Excels posted:too bad like half of these things will never even reach store shelves, and several will never reach the hands of the kids they are aimed at because of nutjob scalpers That's just sad man, I did see a lot of them at ebgames and best buy so it's not out of reach to get one at least.
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Bicyclops posted:Noted business experts, "The Taint Reaper" and the Sonic Hedgehog guy who gets his news from 4chan have got Japan's socioeconomic problems licked. They're running on an extremely conservative 18th century banking system, this is not a joke or an exaggeration. This is the reality of how the place functions.
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Bicyclops posted:The reason people can't buy enough of the robo-toys is because major economic power and developed country, Japan, is a backward island nation, with strange natives who have yet to discover the word "business" See that's the weird thing, Japan's business practices are definitely different from most of the world's, just like a lot of their cultural stuff is. It's not specifically Japan's problem. For them it works fine but translated directly to other countries without accounting for their business culture (specifically that of the US and UK) it just doesn't work. Nobody is saying any of those vaguely racist things.
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CJacobs posted:Nobody is saying any of those vaguely racist things. The Taint Reaper posted:They're running on an extremely conservative 18th century banking system, this is not a joke or an exaggeration. This is the reality of how the place functions. The Taint Reaper posted:You have no idea how backwards japanese-centric businesses are. Excels posted:it's actually kind of amazing how ignorant japanese businessmen are about a lot of things.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:53
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I think the importance is in the phrasing. Taint Reaper said "backwards" when what he really meant was "different" but that's Taint Reaper for you I guess given the post above it, taint reaped again etc
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lol
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You see, "backwards" and "ignorant" and "infancy" just mean, uh, different.
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That's not what I meant, dummy. I meant that he said "backwards" which has racist implications when he meant (edit: or, probably should have said) "different" as in actually different than our own, not different as in a still-racist literal substitute for the word backwards.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:57
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But he didn't say that because he's Taint Reaper
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CJacobs posted:I meant that he said "backwards" which has racist implications when he meant (edit: or, probably should have said) "different" as in actually different than our own, not different as in a still-racist literal substitute for the word backwards. Re-read this and spend a little bit of time inside this word labyrinth and I think you will see that it is in fact you who are the dummy!
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