July Chat: A Hodeo Kojumbo Thread

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mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Whoops accidentally bought a Switch.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2018 20:56

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 00:18

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

I've been married for 11 years this year and it's the best decision I ever made. True story!

# ¿ Jul 2, 2018 13:22

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

The thing about going into consumer debt for a thing is that debt continues to build and build and it can VERY quickly double, triple, etc in size. In fact, it's designed that way. It's specifically formulated to make it as easy as possible for you to wake up one day and suddenly owe many times more than what you initially spent. You doing nothing but living your life normally and waiting will result in you owing a ton more money.

Or you save up the cash ahead of time, pay the asking price outright, and then you're done.

v :shobon:

# ¿ Jul 3, 2018 16:11

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Credit is good to have available in case of a legit emergency as in life- or livelihood--threatening sudden occurrence like you need emergency surgery or your only car you rely on for keeping a job gets broken. If you run it up with consumer debt then you drain that pool or put yourself in a place where something like a broken car will literally ruin your life. It's a bad idea because the system is rugged against you. It's designed to ruin you, kinda like casinos. It all benefits the house in the end.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2018 16:18

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

# ¿ Jul 3, 2018 17:25

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

bloodychill posted:

My opinion is that it's OK to go into debt as long as you calculate the risk and the need is justified. Applying this to the Lasik problem, I'd say it's probably something that can wait until FAK and KCB are in a more stable situation.

Oh for sure. Getting a reasonable loan from a solid source to buy something of utility like a car or house if the numbers run ok and you can afford it is good. I'm mostly talking about straight up consumer debt via credit cards or seller financing schemes. Credit cards can be good for sudden emergencies that need $500-$3000 or whatever, or if you can afford and trust yourself to use them and pay them to zero every month.

But I guess the subtext of my posts were essentially to not make the questionable, delayable, non-emergency, dangerzone purchase for purely emotional reasons, especially when the only methods for financing it are either credit cards or some payment plan that for sure will have a HUGE interest rate if god forbid Murphy's Law gets you and you can't pay it off within their grace period.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 08:02

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

FirstAidKite posted:

Lots of understandable stuff.

So, I swear I'm not trying to belabor the point, but I will go so far as to say that I'm extremely empathetic to your thoughts and feelings about it, and I can absolutely empathize and acknowledge what KCB is experiencing and I STILL strongly recommend NOT going into debt for this. America's debt system is literally set up to be predatory and the current administration is devoted to removing as many of the paltry safety nets as possible for people in your position. VideoGames said the rest wayyyyyy better than any of us could, so I'll leave it there, but we're all piling into other solutions because going into consumer debt in 2018 America in the mid- to lower- income brackets is legitimately that risky.

Again, though, only you guys know all of the situation, so the choice is yours. Just be careful and you're correct to be nervous and scared of that debt. If you do decide to do it, pay it off in full asap.

Help Im Alive posted:

Do streamers really get those kinds of sponsors

They tend to get smaller or different companies like mobile game publishers or at least more online-content related companies like Audible. I think some of the big esports people get bigger things. I think I've seen some taco bell logos on some Overwatch League players streams perhaps?

mutata fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jul 4, 2018

# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 15:55

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

LawfulWaffle posted:

Hello. My 10 month old decided to contract Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease the day my much needed vacation began and my life is hell. Thanks for listening.

Mine got it RIGHT at the start of Thanksgiving week last year. Then I got it a day later. We were both out all that week. I feel that pain, my man.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2018 02:55

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Me and my best friend in elementary school used to get on the phone and watch Bond movies on TBS with the sound off and dub our own dialog over it and it was always the most hilarious poo poo ever. We did it to other stuff but Bond movies were always full of weird, out there stuff so the non sequiturs were way funnier.

But in general, yeah Bond movies are misogynistic garbage disguised as spy adventures.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 02:37

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

So a bug in the system let people pull real player numbers from Steam's API. This shows the number of people who have ever launched all games that have achievements. This is the closest thing we'll probably ever have to a broad view of overall Steam sales numbers:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/steam-data-leak-reveals-precise-player-count-for-thousands-of-games/

There's a link to a csv file with the whole list. Go find your favorites and marvel at how little they've sold!

Edit: Link to the file: http://www.arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/games_achievements_players_2018-07-01.csv

mutata fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jul 6, 2018

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:10

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

al-azad posted:

Look up Lawbreakers please

code:

LawBreakers," 674,335 "

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:13

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Relax Or DIE posted:

Does that include people who played during the free beta periods/weekends?

Presumably yes. It's the total number of people who launched the steam app, whether they paid for it or not.

Edit: Protip, Notepad++ handles the list better than notepad.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:16

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Yeah, keep in mind that the list wont take into account free weekends or games that switched from paid to F2P, the list just reports that single stat: accounts that launched the steam app.

code:

"Euro Truck Simulator 2     5,982,548"

code:

Factorio," 1,706,659 
BRINK," 1,700,604

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:20

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

code:

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition," 94,477
Tacoma," 76,114 
Tastes Where the WaterLike Wine," 9,061 "

Ouch.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:23

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Oh, also many of these games are crossplatform and could be tearing rear end on Switch even if PC numbers look garbage or whatever. Just be wary of the numbers, but it's still the best snapshot of the PC games industry we'll ever get.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2018 22:29

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

homeless snail posted:

wow look at that fall off

The numbers mirror how long the games have been on market, too.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2018 00:15

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

I'm pretty sure you just link your Amazon Prime account to your Twitch account and then you get the stuff under a crown-shaped button in the upper right. You have to use them through the Twitch launcher though.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2018 18:45

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

I'm wondering about how many Mii owners are dead now...

# ¿ Jul 10, 2018 02:39

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

The Colonel posted:

and kojima started watching season 3 of twin peaks while skipping fire walk with me

Y'all talk poo poo but I bet I'm the only motherfucker in here who's read FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper's autobiography.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2018 08:56

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Fortnite Season 6: Butt Chuggin' Some Ham

Butt Chuggin' Some Ham, a Hideo Kojima Production

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 18:14

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Minecraft, the Butt Chuggin' Some Ham Together Update

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 18:17

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

chumbler posted:

Well drat, yall won't let people butt chug anything around here.

I'm buttchuggin' gigabytes.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 21:03

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

YUCK NEWSPAPERS

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 05:32

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 00:18

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

I want that Simon Bellmont rumor to be true because it also included an Isabelle rumor. :3:

# ¿ Jul 30, 2018 19:29

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