They want only those most loyal to stay. They're importing loyalty, while exporting dissent.
Q posts 563 and 828 are highly relevant here. We just forgot how to play. Ben is showing us how to play. The rules are rigged, but he followed every process he could, using whatever laws were provided. He does this for a living, check the rest of his channel. You don't think he has lawyers already? Take notes. He's giving a masterclass in exposing corruption, in real time.
You spelled it wrong. According to PDJT, new spelling is now "Dumocrats". Source - post above
Does anyone remember Reefer Madness? This is the same play from nearly 100 years ago.
Pet food enthusiast buys chain game store and attempts to become the casino for trading cards, what a villain arc.
Oh yeah definitely. Beanie Babies and Pogs both come to mind.
Honestly it's not even close. Your $2,000 in gold might be worth $35k today, my $2k in Pokémon would be over $700k.
That's what Gamestop is trying to buy into now
Strange. Ebay acquired TCGPlayer a bit ago, while GameStop started a partnership with PSA.
For those unfamiliar, ebay and tcgplayer are basically the go-to places for collectible trading cards here in America. PSA on the other hand, is the main player, the standard, in the collectible trading card GRADING scene.
Gamestop used to be a place where you could buy cards at retail, but in the past year they decided to start matching, or in some cases exceeding market price.
Retail vs market price is insane difference on some products. Targets around the country had gotten restocks of Ascended Heroes ETBs just yesterday. Retail for those are $49.99. Market price (ebay/tcgplayer/card shows) is $170. If gamestop gets them, you bet they'll list them at $180. They've recently been called Gamescalp recently because of their 'scalper' prices.
PSA on the other hand, now partnered with gamestop, had their own controversy recently because they've been buying their own graded cards, and got caught "buying" a card they graded at a 9 from someone, paying them the graded 9 cost, then regrading it to a 10 to try to sell it, keeping the profits. Imagine buying a PSA9 then selling it as a PSA10. PSA10 is considered Gem Mint, no imperfections at all, and is sometimes much higher in value than a 9.
The only other card marketplace that I know of other than tcgplayer and ebay, is cardmarket, but it's European only. There are other grading companies outside of PSA, but the collector standard has been PSA for so long that there's resistance in changing it.
I'm other words, this is a bid for gamestop to help control the entire collectible card market.
Just for a bit of side trivia, if you purchased $2,000 of gold, in the year 2000, and I purchased $2,000 of Pokémon base set booster boxes, sealed, and we both held until now.... My investment would be worth much more than yours. This paper is literally worth more than gold.
There was a Pikachu I bought for my sister from my McDonald's paycheck for her birthday one year. Probably spent like $20. She held onto it and kept it in good condition. We got it graded a few years back. She got a PSA9. Worth $2.5k now.
That's what gamestop is trying to buy into now. They're being ambitious, I'll give them that.
Trump doing the Trump dance!
Well yeah, if someone thinks they're a ostrich and the whole world decides to play along, of course that someone is going to continue thinking they're an ostritch. At what point are they supposed to stop and go "wait a second?" if everyone is treating them like an ostritch?
A... renegade, some might say? They've been telling us all along. Look up his 'presidential' secret service codename if you haven't.
Is this account at least 6 months old? I lost access to my old account, ah well. If I get one, cool! If not, no biggie!
Look up the Rukma Vimana, the Shakuna Vimana, and the Tripura Vimana. Humans have had flying machines for a long time.
More than 6 months ago? Where is she now, is she a judge again?
It's old, fake, and gay. Not even AI, just old fashioned digital manipulation.
Or... this is all a movie and that tech doesn't actually exist, but is being used to scare people into thinking it does.
Well see now they have the "Praise be to Allah" thing to say that trump is, in fact, a Muslim.
It's in response to Trump's Truth earlier today saying "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will..."
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116363336033995961
Praise be to Allah?
Just go into settings and turn community styling off
Sidebar is dumb today too
Guess I'll be back tomorrow. Happy April fools, I guess?
Being a programmer who was told last year to start using github copilot, and someone who had tried to use chatgpt personally to try to vibe code as well....
It's great at boilerplate code for little pieces. It's absolutely dogwater at trying to build a complete architecture. It often gets lost in the sauce and loses key details. Loses meaningful connections that causes bugs. And if the coder isn't experienced, they won't be able to track down the bugs to fix the issues...
I find it most helpful when starting a new project. I find it absolutely awful on a project already more than a month or so, old, unless filling in hundreds of similar fields in a single class. It can see the previous lines in a file and then you can Tab Enter Tab Enter Tab Enter Tab Enter and it'll slowly fill in those hundreds of fields. Otherwise though, it isn't great at looking at the context of your specific code
How was she planning on getting away with that? Some people don't think two seconds ahead.