Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Article is about collecting and grading often unplayable vintage console game media.

  This is like saying that “baseball is dying” because baseball card traders are assholes.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah. That is not retrogaming. That’s speculation, by assholes, for assholes.

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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its like an expose revealing that literally everyone heavily involved in crypto trading is a complete dickbag.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.

  They sold out day one.

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack

    I grow weary of limited USAian "there are only two truths" viewpoint. It's high time we cut the cord from US media and all the bullshit opinions that come with it. They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "centrist" 🙄 People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world. "real love", "true love", "forever and ever"

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.

      Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol

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    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This comment unintentionally makes you sound very jaded lol do you not believe in true love? Wild

      Centrism is not a neutral standpoint. Conservatism is a stage in fascist ideology. Fascism has originated in many cultures. It’s not a purely American phenomenon. The left right dichotomy is about capitalism. Capitalism creates and enforces different economic classes of people with different power. Socialism is, broadly speaking, the dismantling of those economic classes of power. A centrist can exist in such a situation, for instance advocating for there to be some smaller economic classes… which begs the question of why.

      You either believe all people are equal and have the same right to life, or you do not believe all people are equal. Those are the ideological basis for socialism and capitalism. Capitalism does not believe all people are equal, and posits that the wealthy deserve the disproportionate wealth and power they have. Socialism does believe all people are equal, and posits that all people deserve the same resources and power. A society where everyone has the same rights and the same access.

      So a centrist would by definition in this situation have to be aligned with capitalist ideology. Right? It would be something like “I do not believe all people are equal and deserve the same resources and power in society. But I do believe that the disparity between the wealthy and the poor should be smaller.”

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is it ironic that this is on substack?

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    why?

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    • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lotta Nazis on substack

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• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How am I meant to take an article that opens by claiming the entire economy is based on scams and gambling seriously?

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.

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    • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?

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• mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Karl Jobst has done some good investigative journalism on the auction fraud and the “fractional ownership” trading platform scams.

  Historically, auction houses and platforms are often using relationships with celebrities and influential people to artificially boost the prices. The platform provides the veneer of a neutral open-market sale. The celebrity provides the “credibility” of a rich buyer, justifying the record price on the game or collectable.

  I’d say don’t take any retro game prices at face value, and understand your own local market before buying anything. You can list things for any price you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean the product is routinely trading at that price. Wata can list and claim a “sale” at a ridiculous price on their own platform, and currently there is no way to credibly verify that sale was to a real buyer, and not pre-arranged or fraudulent in some way designed to inflate the precieved value of the item.

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