Deceptichum

Not at all to do with us being a small population island nation in the arse end of the world. And electronics prices are almost at parity these days between the two countries (6.52% cheaper in US).

You've got weak rights and protections as a consumer, and you don't even have cheap prices like they do in China to justify it. That's gotta be embarrassing.

It's completely ranged mate and it's how the system operates in Australia. Would not be surprised to hear of similar from the kiwis, cannucks, or euro's.

We require products to meet up with certain expectations, such as lasting a reasonable lifespan. No one in their right mind would buy a laptop or a console if they expected it to stop working after just one year.

And quickly comparing 2 tax calculators, I would be taking home less money in the US after taxes. I'm not sure how accurate the US one is, because their government doesn't offer any such service themselves it seems so I had to trust a 3rd party site but I guess those taxes are going towards good things like the military and not useless things like improving citizens lives so that's a small price to pay.

Being stolen is a seperate beast.

You said “ But regardless, the product was beyond warranty” it wouldn’t be if you had proper consumer protections.

You poor Americans. Product isn’t even 2 years out of release and you accept that as a decent lifespan for an electronic device like this.

Likewise warranties exist to guarantee the quality of product, there’s no reason the company should be absolved from that simply because the user has changed.

Yeah, nah.

I’ll take the sane middle ground between tankie and corpo.

It’ll remain the only game I ever started a new game the second after finishing the campaign I played through it 3 times within the first week.

Only complaint is it was short and obviously had some funding concerns.

It was the closest thing to Fallout since Bethesda ruined the series.

Why would anyone want debate with a conservative?

They have no ideas to contribute to society.

No?

Lets send an even better message, “Look world, we’re not the hateful scum who give platform to promote hate against people for how they were born”.

Let’s make a stand and say we’re not like every moral less corpo site. That we value humans over advertising dollars and never ending growth targets.

Absolutely shit takes.

also make unusual allies for example with neocons, traditional conservatives or yes, J.K. Rowling; the more democratic forces are in the boat, the better, the rest is solved by federation)

Do not make allies with war mongers and bigots.

Create a space free from their shit for once, defederate from every capitalist instance, and don’t allow their companies and ideologies in here.

Or the making of a Rammstein video.

Have you met keyboard people? You don’t need to do anything to sell them more keyboards.

Boomers?

I’m a millennial and I remember that, I’m sure many Zoomers would as well.