Theft is more than just physically removing a non-fungible item. Depriving owed earnings is also considered theft, hence why piracy is considered theft because there is a debt owed for the pirated media. If you believe in wage theft, then you believe in IP theft.

In that case, I’m even more confused. Who do you think is going around just rebuying games they already own?

nobody wants to buy a full price game that they already own on steam that they got on sale 3 years ago.

How many Nintendo games are on Steam?

Or Star Trek movies.

Well… yeah. That’s not what LLMs do. That’s like saying “A leafblower got absolutely wrecked by 1998 Dodge Viper in beginner’s drag race”. It’s only impressive if you don’t understand what a leafblower is.

I’m not sure about the Switch 2, but with the Switch 1, hardware bricking was very possible. There’s a chip on the Switch 1 with a series of fuses, which intentionally burn out after after certain firmware updates. There’s a finite number of fuses (500+, I believe), based on the update schedule Nintendo had planned for the console, and the number of burnt fuses needs to match the firmware version you’re on, otherwise you can’t downgrade the firmware. If Nintendo wanted to, they could target a device to receive several “dummy” updates to burn the remaining fuses, effectively blocking any further firmware updates.

I ended up digging up my old Switch 1 box after reading this story, and it’s packaged very similarly. It was screen-up, with nothing covering it but a plastic baggie and the cardboard layer of the box. Though it was slightly more recessed, there wasn’t much stopping anything that would’ve punctured the box from damaging the screen on that model, either.

I think the lack of any major packaging issues from the Switch 1, and that there aren’t reports of other mass damages on the Switch 2 outside of this particular store, should tell us that the packaging is fine. Not ideal (clearly), but fine for 99.999% of units shipped. I can’t imagine that they didn’t do stress-testing on the packaging designs before shipping and accounted for being kicked around in a FedEx truck, but I doubt they accounted for somebody deliberately puncturing the packaging.

How is the way Nintendo boxed them “weird”? If anything, stapling the receipt to the box is weird, that’s so unnecessary. No other store is doing that.

Update 6/5/2025 12:42 p.m. ET: A customer who was impacted by the stapling issue says they were told that replacement units are on there way from a neighboring store. How did the staples become a thing to begin with? According to what they were told, the store’s air conditioner was broken and it had gotten hot enough in the store that the receipts weren’t staying taped to the boxes. To avoid mixed up paper work they were stapled on instead.

It was too hot for tape? That’s bullshit, it was only 85 fahrenheit in Staten Island today, what kind of tape are they using that stops working at 85 degrees? WHY DID YOU NEED TO TAPE THE RECEIPTS, THEN??? JUST PUT IT IN THE BAG. WHY ARE YOU OVER-COMPLICATING THIS???

Nintendo makes a lot of dumb decisions. But stapling a receipt to the box wasn’t one of them. Don’t blame Nintendo for this, blame the morons working at the Staten Island GameStop.

This sucks. I use Catbox quite heavily. I’ll probably buy a sub to help support them, but I hope they’re able to recoup enough to stay afloat. It’s been really great having access to a non-enshittified, login-free host for video files and I’d hate to lose it.

I’m just surprised that there are still people using Tinder.

This one’s very surreal. Not just because of the subject (which is fantastic), but also because it’s getting harder to find the imperfections these days. The symmetry is getting better, and keeping consistent angles on the bokeh flares is actually kind of scary.

gyaus!

This is why I love The Finals so much these days. You get the benefits of a live service game (updates, bug fixes, frequent content drops, an active and receptive dev team, etc), but their monetization scheme is set up so that you can only spend money on cosmetics. Weapons, game modes, account progression, are all advanced by playing the game, without any monetary path to advancement, whatsoever.

Besides, the game modes, gunplay, movement, and aesthetic in The Finals are all leaps and bounds better than anything COD has had to offer for years now.

Your side dish said “pasta la vista, baby”.

Yeah. I mean, they even put wheels on it.

Sounds like insurance fraud to me. They keep the fucking shampoo under tighter lockdown. They’re low-key encouraging somebody to steal these.

These verification systems have already been defeated with locally-run AI models. This is now only a barrier to humans.

It sounds like they are.

I seem to recall reading something around the time PT came out, where somebody said that Kojima is pretty difficult to work for, and runs his studio more like a director on a film set would. Apparently, he doesn’t take input or suggestions from anybody else outside of a few trusted writers on his team.

Granted, that was 10+ years ago when he was still at Konami, so maybe things are different now that he’s independent.

If you look at the Bungie art it couldn’t possibly be an inspo gallery because they are just straight up used with (some) changes made to them.

That’s why I’m thinking the folders were merged in error. Bungie makes a lot of stupid decisions, but I think “willfully stealing art and assuming nobody would ever find out as we heavily advertise our game to get as many eyes on the product as humanly possible” is too stupid, even for them.