Yeah, I’m reading the description of what he did, but it seems exactly like what happens with 90-odd-percent of all crypto coins. The only thing that’s more shady than usual is he floated what I believe they call a “hype coin” but pretended it was something he wanted to have longevity. Which I suppose is exactly how…

It was allegedly a hoax he orchestrated with his viewers to have the police called on an American Airlines flight to Phoenix for a bomb threat

what else do you expect from a runescape player? selfishness and “sucks to be you” is their whole personality

Yes.

I wish there was some third option here in which the scammer didn’t RECEIVE any money, but his idiot fans somehow still LOSE that money. Everybody sucks here.

I imagine (or at least hope to imagine) that a lot of his “fans” are kids or really young adults who don’t get the whole parasocial relationship thing. They’re really susceptible to hype and fomo, and a need to belong in some group.

It makes them perfect targets for predators like dumbass over here(since I refuse to…

Be less the way you are. 

Do people seriously not remember the Bethesda acquisition..? It hasn’t been that long. Bethesda has publicly stated that their future titles will be MS-exclusive. The same will be true of Activision. MS didn’t pay $68 billion just to add more games to Game Pass. They paid $68 billion to add more games to Game Pass AND…

Moving consoles is not the end goal for Sony, though. They want you to have their console so that you buy content on their platform, so that they make money off the platform fees. If you buy a PS5 and only buy PlayStation Studios titles, they’re making a lot less money off of you than people who are buying other stuff…

>Could manufacturers nip this in the bud with a few hours of work? Yes.

Yeah it would be wrong to say middlemen can’t add value. The whole supply chain is full of middlemen moving and storing product until it eventually reaches the end consumer. Arbitratrily inserting yourself at the end of the chain and jacking prices up doesn't make scalpers middlemen though. It just makes them…

Yea exactly. I worked in a small firm that sells frozen goods. We bought frozen goods from wholesalers, stored em, and sold em to shops who had very little demand/capital/space to afford the minimums wholesalers require.

I mean.... Not really? Labour added value is totally a thing. Being able to buy a single console from a retail store near you and either walk away with it or have it shipped to your home in a few days instead of having to buy 100 and wait 6 months for them to arrive from China is the value added by retailers and the…

You ask how it could be made illegal by stating that it isn’t currently illegal...

they honestly don’t care.  right now, they’re making money.  fuck all else.  there’s no incentive to be even a halfway decent human being.  just pure money all the time.  it must be deeply fulfilling for their empty, empty souls.

Yeah, this is exactly it. She’s the ONLY person in the top ten Twitch streamers who is a woman. Period. This JiDion dipshit could have gone after ANYONE ELSE, Ninja included, but he chose her, most likely because of her gender.

“...that’s not technically breaking any laws.”

Guess what? You and your company are scalpers too! Fuck you!

Mr Bayliss said he was “very in tune with my moral compass, as a person” and the thought that families weren’t able to purchase a games console as a result of his business had bothered him.

“While it’s true that we all live in a capitalist hellscape, labor-added value is usually supposed to add value for… you know, the consumer.”