Well this is clearly someone (and an article author) who has never dealt with international shipping before.

4k my ass, WATA is over inflated garbage at most the game is around $150 to $200 to the right collector.

If it was art I’d be mad but this is the physical equivalent of an NFT market.

Bummer but also grading video games is a grift

customs doesn’t give a fuck and as far as I’m aware, there is no recourse for this, they don’t have to provide a reason or reimbursement for destroying things in the name of “security”. I’m in canada and had a fairly limited figurine unsealed, box damaged etc because (seemingly) the fig had a little cache of toy…

Did they damaged the game, or just the box and the speculation value of a cartoon box?, because if is the speculation, speculation is bad and everyone doing it should feel bad. 

I'd like to see the original box it was shipped in. If it doesn't have "this item was inspected by customs" yellow tape on it then I'd be side-eyeing the seller. 

Others have performed the necessary and justified bashing of this practice of ‘grading’ games so I will instead opine that

There is absolutely a reason for customs damaging this product. Their jobs are to look for drugs, weapons, or any other type contraband, and they can’t physically see what is inside the box, so they have no choice but to break it open to verify what’s in it. “Trust me dude, it’s fine” is not a acceptable excuse. For…

Lulz...if you think you can spend less than $50k to win a lawsuit against CBP for damaging your video game then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Having worked with Customs for around 20 years this level of damage is extremely suspicious, but also in practice I tell people Customs can do whatever they want with your…

Did something happen other than him getting snippy a few years back about being yelled at for not caring about the details of US politics as a non-American?

Hard disagree. If I bought a house with a skeleton in it, I bought a house and the skeleton in it.

At my last job when they used phrases like ‘lean operation’ it just meant you’re now doing more work with the same amount or less people. 

You really don’t have to suspend your disbelief. Discord has more active users than Mexico has people. So, yeah, this stuff happens every week because discord’s active userbase  is the size of a large country and there are assholes everywhere everyday in large countries.

Users of free apps are some of the most demanding buttholes out there. That’s why, even for hobby projects, it makes sense to charge something for it. It filters out most of those buttholes.

I to add my voice to yours. I have been a High School teacher for 17 years, teaching history, government, and economics. I absolutely love it and to this day I still have trouble accepting that I get paid to do it. That is to say, I would do it for free if we lived in that kind of world.

Technical writing is enjoyable IME following a 10 year stint as a full-stack dev. You’re abundantly familiar with all the technology and terminology for a project, but aren’t the one having to write, refactor, debug, enhance, and support it alongside people who variously are and are not team players.

Agreed. I think it’s a matter of managing expectations and your outlook on the world and the way you exist in it. Since leaving the corporate grind and managing my own little IT consulting company, I’m miles happier than ever but I don’t work on a beach for half an hour a day.

Former employee here - Twitter was a challenging system to work on and you really NEEDED peers’ help and guidance. Not surprising someone who came in _trashing_ Twitter devs didn’t get/ask for help and ended up having to bail to save face. 🤷‍♂️

He went off on Elon in spaces, it was really embarrising for Elon, he’s completly in over his head.