• @MrVilliam
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      697 months ago

      It’d be pretty great if an entire generation referred to this phenomenon as the Nintendo Yuzu Effect instead of the Streisand Effect. Or maybe the YouTube Adblock Effect? These companies keep accidentally telling everybody about shit that is relatively unknown yet universally desired in order to not have to pay exploitative prices. Even early Switch games are still fucking impossible to find for less than their launch price. And actually, now that I think about it, the MSRP of the Switch itself still hasn’t dropped either. It costs just as much today as it did 7 goddamn years ago to legally buy a Switch, BotW, and Mario Odyssey. Nintendo’s greed is the reason Switch piracy was ever big enough to be worth chasing, and now chasing it will cause an even bigger boom in it. Well, that and their shitty controllers. I don’t blame anybody for wanting to play BotW with an Xbox controller on their last-gen PC.

      • It's A Faaaahhkeah!
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        617 months ago

        Nah keep it Streisand effect, as that’s where the term originated, if we changed phrases every single time a company did this, we’d be changing it every hour.

        • @MrVilliam
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          187 months ago

          True, but nobody born after 9/11 knows who the fuck Barbra Streisand even is, so they definitely don’t know the story.

          • @fishos
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            117 months ago

            Which adds to the point: even though no one knows who she is anymore or about her giant beachfront mansion she tried to have removed from the Internet, her name lives on in infamy

            • @MrVilliam
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              87 months ago

              Damn. Nevermind, you just appealed to my petty side. I can clearly see now that I was wrong haha.

              • @fishos
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                27 months ago

                Historians will look back one day and be like “this woman was so renowned for her terribleness, we can trace the entymology of this modern word back to her name”.

            • @garbagebagel
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              27 months ago

              Lol people born after 9/11 were <9 when this song came out.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                37 months ago

                Fair, but they still could have heard it on the radio while their parents were driving them to hockey practice or welding seminars or whatever 9yos did back then 🤷

      • Herbal Gamer
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        97 months ago

        If gameboy games are anything to go by, prices almost never drop. I remember getting a GBA game for 20 euros back when the Nintendo SD was already ending its end of life.

    • RBG
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      217 months ago

      There is a copy/fork of it already called nuzu