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The older I get, the less and less sense it makes to me that seemingly intelligent people will bend over backwards to defend a company they don't own stock in. It's silly. At least the professional fanboy tier like Kinda Funny with Sony, it makes sense because they get to host events for them and what not. But just random people who spend all day defending against the slightest insinuation that maybe the build quality in the Switch isn't of the highest standard, as if the sales numbers affect their personal bottom line, just seems so fruitless.
 
justjim89 said:
The older I get, the less and less sense it makes to me that seemingly intelligent people will bend over backwards to defend a company they don't own stock in. It's silly. At least the professional fanboy tier like Kinda Funny with Sony, it makes sense because they get to host events for them and what not. But just random people who spend all day defending against the slightest insinuation that maybe the build quality in the Switch isn't of the highest standard, as if the sales numbers affect their personal bottom line, just seems so fruitless.
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I agree with all of this.
 
justjim89 said:
The older I get, the less and less sense it makes to me that seemingly intelligent people will bend over backwards to defend a company they don't own stock in. It's silly. At least the professional fanboy tier like Kinda Funny with Sony, it makes sense because they get to host events for them and what not. But just random people who spend all day defending against the slightest insinuation that maybe the build quality in the Switch isn't of the highest standard, as if the sales numbers affect their personal bottom line, just seems so fruitless.
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It's sports mentality applied to brands. Nintendo is their "team."
 
justjim89 said:
The older I get, the less and less sense it makes to me that seemingly intelligent people will bend over backwards to defend a company they don't own stock in. It's silly. At least the professional fanboy tier like Kinda Funny with Sony, it makes sense because they get to host events for them and what not. But just random people who spend all day defending against the slightest insinuation that maybe the build quality in the Switch isn't of the highest standard, as if the sales numbers affect their personal bottom line, just seems so fruitless.
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Who says they don't own stock in Nintendo.
 
Basileus777 said:
It's sports mentality applied to brands. Nintendo is their "team."
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I don't really get it with sports, either, but I'm not as sports guy. At least with that it's more like "I live in this place! The large men on the field have the place I live on their jerseys! Those other guys don't live where I live, fuck them!"
 
 
 
 
I love how Rorie is getting some mild internet fame because he punched new hardware. It's so fitting.

justjim89 said:
The older I get, the less and less sense it makes to me that seemingly intelligent people will bend over backwards to defend a company they don't own stock in. It's silly. At least the professional fanboy tier like Kinda Funny with Sony, it makes sense because they get to host events for them and what not. But just random people who spend all day defending against the slightest insinuation that maybe the build quality in the Switch isn't of the highest standard, as if the sales numbers affect their personal bottom line, just seems so fruitless.
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People have gone through a whole thought process which brought them to the conclusion they should pre-order a Switch and play Nintendo games. Some of those then can't take criticism of that, because they see it as an attack on themselves and how they see the world. This will probably never change.

Oh and I love how AMD vs Intel is coming back in a big way. Android vs Apple was always lame.
 
robotrock said:
l'm not surprised that Jeff "8.8" Gerstmann is trying once again to sabotage a Nintendo product. Hopefully this time Nintendo responds with legal action. They've said before they think the Switch could be a Wii like success, if it only sells Wii U numbers now a lot of that could rightfully be blamed on Jeff, and the other Jeff (Bakalar for his cute little stand hitpiece). That's billions of dollars he could be costing Nintendo here, l hope them and their CBS lawyers are ready for a fight.
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Zaph said:
Given the embarrassment of riches heading our way, yes, I think I will call you crazy.
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maybe it's just because Zelda is like, gonna be in my hands on Friday, whereas this is "spring" and IT JUST LOOKS SO FUCKING NICE

I really really like Monster World, OK
 
 
 
Volotaire said:
First time listening to Waypoint Radio and I like the jingle at the start.
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Catvoca said:
GOAT jingle. There's some heathens in the Waypoint thread that don't like it for some reason though.
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It's a good jingle but you do end up hearing it a lot. Now I just listen to the Twitch archive of the live show so I don't hear the jingle.

I have this same problem with the beastcast corrections song. everytime i hear it now i cover my ears
 
 
 
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