The end is nigh
So, what, you had a building full of computers and didn't have insurance?!
What kind of fucking business people are you?
Idk anything at all about insurance or how it works but maybe it was insured and they're just cashing out lol
Yeah, they were either:
- Uninsured, and we're back to them not knowing how to run a business;
- Insured and cashing out; or
- Insured, but the insurance company is trying to fuck them over by not covering this.
The gofundme is at 20k/40k, 6 hours after creation.
The creator of that GoFundMe? Jeremy Hambly aka The Quartering
Insured, but the insurance company is trying to fuck them over by not covering this.
That could describe 95% of insurance claims.
Not necessarily -- they can always complain now, fight the insurance company, and then quietly cash out later if they win.
I have heard for some businesses, insurance is too expensive, which yikes for many reasons.
Consolidation of capital is bad but only when I can blame it on black people
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
He’s a “liberal” in the same way Sargon Of Akkad and all those other alt right shitheels are “liberals”
In other words, he isn’t.
he's always been a shitty contrarian, and he's still high coming off the Russiagate shit that be did. It's just that since getting dunked on by Maxine Waters, he's gone full 🤡 world.
First they came for the Gamers
but I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Gamer
(For real tho, that does suck for that arcade or whatever it is.)
No of course not, opportunists are going to opportunist. Judging a protest by its worst offenders is stupid.
With civil unrest of this intensity and scale, some rioting/looting is basically inevitable since you can't control every single person in such a large group.
Are they always? I've been to a game shop in my town and AFAIK they have no employees. It's just the guy who rents the building in there selling his games like he has for years. He holds events and stuff and there's a community around the shop. I don't see how there can be any tyranny if he has no employees. He doesn't even own a car. I'd consider him working class even though he owns a small business.
I think you gotta judge these things case by case. But just cause some people are hurt by something who maybe don't deserve it, doesn't mean that the whole movement is bad obviously. I think looting is good overall.
Thank Michael Tracey for the $400k bailout of likely nazis failing LAN party business.
Idk what this business is, but there's lots of weirdo stores in cities that wouldn't recover from an alleged break-in and robbery. As a gamer-american, I have a hard time enjoying this news
