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I think the main thing is to support local as much as possible. Particularly with tech we’ve sort of allowed American companies to own everything about our digital lives and maybe that’s not the best thing for us? I agree you need a large number of people to make a difference but it starts with a few considered actions and grows from there. You’re absolutely right, but I would imagine there is a high amount of overlap between those groups of people. It always made me laugh when people said we should use Brexit as a chance to be more like Singapore without having any idea of what allows Singapore to be Singapore. Is this actually a thing? I honestly don’t know enough about housing policy of the current government but certainly hadn’t heard they wanted to reduce farmland for housing. I think we’re way too protective over a lot of areas and should be forcing progressive development a lot more than we do. It will damage some jobs and eliminate some jobs, but it will also create jobs. Isn’t it better that we create those jobs here rather than letting someone elsewhere take them? AI is going to advance whether we like it or not. Yeah it’s totally understandable, often being able to protest anything means you’re coming from a privileged position. When everything is so expensive getting ‘good enough’ for cheap is going to entice a lot of people to use them regardless of the hidden ‘cost’ in other areas. Definitely my experience too. I dread having to deal with anything in the UK as I know it’s going to be a complete pain and it will be handled by people utterly uninterested in solving the issues. Totally the opposite with Chinese companies, they’ll bend over backwards to ensure things are sorted as you expect them.

The fact that the X in the title is the most interesting thing to discuss tells me everything I need to know about this game. I don’t know why they ever greenlit this game, feels like a solution looking for a problem type thing.

Definitely changing my preorder to this version.

Not surprising really. While I’m sure there is a healthy profit margin they can eat into there’s no way it will cover the 50% tariff the things will be hit with. The pricing on these in the US is going to be insane.

Thanks, thats perfect - exactly what I needed!

I haven't had anything from Amazon yet either - I'm assuming they haven't sorted it yet but could be wrong I suppose. Could you let me know the website? Going to suggest it here.

Why do so many people get Argos discounts through work? Is this something I can get my work to do too?

Yeah it's one of those things that would have been a really nice positive message if given away for free. As it is it will just be seen as a $5 waste of time.

Yeah bit of a pain, I suppose at least its done and don't need to think about it again.

Argos is live now. Managed to get my order through.

My wife hates me when we do the shopping and I go through all of the avocados to find the acceptable ones. Yeah I totally agree on this. I think its just about being more aware and making changes where it makes sense to you. If everyone just considers it a little, and makes a 5% change then it adds up to a huge swing overall. I guess it comes down to interests and what media you look at. I'd expect people here to be way more clued up on games than your average person who probably has no idea about those game boycotts. Since I started having a long commute twice a week I find I'm a lot more clued up on events simply because I listen to the news for a lot longer than I did three months ago.

Something I don't want nor need just got added to my shopping list.

Yeah I think that is very much the key issue, and one I think will be the most difficult to deal with. We're probably too far gone to expect things like that to come back but we can buy things that are more friendly to the cause. I'm seriously considering a Fairphone next time I need to upgrade and I think that sort of thing is a good move in the right direction. What I do wish we'd do here is be more protective of our public industries. We should be self-reliant on things like power, transport, food (to the extent its possible) but as you say, seem to outsource the lot of it. I think a lot could be done if we underpinned our mass-consumer/free market desires with a very socialist approach to the fundamentals.

Yeah I don't really get the mouse con thing at all. It's cool that it's in there but I can't see many people actually using it as a control method. Dual mouse would be very easy to do yet... I can't think of a single game where they have? I don't see many games using it and those that do won't see many people choosing it.

Same here. I went physical only with the Switch and I’m a bit torn on what to do here. The game prices seem totally crazy to me, way above what I’d expect. With how this is looking I’ll probably just get the Mario Kart bundle with a GameCube controller and that will be it for a good while.