So your proof someone was tricked/scammed/defrauded is that they spent more money on something than you would?

They key point you seem intent on avoiding is that you have not shown a single example of someone actually being tricked/scammed/defrauded. Someone buying a thing that is arbitrarily priced well outside of it’s practical value or actual cost is not a scam, it’s literally the definition of a luxury good. Is every person who buys a diamond getting scammed, in your mind? What about those $1000 shoes people buy as an “investment”? Were they scammed in your imagination?

First, to set the record straight: look up the definition of scam

If the definition of scam is defrauding someone, I changed nothing about your word choice.

How about innie?

That’s the sample to get you hooked and coming back for more at 50p a pop, sucker.

Weirdly a lot of overlap with people who work in HR

Sure the guy doesn’t owe dominos anything but that doesn’t mean he owes the 4chan guy either. If anything I would assume the 4chan guy is worse than most of the vendors managers and coworkers.

A rational person might assume they mean the fee credit card companies charge the vendor, meaning paying for a low cost item on credit ends up costing the vendor.

If not, local pizza places (not dominos) are often still cash heavy businesses and some will require a min order or a small (3% ish) fee for credit to offset the fee they pay.

For insurance purposes, I think they just self immolated.

Id describe them more as accountants of life and death. They’re the bad guys, but evil implies a moral concept that is foreign to those people. They just don’t care about you or anyone else.

Yes

I’m not fixated on the word choice. You just changed it to trick but haven’t in any way proven that game companies are “tricking” or “defrauding” anyone. You’re just making an empty claim. Explain how spending money on a character skin is a trick. Or buying DLC isn’t getting you what you paid for. As far as I can tell you haven’t even established that anything they are doing is even “dishonest” which I think is a much much lower bar. You literally have not a god damned thing to back up your pov.

Your examples included expansions that they charged money for. And a game where if one person bought everything in the game, it would be some hundreds of thousands of dollars. Those aren’t tricks. Nobody is making anyone buy a house worth of bits. Nobody is making anyone pay for an expansion they don’t want to pay for (well, other than children forcing their parents). These are all optional transactions that adults enter into of their own volition. You can say you think it’s scummy they charge so much, but it’s not a trick.

Why is this supposed to be funny? Can someone explain the joke?

So you agree it’s not fraud?

Let’s go with a simple approach: is anyone giving money for something where they don’t fully understand what they are getting in return. That is, they don’t know they are getting a decoration or unlocking a character or whatever?

Your life seems sad. I hope you find a better job.

Better than the people who put fake student driver stickers on their car.

What the fuck are you talking about? What does any of your post have to do with the working class? You know these same people went after Obama for wearing the wrong color suit too, right?

Btw that’s a placebo effect

I associate the Midwest with a fake, forced, sense of “everything is ok”. If you know the meme of the cartoon in the kitchen with the kitchen burning up around it…that’s how I think of the default personality type in the Midwest. Don’t rock the boat. Do what the law says. Respect authority. All that stuff.

So in this case the attitude of “listen, sure, this bulwark of the internet for 25 years may have just sold out and it’s terrible, but they have the power and if you don’t like it you should just use the one other worse alternative or suck it up and stop complaining”, to me, literally SCREAMS “I’m from Ohio, home of voting for the deregulation which poisons our land and makes it so our rivers literally catch fire”.

The point isn’t to stop it. It’s to scare a few people and ready the maga parents with school-age children who refuse to speak to them for the Kent state reruns we’re getting soon.