Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191123004057

I imagine most of the tobacco giants have a good stranglehold in the market, I highly doubt any competing new competing brand has a chance. From What I remember most "different" brands were the same company anyways. That's probably the reason you'd go for the black market, you atleast make money. Apparently the size of the black market gets largely overstated by the tobacco industry anyways, so they can push legislation through. Ultimately changing it to a modern controller stick wouldn't be that hard. Most machines are probably emulated mameboxes these days anyway. The whole Hong Kong/Blizzard controversy is a good example, people deleted accounts and said they'd never buy it and a week later it's forgotten and a bunch of posts pop up asking how to get their account back.

Still ridiculous, it was probably leaking bits of dirt as well. That's what you get if you treat employees like shit, I doubt any of the people in processing centers really pay attention. They probably can't if they want to reach their quotas. How much do they get paid and what's the workload? Amazon probably outsources those roles anyway, probably some call/internet center in India. "slightly too salty, 1 star" is pretty common, I think people have just started looking at rating systems as "like/dislike" buttons, which would explain everyone voting the extremities of the rating systems. That does sound pretty odd. But then again I worked for a company which wanted you to wear work clothing, but they gave you a catalogue to buy it from. In this case it's probably not that "special" and it's just slightly engraved if it's from China. I wouldn't know either though.

I'd never pretend to be an expert, I just listen to what I think sounds nice. Most of the stuff I have is normal though, might be 1 or 2 fan remixes in there somewhere but it's probably a 13 year old random assortment of music. If it'd be good I'd probably have a few, but most do end up sounding the same. Budding musicians have to start somewhere though and this is one way these days. Pretty much seems to be the case yeah, though delving into the freeware JP indie game market is a bit harder. DLsite's assortment seems very comparable to steam's though, except DLsite is a bit more 18+. It's currently €20, which I guess is a decent price for a polished re-release. Still the "regular HD edition (2013)" is also €20. I'd prefer they just dumped the original on the store as well. Isn't anywhere to be found except used. Don't know how far Dohna Dohna is, apparently the artist is always quite fast so it's hard to guess based on that. I did see some "gameplay tests" linked a while back, so the mechanics should be old stuff. I'd assume it's out atleast next year, won't know if it's early though. They could also drop that VN by the Atlach=Nacha writer, not much programming in that if it's just a VN. Maybe you can make a wish for it, but it'll probably be granted with the early release being the gacha.

Everything's for sale. Bunch of trash as well. I guess advertising posters are nice for superfans, but I'd assume they'd be somewhat rare. Not in Japan, as soon as it's taken down it's put online. Also telephone cards, I get the fact they might have unique art on it, but they are literally useless at this point. They should be selling shit like that for 1 yen, but I've seen them go for 1000-2000 (phone cars generally lower). Shouldn't get too expensive, unless it's that one seller. Maybe a separate deal? It's kind of a social phone marketplace according to Wikipedia. Could be they contacted them and they'll just go and get it personally and hand over the money. Done that before with "Marktplaats". Not too surprising that the Yoru ga Kuru! box got resold, Mercari is probably not as popular with "westerners" so stuff might be cheaper and then they upmark the price on YA. Bit ridiculous of a price for a bunch of random stuff in a box though.