I mean, imagine a game sells a million copies at $40 a pop retail value, and they don't get credit for 1% of that amount, that's $400,000 gone-ski

Not necessarily.

If a game is huge and amazing, then it'll sell no matter what, but a large amount of the profit will be lost on things such as piracy, you can't blame game companies for trying to get the money they deserve.

more uncontrolllable laughter

Not if the retailers don't want to buy their games anymore because of lack of sales.

then that's the fault of the dev for many reasons including:
-not marketing/hyping the game up
-the game was horrible

I mean, imagine a game sells a million copies at $40 a pop retail value, and they don't get credit for 1% of that amount, that's $400,000 gone-ski

Not necessarily.

If a game is huge and amazing, then it'll sell no matter what, but a large amount of the profit will be lost on things such as piracy, you can't blame game companies for trying to get the money they deserve.

Yes, but when you are buying a game directly from the company (i.e. Online download) the company is cutting the "middle-man" (i.e. Gamestop, Best Buy, etc.) out of the equation. Origin and Sim City, for example. Putting the game online is more convenient, but it's essentially at more of a risk of being "pirated". Companies like EA and Valve are selling games online so the profits come from two different avenues. That's why they offer bonus content for ordering directly from the game/ dev website. The whole idea behind sales is to make the space between the product and the customer as small as possible while also increasing gains. It's not an exact science, but the fact that we have Front Page content about Steam Sales should provide all the evidence to confirm.

False. The Federal Reserve system (American bank system, in case you are not from America) is a private bank. The government has a deal with them basically. The Federal Reserve prints out money, causing inflation, and all that money goes straight to the government. This in turn causes a percentage fluctuation in the total amount of wealth owned in America to shift in the governments favor (supposing we are only distinguishing between the public sector and private sector), and in time they acquire a greater percentage of TOTAL wealth, or numerically superior amount of US Dollars. Because of this, inflation occurs and it impacts everyone. However, the impact on the rich is minimal because they have more options available to them to keep their wealth protected. These options are also somewhat available to the upper middle class as well. The rich really have nothing to do with it.

a good 80 percent of the people on welfare do not need it

Proof for statistic?

www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty
my number was an estimate based on my personal experiences and another article i read about a year ago. this is not the same article but gives the same general idea. the one i read reported that of the 40 percent of americans considered poor less than 2 percent said they didnt have a place to live and 8 percent said they went hungry.

So it's a fake statistic
Don't make fake statistics
90% of people will believe them

it was more of a geustimate based on real statistics i had forgotten. it was actually lower than what the reports had said

It's a tournament prize
Attack of the Giant Card!
I want one too

shiney mankey?

Fuck you, there are already too many of those fucking gifs.
People should really stop making these...