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anyway i somehow managed to move so heres reimm abusing me in a jar

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mouse bites™

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i cant stop saying "grisp it"

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あなただけのピエロ、シャドウミルククッキーです〜！

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together we can reach the stars

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yknow what....yeah <3

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PRICE IS NOT GOOD

SWITCH IS EXPENSIVE

GAME-KEY IS STUPID

PRESERVATION IS DEAD

BABA IS PISSED

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I won't be the first person to say it and I won't be the last:

The Switch 2, its games, and its accessories are all too expensive.

Before today's direct, I figured I'd hold off on buying a Switch 2 because most of the games I want to play are on the regular Switch already. The game announcements made me legitimately consider trying to get a Switch 2 at launch because of the new games and ports that were announced. Once I saw the prices I decided to hold off again.

The Direct was filled with stuff that made me hesitant to get it in the first place too, like needing a Nintendo Online subscription for voice chat, needing to buy an upgrade package to get the Switch 2 version of a Switch 1 game you already own, not being able to use Switch 1 SD cards on the Switch 2, etc. But since none of that really impacts how I play games, I was willing to shrug it off and buy the console without paying for the extra features.

But $80 for digital games and $90 if you want a physical version? Absolutely not.

$450 for the console was already a stretch. I got my Switch 1 + 1 game for $100 less than what the Switch 2 will cost. Of course I wasn't expecting it to stay the same price, $350 (Heck even $400) feels like a reasonable increase over the 8ish years since the Switch 1 release, especially with all the upgrades. But $450 is like the upper limit of what I'd be willing to pay for this console which is why I'm thinking "I might buy it at some point" instead of "I'm never getting this". I'm positive that there are a lot of consumers like me who are postponing when they'll buy it because of the price, and that's going to hurt the launch sales for a lot of Switch 2 exclusive games.

The Direct today had an absolutely stacked roster with a new Mario Kart, new legend of Zelda spin off, new Donkey Kong, bew Kirby, Silksong announcement, Deltarune announcement, Technically Not Bloodborne 2 announcement, Borderlands 4 announcement, Eldin Ring port, etc. and all of it is to build hype to distract you from the prices. The goal is to start generating enough hype that you shrug off the price tag.

I'd also like to add something in response to everyone saying "Parents aren't buying a Switch 2 when their kids already have a Switch." : Nintendo knows. Throughout the Direct I noticed that a lot of the games were directed at older players, no parent is buying Duskbloods for their 9 year old. Most 12 year olds probably aren't going to care too much about the Game Cube ports. Nintendo knows that parents aren't likely to shell out for the new console and games while the Switch still works so they're snapping up highly anticipated games (Deltarune, Silksong, Hades 2, etc) to add for the launch day + launch year to better compete in the adult market.

Nintendo knows they're getting greedy and instead of simply not charging too much for games they're hoping you'll buy it anyway because you've been waiting years to play it.

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Funeral Of The Dead Butterflies

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Some period tracker notifications I ended up editing by request (based on this tweet)

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when a dragons wings are too small to realistically fly thats fine its reasonable i think to size them down to allow them to fit in a space better and be more readable as a character. but outside of really specific circumstances (like cartoonishly small wings) when a dragons wing webbing stops way too far up? punishable by death. in seymourworld.

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what am i doing

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Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]

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