• rumba@lemmy.zip
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        4 hours ago

        They continue to throw money at JK Rowling

        YMMV, but in my ‘woke’ crowd, nobody’s buying that merch anymore. The only people I know still doing harry potter themed crap all voted rightwing.

        The last thing I saw come through was the game. A few of the left-leaning gamers bought it but way less than baulders and starfield.

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          Hogwarts legacy was a major success. Almost a million players the first day of launch and that’s only on steam.

          Even now, that 2 years old game has more people playing it than Avowed which just launched relatively recently LMAO 🤣. Again, that’s only on steam.

          Iw we added PSN and Nintendo, it would totally crush it

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            3 hours ago

            To be fair JK had nothing to do with that, that was all Avalanche Studios… and someone actually crunched the numbers and literally JK gets more in a single day of Universal Studios ticket sales than she did from lifetime sales of that game.

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          3 hours ago

          This, in my circle the only Harry Potter merch I see people rocking is either at least a decade old or was bought at a convention at a booth selling fanmade merch.

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      23 hours ago

      This leftist has boycotted everything Sony since they bricked my PC with their rootkit in the early 2000s (and I really go out of my way to make sure nothing Sony related comes in my house, not their music, movies, games, electronics, nor their camera lenses) I only slipped up once in the past 20 or so years, when I purchased a second hand Sony Walkman mp3 player. Thing broke within 3 months of use, it’s now a constant reminder that I really need to keep boycotting Sony.

      I’ve started boycotting Amazon (including but not limited to Kindle, Audible, Prime and Twitch) and Disney since this year.

      But I’m only one person.

      I have shown myself to be capable of long term boycotts and I don’t intend to let up. I’ve added Amazon’s websites to my Pihole’s blacklist.

      But I also don’t pirate their stuff. As far as I’m concerned their TV shows and movies and such don’t exist on this planet.

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        3 hours ago

        When They fucked me over on my PS3 linux install, I had a Sony TV, A Sony receiver, 2 Playstations and a ton of games.

        They’re all long gone now.

        Never again

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      1 day ago

      Leftists are already trying to fuck megacorps over, why would they try and placate them?