Advertising, marketing, propaganda. It programs people’s brains. It is extremely powerful.

There are dozens of these mass brain-programming campaigns going on right now. It’s been happening for many years … maybe centuries.

The effects can linger for many years. Even passing to the next generation.

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    In all likelihood some of your own interests and habits were put there by a marketing department. Not because it’s good or right or useful but because it profited… somebody who could afford to hire a marketing department.

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        Scalpers and “investors” are starting to fight people for the product, and they will probably pry it out of your dead hands.

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          Considering how rough most of the modern games are… I’m cool sticking mostly with romhacks

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            3 days ago

            its so bad that even collector fans cant afford it, or they arnt willing to risk physical confrontation over it. people said tcpi can solve this by printing, and increasing the pull rate of rares.