Why does the guy have so many copies of the same game?
Sports fan brain
She stole his scarf?!
When you get older, you will also quickly realize that Hoodies aren’t safe either…
I’m very familliar. Nor are sunglasses, hats, boxer briefs, band shirts, ad nauseum.
I wear boxer-briefs, they’re comfortable.
Well I guess they better be considering how expensive they usually are compared to panties.
Why is she removing pants in panel 2 that she isn’t wearing in panel 1?
Because it was photoshopped from the original
This is like a Far Side comic in that I’m sure it’s actually funny, but I have no idea why.
IIRC the pictures on her dresser are from some political rally/protest, but I don’t know the details.
It’s a Thai political reference. The guy in the middle picture is Suthep Thaugsuban, a Thai politician who lead anti-government protests and attempted to unseat their government in 2013. It’s not in the linked article, but whistles were a major symbol of the protests.
@SSJMarx@lemm.ee tagging you in case you’re interested.
I thought she was a patron at a male strip club, stuffing dollar bills into an old man’s pants.
Whereas, seeing Kick & Run == life-partner material.
Dude was missing FIFA 98 RTWC in his collection
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I thought she was drugged in the first panel
I thought it was ‘loss’
People who buy a game console just to play nothing but the same sports titles year after year are the absolute worst. I’ll never understand why they’re like this.
I also hate people who find thing they like to do and enjoy it year after year. Unbelievable.
How dare they
How are they the absolute worst? What have they done to you?
It doesn’t bother you when other people do stupid, wasteful things? Buying a $500 console just to play the same $70+ game every year with no changes or improvements over last year’s version (other than a pointless roster update), is stupid and wasteful.
Think of them like blood plasma. They cover the cost of console development so that the rest of us can play real games.
They have friends and enjoy playing this game with them.
But how can you play the same game over and over and not get bored?
Is firing up a single neuron really enough for them?
I ask that same thing to people that are somehow still playing Minecraft despite having been playing it since it was an alpha. I definitely played a lot of it but I can’t even touch it anymore I don’t care what mods you put on it
I thought I saw “FIFA eleventeen” on one of the spines and felt proud I spotted an easter egg. Looked again,saw it was my poor vision. Damn.
I can’t read the stuff anyways. The image is too deep fried
FIFA 19(second from top) was the one I thought was an extra. The deep frying was the reason I thought it was another joke tho.
I talked to someone working at a game store (gamemania in the Netherlands). The stores also buy and sell second hand games. I commented on the amount of fifa games on the shelves and they told me the storage in the back just has massive stacks of every fifa game of the last 10 years or so. Apparently they will literally buy every functioning game you want to sell them.
The chain is also close to bankruptcy, probably not related. But it’s a shame because I really do like walking through them and looking through the games they have. They actually have xbox360, wii and ps3 games on shelves.
It’s been years and years since I set foot in a Game Stop (US equivalent of the store you mentioned) but they would also “buy” any functional game you brought in. However, you would be lucky to get more than for $1 in store credit towards another used game for anything other than a new release.
It was the same at the GameStop I worked at. They had a couple copies of Fifas, Red Dead 2, really common games downstairs on the store floor. In the storage room in the back they kept preorders, new games and more copies of games that were present on the store floor. And upstairs a mini “warehouse” where they’d keep the rest.
They literally had stacks upon stacks upon stacks of these really common games. Like all the current Fifas, Red Deads, Far Crys etc etc. It was always baffling to see how many copies of a given game can exist in one singular store. They’d also stop buying these games at some point because they worth next to nothing. They’d be losing money buying them from the customers
The UK’s largest game store was just called Game, and these days you’re lucky if they’ve got actual games in stock. It’s mostly funko pops and other game related tat. The stores mostly seem located in the back of sports shops.
Physical games are in big trouble.
Oh yeah they have a bunch of merch but luckily not too many funko stuff. I got some mugs from there.
It’s sad news though, can’t do digital second hand games or borrow one from a friend.
Game and Gamestop went bankrupt many years ago here.
Physical games are absolutely declining but you can still buy them in regular electronic stores or online. Those options are and have always been cheaper than dedicated game stores anyways.
That’s if they’re actually available as physical games.
The biggest game of last year (Baldurs Gate 3) wasn’t, and the only other games I got were Talos Principle 2 and Thank Goodness You’re Here.
A lot of the other stuff I’d have usually bought on sale a bit down the line has been on PS Plus.
I have no idea about that, I just see the shelves occasionally when walking past them. I play exclusively on PC and our physical games have been non-existent for many many years.
Gamemania still exists? I always enjoyed browsing through the games there, nowadays all my games are digital so I don’t have a reason to visit a physical store anymore
In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don’t understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn’t down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?
We used to have GAME stores everywhere and they occasionally had really nice deals. I loves those stores, it’s a shame they went bankrupt.
For a discount on a new game? I while ago I bought a ps4 for a friend and just got a bunch of second hand games from that store. All common ones but I saved a bunch of money that way.
But 5 bucks discount is nothing, you can get so much better in other venues.
I suppose. Discounted nintendo games is nice though, those are almost never discounted. Plus the old games they sell are fun. Digging through old ds games and such.
I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.
this is loss
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Did the creator of this meme really feel the need to swap the genders just because of the “all gamers are male” stereotype…
Have you even seen the original? I’ve only seen edits that were jpged to hell and all of them have a budge on the sweater wearer.
Also, it’s Fifa. I know women play video games, but I’ve only ever seen Dudebros play Fifa.
Yes. Next question
Why are you okay with that? It reinforces the stereotype and well… makes it harder for women to start gaming and be treated as normal.
You are reaching. Stop overthinking things and looking for a reason to be offended.
I think you’ve generalized a bit too much. The gender-swapped format was not created for this exact meme, it’s just a jovial commentary on male stereotypes women find unappealing. In this case, the joke isn’t that she saw a stack of random games, they’re all FIFA – did you maybe not notice that? The annoying male FIFA player is a pretty well-established meme at this point.
please cry more
lmao. I didn’t cry, I literally forgot about this meme already. If there’s something I find irritating / weird, I’ll call it out, but that doesn’t mean it affects me personally xD
She stole his scarf.
She’s also wearing his pants in the 2nd panel. Has his face in the 4th.
girlboss
Based
Serves him right. Fifa playing asshole.
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Damn, never a lemmy thread this weird before. People need to grow up and shed those game insecurities, let people enjoy their hobbies.
I don’t even play any of the games being mentioned, but I’m with you. The commenters here are getting so gatekeepy about, essentially, how other people use their favorite toys. This is fucking entertainment we’re talking about here. Is it really so inconceivable that many people just like those games? There’s a whole world of people beyond yourselves guys.
They get upset about it because it’s a trend in the industry that a lot of people hate. That particular series is a great example where the next game not only adds nothing but even generally takes stuff away from the previous title, but it keeps selling so it’s kind of becoming a trend in the industry for most series to just keep releasing the same garbage over and over.
So it’s less about enjoying a sports game that they are upset about, and more upset about encouraging the behavior of extremely low effort recycled releases constantly
All of you in this thread need to look up “FIFA scripted games”.
No
Fair
I do not get it, everywhere in the world football is like a religion, whenever one is not playing in school or the neighborhood one was playing online with friends. Granted FIFA became shit over the years and people over hyper it, but most people grow out of it, get jobs, etc… It is only natural to find scumbags in popular instances. This meme could have any massive online game and still make sense then.
Well, any game that basically releases the same game with changed rosters every year with only minor improvements, or COD would work too
And it worse than that, since the player base naturally moves to the new release, so players of previous seasons have a harder time finding opponents.
The whole series of games is designed to make you buy a new one every year
