It set off so many AI-generated alarms that I was surprised it might have been actually created by a person, prompting a closer look.

If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don’t win if you don’t believe you can.

Only if they were actually serious about their oaths.

Interesting. If you’ll notice, the comic you linked isn’t the same as this one. This appears to be a pointless AI copy of the original:

The off-white background, the thick lines, AND the guy staring at the viewer rather than where he’d actually be looking, as he is in the original, are all AI indicators.

This dictator is the leader of the GOP, a cult of personality. That’s not easily replaced

I guess it would be something like “Don’t pay your federal taxes, Californians, we will not cooperate with the federal government if they try to collect.”

No, it just gives me that vibe. Is there evidence that it isn’t?

Prompt the AI to change the art style a bit, you mean?

No successor would be able to muster up the same support he has. It’s the danger of pinning an entire party’s fortunes to a single individual.

I can only speak for the US market, but there’s no precedent for Nintendo having a lower-powered console priced similarly to the competition. They’re asking people to pay close to the same price for a console that’s significantly weaker. Maybe portability is so popular that people will go for it. We’ll see how it does after the diehards all get theirs and the normies decide whether or not to buy.

In true cult fashion, I don’t think there’s a bottom. They’ve decided that he IS the Republican Party and only his death will change that.

Their demographic used to include families with multiple systems due to the hardware being cheaper than the competition. They’ve never sold a basic console for nearly as much as the Switch 2, nor have they charged $70 and $80 per game as a standard. Maybe it will go well for them, we’ll see, but there’s no precedent for the way Nintendo’s pricing things now.

He has total power because the GOP is a cult and the Republicans in the other branches of government choose to let him have unchecked power.

They’re sure pricing themselves to be in the “core” gaming space now.

Cyberpunk 2077 - a 5 year old game which most people have played and is still better on PC or PS5/Xbox; why is that a compelling launch title?

Because it’s portable! Oh, wait, it’s been playable portably for years on the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds.

I’m a Nintendo fan (of their games, not their business practices), have owned all of their consoles (even a Virtual Boy) and I don’t plan to go anywhere near a Switch 2 unless Nintendo gets humbled again. They’re at “Sony at PS3 launch” and “Microsoft at Xbox One launch” levels of arrogance currently (not to mention “Nintendo at 3DS launch”). The PS3 eventually came down to a reasonable price, but the 360 was my first and last Microsoft console.

cute and fun image yet they’re the most cut throat, “you’ll own nothing and like it” company

Them and Disney.

Yeah, I knew this was where we were headed on the evening of Nov. 6th, as did a lot of other people. Fascism follows a predictable pattern.

Sorry, all they’re offering is furrowed brows and strongly worded letters.