Not sure if I disagree or not. Sorry if I'm seeming pedantic. I guess it's denial.

I don't think it's purely denial but uh, what's that term for when you project a series or umbrella of things onto a single thing as like a form of psychological sublimation (don't think that's the right term either). It's like synedoche but in reverse I guess? (EDIT: scapegoating I guess?) people are refusing to refer to the entire phenomenon and instead fixating on one example pretending the rest don't exist. People can't actually pinpoint the price of a lot of commodities, they just kinda' know that they got less food in their grocery cart or they're bank account has less money. Eggs and gas prices are the only thing I can think of, maybe meat-by-the-pound and milk too. Video games, at least console games, have had pretty clearly pegged prices and seeing that happen is just more obvious to people, especially when it's going from 69USD to 70-80USD than eggs going from $3-5.550 or whatever. People also have the option to not buy a video game whereas they're more powerless about food prices so there might be more political will to complain about it, especially when it's even more obvious that the game prices don't need to go up and Nintendo can't even bother to give excuses why whereas the dairy, meet, egg lobbies have propagandists throughout society saying why prices go up sometimes.

Edit: Might also partially be that video game prices jumping strikes into the middle-class consumer bubble more than food prices. Also kids and younger folks living at home are consciously affected by the game prices because they might spend their allowance, etc. on it while they're not usually buying groceries so there's probably more young people talking about game prices on social media than slightly older, more responsible people.

Also, you can see people empathize a lot more with Nintendo than they do the people buying and playing the games. They enjoy putting themselves into Mr. Nintendo's shoes and how they'd price games and make profit in the company. They do not enjoy thinking about if they were poor and couldn't afford it at all.

Yeah, it's what anti-marxist and anti-intellectual society does. The most energy someone will put into an internet argument is repeating a fake stat they saw someone else say on social media. And the $90USD price people kept repeating incorrectly.

I can't remember who described social democrats as liberals in a hurry, but the US is double-fascist with the Republicans being fascist in a hurry.

No Such Thing and Trust by Hal Hartley. Hot Fuzz.

Can BDS get Nintendo added to that list?

Yeah, it's like hubris mixed with group psychology (a lot of "we's" gettin' used) mixed with weird (over-)entitlement. Also see it be used in a semi-ableist way were people say it'll be some autistic person who cracks it (either custom firmware or emulation) and stuff and they'll just wait for them to do all the work for them. Like autistic people are their treat servants.

Online gamers are like this with Denuvo and video game DRM and piracy stuff too. As if piracy hasn't gotten harder in the past 30 years and people are torrenting less and less. People used to distribute Amiga game cracks on floppies pretty openly and now you need to get a VPN or get on private trackers sometimes . We are not winning right now. We can't even convince people to play the original Paper Mario: TTYD, a lot of people demanded it be ported to Switch before they'd replay it or try it for the first time.

@dril
age 0 (baby): I want my Dada .
age 25 (Millennial): I want my Data
Do you see how fucked this is?

CGP Grey but even more neolib somehow.