Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

sturg33 said:
Ok but if your premise is that tarrifs do not raise costs on Americans and American businesses, why not make it 100%
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Because our infrastructure is not setup to have alternatives when you shock the market at that rate. But when we do we could tariff at 100% and encourage domestic production which will increase median income.

And I've never once said that tariffs do not increase prices. Just not to the extent you guys have portrayed them to do.
 
zitothebrave said:
Stay on target,

Give me a list of games ruined by DEI. I'll give you more that were rushed to production
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Ones that easily come to mind are Concord, Dragon Age Veilguard, Suicide Squad and Star Wars Outlaws. The new Assasins Creed game is likely to join this list.

Millions of dollars lost because making sure a checkbox is filled instead of getting talented people to make your games. Big game studios are either going to get it or go out of buisness.

Close to half of all new hires are DEI hires. It's a joke and ruining another industry. And I mentioned The Witcher because while that is a TV show it's part of he entertainemnt industry and literally the same thing is happening there. People that shouldn't be working on projects are simply because they fill a checkbox.

And games on the whole were way better 10-20 years ago then they are now. I won't argue that some projects fail because of rushing games and needing to make a profit. But that's just a small part of the problem.
 
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It was cute for that 18 month period where people pretended Trump term 2 would be no different.
 
thethe said:
Because our infrastructure is not setup to have alternatives when you shock the market at that rate. But when we do we could tariff at 100% and encourage domestic production which will increase median income.

And I've never once said that tariffs do not increase prices. Just not to the extent you guys have portrayed them to do.
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So exactly how much more should I, a person who neither exports goods nor works for a company that exports goods, be willing to pay to help out the cause? 12.5%?
 
mqt said:
So exactly how much more should I, a person who neither exports goods nor works for a company that exports goods, be willing to pay to help out the cause? 12.5%?
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Again - You don't understand what the tariff is charged on as its just a percentage of the retail value. Its a common error made by those that don't understand basic economics/accounting/finance.
 
thethe said:
Your example of DEI not impacting things was Nintendo which is obviously a stupid example because of Japanese culture.

Why don't you stay on target?
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Dumbass, not everything bad is DEI.

Nintendo is my example of success becuase they'll not release a game until it's ready which is my point.
 
DEI worked so well at Bioware that they just fired their entire writing staff from Dragon Age Veilguard. Classic example of go woke go broke.
 
thethe said:
Again - You don't understand what the tariff is charged on as its just a percentage of the retail value. Its a common error made by those that don't understand basic economics/accounting/finance.
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****ing lol. I’m not going to get into the ****ing minutia of how the tariffs find their way back to my wallet, but it’s not a lack of understanding. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. I understand Supply and Demand well enough from high school alone to know that when the price of some thing or some component of a thing increases, the cost of that good is going to increase unless the company making the good decides to do us all a collective solid for some reason (they won’t). I’m asking you how much more I should be willing to pay for goods to help balance trade, a thing that doesn’t really matter to me.
 
What that person was saying was almost no one who worked at Bioware in 11-16 still works there. Which isn't shocking at all considering it's an EA owned company. Turnover in a given company over essentially a decade is gonna be pretty high, especially with EA.
 
mqt said:
****ing lol. I’m not going to get into the ****ing minutia of how the tariffs find their way back to my wallet, but it’s not a lack of understanding. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. I understand Supply and Demand well enough from high school alone to know that when the price of some thing or some component of a thing increases, the cost of that good is going to increase unless the company making the good decides to do us all a collective solid for some reason (they won’t). I’m asking you how much more I should be willing to pay for goods to help balance trade, a thing that doesn’t really matter to me.
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It wouldn't even be close to 12.5% and the fact you quoted that numbers (in response to the 25% tariff) shows your lack of understand of the basic economics.

At most you'll see a 5% increase considering the COGS is at most 50% of the retail value (otherwise the ecnomics of the business is a **** show) and then you have other factors like suppliers lowering their prices / deflation of their currency / price elasticity.

So again - the ones that think we are going to se massive price increases because of these tariffs have no clue what htey are talking about.
 
zitothebrave said:
What that person was saying was almost no one who worked at Bioware in 11-16 still works there. Which isn't shocking at all considering it's an EA owned company. Turnover in a given company over essentially a decade is gonna be pretty high, especially with EA.
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The Veilguard team got nuked for making a ****ty game. Cope with it however you want.
 
thethe said:
It wouldn't even be close to 12.5% and the fact you quoted that numbers (in response to the 25% tariff) shows your lack of understand of the basic economics.

At most you'll see a 5% increase considering the COGS is at most 50% of the retail value (otherwise the ecnomics of the business is a **** show) and then you have other factors like suppliers lowering their prices / deflation of their currency / price elasticity.

So again - the ones that think we are going to se massive price increases because of these tariffs have no clue what htey are talking about.
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The stupid piece of paper I have from college doesnÂ’t do much for me, but it does at least help me feel justified in claiming I understand basic Economics. But I still think youÂ’re underselling how much companies will pass along. Sure it wonÂ’t be a direct percentage change because costs are more complicated than that, but this is a highly visible policy that companies will expect consumers to blame on *not* them. So when the price of some component goes up, they will pass as much of that increased price per unit to the customer as they can, and I wouldnÂ’t be surprised if they increase the price by basically the exact amount their cost per unit went up. IÂ’m not paying 25% more on these goods, but that increase will be felt.

Edit; I don’t know what caused my apostrophes to do that, but I’m not fixing it lol
 
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