No it's all good. My abrasiveness isn't helping the situation.

Maybe some of my cynicism or sarcasm misfired, but I don't "want" any of this to happen.

I wanted the US to pick a boring president. I'd greatly prefer to be living in a world where the global economy is stable and we're not a few moronic actions away from a world war. I'd love it if Americans weren't living in fear of their finances collapsing, or their rights being removed, or them just being randomly abducted and sent to a foreign prison.

I firmly point the blame at Trump supporters, because everyone repeatedly warned them and they were too proud to admit they were making a terrible decision. Then again, the US Democrats should have done more to avoid this situation, too. Everyone got too complacent, and now the world is in chaos.

*edit* As for my comment about a US-excluded world economy, that's just a likely result of the US' actions. If the US (as a nation) doesn't want to participate in the world, then other nations will take the spotlight. It sucks for everyday Americans, since you don't really have any recourse here besides pressuring your elected officials to take action against your president - but that's what's going to happen until Trump leaves office.

I'd love to play it, but Valve's VR devices are still prohibitively expensive in my country, and VR isn't an easy cost to justify.

Nah, the PC version of Skyrim was vastly more buggy than the PC version of Cyberpunk on release, and Skyrim never got an official overhaul to fix its many weaknesses.

Anyway, is it the same team who ported The Witcher 3 to the Switch 1? There was some technical wizardry going on there, since the system should never have handled the game that well.

@uninspiredcup: Ah yes, stop whining that the things you want will be vastly more expensive.

I do feel sorry for all of the smaller board game designers I'm following. A lot of them are trying to absorb the 50+% tariffs on imports from China rather than pass on those fees to customers, and it'll kill a lot of their businesses.

Wall Street lost $2.5 trillion today. So it feels like the US is about to follow the trajectory of all of Trump's previous businesses.

It will be interesting to see which nations rise to the top of a global economy that intentionally excludes the US.

Why is Trump calling them "Reciprocal tariffs", when Australia isn't placing tariffs on US goods? Is he stupid?

One of the Australian stores has kept a record of all of their catalogues since the 90s, and man, gaming was expensive in the SNES and N64 eras.

Like in 1994, Mario All Stars (SNES) was discounted from $149AUD to $89AUD. New games nowadays are usually in the $70-90 AUD range, with Switch 2 games being more like $90-$115.

If the market crashes, it'll be because of the prevalence of low-quality, incomplete releases filled with microtransactions.

Nintendo raising the price a bit won't shift the needle. People already pay those prices and more for new games.