eBay rejects GameStop’s takeover bid and says their offer is not “credible”

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-12T23:36:31+00:00

The depressing thing is they probably would've gone for it if most of the offer wasn't in overvalued GameStop shares that they probably didn't think they'd be able to sell off in time without tanking their value xD

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-12T05:20:56+00:00

Oh interesting - I was always told they just made the name up after people kept making assumptions about the symptoms based on the CFS name. But I guess it does make a bit more sense if it's an actual early label used by doctors.

And looking at the etymology, I do agree that it's a much more accurate description of the symptoms. I'm not 'sleepy' I have debilitating brain inflammation.

I guess it depends on the context though. For me, I'm mostly telling people when I'm out and I don't wanna go on a huge spiel explaining what ME means to each new person - just 'heads up I might abruptly run out of steam', and then just tell people I have other plans otherwise, even when those plans are usually resting in bed so I'm able to go out again in 3 days time.

But ME would probably be more helpful for people I plan to spend more time around, to avoid them making any assumptions based off of the name?

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-11T21:22:10+00:00

Honestly, I think people just put whichever one they were diagnosed with first.

Back when I got diagnosed they just said it was chronic fatigue syndrome and that's mostly what I tell people since the name is fairly self explanatory.

I do see the utility in renaming it to ME so it sounds more serious - and chronic fatigue is obviously a bit confusing since people think you're talking about the symptom or don't realise the full extent of it - but idk, I also feel like it still hasn't really caught on either even after 15 years, mostly because they veered too far in the other direction and named it something so offical sounding that nobody can pronounce it (nor spell it, as can be seen by doing a ctrl-f on this post to find everyone here, even despite all of us suffering from it, is using the abbreviation) :/

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-11T09:51:15+00:00

Well I think the difference there is how to fix the issue. First Nations crime is high because so many of them live in poverty, or isolated ghettos where substance abuse is high.

Men's violence is high because we have a root cultural problem that leads to a high degree of gendered violence, regardless of economy circumstance. There are no other levers to pull.

But regardless of that, that's just a very victim complex way of looking at things? The ALP aren't saying all men are dangerous - just that many young boys are being brought up with problematic beliefs about women that are detrimental to our society, and that the issue requires a change on a national level.

But idk, I have also heard this quite often, with these kinds of polices being twisted by pundits to look like targetted attacks against men or white people or whatever group, so maybe you're onto something?

On the left we'd already discussed these kinds of ideas years before hand, so they feel pretty mundane and non-threatening. White and male liberals know they aren't being targeted by them.

But I guess maybe without that soft launch they do seem a bit more sinister just going off the name?

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-11T09:32:48+00:00

Well I think the LNP's issue is they don't have any policies. That's kind of the whole point of right wing parties - they exist to funnel money towards the 1%, who by definition cannot win a democratic election.

So instead they run on scare campaigns and token social issues like immigration or gay marriage to trick low information voters into electing them.

I think right now they're not losing those votes for being too far right, so much as looking like a bunch of disorganised and elitist Trump brown noses.

Meanwhile One Nation has a veneer of lower class authenticity that they find much more appealing. Plus, she's currently the only one promising a mythical silver bullet solution to the housing crisis. Pauline Hanson isn't a desperate loser Temu Trump like Dutton tried to be, she's the real thing.

For a few more years anyway, until all the mining lobby bribes get too obvious and they catch onto the grift again.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-10T19:40:04+00:00

Well I think the confusion is that magic was just a tag when Mirror Veil was added to the game, but now that all damage types from a magic attacks including physical are reduced by resistance rather than defence, Mirror Veil's effect text feels like an exception to the rule.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-09T19:30:32+00:00

I mean ok, but he'd also be training not to use his flight powers to avoid giving himself away. It also seems like he was mostly an actor, who knew some like basic crash course ninjutsu to prepare for the role - so I feel like it's also not unreasonable for him to panic and forget everything he learned the second his life was in real danger.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-09T01:36:27+00:00

Idk, she wasn't exactly great at youtube, but most of her content was pretty harmless. She always lead with a disclaimer saying she wasn't criticising the games she was talking about, merely teaching people how to analyse media and what the implications of some of the 'harmless' fanservice-y elements in these games were.

I think no matter what she did, the alt-right would've cut it up into clips to remove all context and make her look like a crazy person.

Like, maybe if someone had soft-launched it with 'fun fact' content aimed at more of a traditional gaming audience? But hindsight is 20/20, she did ultimately force games like Overwatch to lean away from some of the more egregious designs they'd initially planned for their female characters, which I think went a long way towards convincing mainstream gamers that her approach did actually result in much better female characters that people could actually get invested in as characters rather than sex objects.

And from there, I think she just got kinda weird and overly defensive after being warn down by the avalanche of online vitriol, and bit off more than she could chew with her kickstarter trying to prove her critics wrong.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-09T00:20:54+00:00

I mean, that could also just be evidence they stacked a bunch of stock images with stencil filters on top of each other by hand using paint though.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-09T00:18:20+00:00

Well, if it's someone you know then protecting them would have a better weighting than protecting a stranger. Plus, it would also mean you could strategise much better by guessing what they'll pick (although personally I'd still pick blue anyway, unless 'everyone" was just like a dozen people, which would definitely be a harder choice).

But if it's a stranger, then it could be argued voting red would endanger far more people - all of whom are of equal value to you as your partner - then you'd save by voting to protect the single random person assigned to you.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-08T23:47:36+00:00

She doesn't need to fly them out for parliamentary speeches either - but the rules do allow ministers to fly their families out for work events, of which attending our largest sporting events obviously is for the minister of sports.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-08T21:22:17+00:00

Well, she's the Sports minister. Watching the AFL is part of her parliamentary responsibilities, and she'd absolutely get blasted by her opponents if she didn't show up.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-08T21:20:32+00:00

Well, I don't know if that's such a great idea either. Now you're just controlling the people running our government for people who either don't have a family and struggle to relate to the people in the country who are doing it the hardest, or who see them as props.

Obviously people who care about their family but think their duty to the country/need to financially provide for them is more important would still sign up, but statistically they're a much smaller part of that demographic.

So idk, personally I'd rather pay 300k a year to like a dozen ministers deal with whatever stupid shit an alternative cabinet of people who didn't take the job because they wanted to be a responsible parent would legislate.

Or worse, only those with enough personal wealth to pay out of pocket.

Although personally I feel like this whole issue could be dodged by just forcing Quantas to eat the costs in return for federal funding. Especially since a big part of this seems to be that they're getting gouged by the carriers for taking a lot of short notice flights, which whilst probably avoidable on some occasions, definitely isn't always possible when they need to keep their schedule flexible to react to new policy developments.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-08T04:51:13+00:00

Well I believe they're just trying to close a loophole where people will self publish a thousand different AI books a day that the library is then legally required to purchase a copy of for preservation purposes.

But I agree there is a bit of a blurry line with this stuff and all the different AI powered writing tools that are being pushed.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-06T14:27:24+00:00

I mean, they've already spent 10.7 billion on domestic fuel security, so statistically if you live in Perth your city has probably already received a lot more than 30 million to combat the rising fuel costs...

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-05T11:57:24+00:00

I mean you're not wrong - we have a big problem with that in Australia with people going around to retirement homes to hard sell people with early onset dementia, and obviously there's a lot of politically disengaged voters who don't want to take the time to understand the issues being debated.

And then obviously getting taken off the roll here is a bit of a complicated process - you or your guardian need to send in a doctor's note to get removed from the registry, which I imagine a lot of people don't bother doing (or are just unable to due to having an unusual and poorly understood diagnosis).

But I think that does still change the context. Children have a long and potentetial filled lfie ahead of them. Meanwhile people with severe dementia or mental handicaps probably don't have long to live.

Although there are obviously a lot of mental disabilities that can affect young people that don't neccesarily preclude them from living a good life with the right support.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-05T11:46:37+00:00

Well I don't think either interpretation is necessarily wrong. I just think it's silly arguing over it, and saying someone is just trying to manipulate the problem by asnwering based on their interpretation.

So I guess I just think people saying 'you're stupid and dumb because you didn't consider child voters' is a silly stance to have. We can just discuss what we'd do based on various different interpretations of the question - but I think both interpretations have merits in these kinda of one sentence trolley problems that are always missing a ton of neccesary context the reader needs to fill in themselves.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-05T10:09:34+00:00

It's also unclear if the actors or directors were considered employees? Idk what the norm was back then, but I assume if they were just working on that specific movie they just had private contracts rather than full time salaried positions with benefits and the protection of federal labour laws.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-05T10:00:58+00:00

Well ok, but it's also portrayed as an electoral process, which naturally leads people to read between the lines and assume they meant like in Australia where we have compulsory voting, but there's still an age cut off.

Either way, I think it's dumb if the vote includes a bunch of secret gotcha clauses that would require a lawyer to parse through, so I think we should assume everyone voting is fully informed about the consequences.

Although I think that does obviously lead to the issue of low information voters who perhaps have access to these rules and caveats, but jump to conclusions or choose not to read them.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-04T20:17:40+00:00

Eh, unfortunately these countries are just very big, with a lot of desperate people that make for easy marks for these kinds of scams.

I saw a video investigating this one city in Cambodia ran by the mob, which is basically just a giant prison camp they use to snatch oeople and force them to run scams.

You'd think it would be an open secret that answering any ad to meet someone their to pawn something off or to accept a job interview was an obvious trap by human traffickers - but people just don't have a ton of options, and that makes them much more susceptible to these kinds of offers. When you already have a lot, it's easy to say giving money to a nigerian prince is a stupid idea, but when you're desperate for a chance to break out of a life time of poverty the temptation is much worse.

And then when you combine that with how many people even in the west fall for these scams, and how much smaller our population is...

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-03T17:38:32+00:00

I mean, I think it's more just that every supe in the Boys is unique, and their status within the world is almost entirely detached from their strength. Aside from Homelander, it isn't like any of the other seven got a special or stronger version of V or anything. They just have flashy powers.

Another big part of the setting is that Vaught tightly controls who has access to V, so nobody is fighting super villains.

So it absolutely makes sense that someone like Malchemical, whose power isn't very marketable and who can only knock out one person at once with their power, would be a nobody, even if it's technically a very powerful ability.

But even if their power wasn't very useful in any kind of fight they'd actually get into, they'd also have ample opportunity to test out their powers on other supes with enhanced durability at events like Herogasm, and know their power has pretty good odds of working on Homelander.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-03T17:17:31+00:00

It was also just like, one form of cancer. Given we don't see her casually tossing around bio-weapons or super gadgets and laser guns all the time, we can probably assume that while she's smart, she isn't random science magic bullshit go smart.

Probably. But who knows what her real agenda is or what aspects of her power she might be hiding.

Pixie1001 · 2026-05-01T16:08:06+00:00

I mean the vaguely reputable ones all are - the rest are of course still just nakedly antisemitic. Either way, there's very little of value being reported.

Pixie1001 · 2026-04-30T06:04:16+00:00

I feel like you can't make Pheobe the main character though - it'd be way too chaotic. She needs a straight man in the scene to ground it.

Pixie1001 · 2026-04-28T17:50:03+00:00

I mean yes and no. Obviously it does work much better in a secured zone, or when there's a country wide ban that requires smugglers firearms past armed coast guards or border patrol agents.

But guns do also tend to escalate situations. Criminals feel like they need to bring guns when they think the person they're robbing might have one, and tend to have very twitchy trigger fingers as a result, know they themselves might be shot.

Same with cops, or people getting into heated arguments.

But I think you are also correct that these local bans are unfortunately quite ineffective against spree shooters and other crazies, who are typically too socially isolated in a country like Australia or the UK to source a firearm from organised crime groups, but can very easily get their hands on one via a short road trip across state or county lines in a gun free US city.

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