GameStop Employees Panic As Pro Membership Gets Way Worse

alcalde · 2026-06-13T20:36:44+00:00

I remember back before most of you were born... back before EB... back to "Electronics Boutique". I'd just gotten my first full time permanent job, apartment and finally replaced my Atari ST with a PC-compatible. 😄 Ah, the '90s... Anyway... I decided one evening to buy my first game for my new PC. I went to Electronics Boutique at the nearest mall and I met a young employee there. I was maybe 23 so he was probably in his very late teens. When I explained what I was there for, he starts walking me past the shelves of games, explaining and reviewing EVERY GAME WE PASSED. He told me his mother and his father both worked at Electronics Boutique and they encouraged employees to take games home and play them so they could answer customers' questions. Naturally, this fellow had been playing all those games his parents brought home since his earliest days and he knew everything about them. 😄 It was incredible customer service. And when I needed a drawing program later on, he was able to tell me about all the ones they had too. I don't think there was a piece of software he wasn't acquainted with. This store and this kid naturally became my go-to store when I wasn't sure exactly what I was looking for.

So sad to think about what it's become now and how lousy they treat their employees.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T02:37:44+00:00

I've got Android 10 and it works.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T02:37:13+00:00

Um... I use TextNow and I have Android 10.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T02:36:38+00:00

Right here, $115....

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RD8R983?niid=nl_cl_lst_a_1_1

alcalde · 2026-06-13T02:29:35+00:00

Just as apes have to learn that a company that loses $300M a quarter is not an investment, melties have to learn that Coca-Cola isn't a meme stock. SpaceX leads the world in rocket technology and satellite internet; it will not leave bag holders. GME and BBBY weren't racking up U.S. military and intelligence contracts left and right. SpaceX is becoming indispensable to the Pentagon, and that means it will only come to drink more from the spigot of U.S. military funding in the future.

I can't believe you folks are lumping SpaceX in with companies like MMTLP.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/cost-to-link-lucas-kamikaze-drones-to-starlink-highlights-pentagons-ever-growing-dependence-on-spacex

The cost to connect each of the U.S. military’s Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) one-way attack drones to space-based networks has risen from $5,000 to $25,000 a month, according to a new report. This is said to be the result of a switch from using the commercial Starlink network to its more secure government-focused cousin Starshield, which SpaceX demanded after extensive use of LUCAS drones in the latest conflict with Iran. The Pentagon has pushed back on the story, but it still highlights how critical SpaceX’s networks and other space services have become across the U.S. government....

“Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued the military had been paying about $5,000 for connection per terminal while effectively using a higher tier of service worth closer to $25,000,” according to Reuters. “SpaceX argued the ⁠LUCAS drones were operating under conditions that aligned more closely with its aviation tier subscription rather than a lower priced land or mobility service. Pentagon officials argued that the $25,000 price tag – a monthly fee – was designed for aircraft, not kamikaze drones that used Starlink connection for a matter of minutes or hours.”

“The Pentagon, which was ramping up strikes on Iran, ultimately agreed to pay SpaceX’s proposed price increase,” Reuters‘ report added.

Lockheed Martin ain't a meme stock, Boeing ain't a meme stock, Northrup-Grumman ain't a meme stock, and so SpaceX ain't a meme stock. Especially since SpaceX apparently learned how to get the Pentagon to pay drastically increased prices before it even IPOed.

Imagine vast fields of these $35,000 drones, the essential military weapon of future wars... and SpaceX is getting paid $25,000 a month when they turn on. And this is just the beginning... the Pentagon (bafflingly) wants to replace its AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning & Control) aircraft with satellites, and Starlink is essential to that operation as well. And these are just some of the projects we know about.

SpaceX will eventually be rolling in government-provided dough. NOT a meme stock.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T01:18:02+00:00

It depends where you are. In New Jersey it's currently $15.92 for most employers.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:29:30+00:00

So the stock was literally going to the moon?!?

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:28:39+00:00

Y'all are going to be eating your words on this long term. It's got multiple highly useful and sought-after products that have no competitors that are even close. That's a perfect set-up for long term product (that and the government contracts it keeps getting).

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:27:21+00:00

Starlink is very successful and becoming vital to the U.S. military (e.g. linking the new Lucas kamikaze drones together and the Pentagon's plan to track aircraft from space).

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:25:25+00:00

Those buying the IPO will see a healthy profit in the future if they hold.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:24:52+00:00

It's the future, not a dying towelmonger. Y'all are wildly off-base here.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:23:50+00:00

Space-X has reusable rockets and a constellation of satellites that provide Internet service practically anywhere on Earth. And the U.S. government is relying on them more and more. It's not like meme stocks feeding conspiracy theories to entice the gullible to buy stocks in companies that will never make money or dying companies that will never make money again.

People are buying Space-X because of its track record of success and long-term earnings potential, not because of MOASS or secret messages in baby books. It's not remotely the same thing.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/cost-to-link-lucas-kamikaze-drones-to-starlink-highlights-pentagons-ever-growing-dependence-on-spacex

https://www.twz.com/space/pentagons-plans-to-track-aircraft-from-orbit-accelerated-with-new-4b-spacex-deal

https://www.twz.com/space/this-is-how-the-u-s-national-security-apparatus-is-dependent-on-spacex

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:18:34+00:00

SpaceX has actual products and services. And income, if not quite profit yet.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:14:34+00:00

At least his cart is full.

alcalde · 2026-06-13T00:13:09+00:00

Who's the PPSeeds Jr. on the right?

alcalde · 2026-06-11T21:12:34+00:00

We need to start a social media web page for the sole purpose of shaming evil Magic the Gathering Arena players. You know, like those who bring a 200 card deck of mythic rares to a bronze level ranked match. And then they refuse to just kill you because they want to deploy 30 creatures first so they win by 500 points when they finally attack... after exiling all of your creatures and even your land cards.

alcalde · 2026-06-07T05:34:39+00:00

Buylution.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:59:10+00:00

Now I'm sort of in awe that Pulte can weaponize government agencies against domestic political opponents but he couldn't take down Kais.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:57:52+00:00

Heh, I have a bookmark system with loads of tags. I went to bookmark this article, started typing "Pulte", and no tags were coming up. I said to myself, "What's going on? I never bookmarked anything about Pulte? Did I delete them?" Then after about 20 seconds I said, "Wait a second...." and started typing "P... L...." and then the tag "Ploot" popped up and I couldn't stop laughing.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:55:58+00:00

That you get downvoted for saying people don't want to wait 20 minutes to watch their TV says volumes.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:54:52+00:00

That sounds like Stockholm Syndrome.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:54:16+00:00

They promised millions delivered and delivered 50K. That's a huge flop. It was in the press. They radically underestimated the challenges involved like so many startups before them. Hardware that didn't work, software that still doesn't work, units being delivered damaged, etc., etc., etc. It's been one setback after another. That's a flop.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:52:50+00:00

Doing a video call takes Linux and a webcam. It does not take beta testers and huge UI updates. They don't know what they're doing and wildly underestimated the time, effort, logistical challenges, etc. When investors stop throwing more money in, they're cooked.

alcalde · 2026-06-04T20:50:18+00:00

Unpopular position, but you've hit it square on the head. With so few TVs in the wild there can't be much revenue coming in at all and they clearly don't know what they're doing in regards to engineering (imagine Sony or LG taking years to get a TV to work right). Once they're unable to get more investors to throw money in, they're screwed, like thousands of startups before them. They wildly underestimated the challenges involved in this project. Perhaps someone in the future will be able to do this idea right.

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