That was a case where the seller literally didn’t have the rights to the book. If you search for the title today you’ll find a version that is listed as the Authorized Orwell Edition.

Not the same as what I was referring to. Video games based on licensed IPs, often get taken down from digital game stores because the publisher’s license has ended. What you described with 1984 is someone who shouldn’t be selling the media, having sold it. Sure, it sucks if the title disappeared from your device but maybe that was the only legal resolution?

Licensed titles are different. Unless they’ve done that for non-licensed titles.

I’m not upset. I got mine when retailers had been unable to keep stock. Bought from a second hand resale market (StockX) for $800. I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

That’s a terrible way of doing it.

That bad?

Remember when the Epic Games Store was so bad that anti-virus software was identifying it as a threat?

I thought it was called “being alive”.

A BIT FUCKING LATE FOR THAT NOW!

Fuck Israel and anyone that supports the state.

I don’t believe these boxes actually have the game till they are opened. Secondly, back in April, Yaamava Casino claimed to be giving away as a prize, a unopened copy of Mario Bros. The thing that pissed me off was in all the advertising (including television), they would never say the name of the game. They just showed a image of the box and referred to it as a “cartridge classic”. IF YOU WON’T SAY THE FUCKING GOD DAMN NAME THEN I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THAT GAME!

I wonder when the day will come that a judge sees shit like this and decides anything saying woman or man should be included, just to legally fuck with the Administration. Imagine someone trying to deny healthcare or something else for trans individuals and they learn they wrote something that is legally interpreted as including CIS women and men. I’d like to see the moment that backfire occurs.

Does this not count as union busting?

He would be arrested by ICE if he was in the U.S. today.

I bet a large majority violate what it says to do every day.

I’m gonna link this article from Sprudge from 2019 when the price of commodity dropped to like a $1 (maybe it was less). Starbucks put together a relief fund, giving smallholder farmers in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador, $20 million dollars. Long story short is that this exact amount based on currently available financial data, equated to less than $61.3 million at the time, which was approximately how much the company earned in revenue in a single afternoon. The point was that without up to date financials, the public did not know what the true impact was. For what it is worth, Starbucks could have been hurting farms by doing this at a time when the price of commodity was extremely low.

https://sprudge.com/starbucks-would-prefer-you-dont-think-too-hard-about-that-20m-relief-fund-151839.html

THE MAN WASN’T EVEN IN OFFICE AT THE TIME OF THEIR EXISTENCE!

This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.

So they are related to Vulcans? /s

So he doesn’t want them in the U.S. but he doesn’t like them elsewhere either? Dude, stop projecting your racism onto other people. Just because you are a dingbat bigot doesn’t mean anyone is or wants to be.

This is being done by the IOC now. This regulation will force many women athletes whom are known to have high levels of testosterone naturally, to be forced out of women’s events.

EDIT: If you aren’t aware, the IOC announced a ban on transgender women participating in women’s events in April.