I can’t believe that people truly believe this especially when it’s obvious that the pyramids were built by the antediluvian giants as beacons to call Satan and his angels to continue to conquer the world. The Sphinx’ head was originally sculpted as a representation of Baphomet. The farmers arrived in the off season to be personal slaves to the giants who brainwashed them into thinking it was a project for their god Pharaoh.
Why in the hell did Sega not put up any sort of anti pirating safeguards on this thing? Even my buddy who was always talking about how dreamcast was the best system, had a stack of all the Dreamcast games copied, because the Dreamcast would read and play copied games.
It was killed by its own fan base and lack of anti pirating
I don’t think any consoles had decent anti piracy back then. Dreamcast had some, but got beaten. They were routinely being chipped for piracy up to the Xbox 360 era. I remember that well because people at work laughed at me for buying games, and then MS banned them all on one day and they had to buy new ones to be able to carry on playing online.
It was killed by the PS2. That thing was a juggernaut, and Sega just couldn’t compete. Xbox and Gamecube hadn’t even launched before Sega threw the towel in. They just couldn’t get any traction and got out of the console market before they went bankrupt, selling at ever more unsustainable losses.
They’re still around, so it was probably the right decision in hindsight.
The PS2, bad third-party relationships, and a limp Western market strategy. Even with competent management it’s quite possible, even likely it still would have been the last console Sega produced, but it could have gone a full generation with better support.
Oh but it did, first the GD-ROM that had 1GB and the only way to get the games into a CD was to cut the assets making it a worse experience and… playing recorded CD-ROMs on a Dreamcast was a very efficient way to destroy its drive.
No. The SovCit told the salesman that their 1099 would pay it, and the salesman was like… “Ok, so, cash then?” And wrote up a bill of sale with 100% cash payment on it. This would normally show payments and financing info, but the SovCit I’m sure is insisting that their magic money will pay for everything. Since the SovCit has no idea what they are doing, and the salesman has no idea what the SovCit is talking about, the salesman just told them to go up a level to get this sorted out. You don’t make commissions on SovCit bullshit, so turn and burn, on to the next sale.
No, this is just the “offer” on file. The dealership is giving them the paper to say, “Yes, you are approved at these terms.” No money has exchanged hands yet.
It’s not signed yet, so they haven’t paid for anything. The sales consultant believes they’re actually paying in ‘cash’ (which for these purposes could mean certified funds or a non-CarMax lender) and gave them the bill of sale to show them the amount needed.
I looked up form 1099a and it’s issued by a lender who acquires abandoned property, so this guy issuing one makes no sense whatsoever. I guess he’s trying to claim that the vehicle is abandoned property? But since he’s not the lender, it means nothing.
So there’s a minute extent to which I can understand their whole private vehicle no license plate thing, horrendously misguided as it may be, but their concept that they just get to acquire any item they please for no money or other consideration is among the most nonsensical things I’ve ever seen.
You can upload a pdf to delivery apps too. You just have to send them a hand written letter with your account information and a declaration that you are going to “upload the file as a citizen of Earth”. Then just have that letter notarized in international waters and mail it off from somewhere in Washington DC.
I really wanna know what the thought is behind the notion that they can just submit the right paperwork and simply not have to pay anything for a new car. How can they possibly think that’s how this works?
They think they are “paying” for the car with a secret multimillion dollar bank account that every person has access to if they use the right “magic words.”
The problem with this magical thinking is that when they fail, they think they just need more magic words, so they get angrier and more dedicated to the process, generating more and more madness for themselves and others for consume.
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