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    Advice, Children, and Club: I
 My [38M] girlfriend [32F] of 3 years owns a
 pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell it
 before l propose
 gfclubowner-3 days ago . relationship-advice-46% upvoted
 My girlfriend was left a pornstore and strip club by her dad
 when he died 8 years ago. He left it go to be a shithole,
 but she poured her entire inheritance and took out some
 loans to revamp them both.
 owns a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell
 it before I propose
 gfelubowner-3 days ago . relationship-advice-91 % upvoted
 It is now a popular, well managed establishment. She makes
 a decent life, but I have issues and I want her to sell it before of 3 years_owns a/
 I will even think of proposing.
 I decided to tell her that the sexual side of the store and
 don't think the adult industry is a positive place for anyone.
 can't tell my strict Catholic parents what she does for a living
 ub bothered me, and that I wanted her to sell it before I
 would propose. I made breakfast before she left to go over
 to the store for the day.
 She has to put a lot of time into the club. Saturday, we had
 plans to go see Shazam and have dinner. She got called
 that a bartender's kid is sick and she ended up working until
 4 am due to no coverage.
 She dumped me on the spot. She said she enjoys her
 work, loves the adult industry, and has no plans on selling
 ever. She said she has worked too hard and too long for
 that sort of "bullshit.
 This is a regular occurence in some capacity. She just
 shrugs at me and tells me it's part of being an active owner
 of a successful business. She ends up working until 4 am
 at least 4 times a week
 We don't live together, so we walked through her apartment to
 gather my things. We gave each other's keys back.
 She already blocked me on facebook.
 She is adamant that she will not sell. I need some good points
 11:00 AM - 12 Apr 2019

 My [38M] girlfriend [32F) of 3 years owns
 a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell it
 before I propose.
 gfclubowner . 3 days ago . relationship-advice-46% upvoted
 My girlfriend was left a pornstore and strip club by her dad
 when he died 8 years ago. He left it go to be a shithole,
 but she poured her entire inheritance and took out some
 loans to revamp them both.
 It is now a popular, well managed establishment. She makes
 a decent life, but I have issues and I want her to sell it before
 I will even think of proposing.
 I don't think the adult industry is a positive place for anyone. I
 can't tell my strict Catholic parents what she does for a living.
 She has to put a lot of time into the club. Saturday, we had
 plans to go see Shazam and have dinner. She got called
 that a bartender's kid is sick and she ended up working until
 4 am due to no coverage.
 This is a regular occurence in some capacity. She just
 shrugs at me and tells me it's part of being an active owner
 of a successful business. She ends up working until 4 am
 at least 4 times a week.
 She is adamant that she will not sell. I need some good points
 as to why she should. Points involving children will not work,
 as she doesn't want childrern
 Tl;dr: my gf owns a strip club. I want to give her good
 reasons to sell.

 [UPDATE] My [38M] girlfriend [32F] of 3 years
 owns a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell
 it before I propose.
 gfclubowner . 3 days ago-relationship-advice-91 % upvoted
 https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship advice
 /comments/bb1wh7/my_38m girlfriend 32f
 of 3_years owns a/
 I decided to tell her that the sexual side of the store and
 club bothered me, and that I wanted her to sell it before l
 would propose. I made breakfast before she left to go over
 to the store for the day.
 She dumped me on the spot. She said she enjoys her
 work, loves the adult industry, and has no plans on selling
 ever. She said she has worked too hard and too long for
 that sort of "bullshit."
 We don't live together, so we walked through her apartment to
 gather my things. We gave each other's keys back.
 She already blocked me on facebook.
 TL; DR: she dumped me for telling her I want her to sell the club

 Ms. Respex is Spexy
 @Respexy
 Follow
 Replying to @redditships
 And she came in to work rather than give an
 employee with a sick child a hard time.
 We stan a family friendly employer/childfree
 people who respect working moms
watch-your-grammer:

jabberwockypie:

cozmicpunch:

uncommonbish:

God I love it when ultimatums backfire



As she should have! Imagine asking a man to sell off his inheritance because you are uncomfortable 😂

The number of people in the notes saying “He has a point” or “People would be reading this differently if the genders were reversed” … like
If you’re so morally opposed to what the other person does for a living … how are you with them for three years?
Presumably that would have been disclosed pretty early on in the relationship, right?  “So what do you do?”  “Well I own a successful business in the adult entertainment industry”
You don’t go into a relationship with the idea that you’re going to change the other person to make them “acceptable” to your standards.


I’m so happy she dumped him, good for her, absolute goddess
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Advice, Children, and Club: I
 My [38M] girlfriend [32F] of 3 years owns a
 pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell it
 before l propose
 gfclubowner-3 days ago . relationship-advice-46% upvoted
 My girlfriend was left a pornstore and strip club by her dad
 when he died 8 years ago. He left it go to be a shithole,
 but she poured her entire inheritance and took out some
 loans to revamp them both.
 owns a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell
 it before I propose
 gfelubowner-3 days ago . relationship-advice-91 % upvoted
 It is now a popular, well managed establishment. She makes
 a decent life, but I have issues and I want her to sell it before of 3 years_owns a/
 I will even think of proposing.
 I decided to tell her that the sexual side of the store and
 don't think the adult industry is a positive place for anyone.
 can't tell my strict Catholic parents what she does for a living
 ub bothered me, and that I wanted her to sell it before I
 would propose. I made breakfast before she left to go over
 to the store for the day.
 She has to put a lot of time into the club. Saturday, we had
 plans to go see Shazam and have dinner. She got called
 that a bartender's kid is sick and she ended up working until
 4 am due to no coverage.
 She dumped me on the spot. She said she enjoys her
 work, loves the adult industry, and has no plans on selling
 ever. She said she has worked too hard and too long for
 that sort of "bullshit.
 This is a regular occurence in some capacity. She just
 shrugs at me and tells me it's part of being an active owner
 of a successful business. She ends up working until 4 am
 at least 4 times a week
 We don't live together, so we walked through her apartment to
 gather my things. We gave each other's keys back.
 She already blocked me on facebook.
 She is adamant that she will not sell. I need some good points
 11:00 AM - 12 Apr 2019

 My [38M] girlfriend [32F) of 3 years owns
 a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell it
 before I propose.
 gfclubowner . 3 days ago . relationship-advice-46% upvoted
 My girlfriend was left a pornstore and strip club by her dad
 when he died 8 years ago. He left it go to be a shithole,
 but she poured her entire inheritance and took out some
 loans to revamp them both.
 It is now a popular, well managed establishment. She makes
 a decent life, but I have issues and I want her to sell it before
 I will even think of proposing.
 I don't think the adult industry is a positive place for anyone. I
 can't tell my strict Catholic parents what she does for a living.
 She has to put a lot of time into the club. Saturday, we had
 plans to go see Shazam and have dinner. She got called
 that a bartender's kid is sick and she ended up working until
 4 am due to no coverage.
 This is a regular occurence in some capacity. She just
 shrugs at me and tells me it's part of being an active owner
 of a successful business. She ends up working until 4 am
 at least 4 times a week.
 She is adamant that she will not sell. I need some good points
 as to why she should. Points involving children will not work,
 as she doesn't want childrern
 Tl;dr: my gf owns a strip club. I want to give her good
 reasons to sell.

 [UPDATE] My [38M] girlfriend [32F] of 3 years
 owns a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell
 it before I propose.
 gfclubowner . 3 days ago-relationship-advice-91 % upvoted
 https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship advice
 /comments/bb1wh7/my_38m girlfriend 32f
 of 3_years owns a/
 I decided to tell her that the sexual side of the store and
 club bothered me, and that I wanted her to sell it before l
 would propose. I made breakfast before she left to go over
 to the store for the day.
 She dumped me on the spot. She said she enjoys her
 work, loves the adult industry, and has no plans on selling
 ever. She said she has worked too hard and too long for
 that sort of "bullshit."
 We don't live together, so we walked through her apartment to
 gather my things. We gave each other's keys back.
 She already blocked me on facebook.
 TL; DR: she dumped me for telling her I want her to sell the club

 Ms. Respex is Spexy
 @Respexy
 Follow
 Replying to @redditships
 And she came in to work rather than give an
 employee with a sick child a hard time.
 We stan a family friendly employer/childfree
 people who respect working moms
watch-your-grammer:

jabberwockypie:

cozmicpunch:

uncommonbish:

God I love it when ultimatums backfire



As she should have! Imagine asking a man to sell off his inheritance because you are uncomfortable 😂

The number of people in the notes saying “He has a point” or “People would be reading this differently if the genders were reversed” … like
If you’re so morally opposed to what the other person does for a living … how are you with them for three years?
Presumably that would have been disclosed pretty early on in the relationship, right?  “So what do you do?”  “Well I own a successful business in the adult entertainment industry”
You don’t go into a relationship with the idea that you’re going to change the other person to make them “acceptable” to your standards.


I’m so happy she dumped him, good for her, absolute goddess
                
            

            
            
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jabberwockypie:

cozmicpunch:

uncommonbish:

God I love it when ultimatums backfire



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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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raisehelia:

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mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
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maqdaddio:

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vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
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    Beautiful, Memes, and Tumblr: positive-memes:
My sister does these designs on tshirts
If you like it, for my followers, use the code TUMBLR for a 20% discount
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                Beautiful, Memes, and Tumblr: positive-memes:
My sister does these designs on tshirts
If you like it, for my followers, use the code TUMBLR for a 20% discount
Check it out here!

                
            

            
            
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    Bad, Complex, and Friends: 12 STEPS FOR SELF-CARE
 1. If it feels wrong, don't do it
 2. Say exactly what you mean
 3. Don't be a people pleaser
 4. Trust your instincts
 5. Never speak bad about yourself
 6. Never give up on your dreams
 7. Don't be afraid to say no
 8. Don't be afraid to say yes
 9. Be kind to yourself
 10. Let go of what you can't control
 11. Stay away from drama and negativity
 12. LOVE
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Love Yourself: Recognizing When It’s Time to Give Up
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5 Helpful Self Care Tips for Empaths
Healing from Repressed Anger
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                Bad, Complex, and Friends: 12 STEPS FOR SELF-CARE
 1. If it feels wrong, don't do it
 2. Say exactly what you mean
 3. Don't be a people pleaser
 4. Trust your instincts
 5. Never speak bad about yourself
 6. Never give up on your dreams
 7. Don't be afraid to say no
 8. Don't be afraid to say yes
 9. Be kind to yourself
 10. Let go of what you can't control
 11. Stay away from drama and negativity
 12. LOVE
psych2go:
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❤ More Self-Care Articles Here ❤ Share This With Your Friends Or Reblog This So You Can Read It Later
5 Ways to Achieve Your Dreams
5 Ways to Deal with an Inferiority Complex
5 Habits of Highly Successful People
5 Effective Ways You Can Self-Actualize
7 Signs You May Be Self-Actualized
7 Habits to Nurture a Positive Mindset
5 Things to Give Up to Live the Life You Want
7 Ways You Can Start Over
8 Ways to Counteract Negative Self-Talk
Make Yourself Happy
8 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health
7 Signs You May Be a People Pleaser
7 Ways to Stop Being a People Pleaser
10 Ways to Spot a Toxic Person in Your Life
10 Ways to Deal with Toxic People
7 Habits of Highly Successful Introverts
5 Ways Mindfulness Can Improve Your Life
5 Ways to Stop Apologizing for Everything that You Do
10 Steps for Overcoming the Need for Approval
10 Ways to Build Your Emotional Resilience
Love Yourself: Recognizing When It’s Time to Give Up
6 Ways to Deal with Inferiority Complex
5 Helpful Self Care Tips for Empaths
Healing from Repressed Anger
How Channeling Your Pain Leads to Happiness
11 Tips To Cope With Negative Thoughts
If you like to read topics about Self-Love, visit our website psych2go.net
Ψ Follow @psych2go​ for more Ψ

Update: Love our articles? We have listed down more here: 
6 Ways To Cope With Suicidal Thoughts
5 Ways You’re Self Harming Before You Pick Up the Razor.
Want To Be Happy? Implement Flow Activities
7 Signs You are Emotionally Healthy
5 Ways to Know if You are Emotionally Mature
Why You Think You Are Not Good Enough AND How to Fix it
MORE ARTICLES HERE: psych2go.net

                
            

            
            
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    80s, Bad, and Christmas: Chris Kohler @kobunheat 18m
 We have ET. WE HAVE ET pic.twitter.com/fIPTXgsyoo
 Expand
 4, Reply
 Retweet ★ Favorite More

 Chris Kohler @kobunheat-4m
 Close up. pic.twitter.com/inSKukib24
 ATARI
 75
 Expand
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lightspeedsound:

videogamesarepurehappiness:

maqdaddio:

ask-gallows-callibrator:

vergess:

coelasquid:

derples:

raisehelia:

cavebae:

estpolis:

mrdappersden:

They did it, they fucking did it.

holyfducjk

HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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They did it, they fucking did it.

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HISTORY

holy shit!

can someone explain this to me

Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.

I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.

how can a video game possibly be that bad

People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.


This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later. 
 It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.

Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.

Wanna give the game a shot?  Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC

this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times

                
            

            
            
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 1. If it feels wrong, don't do it
 2. Say exactly what you mean
 3. Don't be a people pleaser
 4. Trust your instincts
 5. Never speak bad about yourself
 6. Never give up on your dreams
 7. Don't be afraid to say no
 8. Don't be afraid to say yes
 9. Be kind to yourself
 10. Let go of what you can't control
 11. Stay away from drama and negativity
 12. LOVE
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10 Ways to Spot a Toxic Person in Your Life
10 Ways to Deal with Toxic People
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