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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksM to Board Games@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 4 months ago

Tabletop industry in full panic as Trump tariffs are poised to erase decades of growth

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Tabletop industry in full panic as Trump tariffs are poised to erase decades of growth

www.polygon.com

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksM to Board Games@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.ca
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    Fuck Trump

    • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        On the flip side, how much more can his heart really take? There’s an opportunity there for someone willing to use it

        • Match!!@pawb.social
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          for the good of the world

      • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.ca
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        ew hell naw🤮

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    gamers rise up

    but slowly, don’t want to stress those atrophied legs

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Been skipping leg day?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      This is board gamers. We go to the gym and are married. Its the vidja gamers whose legs are atrophied

      • Match!!@pawb.social
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        legitimately true of every board game i know

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    If you like your FLGS, or enjoy tabletop games, you should be thinking about what you can do to help stop the Russian backed coup that has seized power.

    I’ll be attending every protest I can, talking to my friends & coworkers, and calling my senators and representatives daily to demand they remove trump from power and end his illegitimate regime.

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    My side project is a small game company and we’re leaving the US over this. We got bit bad by the tariffs this year, probably putting us in the red.

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    Oh shit I didn’t even think about the impact on board games. I’m not in the US but I assume a significant drop in spending from such a large market would have a global impact.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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    When the rich and powerful get complacent enough they forget about the whole bread and games thing.
    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

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    deleted by creator

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    Looking at my shelf of mostly unplayed games, many still in shrinkwrap and the rest with the counters not punched out I seem to favour eurogames.

    Last American made game I got was the Battletech Mercenaries kicksstarter. But guess what! Still got Clan Invasion mostly unplayed weird flex

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    I should 3D print some dice!

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      Related: heroforge has a Kickstarter ending soon (or just ended) for balanced 3d printed dice. (With whatever you want inside)

      I want (affordable) access to that printer.

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    “We’re imposing a tariff on demon-summoning mind poison… Reciprocate that, Satan!!!”

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    With most tabletop games produced overseas, many in China, the impact could be devastating. Developers and publishers are sounding the alarm.

    I mean… chase short-term cost-cutting…

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      Boardgames are customised and low quantity products that can’t really be manufactured efficiently anywhere else. It’s hardly practical for publishers to pay 2-3 times the cost to have them produced elsewhere.

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        I wonder how the world managed to keep on turning when the Chinese weren’t manufacturing everything

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          Nobody said it’s impossible. The retail price of boardgames will just double to triple. Which will then cause the market to shrink, demand to fall, and even less economies of scale. Just what we want for the hobby.

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            I’d rather a niche hobby suffer than keep enriching an authoritarian state, but hey… I guess your amusement is important.

            I despise Trump just like the average Lemmy user, but there are more important things to worry about.

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              Way to be a holier-than-thou jackass 🙄

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                It’s a simple reasoning, but way to be a reddit-style contrarian

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                Fair enough, I’m from the country with the second-highest industrial output in the EU, I can only hope this whole affair helps us somewhat.

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              So you agree to boycott American Products? Great!

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