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Maybe they should donate them to poor countries
Adidas’ breakup with troubled rapper Kanye West is going to have a massive, nine-figure price tag, with the German sportswear giant considering “literally burning” half a billion dollars’ worth of merchandise.
 
When Adidas originally partnered with West, now legally known as “Ye,” the “Yeezy Adidas” apparel line that debuted in 2015 was a massive success, getting snapped up by A-list celebrities and soon raking in over a billion dollars in annual sales just for the Yeezy sneakers alone, and nearly $2 billion a year overall.
 
But in the wake of West’s catastrophic personal meltdown, posting racist rants and memes online and fraternizing with notorious antisemites like Nick Fuentes, the company cut ties with West and was left with an expensive dilemma: what to do with all the unsold Yeezy merch?
 
The Washington Post reported that Adidas was sitting on $500 million of Yeezy sneakers, facing a quantity of unsellable merchandise on “a scale unseen in the fashion industry.”
One option being considered was attempting to rebrand the sneakers and sell them at a discount from the previous Yeezy-brand price of about $200 to $600 per pair, with the labeling removed, making them “zombie Yeezys,” as one industry insider described it.
This move comes with legal and public relations risks, as the company would take a financial hit but still be vulnerable to accusations it was profiting from the association with an unrepentant antisemite.
Another option is “literally burning them,” wrote Robb Report’s Tori Latham, but that means the maximum financial hit with zero sales and only the tax write-off. Plus, reported Latham, it’s an “unsavory choice…that comes with loads of negative attention, given the ethical and environmental questions involved in setting millions of dollars’ worth of goods on fire for no real reason.”
 
The only safe move PR-wise might be to donate the shoes, to areas in Syria and Turkey devastated by the recent earthquakes, for example, or copying a Nike program that chops up donated and unsellable shoes into materials for gym floors and new sneaker soles, but that still means a massive financial hit.
Adidas has yet to announce the fate of the hundreds of millions of dollars of Yeezy sneakers and is expected to take a few more months to make a final decision.

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@Neclord
Come back fam. Here is a peace offering.

Well I left your name on the Soul Calibur thread. You should check the stuff @CESTUS IIIand I did while you were away.

He does correct himself and considering that he's been in the MCU for so long I'm pretty sure his wires got crossed lol.
Full interview for those interested
 

Put the word out, we back up
 

For peeps struggling to find the physical of the Metroid Prime Remastered, Target has a couple of copies in stock
https://www.target.com/p/metroid-prime-remastered-nintendo-switch/-/A-88554018#lnk=sametab

On Thursday, Moon Beast Productions – an indie studio founded by Phil Shenk and Peter Hu, two former Blizzard North developers – announced the hiring of Diablo series co-creator Erich Schaefer. In an interview with GamesBeat, the studio said Schaefer will serve as lead creator director on a new action RPG. Details on the project are sparse, but what Moon Beast shared with Schaefer was reportedly enough to convince him to come out of retirement.
 
“We have ideas for changing the genre with a different approach to progression and trying to solve some of the problems that are beholden to PvE games, especially games, like the Diablo franchise has dealt with,” Shenk told GamesBeat. All three men worked on Diablo II. Notably, Shenk is credited as the game’s lead character artist, and was responsible for designing the appearance of a few of the game’s character classes, including the necromancer and assassin. Lord of Destruction, Diablo II’s excellent 2001 expansion, features a tribute to Shenk in the form of a monster you must slay to complete one of Act V’s quests.
 
Schaefer told GamesBeat Moon Beast currently employs about 12 people, making it smaller than many of the other studios working in the ARPG genre. The good news is Schaefer has plenty of experience leading small teams. At Runic Games, he made Torchlight with a team of about 25 people. "I want to work on projects that are fun and genuinely try to do something different," Schaefer said. "It’s impressive what the Moon Beast team has built in such a short time. It fired up my imagination with possibilities, and that's a huge part of why I wanted to come aboard."
 
 

I was on discord after the srk ship sunk.
On some days I thought about srk times, how fun they were.
Then I found this site again and noticed the names.
My old brain then realized, that I already had an account here with 47 posts.
 
I actually forgot over the years and months in discord and being busy with rl and stuff, that I was already registered here, can you believe that.....
 

 
 
 

I mean she's wearing nothing but paint fam 😅

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Hey guys what's up lol

Stellar Ahsoka cosplay
 
 

Gane got out wrestled by Ngannou with one good leg. Bones outwrestling him and ending him is no surprise. 

My hands are ready to hurt all over again playing this. Very unexpected but welcome suprise
 

I don't even care what he says or does at this point. Ezra Miller hasn't been fired so fuck DC/DCEU/Gunnverse or whatever they fuck that call the Lack of Accountability Universe. I'm not watching any of their shit. Until he's fired, I'm out.

SF5's netcode is still impressively bad.
 
On the other hand, a lot of people who can't touch my "quit SF5 2/3 years ago and don't play no more" self.
 
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AERIAL RUSSIAN SLAM IS BAAAAAAAACK