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Yeah, no surprise when it comes to Brazil. AFAIK, Nintendo themselves don't even have official distribution around here anymore, because the taxes make it unfeasible for them. Everything being sold here is now brought by random importers.
Ah those were the Brazil prices? For some reason I thought it was the US prices since you said it in US$, but now that I read your post again I saw "the equivalent of..." which means you converted the price for convenience. Oh well in Switzerland we also have much higher prices than in any of the neighbouring countries for
everything, some products costs 1.3 times their French or German prices but some are 3 or 4 times more, but that's a whole other topic I'd rather not go into. On the contrary to Brazil however, our salaries are also higher, so it's not so much a problem as it sounds (for those who are lucky enough to have a "true" salary). Also our higher prices are *not* due to import taxes, so the price rise doesn't even fund the government, but private corporations, which in the end makes things probably worse. (<- This is largely opinion based though)
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Meh, I'm not particularly fond of its design. The screen that gets scratched easily, the stuck joycon straps...
Neither am I, but you have to admit the design is original and innovative. The same can't be said of most computer/phone products sold today... If you didn't guess already by my comment I hate above all smartphones with passion and wish those pieces of shit were never invented.
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And even when coding you just need to use another compiler, since nobody uses assembly anymore.
You don't need to, but coding in assembly makes it both longer and harder to develop and impossible to port, and comes with no real advantages except a totally insignificant boost in performance that nobody cares about anyway.
And let's be honest, I love dealing with simple hardware things in assembly, but dealing with complex data structures such as strings or resizeable associative arrays in assembly would be... a complete nightmare.
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I feel the same way (I already regret it, though). Back when I had to pick between art and technology, I sadly went with technology. Technology changes so fast that we don't even have time to make the most out of things, since just when we're getting used to something, that thing becomes obsolete because something shinier shows up... I guess this has always been the case really, this is not a new phenomenon, it just took me a while to realize this was the case, and that I'd rather not have to renew my knowledge, software and hardware so frequently.
Well on the economical sense it makes zero sense to choose art over anything - but in my opinion art is what defines a civilisation. Artists from ancient Egypt have done something that is still of significance today, for example... What we do with our technology jobs will get thrown in the waste bin in 10 years at most so it is completely useless. I guess I could have gone further and do a banking-style job which is completely useless for humanity and totally uninteresting, but that would pay a shitload... at least it makes sense, technology is like the worst of both, it is useless AND it doesn't pay really that much. The fact I'm an un-charismatic and perhaps somewhat eccentric person doesn't help, and makes finding jobs very though for me.
Our civilisation (by "our" I mean the overall US-dominated western world) is clearly declining in my opinion, and the fact our art sucks is a large part of it. It's either all about marketing/design to make people buy stuff ; Or it's just spoiling patin on a piece of paper and calling it "a painting". This is really proof of our society's decadence. Our advancing technology is great, but is nothing compared to the vertiginous decline of art/culture.
I'm thinking perhaps a non-technology related job I could do is being a French teacher abroad but I'm not even that good with my French to start with, I just speak it as my mother language. However in a country where not many French natives are found, this could interest them and perhaps I could have a relatively stable job and interesting that way ?