PE is all about that cash, but they have ways of making money that don’t involve strong fundamentals. Direct private ownership, such as with Valve, aligns the owners interests with their customers much more closely.

Death Spiral Financing is one of those things that should be shouted from the rooftops by anyone who wants to spread anti capitalism. It so cleanly displays the evil inherent to the system.

You can’t trust the reviews, it’s true. But also, it’s very much a buyers market with games in general right now. The headline issue is only a problem if you take the side of AAA studios who have to compete with passion-driven indie projects that aren’t just out to make a buck.

I’m going to spend how much to play a game with an obligatory launcher after I already opened steam? And it’s badly optimised? 100gb you say? And I have to see ads for skins? And that’s competing with a game less than half the price that’s amazing, 3gb, no ads, and it can run on a decade old computer?

This is a big-budget problem. They made their omelette, and now they’ve got to sleep in it.

Fool though you may be, never assume you are stupider than Elon Musk.

He was saying that last December. It’s been nine months of him “going to war on this the likes of which we cannot comprehend”

Nothing is can ever beat reality for pure insanity. Fiction is more entertaining, but only because it is obliged to make sense to us.

Duke of York, famous republican

Are you sure?

Certainly we will not tolerate this? Where’s the protest?

These days any good news is immediately suspect.

Oh, you discovered a new species of frog? And what do they want, pray tell?

Incredible, isn’t it - the actual right wing extremists support Zionism, but being against that gets you painted as “too far right”. I’m from America so I’m used to there being no such thing as left, but goddamn

Nice one, Italy

Hhhh yes I know some form of anarchism would probably be more egalitarian and just but a society will always have rules and mutual expectations and if we’re being honest no state can afford to let people see anarchism thrive, can they?

It’s almost like a dude called Sir shouldn’t be in charge of a party that bills itself as working class.

Why?

because of the way in which the EU has changed since Britain’s departure

What does that mean?

Yeah it’s not great the way supers tend to validate vigilantism. Ultimately you can have rule of law or some form of tyranny. There are middle grounds, but those are the options. Also the hero’s journey literary paradigm has regressive aspects. 🤓

Those were fake? Thank god

I… I don’t have a way to do it… I can never be like him. Because…

There’s no Japanese bakery in this town. 😭

You take the rough with the smooth

No thanks!