because you make fun of one thing you don’t like, does that somehow mean you do not like them for only that? Does it mean you think that is the biggest reason to not like them?

The peak happened 2 years after the release, a period where they saw a massive growth as their incomplete game hit, and then saturated it’s market. The majority of the decline is being blamed on the unexpectedly high costs of the the phantom liberty DLC, and the studio’s backlash to the first release’s crunch culture. CP2077 coming out incomplete didn’t sway their customer base, leading to investors backing off. The cost of the follow-up caused investor stress, especially because of the internal strife of crunch culture, which lead to major parts of their dev teams leaving to be competition. This is what has lead investors to cash out, and thus devalue their stock. It wasn’t the incomplete game release that rocketed them to all time highs. That move saw crazy successful sales.

That is the lesson their investment board learned. It caused strife in the company because of the divide it showcased between those who made the company, and those who own it.

A launch that taught companies they can in fact release unfinished games and still outsell everything they have previously done

Yeah, the place i had originally read it now shows a retraction based on a bad report, replied a little further down

I don’t know of elected officials, however, on lemmy, there are a lot of authoritarian left wing groups. There are a lot of anti-authoritarian ones too, but the authoritarians are very loud, and abrasive, because authoritarians operate via force.

This was actually the next link down, but the one I went to post retracted since I read it. So yes, my post was incorrect.

this is a nitpick, but Trump actually closely lost the popular vote once all sources were fully accounted for.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidential-election-popular-vote-trump-kamala-harris

I just looked a bit more into this. There is a whole history of scrutinizing Nexon’s material and then screen capping single frames of animation to “prove” they are sneaking in this “misandrist” hand gesture. Looking at a back log of these this is on the level of those people presenting a single frame of someone like Beyonce on stage, and claiming what they captured clearly shows she is making satanic hand gestures.

Yes, reduce social media to .000038% of its current population, this is a good goal.

Ahh the days when I would have two, maybe three, IBM clones on my desk, HAL 9000esque eye on the wall, and a tablet pc, surrounded by hundreds of books.

I was expecting this to explode into violence

While David Brevik did move to GGG, he is not a dev there. He is an “advisor” and was originally hired to oversee their product exportation to China. Now GGG founded their company making games on the D2 engine, and were big fans of it, but I am pretty sure Brevik is the only D2 team member that went over, and he isn’t a dev there, at least not fully.

If by stunt you mean, “discusses how the character has been set-up as the natural replacement with games media interviewer”… then sure, stunt.

Even if temple prostitutes were completely voluntary, it still wouldn’t solve these underlying issues. When discussing rape with rapists, it isn’t about sex, it is about raping someone. Sex isn’t going to sate the urge to commit the act of rape. Are there people out there that may not have raped someone if they had access to sex? Sure, but those are edge cases. Also I think OP is misidentifying the lashing out of horny men, like incels, to be about sex alone. Sure, it may put a bandaid on the situation, for them, for a bit. However, the underlying issue is that they are lonely, have no intimate companionship, and have to no access to that form of relationship. Getting their dicks wet might cool them off a bit, but there will still be these communities of angry, dejected, men who do not have that type of relationship.