Historically outcasts have been overrepresented in gaming and online spaces, as it’s a way to start from scratch with out moving.
People with larger social networks, has less need for the cozy discord server or community forum with 100 people than the outcast with a smaller physical network
South East Asia is one area that comes to mind, they have pretty good internet
There’s nothing “fuck them, got mine” attitude about this, the only one losing to a housing market crash are the well offs; It’s a net benefit for the vast masses of society
You get that sweet pre order achievement, I guess you’ll get a clown costume or something along those lines for multiplayer
I’m mostly looking forward to the advertisement campaign, because this will be the largest global campaign to date
A cool billion on advertisement is not impossible with the size of this production. It’s insanity.
But regarding your pointers;
Goty? Don’t think so, tends to go to innovation.
For sure, this will carry so much hype it will sell a fuckton. It’s also been like a decade and some, since the last GTA released. It’s a huge IP.
absolutely not, I’ve not seen anyone expecting massive amounts of innovation. It will be a continuation of what GTA already is, likely with better graphics, a huge world (possibly the largest digital open world to date). But innovation? Nah, big investments kills innovation in games. They need a safe bet, they’ve not pushed 2-3 bn dollars into a game that could be either 10 million of sales or 10 bn. They’d rather take the safe 4 bn
Yeah, it sucks when an investment goes south, and yeah, that’s just how it goes sometimes, but they DID lose something.
Sounds like the inheritors lost something.
Again, families often need to move to larger (i.e. pricier) homes. This isn’t reserved for the wealthy class.
Which becomes easier to afford if housing is cheaper.
A lot of young people think they’re making investments right now, but as soon as housing falls, they’re going to be left holding a bunch of worthless cardboard over night.
The end game buyers of such collectibles, won’t be impacted enough from a housing crash to stop them from collecting.
Also far from everyone is speculating on collectibles, it’s a high risk high reward gamble to do so. Which unopened Lego boxes has proven. With the added sprinkle on top you need to be able to hold the items for decades
But that larger home lost even more equity.
Making you able to upgrade while taking on less debt, than if both houses rose 10%.
Then we have property taxes, which tends to be a yearly expense based on what nearby homes are trading for.
which you may not be able to keep paying if the economic downturn cost you your job.
That’s a completely different factor, which isn’t directly linked to housing costs. Housing can crash, if done properly without the economy being in a bad shape. Supply, demand and force owners to live in the house. Boom, price crash.
The people who gains something from house prices increases, are people that own multiple houses and people looking to downgrade.
People wanting to die in their current home, doesn’t lose anything.
People looking to swap to a pricier home, doesn’t lose anything.
People looking to enter the market, doesn’t lose anything.
Haven’t you seen the no kings rallies and the anti ice protests?
Literal warzones, disobeying the overlord and his goons
Yep, most people would not understand Machine Learning or Big Data analysis generally being AI, so just market your product by the sub category and you don’t have to deal with the expectancy of GenAI
If they release them to the BBC, then it comes down to. Would the UK government want a rut with the US?
It lowkey opens for blackmail, if they’re hiding smut on Trump and willingly gives them to the UK.
There’s also a stark difference between 15 mil and 10 bn
Mar a Lago. Mar a Lago lost 10 billion dollars of valuation due to the documentary!
How is that a defend of the US?
A post directly asking to distance from the US… Is a defence of the US? Like what.
Great roll call nomination, with only one candidate. Yet she didn’t get 100% of the votes - Some would rather abstain
Or reimburse the companies the salaries of their employee’s while they vote - I’m confident that would make queue times drop
China and the US has some of the same issues, and also issues more unique to both.
The US takes on imperialism and human rights… Or rather lack thereof is a shared value with China.
The US and Chinese economies are both relatively fucked, based on financial speculative growth and has limited upwards possibility for their youths. Look at the American GenZ hate towards work and reciprocated reaction from employers, look at the laying flat movement in China. Which is banned to even mention on social media.
Go to any major Chinese (Tier I and II) city and your first reaction will leave you in awe. Everything looks great on the surface, but how do you achieve cheap motorcycle deliveries within minutes? By having a large, lost, low class of workers. Selling their time for peanuts, barely able to scrape by. Potentially being shipped medicine by parents, as seen in a Danish travel programme recently.
The US has the same kind of gig economy, but not nearly to the same psychopathic degree China does.
Both economies have fucked up rural areas, just like most of the world, low key forcing people to move towards population centers to find work - Said centers ends up flooded with labour.
International human rights abuse? Yeah the US is worse, but that’s most likely due to the US being everywhere.
Domestic human rights abuse? If you think the UK or US is censored, learn Chinese and visit their social media. A picture of Winnie the pooh? Gone. Mentioning laying flat? Deleted.
Then we have the Uyghurs, Hong Kong not being respected for the one hundred year lease initially agreed upon, stole the Dalai because they can’t accept Tibet isn’t Chinese.
International conflict, 9-dash line, no signs of wanting to finalise the Chinese civil war still ongoing with Taiwan, continued support of Russia despite them being behind the bloodiest current war on our planet.
Not to talk about the AI cold war the two states are running at the moment, neither side has dared to say it publicly and neither side have shown any signs of wanting to stop the ongoing cold war for the betterment of our planet.
Is the US the good guys? Nah.
I’m personally growing more and more annoyed with my own government and the EU as a whole not being willing to take a harder stance against the US. Trump made the blunder of a lifetime, but the Hormuz is still closed instead of trading energy in Euroes - Benefitting everyone but the US. The world economy would had taken a rollercoaster ride, but it would benefit all of us long term.
Both the Chinese, American and Russian leadership is a cancer to the planet, and more countries should recognise them as such
Coincidence, or maybe Fediverse is experiencing a growth spike?
Coincidentally we’re also both European, unable to grasp why Americans can’t understand the mechanics for why people are willing to vote for Trump, Farage or the AFD.
Their bases are fairly similar, middle aged white men whom lost a job with good benefits to internationalism. Mostly through outsourcing production of goods.
Simultaneously they suffered a loss of status, which arguably is a good thing. As status is more even today across the sexes than ever, but it can be hard for some to cope through.
Furthermore the political system of all three mastodons highlighted here, are designed to ignore the few. So when the few yell foul about an issue, and nothing is done. More and more will eventually turn/agree with the issue and demand it solved.
Most other parties are to some degree in favour of a status quo, but when the status quo means the world around you is continuously getting worse - You’re willing to aim for any silver linings that challenge the status quo. Even if it most likely will accelerate society downwards, just at the off chance it won’t.
In systems that let’s small parties show up, you’re going to see most small parties die out again within a term or three. Because they’re too extreme and the commoner will have seen them exposed before they get all the power. Well in the US and UK, there’s nothing to expose before you have all the power.
Germany should be better, but the no collaboration with AFD stance completely fucked it, as even more people were mad a huge chunk of society essentially got ignored. By the time anyone were willing to talk to AFD, they were already the largest party in the country - Just like the MAGAs were.
If the Republican party had engaged the MAGAs when they had 2% support among the population, tackled their 2 biggest concerns and generally exposed their extreme ideologies - We would never have had a relevant MAGA movement. But ignoring the issues, gives extremism a chance to grow out of control.
Extremism doesn’t show up out of nowhere, often they have a few good points for anyone willing to listen.
Yes, there’s a surprising amount of Rep voters who hates billionaires as much as the rest of us do, but Dems aren’t truly working for the people either.
There’s different ideologies among the parties, but both of them are anti peasants, pro elite.
Stuff like universal healthcare, free schools and proper psych wards are incredibly supported policies among voters of both parties. “European style” social welfare with a charismatic leader would get 60% of the votes in the US
We caught the mouse on our attic, by luring them into a moveable plastic bath tub. Then we apparently overfed them, so most of them ended up dieing because they got stuck in the toys, which mainly was cardboard rolls from paper towel
Sounds like you’re mostly conservative, with a desire for others to feel good about themselves.
The Danish conservative party is pretty close to your requests, except for the degree at which you seem to be pro immigration