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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Don’t know much about SoT, but NMS is made by a company of only around 25 employees and made probably well over $100M in its first year even despite the horrible reception. Sean Murray and his company was/is swimming in cash. This let them focus on fixing and adding things to the game that should have been there on release even if it didn’t improve the game’s reputation and result in sales going forward. But, it did. From their last financial statement they had a profit of almost £33M in 2022 from £39M in game sales. That was helped by a £7M tax rebate. But in 2021 they still had a profit of £18M from £27M in sales.

    Edit: Also, from all the money they’ve made they had £138M in straight up cash in the bank/on hand in 2022. Hello Games could run at its current expenses for many, many years without any additional profit if they wanted to.





  • The article says no such thing.

    And I’m pretty sure your country has some form of investigative detention. If you’re American that can last up to 48 hours. And it really doesn’t matter because authorities there can just throw out charges, deny bail, blackmail people with absurd incarceration lengths into confessing their guilt, and detain them for years before a trial (or forever in some cases). And at any point in time those charges can be dropped.

    And if you really want to go into the pros and cons between different justice systems, we can do that but it doesn’t really have much to do with being a tankie or not.




  • I don’t use much social media and have things set up to block most ads. So maybe I just don’t get how bad it is out there. But in my experience with Youtube I’ve thought it generally does a decent job at recommending me videos based on what I’ve watched and who I’m subbed to. For example, if I stumble across some documentary about an aircraft accident, I’m not upset when it starts recommending me other similar videos from that channel or videos from other channels and their similar documentaries. I’ve found good videos I’d never have seen that way.

    It can get frustrating if you accidentally end up watching a video about something you normally don’t want to see, but the newer recommendations seem to fade away after a few days of not watching them. And I can certainly see how such a system can be gamed in nefarious ways. I never liked when I saw Reddit sub recommendations, but I mostly thought that was because their system didn’t recommend me things I had any interest in.