The profit part is when you crash the industry and all the smaller studios go out of business… you can weather the collapse and they can’t.

Then nobody has a choice but to deal with you, consumers and developers both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

I think Germany will continue to do so longterm no matter what is being said right now so long as genuine fascists don’t take power in Germany… which with the AfD is always kind of a worrying concern.

Still, Germany is a vibrant country and like the US no matter how much the leadership does or does not try to do to sabotage Ukraine it doesn’t really change the average person’s feeling that Ukraine is a sympathetic cause for pretty simple reasons. As such there is only so much the US and German governments to keep their people from helping Ukraine.

Why do we tolerate this as fans?

I was literally thinking the same thing lol

hahah true, not nearly as much as the SaaB GlobalEye though… which isn’t to knock the aircraft it just literally looks like an AI generated image of a plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalEye

Psychgeist is a great video channel by a Psychologist named Rachel Kowert who is a genuine video game fan, she should be WAY more popular!!

Her coverage is refreshingly nuanced and often brings an inspiring angle to things you might not have thought about with video games.

https://rkowert.com/

https://rkowert.com/research/

https://nurture.is/academy/games-vs-videos-for-kids-exploring-active-vs-passive-screen-time/

This is a delusional and dangerous as hell perspective to take.

Seems wheelie sketchy to me.

Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.