Or… you could… you know, watch the video yourself and be proven wrong.

The largest stock investors are institutional investors managing funds on behalf of retirement plans. Those investors tend to prefer consistent long term growth over a narrow quarterly growth target, and will actually look at things beyond just stock price, like strategy and long term market prospects.

Based on what evidence? They just make sure the line steadily goes up each quarter, instead of accounting for companies that invest potential profits into longer-term plans. If not, the 401K investor will either drop the stock, or put it in a higher-risk plan.

That sort of thinking is akin to corporate suicide when in a publicly-traded market, so they don’t do it.

A company like Valve isn’t publicly-traded, and they have a limited number of investors they can talk to about their plans. That and they have a reputation of quality products, so even the investors are going to put up with short-term drops in profitability for even more profits.

Yep, it’s rather demoralizing when the side of sanity and critical thought are ranting about getting rid of all firearms, when the other side already has enough firearms to turn a potential civil war into Team America vs. Cavemen Throwing Rocks At Each Other.

Be less like Ghandi and be more like fucking Black Panthers. Or at least support the 2nd Amendment and stop with this pointless bullshit about how we don’t need guns because the city police is totally going to have our backs :rollseyes:

No. That’s called Star Citizen, and it’s a scam at this point.

Valve does good not because they don’t have shareholders, but because their leadership is not gonna get fired for thinking about next year instead of next quarter. So they don’t squeeze the consumers for every dime, so people stick with them, and developers stay even though their fee schedule is not the best because they have all the people.

All of that short-term thinking is because of the stock market. All of their shareholders think of, day in and day out, is “line go up”.

This is the real answer.

Just absolutely greedy fucks that think entropy doesn’t exist and everything infinitely scales.

Microsoft’s not teasing Halo on Playstation out of desperation. They’ve nearly ended consoles.

Which is kind of a good thing. The console wars have been large irrelevant for the past 20 years, because PC already won.

Really, Steam won. And if Microsoft isn’t careful, all of that planning to shift gamers towards PCs will have them land squarely into the Steam/Linux ecosystem. It really depends on how hard Microsoft wants to abuse their near-monopoly with Windows 11.

Would you like to code something for no money that would help people?

That’s open-source software in a nutshell.

These are just logos, names, and brands. They have no real meaning behind them. The people and the company are still the same as it always was.

Just keep clicking. You’ll get to the malware eventually.

Selective enforcement probably, especially towards a known women’s right advocate.

They were pretty brave to go through with these sort of protests, but at the same time, Saudi Arabia is just not the country to do this sort of thing. It is a harsh religious dictatorship that only respects the richest of its citizens. The best thing to do is to leave, and encourage others to do so. I know that’s not an easy thing to do, but it’s certainly better than to spend the rest of your life being beaten in a prison cell.

This reminds me of the futility of White Rose.

From the PR:

Note that this behaviour is configurable. It’s default is a 500 char limit because that is the Mastodon default.

That’s a shit default, and a shitty way to treat a standard that is meant for all sorts of communication. ActivityPub is not Twitter, and it is not just for short-form communication. In fact, a majority of the web is longer-form communication that isn’t a mere 500 characters long.

Retorting with “this behaviour is configurable” is dancing around the issue. Good, sane defaults mean everything in programming.

That requires a functional Congress, which is really only achieved by getting rid of the GOP disease in all three branches.

at the least then go ask obsidian why they didnt ask for a little more time.

You want Obsidian to ask the guys who would eventually stiff them over a single MetaCritic score point to give them more time? Obviously, there was a rather hostile relationship between the two.

<delay the time to hit Continue for comedic effect>

BANG!

Sigh, not this article again. No, they can’t “deepfake a person with one photo”. They can create a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one.

obsidian agreed to the 18 month timeframe, which for a team like them should have been enough time given they had all of bethesda’s resources at hand and didnt need to create a whole lot of the assets

Sorry, but you must not be very familiar with game development to think that a mere 18 months would be enough time to churn out a AAA game. It needed 2-2.5 years at least.

With any luck, Com Truise or somebody like him.

Considering the glowing reviews on part 2, I’m surprised there’s any sort of “loss” here.