And even if they get a fine, it will just be the cost of doing business and likely a tiny fraction of the additional revenue they pull in

A lot of this came out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Make_Me_Think which a lot of dumb UX people took to the worst extreme to be like “dumb idiot user should only get one button ever”

I really hope so, but sadly I don’t think it will be. In the same way that people buy the same FIFA, the same COD, etc every year, it lives off its brand name and FOMO of those who only play multiplayer games.

GTA V still rakes in like $800 million or so from shark cards every year. They release a new vehicle, a new apartment, or whatever and everyone flocks to buy it.

I think GTA 6 will just fill that space

Ah my apologies, I did miss the part on the datasheet where people race these things apparently

Yup, I’ll buy it years down the road at a massive discount just to play the campaign; all their effort is going to go into multiplayer and milking those microtransactions anyway

Apparently it’s something about this medical rehab device made in Germany

https://www.kuebler-sport.com/pedalo-classic-vg-000218.html

Yeah the original was released Nov 2019 for PlayStation exclusively and then a PC port was released July 2020.

So potentially 8 months after the DS2 PlayStation release before a PC port, if they’re following the same schedule

Yeah the outcome of all of this is just

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

Oh ORACLE

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Also to find the actual correct answer three comments down because the one that was voted highest worked, but was actually a really shit way to do the thing being asked

They didn’t give a shit until their company was in the public spotlight, that’s all that matters

* Peter “Blood Boy” Thiel

You wouldn’t know him, he works at a different spy agency

And now Pakistan is shooting down Indian jets in response

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir-conflict-hnk-intl

The Indian Embassy in Washington said in a statement that national security advisor Ajit Doval spoke with U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the strikes. The embassy said “India has credible leads, technical inputs, testimony of survivors” that point towards “the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in the attack.”

Ah, no better people to encourage fascists they’re in the right than other fascists

ah, TIL, thanks

Well, parenthesis, and parenthesis, but yes

what does the last shareholder get?

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

Once the bubble pops they’ll rugpull the same way they do crypto. Either that or it will grow so large that they convince someone to aquire them wholesale

Yeah and PlayStation runs a variant of freeBSD. As a PC gamer I’m all for it because it means console games almost always make their way to PC, (and now are starting to be cross-console as well).