"We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets."
It has been a long time since most of those places have been cold enough, long enough, to have a lake become that solidly frozen. It has been 30+ years since I have seen this happen in the mid atlantic.
The peak happened 2 years after the release, a period where they saw a massive growth as their incomplete game hit, and then saturated it's market. The majority of the decline is being blamed on the unexpectedly high costs of the the phantom liberty DLC, and the studio's backlash to the first release's crunch culture. CP2077 coming out incomplete didn't sway their customer base, leading to investors backing off. The cost of the follow-up caused investor stress, especially because of the internal strife of crunch culture, which lead to major parts of their dev teams leaving to be competition. This is what has lead investors to cash out, and thus devalue their stock. It wasn't the incomplete game release that rocketed them to all time highs. That move saw crazy successful sales.
That is the lesson their investment board learned. It caused strife in the company because of the divide it showcased between those who made the company, and those who own it.
neither do I, there really isn't a real left in the US. However the online influence pipeline for the left has a lot of authoritarians, which is similar to the problem the right fash pipeline creates. Whether or not there will be a true left in office with population enough to truly do something, and not just beef up liberal voting, we shall see.
I don't know of elected officials, however, on lemmy, there are a lot of authoritarian left wing groups. There are a lot of anti-authoritarian ones too, but the authoritarians are very loud, and abrasive, because authoritarians operate via force.
I just looked a bit more into this. There is a whole history of scrutinizing Nexon's material and then screen capping single frames of animation to "prove" they are sneaking in this "misandrist" hand gesture. Looking at a back log of these this is on the level of those people presenting a single frame of someone like Beyonce on stage, and claiming what they captured clearly shows she is making satanic hand gestures.
Yeah, years ago I was living in a house with a room mate. behind/below the stairs that ended at the front door was a small hall between a general room and the kitchen. We watched his his sister's dogs for a few days, a great dane and a bernese. Big, but well trained, lovable, lunks.
One day I am on my way home and he calls to ask if I can swing by his work and pick him up. We get home and enter the house. It looked like something out of a horror movie. Large streaks of blood splattered on EVERYTHING. The dogs are already greeting us and seem fine. We see his cat at the top of the stairs, looks just fine. We walk all over the house looking for what the fuck happened. Eventually we have to stop to let the dog out, on their way out the door my room mate noticed the dark gray fur on the dane's tail was matted with something. It was scabbing.
We checked out cameras and he spent almost 3 hours walking back, and forth, through that hall just wailing on the walls with his damned tail. It began bleeding and he was just slinging blood everywhere he went.
I agree to a point. However there are groups that are all bad, and everyone associated is bad. They are cultural cancer. Also, a lot of countries, organizations, ideological groupings, etc. may not be all bad, the mundanity of evil and all, but their bad actions are such that any good they did was nullified.
You think asking guys in prison, if they want to buy dope, would be something they don't want to hear?