coyotino [he/him] @ theangriestbird @beehaw.org

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i think the article specifies that this is a new forecast based upon the Trump admin solidifying the final shape of the tariffs. So it seems unlikely at this phase that they will fold the current numbers, but we all know how smooth and predictable the Trump admin is.

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this is not what i expected. lol

don't you DARE say "nice"

It will close after it spends around 99% of Gates' personal fortune, he said. The founders originally expected the foundation to wrap up in the decades after their deaths. Gates, whose fortune is currently valued at around $108 billion, expects the foundation to spend around $200 billion by 2045, with the final figure dependent on markets and inflation.

Look , I know we should analyze the Gates Foundation's spending closely and make sure the money is going to effective places. I know it would be better if we taxed these assholes and resdistributed wealth in a more efficient way. But I want to believe that this is genuine, and Gates is having a late-life crisis change of heart and realizes that billionaires should not exist. giving away 99% of your personal fortune is pretty sincere, if he follows through.

Yeah, I just think it's wild to think that you can be in the world's wealthiest 10% and still be living paycheck-to-paycheck in the US. Although, as you pointed out, their methodology for reaching that number may be a bit screwy.

Ripping off most of the big streaming services is a moral imperative. They are all corrupt and evil in one form or another. Except Dropout. If you pirate Dropout content you're a dirtbag.

did you read the article? do you understand the state that the industry is in atm? Yes there are indie games and yes they are great, but it has become incredibly difficult to break into the industry. Most of the indie games that we celebrate these days are coming from devs that entered the indie scene over a decade ago, devs like Supergiant or Davey Wreden. We still have breakout debut hits like Balatro, but it's becoming harder and harder. The Steam store is a nightmare for discovery. Gaming publications are flatlining left and right, so you can't look to them for discovery anymore. 1000xResist was an indie title that was named GOTY 2024 by a few publications, but they only just crossed 100,000 copies sold about a week ago. Balatro broke big because of a lucky discovery by NorthernLion, but the reach of creators like NorthernLion is shrinking every day.

TikTok and its peers are the new normal, and as the article discusses, this eats up the exact recreation time that people have been putting into video games and other long-form media. The kids don't care about indie games because Tiktok is more fun/addictive. If they play videogames at all, they only care about Fortnite and Roblox and maybe some gacha game on their phone. Some of them care about indie creations within Fortnite and Roblox, but obviously even those games are becoming long in the tooth.

So idk. Maybe Tiktok will become the new main discovery platform and this is how the industry will survive, but it remains to be seen if people will actually get off of Tiktok to go play the games in question, or if people will just stay glued to Tiktok itself.

did you read the article? do you understand the state that the industry is in atm?

did you read the article? do you understand the state that the industry is in atm?

ITT: a bunch of people that can't be bothered to read the article

I hit a wall recently with Star Wars Outlaws. The open world is cool until you realize that every enemy base has two or three possible entry points, complete with yellow-painted paths. There's no room for creative infiltration - either you do it Ubisoft's way, or it isn't possible in the game. The NPCs in the open world just drive around aimlessly. It doesn't feel like anyone in the world is trying to achieve anything besides you. It makes me realize how far we have come with modern open world games like the recent Zelda games. Without room for emergent gameplay, an open world feels like little more than a framing device for a game that is actually linear.

Note that "wealthiest 10%" here means anyone that makes €42,980 ($48,675 USD) or more. Which includes most "middle class" Americans.

Not a bad theory. The Anonymous that we know is long gone, so the new blood has to be from somewhere.

Another day, another stupid 180 from our mercurial king 🙃

when the markets are this chaotic, only the wealthy can afford to trade futures. The rest of us can't afford the risk to our life savings.

God he fell off so hard. Though if these allegations are true, I guess he's always been a POS, he was just doing a better job at hiding it.

Don't they use quantum dots in some OLEDs? Isn't that what QD-OLED is?

seems strange for you to criticize the quality of Wikipedia, then? you have personal experience that demonstrates why these volunteers are putting their time towards this instead of towards editing articles - editing articles is a difficult and sometimes contentious process.

honestly you aren't wrong. I'd guess it's just a case of the Wikipedia photo being a bottom priority for them, but then you would think "update Wikipedia photo" would be somewhere on every publicist's to-do list. Maybe this project will encourage more publicists to explore how to do this.