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Thats either because your boss privately wants to hoard wealth, or is trying to set the books up for a clean sell.

Public means you sacrifice everything in the name of profit.

Private means you operate on the ideals of the private owners.

A private owner can have ideals of profit. A public company cannot have idealistic shareholders.

Demos were bad for business.

A good demo for a good game was minor advertising that was dwarfed by good press. If every player wont shut up about how good the game is, their friends would skip the demo and buy anyway.

A good demo for a bad game was good advertising that bit you later. You got more up front sales, but got harder drop offs once word gets around that the demo was all you had.

A bad demo for a good game stuttered sales. Some people would turn away and maybe never come back, and it took time for word of mouth to tell everyone to skip the demo and just buy the game anyway.

A bad demo for a bad game was shit all around.

In the end, this punnett square made it pretty clear that the best option was to make a really good demo if youre game was shit, or you thought you needed the help finding an audience. but if you knew (or """knew""") your game was good? The demo was wasted time and effort. Either it was a smaller ad bump you werent upset to cut costs for, or you were slowing sales by accident.

Demos are good for us, but suck for the company making them. So they largely stopped making them.

Around here you cannot use coupons without assistance, and each one needs a 3 button confirmation sequence.

Did you get 2 or more of the discounted breads? Whoops, those gotta get individually checked to make sure you didnt secretly duplicate the coupon! Grab the meat that expires next week for tonights dinner, which gets a lil price slash to make sure it sells? Nope, sorry, that one also needs to stop the cart and call for help too.

None of this in a regular stand, those scan coupons like normal. I guess theyre afraid I know how to make these discount codes at home?

Half of our self check stands around town are empty too, mainly because they are seemingly perma broken

This article is talking about the current population squeeze, and how this has happened twice in the past. As in, 10,000+ years ago.

There is no new emminent threat to cheetahs. There are well funded global cheetah breeding programs that are successfully breeding cheetahs with their unique genetic restrictions in mind.

Professional ecologists are well underway toward repairing cheetah populations. They arent going to go extinct

They arent going extinct soon, not sure what youre on about

Who gives a shit, no one asked them

Man, AI devs really are only interested in finding uses for this stuff that pisses directly in everyones food bowls, huh? Its like they cant finish unless the project has massive fundamental ethical problems

Oh, it was a fetish

That makes more sense

Ah, youre the kinda guy who says $1500 loot boxes are totally okay because "no one forces you to spend money!"

Pretty sure they are well aware, and are bringing up a different accessability feature they also support

Thats what the soul items are for. You eat those while standing in front of a bonfire about to level up. Because they are an item, you dont lose them when you die, so they are safe exp.

Especially boss souls. If you dont want the specific weapon that boss makes, you eat that shit when you need the level boost.

Oh, easy, we are functional cockroaches of survival.

Maybe we will be a different species by that point, but our descendants are still in many ways us.

And just how do you expect us to do so? Write about it? Read others written thoughts?

Frodo isnt real my guy

Its not actually good, and many actually good art programs far outshine it.

So its lost what made it unique, by being comedically bad, and become the death knell of most things in a capital focused system; mundane.

Theres plenty of evidence that it causes inflammation, and your body cant break it down. So if it wiggles itself into a spot in your body that isnt easily flushed, its going to stay there causing inflammation basically forever.

On top of that, "microplastic" is a catchall term. Rubber dust from car wheels is a microplastic, that you breathe in any time youre within hearing distance of a road. All that rubber in your lungs, alone, cannot be good.

Thats not even thinking about all the other forms of plastic, or their degredation chemicals, or the films and chem linings they carry.

Or from tires, as they shred and grind themselves into a fine plastic compound so light it floats in the breeze off roadways.

You may as well consider it the lead of the 21st century.

Children in 3045 will be mockingly deriding us in history class for how flippant we were about plastics.

Do they not get shut down as a company if they continue collecting and selling data?

The first time you get caught, you give things back. The second time you are put to death. No?