GracchiBros

Don't know much about SoT, but NMS is made by a company of only around 25 employees and made probably well over $100M in its first year even despite the horrible reception. Sean Murray and his company was/is swimming in cash. This let them focus on fixing and adding things to the game that should have been there on release even if it didn't improve the game's reputation and result in sales going forward. But, it did. From their last financial statement they had a profit of almost £33M in 2022 from £39M in game sales. That was helped by a £7M tax rebate. But in 2021 they still had a profit of £18M from £27M in sales.

Edit: Also, from all the money they've made they had £138M in straight up cash in the bank/on hand in 2022. Hello Games could run at its current expenses for many, many years without any additional profit if they wanted to.

Not sure if it's really a test when the results don't matter. The US will keep on ignoring basic human rights, another report condemning the US will come out, no one in any positions of power will do anything meaningful, and nothing will ever change.

Shit's going to fall apart completely at some point, but we were thinking this 30 years ago too and its still somehow kicking along. Is it enough to bank on for retirement? Absolutely not, but that's also sadly been true for quite a while.

I do think there's something positive about being the only species we know of with the intelligence and knowledge developed over generations to even realize these things and much such judgements. The plants that filled the atmosphere with oxygen killing almost everything couldn't know any better or do anything about it. Past species and humans before modern times changed their environments and caused extinctions without even knowing. And while we might not end up doing so, we do have the capabilities to do better.

We get it, you care as long as your selfish ass isn't inconvenienced. I so love a society that pretends to care oh so much about democracy and the average person supposedly being able to change things and then being so angry about then being the target of protests when they don't take the actions to change things.

I don't use much social media and have things set up to block most ads. So maybe I just don't get how bad it is out there. But in my experience with Youtube I've thought it generally does a decent job at recommending me videos based on what I've watched and who I'm subbed to. For example, if I stumble across some documentary about an aircraft accident, I'm not upset when it starts recommending me other similar videos from that channel or videos from other channels and their similar documentaries. I've found good videos I'd never have seen that way.

It can get frustrating if you accidentally end up watching a video about something you normally don't want to see, but the newer recommendations seem to fade away after a few days of not watching them. And I can certainly see how such a system can be gamed in nefarious ways. I never liked when I saw Reddit sub recommendations, but I mostly thought that was because their system didn't recommend me things I had any interest in.

He did concede at the end that he was broken and not only was going to say there were 5 lights, he even believed there were 5.

I get it if it really hurts your ability to figure out what they are saying. Since the whole point of written text is to convey something. That's when it does matter. But I don't think that was the case in that comment and it was quite easy to figure out what they were saying. I'd guess most people reading it wouldn't even notice it (I didn't until I saw the rude reply). And when it doesn't impact understanding what they said, I think it's really nitpicky to call them out.

I wish we'd learn the lesson that manipulating other countries often ends up in people being reactionary and turning toward religious nationalism to fight back against the foreign enemy. This government is in power because of Western governments' actions. And then supporting a brutal proxy war against them and trying to isolate them internationally after that failed sure hasn't helped. It just fuels the reactionaries.

I personally don't want it and there are other types of forums that are organized around users rather than topics. But I wouldn't be upset if the option was there as long as it had an option to turn it on and off.