Red_October

He doesn't understand the difference.

Exactly the sort of vapid self destructive Corpo-Cap shittery you'd expect out of the LinkedIn cofounder. He's probably like that all the time.

Maybe see what player counts look like in a few months before making great and grand plans? People want a fresh take on The Sims, but maybe without the backlog of a hundred DLCs and other EA shittery. But, inZOI may not be it. Apart from the pervasive and distasteful use of generative AI, it may just not have that special something.

So give it a while, lads. Maybe it really will be a hit, but sales in the first week mostly just say that people wanted a fresh swing at The Sims, not that they really want what inZOI is.

We thought that would happen after the first Trump term, but here we are.

They've been inflation proof because consumers lose their shit so hard with every price increase. The price of games is just much more visible and much more conceptually ingrained than with most other products, so every increase hits consumer awareness that much harder.

Prices instead increased in other more indirect ways. Micro-transactions in their many forms are the most obvious case. The price of your "full game" may not have gone up, but then there's a nearly limitless trickle of smaller supplementary purchases adding to the cost.

A huge portion of his wealth IS the Tesla stock. Add onto that the possibility of a margin call if the stock continues to drop and it may actually hurt him.

Granted it's not the same kind of hurt as when real people get financially hurt, he won't be forced to decide which bills don't get paid or risk losing his home, but it would still hurt him.

You gotta wonder what the fuck was going through that idiot's head. If you want to end your career, just resign. You don't actually have to do something like this first.

Good. Since that's the only feedback he notices, then good.

I'm comfortable with saying it fits as deliberate in-setting.

The manholes used are thinner and weaker, but cheaper to make. Night City would be the kind of place that would try to save cash on manhole covers, then if someone caves one in by driving over it, they charge the poor gonk for the replacement with a fine on top.

He will however absolutely nitpick every single thing offered, vastly delay it with checks at the border, and talk about how stingy other countries were and how inferior their offered aid was, while also refusing any federal aid.

Pretty basic really. People keep calling him a Russian asset, compromise, a puppet of the Kremlin. So, he'll scream and shout and rattle his plastic saber about how he's totally going to fight Russia for real in an effort to placate the claims that Russia owns him. He won't actually do anything of substance against Russia's interests.

Remember kids, doing crimes is only a crime if you're poor. When you're rich and connected you don't even have to try to hide it!