Honestly, game pass on PC is such a good deal it’s basically free

But yeah, I should have said “free” instead of free.

Nope, never said it sucked, never even said which way that mattered…

But if you read the article:

Concurrent player numbers on Steam have been okay but not great, peaking out at a little over 6,000 concurrents during Atomfall’s first weekend of release. The 1.5 million player count is no doubt driven largely by Atomfall’s presence on Game Pass, where everyone can give it a spin for no more cost than what they’re paying for their subscription anyway.

6k on steam…

The single largest platform for PC games.

Meaning most are on Game pass.

We can’t say everyone who tried it for free would have bought it. Which makes these numbers less valuable.

Does it make sense now?

Being free on Xbox and PC thru game pass really makes these numbers less valuable…

We trained it our own games that we own

I can almost guarantee it

Okay, maybe I’m weird for bringing this up

Nah, you just didn’t understand the headline or read the article

It’s not just games, it’s TV and movies too.

Cramming sex into everything made sense when we weren’t constantly 5 seconds away from being able to see pretty much any kind of porn someone could imagine.

Now tho, that stuff isn’t a reason to watch a show. If you just cared about that, you’d watch the clip online

Ding also apparently wants NetEase to focus on games like the multiplayer mobile game Eggy Party

Oh great, another remake…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OSfbPJFa4

Our legal system just cares how much money you have for lawyers.

You don’t even have to change that, but I’d love to see something that at least changed it to long term profits, like over 3-5 years, not quarterly where everything is running into the ground for every penny. We can even do that by changing how we tax stocks. The longer held, the less paid on taxes.

But even without that, well regulated capitalism is fine.

The real root problem is campaign finance deregulation which allows corporations to buy out both parties primaries for people who will make them more money, and further deregulate campaign finance so that the next round the politicians get more and are incentived to repeat.

Especially with how campaign “war chests” can roll over forever.

It’s a snowball effect and the longer we ignore it the harder it is to fix. The harsh truth is most elected Dems at the federal level shouldn’t be there and need to be replaced. We can’t just wait for the rotten apples to fully rot to make space for new ones. We need to get them the fuck out the barrel

Yeah, by no means are they off the hook.

But their entire job is signing up to be the fall guy as the face of the company. That’s why golden parachutes are a thing and an incredibly unpopular CEO resigns in “disgrace” then is immediately hired by another corporation often in a drastically different field.

Because, again, their only job is to be the face of the company for when something unpopular happens.

Everyone in the C suite at a billion dollar corporation is evil, they’re all at best complicent

So they still made 3.5 billion at the end.

Fines for this stuff should start at gross profit over the entire period and build up from there.

Otherwise it’s just a cost of business. Shit like this should bankrupt corporations and the board members controlling it. Make every stock worthless and then corporations would stop

Reminder that CEOs are just the mouthpiece, it’s senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.

For some reason, that information has been purged recently, but you can still see it on some third party websites

https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/meet-unitedhealth-groups-board-of-directors.html

All they can think to do

They’re not that stupid.

They know exactly what voters want to hear and what they want politicians to do.

The issue is that is often the direct opposite of what their donors tell them to do. If they wanted to reach out, they’d hand AOC a megaphone or let Bernie talk about policy.

They’re focused on “messaging” because that’s what they have control over still. They can’t change their votes or support of policies, because the oligarchs decide that for Dem leadership just like they do Republican.

A letter by their name doesn’t make them your friend just because the other letter would make them your enemy. We need to have higher standards than just that letter, otherwise the ones with the most donations will keep winning primaries, and keep being the only other option.

so many people would believe otherwise

Just like they did four years ago when the same thing happened…

There’s just nothing to gain from intentional fuckery tho, and a very plausible reason.

Even if they “unfollowed” it might not have stuck and if they refreshed it still would have been there.

Things changing on the GUI but not where it actually matters is literally the issue here…

So I 100% believe a bunch of people experienced what you’re saying.

They’re just confusing client side GUI with server side database.

Obviously, fuck Meta, but…

“People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook or Instagram accounts for the President, Vice President or First Lady,” he wrote on Threads. “Those accounts are managed by the White House so with a new administration, the content on those Pages changes.

“This is the same procedure we followed during the last presidential transition. It may take some time for follow and unfollow requests to go through as these accounts change hands.”

That sounds like a plausible explanation. If you followed when Biden was president, that same account is now Trump’s.

Which means there are likely millions of users either unfollowing or following the account since Monday. I’d be surprised if anyone wanted to hear from both Biden and now trump.

I couldn’t find an actual article, but here’s people complaining about Instagram doing the same thing four years ago:

Old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/l1y2je/unfollowed_and_blocked_the_white_house_account/

Hell, 4 years ago Biden was bitching that Twitter didn’t do this

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/biden-twitter-white-house-accounts/index.html

So…

Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?

Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?

Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?

Why are we skipping the good parts?

You think the French nobility fund d US revolutionaries because they were upset about taxes?

If a country is doing something in another country, it’s for selfish reasons 99% of the time.

If China wants to allow a place for people to complain about trump not controlled by a billionaire in Trump’s side…

What they get out of it isn’t the primary concern. It’s helping the American people even if only done to fuck with Trump’s administration

the problem is that it is controlled by an adversary

As opposed to billionaires working with the trump admin…

If you don’t think this is adversarial government, I won’t try to convince you, it’ll keep getting more and more obvious

You think Elon and Zuck are better?