It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight
it's literally this simple! you have to spend money to make money, like any business since time immemorial
you gotta invest in R+D (game pitches and concepts)
buy inventory (make games)
and then you can sell products (completed game copies to customers)
idk what to say, it's how capitalism works
Trump revealed how much of US and, more broadly, western politics is all just predicated on people engaging in good faith. Or at least neutral faith. The instant someone engages in deliberate bad faith, it all collapses. Its happened with corruption in the past, but not with this flavor of openness
it cannot be understated that The Problem In Games right now is very simple:
the people who own the money are SO TERRIFIED of losing money that they refuse to actually use money to do anything.
they're so conditioned by zero-interest-rate finance they can't comprehend funding anymore
me, my sister, and my mother would all be dead without modern childbirth interventions. The past is AWASH in the blood of people who died from now-trivial problems.
Ever wonder why the pace of innovation skyrocketed post-WW2? It's because people stopped dying before they could discover things!
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.