‘Member when Neil Druckmann and Sean Murray got personal death threats from Sony’s customers and Sony didn’t do shit. Hell Shuhei Yoshida even threw Murray under the bus for the PR hype disaster of No Man’s Sky during post release interviews instead of standing up for him even though Sony helped Hello Games in hyping the game.

Only now when Sony execs get threatened they do something.

Still says Lake Ontario on my Apple Maps here in Europe and iOS even updated yesterday.

Yeah looks like people doing a Mechanical Turk job.

And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI for your pirated content.

Yeah the Saudi elites are hedonists behind closed doors. The monarchy needs to have the blessing from the clergy to stay in power so they need to be pious in public. Like it’s a open secret that the Saudi elite men fuck western prostitutes on the regular on their yachts in international waters.

There’s Paralives now as an alternative

Why Hermen Hulst still hasn’t been fired baffles me. They rather destroy a ton of value and uproot thousands of people’s lives by shutting down these studios than put the architect of their chase of fool’s gold on the chopping block.

Should grow fruits and vegs

Or UniFi, Hikvision also Akuvox for doorbells/intercom

Good chance if your game didn’t do well on Steam that you didn’t make a good game that has high product-market fit in the first place and didn’t promote it properly. We are now in an era where indie devs have become millionaires from their $15 games. And I’m not just talking about Edmund McMillen and Johnathan Blow. Go back to the days of brick and mortar retail and that was nigh impossible when a small studio would earn pennies on the dollar for every sold unit.

That data also shows which games never got out of the “limited game status”. Around 16200 of games released in 2025 have the limited games status. Meaning these games were not making enough money or nothing at all and had not enough player engagement to unlock profile features.

If you look at the numbers of games that unlocked profile features the growth is much lower. Those are the numbers that matter anyway. 5000 games made actual money. And if we apply the Pareto principle than a thousand games made the vast majority of the new release revenue that year.

So what? The vast majority of games released on Steam are either hobby or student projects or just first time devs’ shitty pixel platformer. Many are low effort products, Steam will not even give those games “shelve space”. The algorithm will based on pre launch and launch metrics decide if it should push the game in front of customers in the recommendation sections of the store. If a game can’t even move the needle a bit after launch Steam will blackhole the game and basically make it invisible in the store unless a customer searches for it. Because even though it’s a virtual store, “shelve space” aka the recommendation section is still scarce.

The hidden gem games on Steam are rare. Every time I watch a dev’s postmortem on Youtube who talks about how little they sold I’m rarely surprised when I see the game.

Also Steam generates around $10+ Billion in revenue in a year. So the other games generate around $2 Billion. If that is generated by 2000 games that still averages to a million a game.

Then they blame the turd in the soup on the democrats and lefties. Meanwhile the turd brags how people are eating his shit up.

Hytale, Tibia, Escape from Tarkov, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue

Well technically biological pest control also falls under pesticides. Pesticide just means a method to prevent or control pests. Could be even ladybugs to kill lice.

Laura Fryer just gives fuel to the gamer gate fire. Most of her stuff is just conjecture and speculation. She hasn’t been in the industry for a decade.

Breaking news: Pilot dragged out of the cockpit by swat team because of false bomb reporting by air traffic controller.

Their games are probably not easy to make and definitely not cheap if you hire these famous actors. Sure they are not s-tier level of actors but they are definitely not cheap. I bet many of those actors can ask a higher pay than the games industry’s favorite called Troy Baker.

Also the market for interactive movies probably isn’t mega huge either. Every interactive movie series they released was published by a different publisher. Doubt they were massive hits.

He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.

The point is the almost guaranteed speed. With a debrid service I can stream and watch a 4K BluRay remux immediately with Stremio + Torrentio, no waiting, no buffering, no hitches. Sure a new or popular movie will work well without debrid but a lot of times older movies don’t stream well without a debrid especially high bit rate files.