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You underestimate the amount of effort people put into shaders, models and texture packs.

Also, that the creation engine, as justifiably maligned as it is, is a magnificient piece of software. It came out during the era of the first unreal engine, but still works to make modern technical masterpieces like Starfield.

Also don’t forget that the original version has mods that make it look as good, if not potentially better, than this one.

Warframe also called. They have all of the cool stuff Destiny fans have been begging for since forever.

And, somehow: Mario kart mode? Better-gameplay-loop-than-star-citizen space ship to ship combat? Boy band villains.

Also they recently re-optimized their game and added a bunch of modern compression algorithms so a DX12 game runs decently on the switch.

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I have turned metrics off on my phone keyboard and I swear it fucks up my choices.

He has already made multiple comments on how he wants free access to Canadian water.

It was also a significant issue that almost derailed the original NAFTA, and is the reason that agreement had some of its nastier trap regulations.

He is already refusing to honor decades old agreements on the Columbia River, because he wants to just take it all.

If his goons create shortages in the US, they can work public opinion into trying to take it from Canada.

Because Biden opposed him.

Cynically, it increases US water usage and will make water more expensive in the US, allowing him and his ilk to push for an invasion of Canada.

All of the old Unreal Tournanent servers with crazy mods

I work to live. I dont live to work.

Okay so its not like Gmail, but is free

So how it paid for?

Nah, but I would expect its price to be in the low 5 figures, maybe 6 figures.

Will to bet that Musk ends up owning it.

Fair.

I suppose it is groundbreaking in the same way as World of Warcraft and League of Legends are groundbreaking.

Neither of them actually introduced new concepts. But they put them together in a way that no one else had before.

It is worth pointing out that the first few generations were legitimately groundbreaking for mechanics as well.

It seems that every time a group says a project needs to be company driven, they always end up at the top of that company reaping in the profits.

Also many of the “private security” (mercenary) companies do union-busting.

Because the share price jumped up so much last year to give them that cash on hand.

Also the $34 million loss is their best result since feb 2018, most of their losses have been 10x higher. Although it does look like a long term trend into the positive cash flow. Also the CEO is mentioning a stock dividend now, so that takes care of the cash on hand.

That would be a valid assessment if the stock price had jumped after the quarterly earnings.

Their stock price jumped before the quarterly earnings was announced. It has nothing to do with it, nor any of their fundamentals

Also notice:
Cash flow is neutral or negative and has been for a while now. Revenue peaked in 2018 is now less than 62% of that peak. Revenue per quarter is also down 11% year over year.

Company lost 34 million dollars last quarter, and has not had a positive operating income since feb 2018. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/watchlist?tab=Related&id=a1tyxm&duration=1Y&src=b_fingraph&relatedQuoteId=a1tyxm&relatedSource=MlAl&l3=L3_Financials

Recall that the first quarter after the whole WSB thing, they had something like 2 billion in cash from that whole thing.

A year later, they had 1 billion.

Half a year later, 500 million.

All of a sudden this quarter, after shutting down stores all over the place and gutting their staff, they’re claiming 4 billion cash on hand, helped out by unproven social media claims growing their stock price 30%.

doubt. Their business model relies on physical games being sold multiple times, once when new, and then multiple times as used copies. This is why they’re focusing on retro consoles. New consoles have passable online marketplaces, so Gamestop cannot compete, and are completely inferior to PC gaming, which hasn’t needed Gamestop in 20 years.

It has absolutely nothing to do with their entire core business model being obsolete.

Nor with the issue that they’ve been hemmoraging money at a staggering rate.