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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.

1. It was insecure. It leaked credit card numbers and personal information like a sieve.
2. It used CCP money to bribe companies into throwing away sales. An act that while was short term good for the companies, permanently poisoned them afterwards.
3. They didnt have basic functionality like preloading games. They had to pay Gearbox to do that for them
4. They still dont have feature parity with Steam, even for the few features they have

Glad you laughed, wasnt entirely serious

Qbasic, if that.

Biden is a blue dog and never cared about infrastructure. Trump cant spell the word. Obama did, but for overpriced drones and oil. Bush only did for oil and deregulated to make things worse. Clinton cut thing Bush Sr cut things. Reagan fucked everything up with “trickle down”

Meaning the last president that did major infrastructure spending is at best Carter, Ford or Nixon.

It was built for the living, free internet.

For all ita dark corners, it was better than what we have now.

That’s the idea, yes.

$8 Canadian for a dozen fully free range chicken eggs from the farmer that raises them at a farmers market.

Every single one works in French.

Their image gen app isn’t theirs through and through. It runs on Dall-e

A fun anecdote is that when my friends and I tried the then brand new MS image gen AI built into Bing(for the purpose of a fake tinder profile, long story).

The generator kept hitting walls because it had been fed so much porn that the model averaged women to be by default nude in images. You had to specify that what clothes a woman was wearing. Not even just “clothed”, then it defaulted to lingerie or bikinis.

Not men though. Men it defaulted to being clothed.