EightBitBlood

What incentive does a rich billionaire have for starting a business? Money? They have billions.

The only business they start are for themselves / the benefit of other businesses they own. Their wealth accumulates, and it is spent only to perpetuate its growth. It does not find its way into new businesses. It does not create new sector growth.

However, the people that want billions and don't have it have a hell of an incentive to start a business and run it well.

Incredibly well said. And couldn't agree more!

Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play.

We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem.

Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files.

This cannot be fixed by devs as it's an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources.

1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch).

Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product.

Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it's easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn't collapsed yet.

It's really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.

So idiots failing to take responsibility and arguing about it is now news? Can't wait for the coming articles about the "debate" over who caused the next great American depression.

Agreed. This strategy works best in a two party system. Much easier to divide and conquer only 2 choices. Not so much with ranked choice voting and multiple parties. The US was a time bomb of corruption wating to be purchased from either political party. Putin just paid the most for GOP access and got it.

My dude, we are being sacked repeatedly by Trump right the fuck now. Usually to the benefit of foreign governments or his stateless billionaire friends.

2 Billy to kill Kashogi. Multiple Trump businesses getting government contracts. USAID and soft power sold for parts. A fucking gilded 747 from Jordan. A supreme court that takes "gifts". Ukraine weapons going to Russia and Israel instead. And Medicaid just got dismantled for billionaire tax breaks.

Higher Education is unaffordable. Minimum wage hasn't increased in two decades. Housing is unaffordable. Healthcare is unaffordable. And inflation and unemployment have been growing all year.

These things were exponentially less fucked just 20 years ago. Now abortion is illegal, and spending money is more protected as free speech than protesting. I've watched as we keep losing our rights to stateless hostile billionaires sacking them for profit.

Canada and Mexico won't have anything left to sack at the rate we're converting what remains of our freedoms into profitable suffering.

Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.

Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.

Literally we are living through the gilded 1920's again but with an American Hitler.

We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it's not going to happen again, you are wrong.

We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.

I mean, he did the same with COVID. And despite the fact that it killed more Americans than in all the wars we've ever fought in combined, here he is doing it again. People are just going to keep dying, and the media will continue to normalize it.

meteotsunamis... are much smaller.

Democrats may not be complicit, but the DNC sure as shit is.

They take money from all the same donors as the GOP and are using to it fight their own popular candidates. Which isn't new, considering Bernie Sanders and the DNC torpedoing his organically grown young male audience so hard they voted for Trump.

The DNC told you to blame those who didn't vote Hillary instead of admitting she was by far the least popular candidate among the young men that keep voting for Trump.

The DNC is unquestionably liable for favoring their money-interest candidates over popular ones, so the GOP just said, fuck it, run the popular TV idiot and have been winning since.

Literally, in the last decade the DNC fought in court for their right to pick their own candidates over the results of their own primary (& charter), then just fucking stopped having primaries all together.

To believe, unquestionably, that the DNC isn't at least partially responsible for how fucked things are is admitting you do not understand the problem that's fucking us.

While traditional tsunamis are caused by seafloor movement like earthquakes, meteotsunamis are linked to fast-moving weather conditions such as thunderstorms and are much smaller.

I made the indie game INK INSIDE, which is based on a lost cartoon pilot I pitched to Nickelodeon in 2015.

Instead, I turned it into a cartoon show action RPG staring Brian David Gilbert.

It has a completely unique combat mechanic that's a combination of beat-em-ups and bust-a-move. It's big on narrative, loot, and world building and even has live action segments.

We're on sale at 50% for only $10.

Would love for you to check it out, as it seems like you might really enjoy it based on the other games in your cart!

PS - Game works great on Steam Deck! (We just don't have the green check yet because it takes Valve forever to provide them)

I certainly hope you're right about it actually being a "third rail" as the OBBB aims to reverse that expansion far beyond where it started. Seeing the elderly in wheelchairs protest this at the capital only to get arrested and their hands zip tied does not give me hope.