Leans center-right. Candid. Publicly supported Trump. Other stuff that just makes him a normal person circa 90s but really turns some people off in 2025.
Essentially Braid Anniversary edition. Huge effort for someone to just say “oh so just Braid Remastered?”
In general from his streams you learn that so much goes wrong during the slog that is video game development. Hire failures. Contractors billing $$$ and writing 1-2 LOC. Devs rage quitting. Platform optimization. Even a suicide (not just an employee but someone close). They do all this work and dropped the ball on marketing despite betting the future of the company on its reception, but even failing that I think it was clear to a normal person (which can be hard to reach out to and interact with) that there was no appetite for this game.
Arguments will be formulated by AI with another AI attempting to poke holes. You get a government appointed AI if you cannot afford one. This will kick off an arms race between plaintiffs and defendants. Legal companies then build moats around their bespoke AIs and it all boils down to a judge/jury voting based on a generated slideshow presentation (hopefully avoiding a miscarriage of justice /s).
This thread is mostly geared toward the west but it’s interesting to see a similar thing (albeit, much worse) happening in China. They’re going through their own version of 2008 with many overqualified graduates entering a smoldering job market. Unsurprisingly lottery participation is at an all time high. It’s bleak.
I don’t really buy it. Even a little bit of interest is 100% necessary for the creditor to break even. Statistically a debtor defaults. That loss is subsidized by the debtors who honor their agreement. Also: defining what “breaking even” actually means (and how to get there) is not a straightforward task. Currency inflation/deflation (past, present, and future), laws, penalties, enforcement, repossession, tax, fees, middlemen, statistics, “acts of God”, and general operating costs.
Creditors DO provide a service and interest rates exist on a sliding spectrum. This is just a debate over math and magnitude.