Fades

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[–] Fades 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bit of both, Mysk didn’t even complete his college degree. Being born into money does not, by default, correlate to intelligence

[–] Fades 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Are people not downloading huge torrents anymore?? How is downloading some large thing overnight a rare occurrence of bygone eras????

My only guess is that kids these days don’t know about pirating and instead stream everything or download apps?

[–] Fades 2 points 1 week ago

As a vegetarian who can be too tired to do much of anything after work, thank god.

[–] Fades 1 points 1 week ago

c u t e a l e r t

[–] Fades 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’ll give you three guesses

ICAN was established with a $100,000 grant from the Selz Foundation. Its budget ballooned to $1.4 million in 2017, with one million coming from the Selz Foundation, making ICAN the most well-funded anti-vaccination group in the United States that year.[16] In 2019, the Selz had stopped their funding, but ICAN received $2.46 million funneled through the donor-directed charitable trust investment firm T. Rowe Price, out of total revenue of $3.46 million.[17][18] ICAN reported making $5.5 million in revenue in 2020, a 60% increase from the previous year.[18] The group received a significant part of its funding in the early days of the pandemic from the charitable foundations from investment firm that anonymize donations: $235,000 from Fidelity Investments' foundation (2021-22), $600,000 from The Vanguard Group's foundation (2020 to 2022), $400,000 from Schwab Charitable (2020 to 2022), $135,000 from the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (2020 and 2021). It also received $15,000 from Donors Trust (2021).[19]In 2022, ICAN received a total of $13.4 million in funding.[20]

In 2019, ICAN paid a salary of $232,000 to Del Bigtree as its CEO, $162,000 to its Executive Producer Jenn Sherry Parry, $138,000 to its Chief Administrative Officer Catharine Layton, and 111,000 to Patrick Layton as Creative Director.[1][21] An article in Rolling Stone states that Layton stumbled upon the anti-vaccine movement on social media after her two sons were diagnosed with autism.[3]: 1  By 2022, Bigtree's compensation had increased to $284,000.[20]

Despite spreading misinformation about vaccines, the group received a federal loan of $165,600 through the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020.[22][23] It also holds Facebook fundraisers, this contributing $23,000 to its bottom line in 2021.[18] Like other anti-vaccination groups, ICAN directs their Instagram followers to a fundraising tool.[

[–] Fades 1 points 1 week ago

So if that’s true then why did nobody buy Callisto protocol then? If it’s not about deadspace but instead about EA being greedy, then why did one of the original deadspace devs go and make their own legally distinct version of deadspace with a big budget and a brand new studio — just to see it fall on its face and fail?

Maybe the market isn’t interested at the moment as they’ve already turned their nose up at DS remakes from EA as well as spiritual successors from the original DS devs??

Oh, but EA can’t market add-on content? As if DLC story and new modes doesn’t exist?? You seriously think EA is incapable of developing DLC and charging money for it???

[–] Fades 1 points 1 week ago

They kinda did, and the person you replied to mentioned it — Callisto protocol

given the budget was like 160 mil, not exactly Indy but:

“The Callisto Protocol was a brand-new IP from a newly established studio, but he game received mixed reviews from critics, which may have affected its appeal to players. The PC version of the game was plagued by performance problems at launch, which may have deterred some players.”

[–] Fades 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

True but even the original creator made a legally distinct game that was essentially deadspace and it didn’t sell well either…

Is it a problem with EA or with the IP (or state of the market for the moment) if it doesn’t do well with and without EA?

[–] Fades 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s an old series that has already tried remakes that failed and the original creator went and made their own deadspace but as a totally distinct IP and it too did not sell well….

But yes, EA can’t manipulate kids into gambling so that is totally the reason why they aren’t renewing the series…. Yeah it’s about tricking children into to gambling and totally not investing in something the market has clearly shown to be not interested in at the moment.

Lastly, yeah, EA is a piece of shit for using mtx and the like to trick people in general into chasing bullshit, but I think it doesn’t help anyone to regurgitate unrelated claims whenever possible.

When they’re pushing lootboxes into kid games, then cry about it there. This has nothing to do with that.

[–] Fades 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People are sick of remakes, remasters and endless sequels over original content, so EA says okay (given that their last deadspace was a remake that didn’t sell well), and now we have the other side of the pendulum where everyone’s up in arms because they didn’t renew an existing series that has seen a long term drop in interest and revenue….

Why is anybody even remotely surprised

[–] Fades 1 points 1 week ago

Wow what a fuckin surprise, thankfully this came before the next US admin takes office. I’m sure RFK Jr will adjust his informed stance any day now…..

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