@dpostman117 I feel most problems people have with her is they find her boring to play (octavia, loki, etc.), or that she's too slow to build up her full power in mission, not that she's weak
People say Warframe is like that (you need wiki open), but back when I spent the whole first week of playing it figuring everything out at the pace the game tells you, it was the best time I've ever had with a new game 😆😆😆
The best story you'll watch all week: apparently the Italian town of Punta Marina in Ravenna has been suffering from a peacock "invasion" and residents are not amused.
The editing alone is Primetime Emmy-worthy.
Sound on. You can thank me later. 😎
A todos los hispanohablantes amantes del manga y el anime:
Soy un editor de manga en Japón. Soy consciente de que actualmente es difícil para ustedes acceder a contenido oficial en su propio idioma. Por ello, he decidido publicar aquí una versión con traducción simple al español del manga que tengo a mi cargo. 🌏✨
La obra se titula "本聴きのスピカ" (Spica y la voz de los libros), y trata sobre una joven elfa que sueña con ser encuadernadora. 📚📖
Por ahora es solo una traducción sencilla, pero si recibimos mucho apoyo y reacciones, mi meta es lograr una distribución oficial de la serie de forma regular en alguna plataforma. 📈💪
Estaré compartiendo las páginas en este hilo, ¡así que espero que lo disfruten! Si les gusta, les agradecería mucho que me ayudaran a difundirlo. 🙏📢
¡Espero que el éxito de esta obra sea un gran paso adelante para la cultura del manga en todo el mundo hispanohablante! 🌏✨
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
This solo indie dev spent 10 years making an RPG game that looks 3D… but is actually 2D.
- Camera shifts from orthographic to perspective views
- Depth is simulated using parallax & warped sprites
- Hand-painted semi-open world
Would you play this? It’s called Bridgebourn.
@mystsl maybe right, if its a 10 point scale outside school then 5 is mediocre aka the standard, 6 alright 4 not good - grade as if it were a friend but you still need to be honest
Unbelievable! I made a Tiktok about Wayan Budhiyasa, Akira Toriyama’s tour guide and friend from Bali who makes a cameo in the Dragon Ball manga… and his daughter found it and told him about it! I told her that he’s very much loved and a part of dragon ball history!
Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.
A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.
Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.
The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.
A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.
Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.
The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.
The investing angle nobody talks about.
Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.
Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.
The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.
Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.
(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)
The launch was awesome, beyond my expectations. I still can't believe how cool it is. 174 players at peak, and it's holding up pretty well online. 60 reviews in almost a week, 95% ! positive. 274 people joined Discord, everyone is playing and sharing feedback. The median playtime is 2 hours and 16 minutes. There are already almost 30k wishlists (but after release, this is no longer such an important metric).
Thank you! It's very nice to see such results after a long period of hard work (and this is essentially my first commercial solo project). Now I need to make a roadmap, and I can confidently move towards the 1.0 release 🍻
Thank you so much @RaptorGamer@orbitalpotato@theonlyl0nzy@R4pela@TactiCatGaming@StrategieNerd@Danielsan1112_ and all others for videos and streams about the game!
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