Woke up, was about to take a shower, and realised someone had stolen my towel. Called my Moroccan friend who lives nearby and turns out he’d blocked me for no reason. What a weird start to the day.
A lot of people don’t know this but China never developed an AAA industry based on one time purchase boxed products due to the console ban from 2000-2015 which led to an overwhelmingly mobile and online PC dominated market where success depended on player retention and in-game purchases instead of the quality of the product itself
Chinese developers perfected the free to play + monetization model years before companies started pushing it in the West. They basically leapfrogged the entire rest of the industry when it comes to pushing live service and putting aggressive monetization models in games
This is why every big budget games you see coming out of China nowadays are pretty much exclusively free to play MMOs, live service shooters and mobile gachas with a pc port other than some truly rare exceptions like black myth: wukong
Here’s what academia has done to people’s minds
He starts off with 100% mathematical reality…
Then… religion takes over…
—academia is the third most destructive thing to happen to Americans