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[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.

My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.

I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios.

To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.

Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.

You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.

Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy?

Could they have created more things for fans to buy?

Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games?

Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones?

Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper?

I really don’t know.

The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.

[Jack @jackfromohio]

1st place at San Diego county fair

[Pisser Dick @PisserDick_]

Best part of gta v is trevor having a windows phone

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.

Check out the official cover art, also available as downloadable artwork at https://t.co/XPwC8URCQ4

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

You don't understand because you have the foresight of a goldfish. Breaking up tesla and spacex to fuel the consumption of the American underclass for a few months is precisely the type of shortsighted horseshit that keeps you and your ilk from building anything.

[Ishmael Johnson @IshmaelRJohnson]

Who is advising this PR strategy

[🇺🇸🦆 @cookinquack]

Life after I stop paying taxes, steal all my groceries, and kill anybody that inconveniences me because going to prison would do me “irreparable harm”

[aquila @ 🟦☁️ @belllmonts]

honestly the thing that surprised me the most while watching backrooms was this entire row of teenage boys sitting in front of me and ofc they were talking loudly but as soon as the movie started they all locked in and sat there for 2 hours in total silence like this

[Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyOL]

something about this guy delivering the order and not giving a shit about the artificial sun rising and falling behind him just feels profound and kind of sad

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

I admire Colbert's wit & I don't think he should have lost his show *but* elite liberals throwing themselves encomia parties with A-list celebrities as their form of symbolic resistance amounts to nothing politically & is part of what brought us to the current ideological impasse

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

I am surprised the interviewer did not press this point further. It is certainly not true that he does not use email. He just has people do it for him. To say he does not use email is like saying a meat eater has never killed an animal even though the person eats buffalo wings every night. It is a statement that is at best meaningless and at worst dishonest.

If I had dozens of people working for me and millions of dollars I too would swear off email. This has nothing to do with any special insight but a lot of privilege and resources. It means someone books his flights, deals with bureaucracy (much of which happens by email) pays for the things he buys or orders, deals with the paperwork (much of which happens by email). If he had to look for a job, or work in any office, or apply for a visa he would not be able to say this. It is irritating to see a journalist completely fall for this as if it was some sign of virtue. Which major celebrity is typing emails themselves?

[Anglo Invictus @AngloInvictus]

Eventually all the boomers that allow the GOP to exist in this form are going to die out.

The wasted generations - Gen Z, Gen A, etc - that they radicalized and left behind are going to vote for whoever promises to try them all for treason and insure the public executions continue until we have some form of representation again.

[Josef Vissarionovich Stoolin (PATRIOT) @josefstoolin]

The Interstate highway system is older than the People’s Republic of China😂

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

The story here is that Austin’s “environmental leaders” want to turbo charge suburban sprawl by blocking density in the urban core.

The boomer “environmentalist” old guard much has it very clear they care less about the environment and more about blocking any and all change.

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Texas is 13 million of the most creative, brilliant, subversive, insane and wonderful people pitted in battle against 17 million Baptist real estate agents. -OS

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Literally right where the Brazos Valley Station is…
45 Minutes from Houston via HSR.
Build the Texas Shinkansen, Elon.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

SpaceX California transplants pulling up to pre civilization southern Louisiana

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

If you cannot accurately describe the President without random normies getting the urge to shoot him, that seems like a problem with the President

[THEO♅ʙʀoмɪc @theobromic_]

maybe i’m just young and brainrotted but the first few seconds of the phone blurrily readjusting to the moon affected me more viscerally than any other photo that came out of Artemis

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

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