In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege is out now! We would love to hear what you think, so once you have played the game we would appreciate you leaving a review on whatever platform you play on. We want to hear it all, the good and the bad! We hope you have a blast everyone!
I finished watching “1899” through to the final episode. I had a sense about that ending. Started it as a study of LED “volume,” but it’s very well made. The music is excellent. I also watched the making-of. A 360-degree rotating stage, and a base set built in modular, pizza-like sections, fascinating. There’s clearly some ingenuity needed to keep the backgrounds from looking too “Unreal”like. Bringing together a global cast during the pandemic, dealing with quarantine, abandoning location shoots and turning to the “volume”—that resonates deeply. On DS2 as well, gathering a worldwide cast in Los Angeles during COVID was a challenge. There were several instances where cast members tested positive shortly after arriving in the U.S.
So still, no Season 2? What are Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the creators of “DARK,” working on next?
US Pres Trump On Iran: The US Won’t Be There To Help You Anymore
- Build Up Some Delayed Courage, Go To The Strait, And Just Take It
- Countries Should Buy Oil From US
"Most people don't understand as yet the magnitude of this shock."
Of all the issues discussed during this weekend’s many conference calls on the economic and financial consequences of the Middle East conflict, this one sentence stood out the most.
It’s a sobering reminder that we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg regarding the shock to the economic and financial systems.
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Bloomberg: "the energy industry is warning that the crisis is only beginning. In conversations with more than three dozen oil and gas traders, executives, brokers, shippers and advisers over the last week, one message was repeated over and over: The world still hasn’t grasped the severity of the situation.
...If the strait stays closed, the world will have to significantly reduce its oil and gas consumption — but not before prices spike to a level that forces consumers and businesses to fly, drive and spend much less."
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$2.1 billion in salaries since 2019 is the number getting all the attention. The number that actually explains GTA 6's timeline is $710 million.
That's how much the GTA franchise generated last fiscal year. Thirteen years after launch. GTA 5 is still selling 20 million copies a year at full price. GTA Online still has 22 million monthly active players spending real money on virtual cars and apartments. The franchise has cleared over $10 billion lifetime and the annual revenue curve is barely declining.
This is the part every "most expensive game ever" headline misses. Rockstar isn't slow because $3 billion is hard to spend. Rockstar is slow because GTA 5 is still a $700 million per year business and every prior console generation transition has shown significant revenue disruption during the handoff.
When GTA 4 launched, GTA San Andreas revenue collapsed. When GTA 5 launched, GTA 4 went to zero overnight. The installed base resets. The online economy resets. The microtransaction flywheel that took a decade to build resets. Day one of GTA 6 is also the last day of GTA Online's current economy.
If GTA 6 launches and the online mode takes 18 months to reach GTA Online's current engagement levels, that's over a billion dollars in opportunity cost during the transition window. If it takes longer, the number gets worse.
The $3 billion development cost isn't the risk. The risk is killing a $700 million annual revenue stream before its replacement is ready to print at the same rate. Every delay is Rockstar protecting the most profitable entertainment product ever made while making sure its successor can match that run rate on arrival.
The game will ship when the online infrastructure is bulletproof. The single player campaign has probably been done for a while.
@BackersGamesF Epic is in contact with the family and will solve the insurance for them. There is high confidentiality around medical information and it was not a factor in this layoff decision. Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation and handling it in advance.
At the end of the Jurassic Park game for Sega CD, Jeff Goldblum had a special message for gamers - 'breath, take a walk, go talk to the member of the opposite sex.' 😭
"I was so surprised when they [FIA] said no, we will sort out qualifying and leave the racing alone because it's exciting. As drivers we've been extremely vocal that the problem is not only qualifying, it's also racing and we've [GPDA] been warning that this kind of accident was always going to happen."
"Here we were lucky there was an escape road, now imagine going to Baku or going to Singapore or going to Vegas and having this kind of closing speeds and crashes next to the walls. I or we as GPDA, we've warned the FIA these accidents are going to happen a lot with this set of regulations and we need to change something soon if we don't want them to happen. It was 50G I heard, it's higher than my crash in Russia in 2015, I was 46G. Just imagine what kind of crash you could have in Vegas, Baku etc."
"I hope it serves as an example and the teams listen to the drivers and not so much to the teams and people that said the racing was okay because the racing is not okay."
[Q: I was just trying to see exactly what the closing speed was because we were looking at it on camera and you think today might help you guys in your request to the FIA too?]
F1 2026 || Japan
I'm hearing some interesting admissions off the back of Suzuka - namely, that there's a growing awareness within the FIA that the 50/50 split has been the wrong direction.
It's understood that, in the short-term, energy deployment limits are being looked at while, longer-term, a change in the ICE vs. electrical split.
Getting the drivers and teams in alignment is a hurdle to clear, with the teams not all agreeing with their drivers on the issues, but there is an awareness now that changes are needed. #F1 #JapaneseGP