Expedition 33 reportedly cost less than $10 million.
South of Midnight allegedly cost around $100 million.
That's the kind of comparison that should keep executives awake at night.
Because if a smaller team can make one of the most celebrated games of the year with a fraction of the budget, the problem probably isn't that games need more money.
New York wants to ban you from asking AI a question
You're sitting on the bathroom floor at 11pm.
Your kid is screaming. The rash is spreading up his arm. You're holding your phone with one hand and holding him with the other.
You don't have insurance. You don't have $400 for a doctor. The urgent care closed an hour ago.
You're Googling symptoms and getting ten different answers from ten sketchy websites.
So you open Claude. You describe the rash. It tells you it's probably contact dermatitis. Try hydrocortisone cream tonight. See a doctor if it spreads or your kid gets a fever.
Your hands stop shaking. You sleep.
Kathy Hochul wants to take that away from you.
You're the dad who works 3 shifts. You come home and there's a paper taped to your door. You read it three times and still don't understand what it means.
You have seven days.
You call a lawyer. $317 an hour. You have $40 in your checking account and two kids asleep inside an apartment you might lose by Friday.
You open AI. In ten seconds you find out the notice isn't even legal. It tells you your rights. It tells you what to file. It tells you what to say.
New York wants to make that illegal.
You're the kid from the small town who left the farm for your first job in the city.
Your employer puts a contract in front of you. Non-compete. Arbitration clause. Words you've never seen before. Your parents never signed anything like this. They worked with their hands.
You ask AI to explain it in plain English. It does. For free. At midnight.
New York wants to make that illegal too.
Senate Bill S7263. Bans AI from giving "substantive responses" about medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.
Not banning AI from pretending to be your doctor.
Not banning AI from writing prescriptions.
Banning AI from answering your questions.
North Korea controls what you can read. New York wants to control what you can ask.
So you have to go back to paying $317 an hour for a lawyer. $400 for a doctor visit. $200 for a therapist.
Money you don't have. Money that goes right back into the pockets of the people who wrote this bill.
Who does this actually hurt?
It's not the guy on Park Avenue. He has a doctor on speed dial. He has a lawyer on retainer. He has a therapist he sees on Tuesdays.
It's the single mom in the Bronx with no insurance and a sick kid at 11pm. It's the grandma who just got served papers she can't read. It's the first-gen college kid signing a contract nobody in his family has ever seen before.
For the first time, a single mom had access to the same information as the guy on Park Avenue. Not better care. Not a free lawyer. Just answers. Just enough to know what questions to ask.
You want to know why? Follow the money.
Any trial lawyer in New York can sue AI companies and collect fees when they win. It's a lawsuit printing press.
$377 million was spent lobbying Albany last year. A record.
The healthcare lobby alone spent $11.5 million. Trial lawyer PACs pumped $4.7 million into New York politicians. Governor Hochul took over $545,000 from them personally.
One company gave her office $300,000 in donations and got $400 million in Medicaid contracts back.
Every $317/hour law firm that doesn't want you getting free answers. Every hospital billing $400 for a ten-minute visit. The entire industry that profits from keeping you confused.
The lobbyists write the bill. The politicians file the bill. The lawyers profit from the bill.
And the single mom in the Bronx loses the only help she could afford.
In the 1800s they called public libraries dangerous because poor people had unsupervised access to books.
In 1910 they shut down Black medical schools to "protect patients."
Every time the gates start to crack open for regular people, someone with a billing rate shows up to weld them shut.
They want you poor and stupid. And they'll call it consumer protection.
And the kid with the rash at 11pm? He goes back to ten sketchy websites and a mom who can't sleep.
New York shouldn't be North Korea.
Tyson just walked away from 400 farms.
Families are getting crushed under debt they can’t pay—because a corporate giant lost a lawsuit and bailed.
They told farmers six days before Christmas: no more birds. No more paychecks. You’re on your own.
We watched it happen from up here at https://t.co/K9A3PMAwf6, where we’ve done everything possible to stay free from those contracts.
No integrator. No middleman. No label we don’t own.
Because when the lawsuits come or the market flips, they walk.
Families have to live with the rubble.
That’s why we’re not just building a brand.
We’re building a lifeline that doesn’t collapse when the politics shift.
Acme Acres is Food Freedom. We’ll be here when it all collapses. @beefinitiative@modernTman
This is HUGE ‼️ A group of American doctors has created a network to finally fight back against the health insurance industry
It’s called Direct Primary Care, for a small monthly fee you get
- No copays
- Unlimited Visits
- Free procedures
- Wholesale Meds
- Wholesale Labs
- Los Cost Imaging
- Doctor Cell Number
“This is a new movement. Now we have several thousands of physicians and clinics doing this across across the US and why are we doing it, right? Because physicians, the reason why is because physicians got tired of running up against insurance. So they don't take it anymore”
BlackRock and Private Equity Firm housing scam EXPOSED
- They are buying up entire new housing developments, sometimes 500 units
- They’ll buy the houses at $300k per home
- They won’t sell it right away, they’ll keep the area looking like a construction zone for a year
- Let’s say there are 3 different models of homes in the community they bought, then a year later they’ll sell 3 of those houses that they bought for $300,000 to themselves in another fund for $700,000
- That creates 3 comps in the neighborhood
- They do one of each of the models, and now the entire neighborhood, each house is valued at $700,000
- Then they're going to turn them into obscene rentals and simultaneously they're going to have a 2.5x value on that portfolio to borrow against
“And every American in that community was just priced out of everything around that community.”
Dear Congress,
Remember when you shut down the country, our schools, our businesses, Broadway, Times Square, Federal parks, beaches, and told us we weren’t essential?
Your turn.
Very few school shooters have gotten the death penalty. Yet the U.S. is trying to charge Luigi Mangione so he gets the death penalty for killing one man. You can kill dozens of kids and get a lesser sentence because their lives don’t matter as much as a CEO’s. That’s America.
BREAKING: After the failure to pass the continuing resolution, Thomas Massie calls for separating each bill and voting on them each individually instead of a big combined bill.
“Separate the bills and vote on them individually…Individual bills for each issue.”
What the HELL has Congress done to think they deserve a $70,000 per year pay raise?
They’re calling it a “cost of living adjustment”
But THEY ARE THE REASON the cost of living is so out of control.
They should NOT be rewarded for it.