They capitalized on the New Media Douchebag, where it's Cool to be Negative (a trend wave they were riding from the few years prior blowout known as Angry Video Game Nerd).
People still ride this wave today. Negativity sells.
China's assault on Taiwan, if it ever happens, will be the government shutting down all seaborne freight for three weeks as they pile soldiers on to hundreds of civilian cargo ships intended to be used as transports.
This is the only way they can get the personnel required into Taiwan to invade it, a plan that is easily pre-detected, and easily countered by Taiwan.
They'll never attack, they'll just do shit like flying planes into their borders forcing scrambles. An attack would end horribly for them - and they know it.
Communism revolves around ending private property ownership. National Socialism does not. This is such a major difference between ideologies that it alone disproves your claim.
They were both command economies though. Just because one believed that the upper class was to be dismantled, and the other believed that the state should be unified with its people was different, both governments exercised complete control over their economy in the same way.
Exactly. Hype is all lower now than it used to be, Blizzard makes more money selling mounts, microtransactions and carved up pieces of software than they used to, so there's no need to run a hype machine like Blizcon anymore. They shut it down, I think on 2021 as well, because they had no releases to announce. The profit factor just isn't there.
This is why public sector unions need to be abolished.
These vampire agencies suck money out of the public employees, very rarely are able to actually protect their wages, and in the end, only want to take more taxpayer money.
Then these vampire agencies decide to back political candidates! Like, bitch, you literally work for the people! You should strive for political neutrality!
I was reading an old blog I made about GG and back then I believed it was radical online feminists basically doing this.
So have the TRA's gobbled them up in the meantime and become more powerful? They're somehow far more insufferable.
Dictators often have a lot of governance experience and tend to be very wise. In democracies, a leader might last 4-12 years max, but dictators don't have silly "voters" to deal with, so they tend to have a lot more understanding and experience than a newer president.
Game crashed yesterday my wife lost her 200+ hour save file because I guess the game doesnt make backups. Ooops.
These guys are rank amateurs. This reminds me of ARK, another total shit game, uses base unreal assets, everything 100% flipped, development garbage, crashes, bugs, havent been fixed for years - but still hella fun.
Palworld is an absolute shit game, made like shit by asset-flippers, short-cutters and thieves. It's bug-ridden, poorly designed, badly optimized, crashes, breaks and has known problems that make parts of the game completely unusable.
But it's hella fun, and honestly, it's all that matters.
I'm speaking mainly to the fact that corporations will want the cheapest labor possible. The way to get that is increase the labor supply.
It's a better idea to buy labour abroad. The US was the first to do that efficiently, then the labour in the country specialized in finance and technology. They're still the richest country in the world. Buying labour from others isn't "outsourcing jobs", it actually helps countries you buy the labour from, and it helps you becuase of comparative advantage.
Immigration is different, but similar, all it does is grow the labour force in your own country. It is important not to let immigrants create cultural enclaves in the country - Canada is learning that lesson hardcore.
Well it's true, but the purpose of government is to ensure a fair playing field. While buying up assets might seem nefarious - under a well maintained libertarian system - any business that doesn't work to compete to provide goods and services will fail.
What he will find happens, if he is successful at what he does, is that a lot of businesses won't do business there, because their success hinges on getting sweet deals with the government.
Why was Amazon successful? The government exempts all its tax as a US-headquartered company. Why was AT&T successful? The government literally signed a contract mandating it as a monopoly. Why was any crown or state-owned enterprise successful? Because they get the government to regulate their competition away.
He will discover that the worlds biggest players can't succeed there, if he does his job correctly, and none of them will want to play ball. They'll send their lobbyists to fight for sweet deals and tax breaks - and when they get none, they'll simply go to a country that does give them one.
Nowadays, the biggest world players are all cheating - the most successful ones are the ones who are best at it.
I played a few years of Arknights - was pretty fun! I got tired of having to log in every day, and after being a free player for that long I had becomes so immensely powerful that the game became extremely easy.
Funny thing about it being Chinese developed and having a "Global" release outside of China. They do get JP voice actors for many of the gacha characters (operators, they're called) - and there was a specific drama surrounding one of them who had voiced an operator known as Platinum. She posted on social media how she had visited a Japanese monument commemorating some lost in WWII, and no word of a lie the second she did that, her Chinese masters cut her off 100% persona non grata. She was replaced in a matter of weeks with a new JP VA who redid every single one of Platinum's JP voice lines. [For one, Japan was pretty mean to China during those years and for two, China is extremely sensitive when it comes to image.]
Instances like this, of people working for these companies doing inocuous things that could, for example, reveal that they respect Taiwan's independence or believe Falun Gong is a healthy religion or anything like that, keep these companies from being taken too seriously. There's already many events where the censorious nature of China's massive bureaus of social control where they "shut down" any kind of negative speech about China. These events will certainly damage China's reputation and continue to do so, keeping games like this on the low key until the fateful day that the Chinese take their country back from the communists.