Every other comic industry (like Manga or French BD) have been growing. Manga is growing something like 20% per year!
So it's not "the industry". People want to buy and read comics.
But they don't want to buy and read a bunch of runny diarrhea shat out by a bunch of conceited fart-sniffing activist morons who couldn't write a story if it hit them in their stupid smug self-satisfied face.
I mean, she's a stupid entitled bitch that was never even that good at getting coffee (there's no proof, but I 100% believe that she was only ever good at sucking cock), riding the coattails of people far more talented into a position of creative direction.
Blaming the world for the consequences of her idiot decisions is just about par for the course.
I bought a Steam Deck and have spent months playing through old games that rock. Like I missed New Vegas when it came out thinking, meh, played too much Fallout 3 already, not interested.
New Vegas isn't perfect, but I'd rather play that then just about any modern whatever. And the best part is that the fan doesn't even spin on the Steam Deck to play it.
I can guarantee that 100% of the games companies they worked with got a bunch of ESG funding and the C-levels got millions in bonuses as their cut.
That's the win here. Fat stacks of cash for management.
And you might not like games being destroyed on the altar of undeserved wealth, grift and corruption, but you're not in management so no one cares what you think.
I wasn't shitting on you specifically.
I am stating a basic fact: everything wrong with the world is allowed to happen because "well, everything is turning to shit, but it's convenient so I will comply with whatever shit evil assholes are forcing me to go through"
If nexusmods happens to have the largest database, that's not a reason to use it, unless you implicitly agree with what they are doing.
And if you agree, you deserve it.
The original Union of states was entirely voluntary. Voluntary in, voluntary out.
It's what kept things fair and balanced and what allowed most major decisions to be made at the state level.
Lincoln completely destroyed that system, killing a million Americans to do it, because he was such a believer in centralized tyrannical power. After Lincoln, there was no longer a voluntary union of states but rather states united by the threat of force from the federal government
It's like the difference between a marriage, voluntary Union of man and woman, and a guy keeping a sex slave in the basement.
Lincoln turned the Union into a sex dungeon
Ukraine is being run by a bunch oligarch elites that get their support from a core of slack-jawed yokels.
These last think that getting a tank from the West and being forced inside it to die on the frontlines while your home is destroyed by Russian bombs means that the West considers Ukraine their equal and not as cannon fodder.
So it's a colony that thinks that being used as bait is such a high honor that it cannot be a colony by definition. It is quite fascinating.
More like the negative return on investment isn't worth it when you've got cashflow issues.