An interesting thing to note is how big mobile gaming is when compared to PC gaming.
Apple and Google are largely on here because of their 30% platform cut (this chart only tracks gaming revenue). Steam takes the same cut yet has less than half the revenue.
(Note that while Tencent and NetEase are largely mobile publishers, they are not exclusively mobile publishers - League of Legends is owned by Tencent.)
I'm a little sad. My last studio was literally next to a Gold Line station here in Los Angeles. I could bike to the Gold Line and make it to work, and the Gold Line ran frequently and late.
My current job is a mile away from a Metrolink station. On the one hand - at least there's a nearby station! On the other hand - the Metrolink trains are running the wrong direction for me, I'd need to make a connection at LA Union Station, and the latest one that goes the direction I need it to go (while still allowing me to make my connection) leaves at 5 (which is still considered core working hours for me).
The schedule is like... impressively bad. I'd use it if they ran it later, but they don't seem to think anyone could possibly be headed in any other direction other than "towards LA" in the morning and "away from LA" at night.
Benefits matter, too.
I'm in the AAA gaming industry. EA laid me off earlier this year, and so I wound up looking for work elsewhere.
I've learned that really - the pay doesn't matter if you hate your life every day. If I wanted good pay, I would learn COBOL and write software at a bank. What matters the most is the quality of the team you're working with (primary), and what benefits your employer has (secondary).
If Meta were to call me up and say "Hey, we want you to be on a team with the greatest coworkers you've ever had," then I'd at least hear them out. What is their culture? Do they believe in crunch? How do they handle sick days? Vacations?
And yes, WFH is part of that, too. But if they were willing to pay to relocate me, buy me a house near a metro station... yeah, I'd take it.
But if they were to offer me that exact same deal - except there's no guarantees about production schedules/timelines, there's the "bus problem" (where the project couldn't survive someone important being hit by a bus), there's a lot of crunch (or just bad experiences from friends who've worked there... Blizzard offered me a sweetheart deal and I said no because of that history)... I'm less likely to want to bite.
And everyone has different preferences. I've known some people who love the office. I don't mind it myself, with the right group. But everyone has to make their own call.
Microsoft is bigger.
Nintendo's market cap is about $56.7 billion.
Microsoft's market cap is $2.44 trillion, with $111 billion worth of cash (not equity, cash) in the bank.
Microsoft is 43 times bigger than Nintendo. They can pay for Nintendo with only cash, if they desire.
These trillion-dollar players are an order of magnitude larger than anyone around them. They can do what they want, same as how Apple ($2.8 trillion) can easily buy Disney ($150.5 billion) if they wished.
This isn't an exact science, but you can use market cap to ballpark these things and get an idea of how much an acquisition would cost. For example, Twitter had a market cap of $31 billion in August 2022, and Elon bought it a few months later for $44 billion. That's a 1.4x increase, so applying the same math buying all of Disney would "only" cost about $214 billion - which both Apple and Microsoft (and Google) could do. Nintendo would cost about $80 billion, which Microsoft could do without even taking out a loan.
The issue isn't necessarily the price; it's the regulators.
Once per short rest makes no sense to me. It's a cantrip. Why not just let it be a cantrip?
What are they going to do? Ban them?
Honestly if I was migrating away from Fandom I'd do everything I can to burn every bridge. Go through and edit every page to have every link redirect to the better wiki. Ignore their 2-week period, and don't inform the Fandom overlords that the wiki is being shut down (it's not like they're going to check without being prompted).
I'd make them ban me, and then good luck finding an admin.
Google is shit nowadays, sadly - it used to be you could Google "Tim Buckley Jackie" and see the picture yourself. A girl's name written on his junk near his pubes.
It got out on his forum and he banned anyone who mentioned it. He wound up doing a complete purge of the CAD forums and got rid of half his mod staff. It's not just a 4chan thing; it was all over the internet like... 15 years ago. (Maybe longer?)
I've had the unfortunate displeasure of having seen it one time, so I can vouch that it exists. I can't find it nowadays, but I can find people referencing it:
Etc.
If you do the search now you can see that Google removed some results "for legal reasons", which is likely the EU "right to be forgotten" law being used to scrub it. But it used to exist and was well-known for anyone who was on the internet in the long long ago times...
Ugh, CAD. I thought that webcomic died a decade ago.
I'm surprised you can write a 14-year-old's name on your crotch and send her a dick pic on your own forum, yet years later people still find your comics and share them.
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