Maybe see what player counts look like in a few months before making great and grand plans? People want a fresh take on The Sims, but maybe without the backlog of a hundred DLCs and other EA shittery. But, inZOI may not be it. Apart from the pervasive and distasteful use of generative AI, it may just not have that special something.

So give it a while, lads. Maybe it really will be a hit, but sales in the first week mostly just say that people wanted a fresh swing at The Sims, not that they really want what inZOI is.

We thought that would happen after the first Trump term, but here we are.

They’ve been inflation proof because consumers lose their shit so hard with every price increase. The price of games is just much more visible and much more conceptually ingrained than with most other products, so every increase hits consumer awareness that much harder.

Prices instead increased in other more indirect ways. Micro-transactions in their many forms are the most obvious case. The price of your “full game” may not have gone up, but then there’s a nearly limitless trickle of smaller supplementary purchases adding to the cost.

Good. Since that’s the only feedback he notices, then good.

Pretty basic really. People keep calling him a Russian asset, compromise, a puppet of the Kremlin. So, he’ll scream and shout and rattle his plastic saber about how he’s totally going to fight Russia for real in an effort to placate the claims that Russia owns him. He won’t actually do anything of substance against Russia’s interests.

Remember kids, doing crimes is only a crime if you’re poor. When you’re rich and connected you don’t even have to try to hide it!

And if anyone calls them out on it, they’re immediately branded as “pedophile sympathizers” if not actual pedophiles themselves. So, not only do they get to be violent monsters, saying that they shouldn’t commit horrible violence without any sort of legal oversight (or at all, really) makes YOU the bad guy!

He’s absolutely the kind of person who would think the only reason anyone would ever act like they hate him is because they’re being paid to do so. He can’t imagine anyone not really thinking he’s as great as he thinks he is.

Godamnit, swing and a miss. Second time’s the charm.

I cannot express how much I hate that that string of words entered my brain.

He was probably given a report, but since it didn’t have enough color pictures he just ignored it. Of course that shitstick thinks he’s forever blameless so it’s obviously anyone else’s fault.

They would for sure catch charges. The days of having to do something illegal in order to be convicted are behind us. If the MAGAstappo get their way the only remaining function of the judicial system will be as a cudgel against their enemies.

MAGAstappo. Be a real shame if armed resistance required them to show ID instead of just moving in the shadows.

Republicans would be the first ones to bend the knee to escape the purges.

They were completely fine with screwing everyone else over, fucking up the planet so long as the chief consequences didn’t hit until AFTER they died off, but now that their Social Security is on the chopping block they’re finally noticing.

Now if only he could “Fall out a window” and stop actively destroying the country, that’d be great.

Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!

Well obviously. Leave it to Republicans to encourage pushing children into the workforce to fill the gaps Republicans created, but then also insist that because children are poor workers they should be paid less.

However he looked at a rainbow once so the Republican Party is subsequently calling for all LGBTQ+ individuals to be added to a mandatory public registry.

It’s not even necessarily that people can’t afford the space, it’s just that the space is being required in the first place. Being able to afford it is just one facet of why I’m not setting aside a whole room for VR.

I also urge conservatives to buy Tesla stock, but definitely for different reasons.