Spoon in right hand though…

Or maybe he was rich, until his or his family’s medical claim got denied…

Or just photshop it to make it look like a screenshot of 4chan

I think living in a place or situation that’s more difficult plays a role, it’s a lot easier to be kind when everyone around you is kind too.

To be clear I did meet some nice people when I visited Russia briefly, there are horrible people everywhere, not just in Russia 😅

Streamers kinda brings that connection back

In a parasocial kinda way…?

One of the devs stream ids from the decompiled code:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/55846295727582/

Why am I not surprised that they’re Russian 😅

The competition might not be real right now, but they’re smart enough to know it’ll eventually catch up if they don’t stay one step ahead.

But yeah it definitely sounds like thier test for 200k players probably had bigger instances provisioned than what they ended up using in the production release 😅

You’d think they’d be able to do some sort of auto scaling when demand goes up though… 😅

Dunno what the sales for the new one are like, but the 2020 ms flight sim had a lot more mass appeal than any older flight sims, but maybe a lot of xbox players were put off by the pre download requirements?

Also when it’s on game pass the barrier to entry is a lot lower, as a lot of people might install it with the intention of only playing it for like 5 minutes to see if they can see thier house or something, which they probably wouldn’t pay full price on steam to do 😅

You don’t have to buy it from steam, might’ve been more users from gamepass and xbox than steam?

It wouldn’t just be unpolished if they rushed it that much. Thier development cycles are still about the same length as other companies, even despite the lack of polish.

Or somehow get Obsidian Entertainment to do another one.

I haven’t looked into it but I’d assume Russia probably also gets electronic components for weapons from China?

Maybe try alternativeto.net instead

That’s still pretty expensive for a 17 year old game though.

Oh true, I forgot about that feature.

Steam needs an anti-wishlist so I remember not to buy it when it’s on sale for $1 ten years from now 😅

Should have a tax on empty houses, to dicincentivise land banking with properties that are unoccupied. That could also bring a means to take over properties where the owner is unknown, when the taxes are unpaid long enough.

I look forward to watching hbombers video essay about it.