deliriousdreams

I get the feeling people read your comment and didn’t actually understand it so they think you mean the comic is propaganda.

Call me when I can block all AI music.

Yes. Agreed. But it’s the Business aspect of this and his inability to understand that that I question. We have seen this before with government bailouts.

It seems like the idea is that if every American owns a piece of the pie so to speak, then we actually get something from bailing these companies out or rather insuring them with our tax dollars.

But what he can’t seem to see is that this is exactly what businesses would want if they know they exist in a bubble.

We accuse a lot of politicians of being on the take, or invested in businesses that are a conflict of interest, and I think that assumptions clouds our ability to really honestly look at their poor understanding of business and economics.

I have to assume he thinks that these companies will pay us back for the bailout. That’s pretty much what happened (supposedly) with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Even though they didn’t receive a loan and there wasn’t really any language in the agreement that legally bound them to pay back the bailout. But really what happened is the government just took over these companies (via conservatorship), and so even though the bailout has been ended, we haven’t really gotten our money back, the damage goes very far beyond the monetary bailout, and the housing market is worse than ever. The loan market is worse than ever.

So what I’m saying is, the terrible business acumen/literacy of politicians combined with the vast majority of them using elected office to further enrich themselves is often overshadowed by how tech literate they are and one of those things is far more dangerous in the long term. Because most young people might be tech literate to some degree but they aren’t business savvy by and large so electing younger officials doesn’t solve this problem.

Bernie doesn’t have to be tech literate. But he should at the very least have the pattern recognition to put two and two together and see that this isn’t the first time.

I wanted to make sure I wasn’t talking to someone who just went off the base headlines without actually looking into the proposal first.

I don’t agree with Bernie Sanders’ plan. It was obvious to me when I read the first article that he doesn’t understand the technology, but the more important thing is that he doesn’t seem to have followed the money. The way stocks and services are being traded to inflate some companies while keeping other failing companies solvent is the whole reason this is a bubble. What the proposal doesn’t seem to account for (that I’ve read) is that if this tech doesn’t become profitable in a mainstream way the tax payers (who are already very likely to lose savings, retirement investments, and jobs) will still be on the hook for the debt and will actually see no benefit from the short term pump of the stock in these companies.

I voted for Bernie in the primary. I think he and a lot of other politicians are too old for the roles they currently hold. But if I’m honest I don’t think this is just about old people not understanding tech. At least, it’s not exclusively old people. There are so many people my age and younger who don’t understand this tech or the economics and business practices behind it, and they are more than willing to trust it blindly.

Did you read the proposal?

Yeah. Thats the thing about all the investment. I don’t want my 401K or any of anyone’s retirement invested in AI either but that’s been happening since the beginning by proxy.

So now the government wants to let them gamble with my taxes too and everyone should know the plan is to leave regular people holding the bag and paying off the debt. Debt larger than most countries GDP. The rich gambled. Let them lose.

It doesn’t have wealth. It has debt.

Strider?

I am suddenly reminded of that Tech Ingredients video on YouTube where he turned a A/C window unit into a liquid heat pump.

DnD campaign where your whole party is hired just to find and hire this cat to slay a dragon.

Something something disco inferno.

Yeah. I still don’t understand but knowing the context that he’s a bully, my guess would be “bad boy syndrome”.

This is good to know. Thank you for the clarification.

Can you give some examples of like. “girls loving him”?

Do they like the character or the guy who plays him? I haven’t read the book or seen what I think is a show but might be a movie.

In keeping with the spirit of this community: Who?

Fuck all the way off. Stop. Letting. Predators. Avoid. Prison. Time.

Not as reassuring as it could be, but it helps.

You seem to be under the impression that I am defending Sony or other game sales distributors who are getting rid of physical media. That is not what is happening here.

I agree it’s shitty. I am pointing out the trend, not trying to mount a defense for a corp.

Video game companies still sell millions of physical copies of games every year, but that’s not where they make the bulk of their money. As Sony’s latest corporate report shows, physical game sales for PlayStation 5 and PS4 are practically a rounding error on a rounding error, and the number just keeps going down. The total percentage of revenue from physical software sales is now half of what it was before the PS5 launched.

Edit: I would also like a source for the 60% of games being physical because that’s not what I found when I looked it up and if it’s based on 2023’s data it’s not accurate to today’s market.

https://twicethebits.com/2025/06/19/the-shift-to-digital-gaming-why-physical-sales-are-declining/

The crazy thing is, all gaming sales are dropping and I think they’re really trying to keep profits up with sales declining by forcing people like you and I who buy physical media to go digital. Forcing people to go digital means they can eliminate manufacturing of physical media, but it also means they can eliminate the resale market and sale market when physical stores want to liquidate old stock to receive new stock. That and the subscription model are a win for them to the detriment of consumers.

As gaming software sales have dropped significantly over the lifespans of the PS4/PS5 vs the overall sales of the PS3, it becomes apparent that digital game sales are winning in this day and age.

In 2019 the physical software sales for PlayStation were 6% of their revenue. That number has decreased year over year and what they are trying to do is make up the difference by shunting people to subscription services like PS+. We knew this already. This data has been spread out over several articles especially over the last 2 days.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-only-made-3-percent-of-its-money-from-physical-games-sales-last-year-decline-comes-amid-rumors-the-ps6-will-have-a-detachable-disc-drive.1298754/?__cf_chl_f_tk=Yoi4Otjfg4PCM6UxPYx0.9qVGrSBt1EtIb6ar5y7J2c-1783185677-1.0.1.1-ocB6TpBYux8vHfjbxBRohy1usls7Qm.rQyZu.CNjtDk

if you need real data check retail: “With $11.6 billion generated in 2008 and $1.5 billion in 2025 that means new physical video game sales have fallen 87 percent in the last 17 years”