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by pandaman 3mo ago
IMHO, there is no room for a 70B investment in games at this time. The industry is mature and won't be growing any time soon, at least in the West. There had been a rush of investors founding new studios and propping old ones in the pa
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by pandaman 3mo ago
>All physical exertion causes pain and discomfort, otherwise it isn't exertion. Not really, it causes pain and discomfort only when you have fucked up your body to the point where even a small amount of exertion is over the limit. C
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Yes. How many consoles would WoW and Candy Crash move?
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Even if they had made it exclusive, $70B is too much for this. CoD sales would fall - not everyone buying it would go out and buy an Xbox, Xbox hardware sales would raise. Let's be optimistic and say every CoD player (including ones wh
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Acquiring a game studio only makes sense if you see a way to make it grow either by providing capital or better management. E.g. Activision acquired Treyarch in 2001 for $20M, which was probably 4-5x of its annual profit at the time. Seeing
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by pandaman 3mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/logic this one.
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Judging by the credits [1] it indeed looks very conservative. 1. https://www.mobygames.com/game/240054/south-of-midnight/cred...
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Where I live, it's already illegal to shoot fireworks in the city limits, people still do that. Banning sales and importation is the next logical step.
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by pandaman 3mo ago
I am fine with the professional fireworks shows but people setting fireworks inside residential areas, in all hours of night, for weeks during summer is just people being massive douchebags.
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by pandaman 3mo ago
We also had quite severe punishment for crime by the current standards in the vast majority of human history. I'd be fine changing cameras for stockades and gallows, and dealing with car and bike thieves the same way we used to deal wi
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by pandaman 3mo ago
If your job requires an ITAR license then it will take a week or two from the first day until you get to access the codebase after clearing your license.
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by pandaman 3mo ago
California also has ports and railways, servicing the vast majority of trade with China. It has the strongest agricultural industry in the union. Aerospace industry from manufacturing to space launches. Worth mentioning the the oil and gas
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by pandaman 3mo ago
Costco is not only curating the selection: most products you buy there are created specifically for Costco, even if it's not the "Kirkland" brand, it's an SKU you cannot find elsewhere. Amazon would need to figure out th
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by pandaman 3mo ago
I remember seeing pictures from a real estate listing of some euro prince house: he did not have a dryer, just a tiny washer under the counter in the single bathroom, the kitchen had just three-four cabinet sections and an apartment size fr
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Well, yes. How does it make window units feasible though? I used to rent an old house in California, it had central air but also wrapped wooden windows with single pane glass. I ran A/C whole day in the summer and could only get 10F (8
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by pandaman 4mo ago
It really makes no sense. Death from heat is caused by the absolute temperature, not a difference. If it's 30C outside and you can get get 10C difference then it's 20C inside, which is not going to cause death per se so it's
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by pandaman 4mo ago
I see, all I found is a piece of cloth you tape around window opening though. I don't think it's doing a great job of insulation, and, paired with an inefficient portable unit, what kind of temperature difference can you get insid
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by pandaman 4mo ago
"A kit for them" to do what?
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by pandaman 4mo ago
From what I understand, windows in Europe are very different than in the US - they don't slide open but swing, like doors. So an American window unit, which seals the window opening, is not feasible. They have portable units with air h
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Zone 2 - you are burning fat and building up endurance while keeping recovery time at minimum.
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Many people rent without ever owning a house, we don't call them "homeless" normally. Even if you owned a house they still allow you to rent. You can even rent while owning a house or several.
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by pandaman 4mo ago
> I can't claim that value without rendering myself homeless. Are you using some peculiar definition of "homeless" as someone who does not own real estate, like in Elon Musk had been homeless when he sold his California h
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by pandaman 4mo ago
>An hour of fairly vigorous cardio every day will give you what, 3-400 kcals of extra calories to play around? This depends on your VO2max/FTP. At very modest 150W FTP it would be ~550 kcal. > Something you can easily overcome by
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Define "massive". People do successfully and reliably get in shape through exercise. Aerobic exercise that gets HR up for an hour or more will significantly alter your calorie balance. I agree that more people don't go throug
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by pandaman 4mo ago
>> one downside is obvious from the comments here - some people will stop exercising. >Is there any source on this? Other than the people saying they hate exercise and are glad they can take a drug instead in the comments here? Thi
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Even if there are zero effects other than the advertised weight reduction, one downside is obvious from the comments here - some people will stop exercising. While exercise has many positive effects, which I'd argue are more important
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by pandaman 4mo ago
How do you recover the loss from a druggie who has no assets and does not work?
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by pandaman 4mo ago
This depends on what evidence there is. If it's just "omg, bike was here yesterday, but is not here today, find it!" then what are they really going to do? They are not calling a CSI team and collect fibers from the scene, th
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by pandaman 4mo ago
People who have just one unit are usually not renting it for mega-profits but to cut their losses. It's moving due to a job with the mortgage underwater or slumping market so selling would incur a heavy loss or you want to come back an
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by pandaman 4mo ago
Austin had a rent and house price explosion in 2021-2022 when a lot of people moved in at the same time, rents had been falling in 2023-2025 from the peak but did not fall to the level of 2020, they are picking up again in 2026.

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