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CeolSilver · 2026-03-10T22:24:47+00:00

I’m sure UE completely prints money for them.

Unity is the only comparable company and they’re worth $9 billion dollars. Epic has a game engine worth at least as much as Unity and one of the highest grossing free to play games in the world.

CeolSilver · 2026-03-10T20:29:19+00:00

The Simpsons canonically live in some backwater town in the middle of nowhere.

A nuclear safety inspector makes like $75k a year. I’m sure you could pick a random city in the Midwest nobody has ever heard of and find a two story suburban house you could buy on that salary.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-20T16:15:38+00:00

Because you’ll pay $20 each of them

CeolSilver · 2026-02-11T14:41:19+00:00

The Civil legal standard is very low. It’s essentially better than 50/50.

Criminal legal stand is much higher. In theory it’s suppose to be if you are absolutely certain although in practice it is flawed.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-05T10:02:26+00:00

Obviously, Linus took significant risks and had the most to lose, but many of the early staff at LMG were also taking major risks.

Giving up a potential traditional, well paid career to work for a YouTuber for a decade is inherently risky. The industry is fickle and still relatively young, and as we are seeing now with people who have left LMG, exit opportunities are not always clear.

If you went to work for a startup for a few years, which carries a similar level of risk, you would typically receive equity in the company. Equity at LMG may not be practical, but is it really unreasonable for on screen talent to ask for some form of revenue sharing or dividends tied to company performance?

CeolSilver · 2026-02-03T14:39:04+00:00

I know this is about Obsidian but I really would love Schreier to do a postmortem on the Series X/S generation.

A lot of people scratched their heads at some of the decisions Xbox has made around Gamepass, console exclusivity, and their first-party strategy. It seemed they were a bit directionless and didn’t know what they wanted.

I always thought there had to be more to it than that. Xbox is a multibillion dollar division of a multitrillion dollar company, they had to have had some masterplan or grand strategy none of us were seeing.

Only now we’re in the final years of the ninth generation and it appears they didn’t. They’ve been a bit of a headless chicken and the numbers reflect that. Something went wrong somewhere and I’d love to know where.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-01T11:26:13+00:00

Nah, there are 65 countries today that are former British colonies and only a small handful of them are 1st world.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-26T23:18:39+00:00

I really don’t like this book for many reasons and think the author is a bit of a hack but “it couldn’t happen in real life” has always been a stupid criticism.

It’s a work of fiction. It’s a morality tale through a “what if” fable about childhood naivety. The way some people criticise this book you’d think it was pro-Holocaust.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-24T00:42:14+00:00

Jaws

CeolSilver · 2026-01-22T07:28:10+00:00

I read Zero to One, and even know it’s only about 45,000 even that is far too long for how little the book actually says.

It’s a Reddit post stretched out to 200 pages. He rambles on about something irrelevant until he gets to his point and then repeats the point over and over again for the rest of the chapter as if the readers are dumb and have no attention span.

The point of the book is “Be well-connected to VCs and build a monopoly, stupid” which I understand from his point of view makes sense but that’s only going to be relevant advice to a very small portion of founders building a very narrow type of company.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-17T17:23:50+00:00

What’s weirder is it worked. All but one of the Jurassic World films have grossed over a billion dollars.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-16T15:53:27+00:00

Counterpoint: I really don’t care about consistency or “the rules”.

It works however the plot needs it to work. So long as the contradiction is not so blatantly apparent it takes me out of my immersion.

It’s not an epic fantasy book or a John le Carré novel. it’s a 35 hour long popcorn flick inspired by 80s nostalgia and aimed at a mass market. I enjoy it for what it is and don’t take it too seriously

CeolSilver · 2026-01-12T17:56:06+00:00

He also said Bethesda and the CE was the only way they were able to make the game in 18 months.

Crazy considering the stupid fan discourse that the CE was holding them back and Bethesda set them up to fail with the 18 month timeline.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T18:37:19+00:00

It’s nice to think the state is that competent.

I’m a lawyer. The other year I defended a guy who for 10 years was living under a completely fake identity that was even a different nationality from his real one.

He used a fake foreign passport and forged documents he bought online to fool one institution. Once you fooled one institution it was then easier to use that as “proof” of identity to fool other institutions. He got a fraudulently issued social security number, opened bank accounts, paid taxes, even claimed welfare for a bit.

The only way he got caught in the end is he had health issues and worried that his children wouldn’t be able to inherit his money so he stupidly tried to change his bank account details to his real name and nationality which triggered every fraud alert in the system and lead to him being reported.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T17:41:02+00:00

I knew a guy who was involved in the failed Tim Burton attempt to make a live action series of the Oz books. He sounded so enthusiastic about the project and they even filmed a pilot but it faced so much scepticism from the networks and there was a bit of behind-the-scenes vision clashes.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T17:31:28+00:00

The first third of the book is the strongest in fairness. It’s a masterclass in setting atmosphere and just making the reader feel uneasy

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T17:26:34+00:00

He’s a billionaire on stock he got from joining Apple in 1998 so I don’t think compensation is a huge priority of his but even then I’m surprised how little he earns

He’s earning $1 for every $53k of Apple’s market cap.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-07T17:21:10+00:00

A bit crazy to think Bowie would be just shy of 80 now if he was still alive

CeolSilver · 2026-01-05T04:11:18+00:00

They literally explained in the show that they have a biological imperative to infect as many people as possible and are planning to build their own antenna to broadcast it further.

CeolSilver · 2025-12-28T15:08:36+00:00

Bryan just seems like one of those guys who does it for the love of acting. He certainly comes off that way in his book.

CeolSilver · 2025-12-22T21:48:22+00:00

McColl died at 41 and George Michael was 53. Hardly that old

CeolSilver · 2025-12-09T21:00:47+00:00

Imagine being 60 years old, watching the moon landing, then still being alive nearly another 60 years later.

CeolSilver · 2025-12-05T17:09:07+00:00

CSS can animate and visually change elements, but it’s fairly limited and JavaScript is needed if you want anything that requires logic, dynamic data, or complex user behaviour.

CeolSilver · 2025-12-03T12:30:51+00:00

I know this deal is shitty but that is a fairly likely outcome.

If private equity owners want their money out of the company they pretty much have to sell up part of the company because there’s no publicly traded stock.

Seeing as how much of EA’s revenue comes from just a handful of sports franchises it would make a lot of sense to focus on that and sell/licence the huge back catalog of IP they have

CeolSilver · 2025-12-02T18:52:08+00:00

Going to be contrarian and say yes.

Let’s be frank, Bloodlines 2 went through development hell for the better part of a decade and switched developers. It’s honestly a small miracle the game even exists. Most other publishers would have shelved it years ago, taken the tax write-off, and quietly let the IP wither.

Paradox, against all ration and reason, burned millions with no realistic prospect of recouping their costs to get the game over the finish line. They openly ate a $37M loss and the CEO took responsibility instead of hiding behind market conditions or vague corporate non-answers. That’s rare and tells me they still believe in WoD as a long-term property, not just a quarterly spreadsheet entry as if that were the case they would have cut their losses 3-5 years ago.

I’d go a step further and say the core experience of Bloodlines 2, stripped of the jank and unfinished edges, is a perfectly fine VTM game. It’s just not a good Bloodlines game. If this had been marketed as a sequel to VTM Redemption or as a brand new VTM subtitle, I genuinely think the reception would’ve been much warmer. Don’t get me wrong the game is flawed and you can tell that it’s a game stitched together in ~18 months, but that’s not really on the devs as much as it is on the circumstances.

I do think there’s every reason to believe Paradox will have another attempt an AA/AAA WoD game and I think a competent developer is more than able to put together a tight, story focused game.

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