thats right, the average ‘gamer’ is casual. they’ll purchase a couple games per year and maybe a handful more on special.
gaming itself is a leisure activity so when other aspects of life starts getting expensive or free time is reduced then what gets dropped first is an overpriced subscription service.
the bowel mover diet
literally said at the conference last week that we don’t need people we need more agents to get rid of the people.
this cunt is high off his own supply and is barely held accountable for the contradictions he makes
starbucks has already come back to australia but not using their original aggressive expansion strategy.
i think it’s important to distinguish the difference between being critical of a subject (e.g. being judgemental) and thinking critically for oneself.
No doubt your father has a reactionary response to media because the ecosystem demands it from their audience and he now likely sits in a susceptible demographic.
Something to consider is if your father is starting to experience a cognitive decline (e.g dementia). How physically active is he? Does he have personal interests or hobbies that give him continued purpose? These play a part in how he responds to his environment and perhaps why you’ve noticed a trend among the elderly and maybe even within your own family.
if we’re assuming that they can actually achieve what they’re saying (and not doing a pump and dump) the market would have already shifted infrastructure-wise and the cost to setup would have increased.
We’d be presuming that Allbirds owns their warehousing space. For all I know they could be drop-shipping from third-party warehousing.
and also an allegory for transitioning
edit: there’s a reason why the wachowski brothers are no longer brothers
pretty sure the original devs from disco elysium had split years ago from za/um. the studio is now just a name.