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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • In France there is a group of people called the Cagots. Which were a persecuted minority group. Basically untouchables. They were hated for centuries that people even forgot why they hated them and just hated them because that’s what everyone else did. The discrimination even persisted until the first half of the 20th century. The weird thing is the Cagots didn’t look any different from the other French and their cultural identity was basically the same as the other groups in the regions they lived. If it isn’t the Jews or the gays it’s just anyone else for reasons unknown.









  • Wasn’t it obvious when that datasheet was released in one of the lawsuits. They paid Rockstar hundreds of millions for GTA V. Of course it’s unsustainable. Not to mention the pricing of GP is too good to be true. MS is hemorrhaging money on GP, on purpose. They basically play the standard Silicon Valley play book. Instead of making things yourself just sell access to customers to producers and price out the competition by undercutting them and incur heavy losses, so you become the only gatekeeper in town. And instead of a store like Steam where the studios and publisher can set their own prices they use a subscription model so they can not only gatekeep access to the customers MS can decide what they want to pay these game devs before the product even hits the service. And if they ever achieve a monopoly the game devs basically have no choice but to accept whatever MS offers.