The more telling number is the average: $594M over 6M preorders is about $99 each, well above a standard edition price, so a big share must be premium editions. Worth keeping in mind it's a Sensor Tower estimate rather than Rockstar's own figure, so I'd treat the exact 74% PlayStation split with some caution.

Good call showing all ten deposit states instead of just the best ones. The spread makes me wonder how much of it is simply the deposit amount: Oregon at 10¢ is at 88% and Massachusetts at 5¢ is at 33%, and a nickel is worth a lot less today than when most of these laws were written. A scatter of redemption rate against the deposit in today's money would be a great follow-up.

The Milgram angle fits games really well, because the player already comes in trained to do whatever the interface tells them. Papers, Please worked because the rulebook itself was the authority, and you only noticed what you'd been doing when it was too late. Curious how you handle players who refuse from the very first order: does the game let that be a real ending?

Data: Twitch API (Get Streams), the top 1,000 live channels by viewers, refreshed every minute. This snapshot is from Oct 17, 20:55 UTC: about 2.29M people watching those 1,000 channels.

Tools: Node.js and node-canvas, with a small isometric renderer I wrote. Tower height is (viewers / viewers of #1)^0.45. With a linear scale everything below the top 5 was flat; with a log scale 177k and 100k looked almost the same. Each category is a neighbourhood, sized by its number of channels, and the biggest towers stand at the front corner of their block.

It runs live: the interactive version is at https://miltorres.com/?ref=lemmy-dib (hover a tower to see who it is, click to open the stream), and the same renderer streams 24/7 on Twitch. Nothing is kept for more than 24 hours.

What would make it easier to read? I'm not sure the category neighbourhoods work for people who don't know Twitch.

He's a former League of Legends pro who now streams and co-streams the big LoL matches, so on match days he jumps way above everyone else. That's kind of why I made this, actually.

Twitch's directory is just a list sorted by viewers, and a list hides the shape of it: how far ahead the top few are, and how huge the long tail of small streams is. I wanted to see all of it at once, as something that feels alive. So I built a channel with no streamer at all: it draws itself every minute from the Twitch API and runs 24/7.

The fun part for me is watching it move: someone goes live and their tower grows out of the ground, a raid lands and a tower shoots up, two streamers in the same game trade places. Most of the names were new to me too.

leaderboards are a good example: each row has a primary action (open it) and maybe a secondary one, and rows reorder live. Today it's either listbox, with selection semantics you don't want, or a list of buttons with nested buttons. focusgroup="list" sounds like the right shape. Does anyone know how it would handle live reordering: does focus follow the item or stay on the position?

Leaderboards are a good example: each row has a primary action (open it) and maybe a secondary one, and rows reorder live. Today it's either listbox, with selection semantics you don't want, or a list of buttons with nested buttons. focusgroup="list" sounds like the right shape. Does anyone know how it would handle live reordering: does focus follow the item or stay on the position?

Using the left chart: battery-electric is about 14M of the 21M, so BEV-only is roughly 1 in 6 new cars worldwide (~17%), not 1 in 4. The BEV curve on its own is still steep though, from about 2M in 2020 to 14M in 2025.