He's been a shit head for so long that 90's films called it out. I'm sure I can find SNL skits older than I am taking the piss out of him.

... yup. 1988.

No, that's Fran Drescher. Wrong sitcom. (also apparently another decent person IRL. Though she has more controversies being the lead of SAG-AFTRA).

ice cream flavor sales

Strawberry's fallen on hard times. We need to seize the means of chocolate production and distribute the wealth among all our fellow flavors.

It seems that's partially taken into account:

New analysis of 99,206 Steam games illustrates just how extreme the economics can be on Valve's PC gaming emporium

Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review

This report also only looks at premium games, meaning free-to-play giants like Valve's Counter-Strike are left out, as are "non-game software, adult-only titles and unreleased entries." The list of 99,206 was selected from a base of 136,281.

The only caveat is that revenue is estimated, so there can be big swings in the data.

The standard multiplier here is 35, so this research assumes one Steam review is worth 35 sales at a game's current listed price, though you can also use a more "conservative" 20 or "generous" 50 in the report's impressive graphs.

It's a thing. If you're an inspiring indie dev, it's hard numbers to let you know if you can work with these numbers. If you're just a gamer, they probably don't matter at all.

The 1% numbers makes me question by there aren't more AA initiates out there. we don't get many 5-10m budget games these days, but the typical AA game is (conservatively) making 15m dollars. So if you can turnournd a game on the level of Claire Obscur (which IIRC had a 10m dollar budget) in 4 years, there should be openings for potential success.

Guess it comes down to the lack of investors who care at that level (who wouldn't just throw it at AI)

Given the way they estimate sales numbers, it's probably too different a curve. I imagine there's both a lot of bottom of the barrel adult games that still manage to get some sales off (as opposed to none for most non-adult games) and there's a lower sales ceiling that still results in surprisingly strong revenue compared to a game with similar reviews.

I don't think we disagree. I'm just talking about how the sausage is made. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

Networking is always important. And those AAA studios probably have dedicated lines of support to Valve that can open up such deals way more easily than an indie trying to email support.

Valve also does try to highlight some successful indies, but that's a small slice of indie pie. While every other AAA studio is that direct line gained from events, existing networks reaching out, etc.

Would Pareto be ecstatic or rolling in his grave at this disparity?

it's dipped these days to "only" 81-82%. Which is a big drop, but still way too damn high. Propoganda is crazy.

The supposed "independents" are where his numbers truly cratered. Basically drove his entire approval rating since Democratic approval started at like... 6%.

It was asking for his opinion on Jon Ossoff's statements he made last week. Which should honestly be a softball question for a politician. But ofc we continue to see how fragile that ego is

We're in a post truth world rn. This very much could have come fresh from LinkedIn Lunatics.

stop replying to me to argue about things I didn’t say?

you're not who I originally responded to and you came in later in the chain. I made one reply on a public forum and you're already all "stop talking to me"?

Come on, man.

For those who do not know history; it was once a huge scandal for Clinton to be seen talking with the AG. 16 years after he was president. Those so concerned about "her emails" would know this well.

And that's not even going into "Nannygate" if you want a small rabbit hole to go down. A very tame controversy that would be cast off as a "nothing burger" today as I'm sure Trump's cabinet have had controversies every other day at this point.

This is all to say that: no, this is not normal. It is not normal for the DoJ to be so closely affiliated with the executive branch. And watch the hypocrisy when the US magically rememberes this after Trump leaves.

I don't think this is an argument. OP has a personal vendetta with a high pfofile figure and telling him to "calm down we need him" doesn't remove that betrayal. He wasn't even disagreeing with the reply. Just asserting what we all already know in that Jeffries does not have the people's priorities in mind.

Him not being as bad as a literal nazi isn't a high bar to meet.

You're not wrong. But by that logic water based products would be cheaper. Which it sadly isn't. Often the contrary.

The US very rarely uses price to incentivize good practices and vice versa.

Ehh, it's still liquid at the end of the day. We going to call beef a luxury because chicken or tofu has more nutritional value (I do not know if this is true. This is just a random theoretical).

These can be interpreted as contradictory statements.

Sure, if you never worked at a large structure. They are professionals who talk. They are not intimate nor buddy-buddy with each other.

And they’re the same branch. That’s the point.

The same way Congress has various agencies it delegates powers to, yes. You are very technically correct.

Like those agencies, the DOJ is a non-partisan part of the otherwise partisan executive branch whose job is to represent the US in its court cases. It is not the president's personal law firm.

but I was speaking to the specific statement.

I'm speaking generally. Becsuse this specific situation is so sleazy and utterly corrupt that it's barely even worth analysis. But for those who don't know: no, this is not normal, business as usual.

. I would expect if a President had a legitimate concern that they would voice that concern to the AG to investigate

Yes. The branches communicate with each other, but ultimately work independently except for very specific sync points. Or if one branch needs to check and balance another.

That is very different from meeting up with an AG for a private meeting. Let alone the conflict of Interest of being the president's personal lawyer. This isn't normal.

promising not to ever do it would just get them in hot water later down the road.

Yes, I'm sure it will for Todd. Much later than I wish, but later down the road indeed.

Bro. The kids are alright. Not pristine perfect beings who will being about a new era of prosperity.

Besides, why you putting it on "the kids discovered vaping"? That sounds like something a billionaire would say to deflect from the huge lobbying campaign they made to distinguish vapes from cigarettes.