Appeal to their vanity. Start saying how brave the astronauts are and make them celebrities. Give them all the credit. Don’t mention the funders at all.

Next ones go up with a billionaire on board for sure.

Yeah, somebody of influence built one, and the rest of the city that could afford to just followed.

The TikTok Stanley Cup craze of the 1100s.

Only drunker.

At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It’s only a matter of time.

I’m holding out for an Airwolf or Street Hawk.

I turned off ads on mine.

By turning it face down.

Are there many left where you are? The UK has one plant left, and we had to take it over so it didn’t close completely.

I guess it’s quite handy to have a steel plant if war breaks out and you’re not relying on China for it all…

I don’t think you’ll find a public company right now that isn’t balls deep in the slop machines, desperately trying to offload staff in favour of machines that can’t do the jobs.

It’d better!

Almost like they’re not losing it, but stealing it.

I’ll just wait for the movies to come out ten years later telling us exactly how they all lost our money again.

I’ll likely “lose” some money from my index tracker funds when it happens, but bring it on. I know billionaires will lose a lot more than I will.

I don’t make games, but fine. Baldurs Gate 3 (PS5 co-op) and Skyrim (Xbox 360) had more crashes than any games I’ve ever played.

Did that stop either of them being highly rated top selling games? No. Did it stop me enjoying them? No.

Quality feels important, but past a certain point, it really isn’t. Luck, knowing the market, maneuverability. This will get you most of the way there. Look at Fortnite. It was a wonky building game they quickly cobbled into a PUBG clone.

The sad thing is that velocity pays the bills. Quality it seems, doesn’t matter a shit, and when it does, you can just patch up the bits people noticed.

Wait til you see the next one.

:(

Wouldn’t it be easier to steal them in China? It’s where most of them come from after all.

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It always wants to transcode ass subs on mine. Ffmpeg can extract them to srt though so I do that.

Bazarr is OK, but getting subtitles that are actually synced(and stay synced) to your particular video can be a pain.

I try to just grab things with subs already included.

Of course. Shareholders want results, and not just results for nVidia’s bottom line.