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@alex You clearly don’t understand where the right is coming from on these issues and why they support this cause

@ChristiJunior @alex
Black women are 7 percent of population... OBJECTION!!!

This number is irrelevant, since it does not count the nunber of abortions compared to people who CAN have abortions.

When you count the fact that 51 percent of the population are men, you realize, that you must use number of black woman compared to female population...

So it's 14 percent get 40...

@ChristiJunior @mrsaturday @matrix > pretend The Last of Us 2 was a commercial failure...
It was.
:blobcatautism: Autism engaged!

1st week saw the sale of 4 million copies, with second week dropping by over 80% in almost every country.

Ballpark calculation, that's around $300M revenue.

Some of these are copies sold to shops, not customers, which will have to take the hit, since they probably can't refund, but since this is the age of digital distribution, it's safe to assume these are in the minority.

Steam, and other publishers, take 30% of every sale, this seems to be industry standard (Epic game store is the odd one out with only 17% cut).

Physical copies get you even less profit, due to the stores taking a cut, and the additional manufacturing and shipping of a physical product, so even if they can't refund, you're making a lot less money off of them.

Naughty Dog made $200M, and that's a very conservative estimate, ASSUMING no one refunded it.

On a game, that according to Naughty Dog, cost $100M to develop.
Marketing budget not included (which is usually as much as the development budget for triple-A titles).

A conservative estimate would have Naughty Dog barely brake even on The Last of Us 2.


That being said, Naughty Dog is lying.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cost roughly $80 million to make, and was in production for 3 years, compared to TLoU2 *six* years in development.
With the largest salaries being executives... meaning, a pause in development doesn't mean the money isn't being spent (if they're not making money they're losing money).

It's likely that TLoU2 cost Naughty Dog upwards of $140 for development alone, and that's being generous.


TLoU2 is probably several tens of millions in the red.
It was as commercially successful as Solo: a Star Wars Story.

:autismapproved:

@grips @pony
Did you know, that 100% of viral infections are cured by host's death?

@grips
It's not like she said any topic in particular... It was just the "read a book" sperg.

It just feels awful knowing that she thinks I am too dumb to understand it. But I just guess that's some kind of dumb instinct. From anyone else, I woudn't care, but sometimes I wander just what kind of person my mother thinks I am, since she threw at me almost any bad trait immaginable.

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