dammit

Transphobia destroys your brain

Billionaire makes a bunch of very dumb points because he doesn’t know how regular person insurance works and also doesn’t seem to realize that medical insurance companies are just entirely unnecessary middlemen

Already how it works, you already said this.

It’s perfectly reasonable to expect doctors and nurses to be paid well considering they are currently paid well despite the fact that there is entirely useless middleman between patients and care providers

Yes, because I would save money on insurance premiums and out of pocket medical expenses, probably more than 8-12%

Government can pay for them if they are able to negotiate. See: insulin

As opposed to what they currently do? What’s the availability at the Mayo Clinic for your average poor person?

Probably the department of health.

That is literally already how it works in most cases. You are just a billionaire so you don’t know.

So do your rates go up when you get into a car accident? What if you get cancer from just living normally? Fall and break a bone? Tear an ACL while playing basketball to try to stay healthy? These people are the biggest morons alive

Not often a story makes me physically shudder

Both of these people were literally at the inauguration

Holy god they’re actually doing the Ephebophilia thing

We all laugh at Charlie Brown for believing THIS TIME Lucy will hold the football

So they want to hurt people to make their prospects in 2026 better but also they can’t stand to see how much Trump was hurting people?

This is pretty funny because the most popular content this company produces is already based out of Chicago and Portnoy already lives in Florida so this is the most empty threat maybe ever

Breaking news: centrists want the Democrats to be more centrist despite losing the last election running on centrist policies

Using Nazi language and Halo to recruit ICE agents who have started to notice greys in their beards

They already dissolve studios at the $60 price point

Again, that’s okay. 64 games were like $100 adjusted for inflation. If a game is $70, the expectation is for it to be very good and if not it will fail.

Totally fine, I think that’s unlikely in the case of a huge release like GTA6, but it’s not my job to say what a game should be priced at and I don’t think you’re a bad person if you agree to pay the launch price. Nobody is obligated to buy a game

That’s okay! I’m not advocating games to be overpriced, I’m saying they should be priced correctly. People would probably pay $100 for GTA6, but a new IP like Anthem or whatever should’ve been like $30. It’s very simple: if you don’t think a game is worth the price tag you do not have to buy it

It is if the game is priced correctly

The biggest game release of the decade will be next year and will be a hyper detailed game that took 8 years at least to make

The market created this problem. For a game to be AAA it has to have an immense level of detail that takes years and huge development teams to achieve. That costs money. Indie games are usually cheaper because they’re either made faster or by way less people and don’t have huge marketing budgets

Ghosts of Yotei released this month

The games industry has a litany of problems yes but also games used to be more expensive relative to inflation. They’ve stuck at a $60 price point since they were coming out in like 480i, now they’re in 4k with ray tracing. Idk I think it’s okay to go up to like $70 or $80 for a finished AAA game

Games are actually is extremely labor intensive and difficult to make and probably should be more expensive. It’s not like a monopoly is sitting at the top driving prices up through artificial scarcity. If we want studios to be able to survive one flop we should probably pay more

Oh boy I can’t wait for another round of video game pricing discourse when The Outer Worlds 2 comes out next week

The nice thing about the Platner stuff coming out now is the race isn’t til 2026. Just go grab a different oyster guy

There is no news story this guy has heard of

Waahhhhh people are mad about the evil things we keep doing

They can operate anywhere but also they have extra authority anywhere within 100 miles of ANY border, meaning Chicago

at odds with each other is what the end of that sentence is