Have you experienced modern Blizzard write a story? StarCraft 2 devolved entirely into "Amon bad fight Amon oh no Amon so strong fight harder!". It was actually cringe. I won't even get into WoW.

I have absolutely no confidence in Blizzard being able to deliver a good game any more.

Yea that checks out. Microsoft alone is at about 300 billion, the whole invest by all companies actually making AI or stuff for AI is estimated between 2 and 3 trillion, depending where you want to do the cutoff.

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Did I miss a zero? Where's your number from, I am curious?

In their mind, it's fine to keep spending, so long as they are still standing at the end. But if they stop spending now, it would only send the signal that they lost confidence in the spend so far and that would instantly tank them in the eyes of everyone, thus fulfilling the prophecy of failure that they must know is looming over all of this.

So the only way any of them will stop is if one of them dies first. At that point, it may be possible to change the narrative towards it being smart to hedge your bets on this whole AI thing a bit.

Basically the same situation as with defense contractors I bet. All sorts of subcontractors take the money, turn around and either pay other subcontractors, or do as little as possible with it to be able to keep making more.

That's how you turn 300 billion of investment into 30 billion of revenue! Capitalism works SO WELL!

Fucking legendary video. The Epstein class has to be....you know.

I flunked out of Handloags 101 in college wtf are they making these kids learn nowardays?!

"Our god sucks by any objective metric, but because a book I have not read and which denies all my claims says he is the only god, you must worship him or burn forever in the worst place imaginable"

"Oh? Okay. No thanks."

It adds flavor!

When's the last time you had the time, money and energy to go to a water park?