They literally sold out. They sold the company. And, they sold it to a corporation whose portfolio is littered with microtransactions.

cut their losses

What losses? Were they not profitable?

and cashed their checks

Yeah, that’s the selling out part.

The founders are the villains of this piece as much as Krafton. They sold out for a big payday. This was all very predictable.

You’d have to really dense to think that Krafton is going to come along with half a billion dollars and just let things carry on as usual.

They think they’ll be the ones ordering the executions.

All the laws I’ve seen say you must signal 100ft before turning and don’t have an exception for turn lanes.

Do you have an example of such an exception?

“Mysterious”? It’s eight there in the name.

I’m happy to see the company go up in flames. Anyone still holding positions in TSLA deserves whatever happens.

Decent person + drugs = fun/funny

Insecure asshole + drugs = DOGE + Nazi salute + inflated ego.

Probably missing some terms but you get the idea.

the red dogs came about as a marketing tactic. The company hired a butcher who’d recently emigrated from Germany, where local meat shops would dye their sausages to set themselves apart from the competition. When the butcher arrived in Bangor and began working at W.A. Bean, he carried on the strategy and it stuck.

Except viruses don’t really work like that. You don’t breed immunity you breed the infected lives long enough to breed and/or pass on the virus. And it gives it time to jump species.

There’s a series of books by Robie H. Harris that explain biology and sexuality for kids in very frank, plain language. They’re excellent especially because it doesn’t sugar-coat things or use euphemisms.

For his age the title is It’s Perfectly Normal (Wikipedia).

It talks about AIDS, abortion, homosexuality and, I think, even anal sex in a way that is plain and factual. Read it by yourself, first, so you’re prepared for what’s inside.

I highly recommend that you read it together. It might be awkward but it’s good to demystify and de-stigmatize these subjects. It may help him be willing to talk to you about these issues as they come up.

I hate everything about this house and this picture.

Starting with why the fuck would have a driveway that big for a house that size? You’d expect it on a house 5x that size.

… pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year…

He’s really just creating the next generation of tech bros. This is how they reproduce. Someone drops a huge sum of money in their laps for being smart in a niche computer field. That money balloons their egos to the point of making them think they are smart at all the things. And, voilà, a techbro is born. The misogyny, racism and infatuation with eugenics comes naturally after that.