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  • As someone who keeps up with this and whose local diocese is also collapsing under the financial strain (good riddance) I can tell you firsthand a lot of settlements are actually pretty substantial. 6 and 7 figures over and over again.

    It’s never enough, let’s be clear. But these aren’t slap on the wrist numbers when you add up the fact that it’s often hundreds of settlements per diocese. Pretty sure the diocese here has roughly 530 settlements they’re paying out right now. A billionaire has been helping them foot the bill but seems it hasn’t been enough.











  • Exclusivity in general (not always) is a mistake. Sony has been learning this with the money they’re raking in doing PC ports finally, and Microsoft is learning it when they realize that going exclusive while also offering Game Pass cannibalizes direct sales beyond an acceptable amount (HFR, Indiana Jones). Nintendo only gets away with it because of their tight control of their IP’s and complete refusal to port to virtually anything. They barely even port their old back catalog to their current hardware. If you try to do a middle ground you often end up with the worst of both worlds.

    They need to open up pretty substantially or lock it down completely, though the latter requires you to have a very strong exclusive catalog which Sony and Microsoft do not have right now compared to Nintendo.

    Another good example is the Wii U. The catalog on that console is actually pretty thin compared to Wii and Switch, and it suffered for it. People try to explain it with vague statements about how folks didn’t understand what it was or whatever, and I’m sure that contributed, but it took them several years to get any games of note off the ground which meant there was no reason to buy one.





  • I can tell you firsthand that companies are lowering their ad buys on and generally pulling away from Twitter. It is not 2015. You are not going to lose your house if you lose Twitter. It is over dramatic. What I said is not dramatic. How on earth you were defending people sticking with that sinking ship is beyond me. It is a right wing mouthpiece that becomes more impossible operate safely on every week. When you block people they see your posts and can comment all over your stuff now slandering you you just can’t see it. How on earth people want to live with that is beyond me.

    The sheer number of journalists and media outlets abandoning the platform is about as big of a canary in the coal mine as you’re going to get.