Assume I have read your post to learn of new things and where I am wrong, and have moved on.
Be mindful of the distinction between ‘births per year’ and ‘births per woman:’
Ceteris paribus, births per year could decrease due to demographics alone.
(I don’t like the label ‘fertility rate’ because it shifts the blame on biology, like eggs or sperm count, which arguably did not change.)
However, reportedly both are slumping in Japan.
Comparing this to how venture capitalists do their due-diligence before investing, and regularly check fundamentals and viability of their investment after that: In many aspects they serve as additional directors.
Star Citizen makes a good case-study for why regulation is needed when mass-markets are addressed: Individuals are not granted that insight easily, the power-gradient is extremely tilted.
Also, but that’s just me, the press should get serious and start the clock on every game once it’s collecting money from the public: Doesn’t matter if you call it beta, alpha, early release—after N years your grace period is up, a line drawn; review and score whatever is tangible.
You do, though that also depends on your location relative to datacenters in serviced markets.
In practice—I’m a former Stadia customer—it didn’t matter much even for shooters. I did play Cyberpunk 2077, Doom; Wolfenstein, Return to the Savage Planet—and it was okay, even for multiplayer with friends.
To some extent you can predict the world’s as well as the player’s behaviour to put latency mitigating measures in place.
Cloud Gaming changes some dynamics in the relation between “publisher” towards their customers: You no longer have to accept a publisher’s dictate regarding PC requirements, they henceforth need to please a single and stronger party that the cloud gaming provider is. You can no longer remain ignored on bugs and crashes, because (similar to consoles) the blame cannot be summarily shifted on a “non-standard” runtime environment. Also moves the focus from capital (customer, buy to make it run…) to labour (the studio needs to rework…).
You don’t own your “Steam library” anyway, to remind everyone.
Google Stadia was called “daddia” precisely for this.
When you bough a game through them1 you could play it without subscription in FHD or something to that effect.
1 They reimbursed all purchases, including those made through in-game currency, when Stadia closed.
I can make everything fast if it doesn’t need to be correct.
Though he has access to some radio equipment people usually don’t have and is systematic in his pursuit to learn at which frequency they communicate, he otherwise lacks fundamental knowledge of the field. Since he gives himself access to a storage facility it’s not necessarily his own. (Another inconsistency regarding his respect for property.) Also, his office (I presume it’s his) is not rigged the way. (He is no car mechanic either.)
And, first thing someone with some background in medicine and related trades has (or adventure sports practicioner, or nurse…) when facing 20 day+ treck through dense forest is, you’ll be needing at his body composition 20× 2200 kcal in food minimum = about 15–30kg of solid proviant alone without foraging or hunting. Yet he’s embarking with a 15-20 ℓ backpack. So, neither a soldier, nor game warden, nor farmer.
He’s disinfecting his wounds with absolutely the wrong means (don’t do that!), treats it incorrectly (again, don’t imitate), which rules out he were a trained nurse or medic.
Mystery to me where “that look in his eyes” were coming from, unless maybe mild starvation or dehydration.
Express appreciation for your significant other by a diamond ring—that so needs a counter-narrative!
I realize this is about a token to be admired and shown off to presumed peers, but awfully materialistic even if it not were for the significant chance it supported misery and human rights violations elsewhere. Though I am afraid a remark to that extent would not be enough to sour the mood sufficiently to abolish that “tradition.”
This is a video by Inside China Business about “remote sensing,” i. e. geodata collected by satellites in particular. China is launching their own assets into space and were publishing more research while U.S. numbers in particular are declining.
To support your point, compare: Poland’s “economy” goes up, they’ll even be admitted to the G20 soon. It’s still a relatively “religious” country—yet the TFR is trending down.
— Changing Fertility Patterns in Poland: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Dimensions (Nov 2025)
The tale it were contraceptions and whatnot is humbug for an agenda. We do have them in the West for decades now, yet the birthrate is continuously slumping even across income brackets, i. e. no mere jump to a plateau. They have been available for as long in Japan, and abortions carry less stigma. Religiosity is and was also different in Japan.
You’re not making that point, but I don’t believe people who spend most of their waking hours on activities around work or work preparation (commute into a big city because you’re priced out of an apartment; recovery from workplace circumstances and uncertainty) are inclined to have children. Once you toil, in SK, US, and Japan, you have to have a high savings rate to have hope to escape that lifestyle and forced infantilization—which will move age-at-first-birth up, yet desire to get children (naturally) decreases with age, for men and women. (It’s at 3 for early 20s, plateaus at early 40s.)