That's a fallacy. Math is a means by which to DESCRIBE it all the way down. It's not the cause.

I'm not familiar with the other alternative companies...but, seriously...who the hell would trust Tencent with their money? I wouldn't even trust them with my crayon box, let alone financial data...

...Uh... you're... clearly not very well informed? Just 10 companies hold something like 70% of the worldwide market for game development. And that number has been steadily increasing for the last decade as big publishers buy out small studios. It's also no longer really possible to compete with the big boys, without MAJOR financial backing. Sure, you can make small indie games with a small team. But those don't hold significant market share. And big games now require massive budgets, ones the match to exceed the sort of budgets you see for Hollywood blockbusters. Mind you, in this specific case, SOMEONE needs to buy out Activision-Blizzard as their corporate culture is a cesspool. And Microsoft actually has a positive reputation for how it handles the studios it has acquired. Still, your assertion that no one can control the video game market is naive at best.

Obviously, sheesh it's like they don't realize it needs to be built on Mars for that.

Since when is Ohio in the midwest? I've lived in the mid west (unfortunately) for most of my life. I've never once heard anyone here consider Ohio part of the midwest...

It was always a medicine. One, if I recall correctly, that was designed to treat PTSD. It was showing amazing results, too. You know, before some ENORMOUS asshole figured out extremely high doses of it could get you high and basically ruined research into the drug for decades.

This is the type of thing you actively Don't publish. Let alone publish with a practical how to guide on how to do it. Someone please b**** slap these idiots to see if it jump starts at some bloody common sense.

Rephrased: Oh, ****, we can't get oil from Russia. Guys? We need to speed up that renewable energy thing!

While Cyberpunk may have flopped, the idiots hosing away their stock seem to have forgotten that CD Projekt Red also owns the GoG game distribution platform, which is still going strong. The company isn't going to fail on a single bad game.

... I'm way more worried about this sentence: "mixing human and monkey embryos" This is how we end up with Man Ape supervillains. Who let this guy outside a sanatarium?

This seems to fall firmly under the "No shit, Sherlock" sort of realization. I mean, as an author, someone looking at my search history would probably get the impression that I'm a serial killer astrophysicist, who likes long walks through the red light district with a nun, a rabi, and a Shinto priest.