Right, but production cost has also increased steeply. Game scope has increased across the board, every asset is much more detailed (expensive) to produce and every developer is now more expensive than in the 00’s.

Ocarina of time reportedly cost ~12 million. Breath of the wild is estimated closer to 120 million, not counting marketing budgets for either.

Now games have gotten more popular but they haven’t gotten 10x more popular.

Right, so in your version of this world, who is the fascist? Germany?

They exist. They’re just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don’t see kicking down as humor.

It’s less uneducated thinking and more “here’s a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others”.

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It’s a little like saying “people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer” while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people’s behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

And just like that we’re now all focused on the couple of (quite frankly) idiots that are burning consumers’ Teslas instead of the unsold ones at dealerships. Again. Just like every discussion of a protest is not about the tens of thousands of people protesting but about the 10 people looting.

Looks like the attempt to control the narrative is working as expected.