• garretble@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “I was just stumped,” Newell said, sipping a drink on one of his many yachts. “Maybe I’ll get unstumped with my next yacht purchase.”

    Overhearing the conversation, George RR Martin, sitting on a pile of money, quipped, “Yes, and I am thiiiis close to finishing the next book.”

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      How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.

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            I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.

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              It sure sounded like you were. It’s because you said cash grab. That’s a negative attribute. You basically said it’s garbage but made him a lot of money. Along the lines of like the last 4 terminator movies.

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                Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.

                I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.

                It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.

                I do like Valve overall though and am a fan. I’m a fan that wants to know the ending of HL3.