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Sony charges a monthly fee to play online...

It's really getting to the point Gabe needs to cash out and turn Steam into a non-profit...

I trust him while he's alive, but some day he'll die, and who knows what will happen to Steam.

We could wake up one morning and find out there's a $10 monthly fee to access Steam's "services" including every game you ever purchased.

We can't just cost on the hopes nothing changes forever.

Did they ever get it to be actual AI?

Last time I heard about it they were just paying very low wages to people in India to watch everyone on webcams or something stupid

Ease of use, manages updates and just keeps it all together.

My first PC games you had to exit windows and load the game thru DOS, it meant we learned how computers actually worked, but it was a hassle.

Not really...

The reason it will domino is AI companies can't afford the hardware, so Nvidia "invests" in AI companies and trades hardware for shares.

They have like 100 billion just in OpenAI, which they're leveraging into loans to make more of the chips no one can afford.

If openai goes down, the banks call in the loans Nvidia has openai for collateral. So then Nvidia will have to sell all their other shares of other AI companies to cover the loans, and likely will have to drastically cut production of AI chips, driving the cost up.

Now all those other AI companies that Nvidia just sold, can't afford the higher price, because they couldn't afford a subsidized price along with shares.

As those companies fold, it makes even less people who would even want to buy those AI chips at any prices, driving Nvidia further down and maybe all the way to bankrupt

That's when it starts fucking with index funds and the wider market

But all those shadow banks won't really get hit. They're not holding stocks to make money, they're buried treasure chests filled with liquid assets in case of emergency. The only way they'd be hit is if the currency they're held in collapses. Even then, that method almost always includes safety deposit boxes with precious metals/jewels to account for that

You'll know because when it dies it's going to cause a huge market crash and take a shit ton of other companies with it...

Huh?

Assuming that's true it wouldn't mean "no", it would mean:

They do, but they used to too

The thing is, screens are cheap and there's no real reason to replace unless you're chasing top of the line which this isn't.

Save ~$100 now to always have an ad playing isn't a great deal

Well nVidia just sells the hardware to the AI companies, so even if the bubble pops, they won’t go bankrupt.

Except all those companies are in an investor circle jerk with each other...

If AI bursts it doesn't just hurt nvidia's sales of products used by AI.

Nvidia has over $100 billion invested in OpenAI:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/nvidias-investment-portfolio.html

And even more billions invested in other AI companies. Because the AI companies can't afford to buy what Nvidia is selling at the price.

This means Nvidia "owns" a bunch of those AI companies, and can take loans out on the valuation...

If AI goes bankrupt, all those investments are worthless, which means banks call in the loans that used it as collateral. It could easily wipe out Nvidia.

It's not just one surface level thing, even tho that's all you seem to have thought of. You're worried about a couple hundred million in sales like it's not sitting next to 100 billion dollar loan.

Like bro, come on man...

They're Stanzo's, the smell means they're quality...

They're nice

So...

It's not a bubble because...

"This is the largest infrastructure build-out in human history," Huang said of active and promised data center projects. "And so the AI bubble is, comes about because the investments are large. And the investments are large, because we have to build the infrastructure necessary for all of the layers of AI above it."

It's something we're sinking money into soley because we've already been sinking money into it, and we don't want anyone else to get ahead of us even though literally no one has found a way to monetize it enough to make back prior investments let alone new investments...

Like, he knows that's literally the definition of an economic bubble, right?

Is he just trying to grift dumb rich investors, or does he legitimately not understand his company could go bankrupt literally at any moment if the investor class ever comes back to reality?

Can't believe it took so long for the obvious reason:

"The survival and growth of the bunker 'colony' through the years, without producing own offspring, was possible owing to continuous supply of new workers from the upper nest and accumulation of nestmate corpses," the team concluded. "The corpses served as an inexhaustible source of food which substantially allowed survival of the ants trapped down in otherwise extremely unfavourable conditions."

They kept falling in, and the ones that died got eaten by the ones who didn't.

Once they could climb out, they all just climbed out as soon as they fell in.