Dearest Vert,
As the CPU of Leanbox, I have recently considered that perhaps times might in fact be “lean” right now in economic terms, not the bendy kind. Why do I believe this? Perhaps it is presumptuous of me to think that my own perception is an indicator of the entire gamer community in the USA, but… I own both a Playstation and X-Box in their respective current era gen systems and rarely play the X-Box. Idk what it is… I just prefer the Playstation, but I think that is mostly because that is what I am most familiar with. As a wee lad I was blessed along with my brother to enjoy a Playstation and Sega Saturn game system. In retrospect I find that extraordinarily fortunate considering the cultural relevance of video games during both Gameindustri’s and my own formative years.
In any case, I also was blessed to enjoy the Playstation 2 as a teenager, and many years later, the Playstation 4, after I had ventured deep into adulthood. So, I’m kind of familiar and comfortable with Playstation by having the game systems be significant parts of my life. I skipped the PS3 because I was into PC games around the time it was released and had built a gaming PC specifically for Half-Life 2 when it was released, but also played a lot of the first expansion of WoW and Obvlivion, and enjoyed that up until I left the world behind for an adventure into the chaos wastes of the USA’s western region. I didn’t play much after that, and was more focused on developing my skill as a writer, artist, and being successful in the military, and found video games too distracting.
I think I enjoy them nearly as much as you do, which is why I specifically avoided video games during that time. I could not allow myself to get drawn into the virtual world the way I knew would happen if I even dipped my toe into the water. However, years later, during my final year in the Navy, I acquired a Playstation 4 and decided it was time to enjoy that patient desire of mine held close to my heart ever since I was a child. “All I want to do when I grow up is play video games for as long as I feel like playing, drink as much soda as I want while I do, and never have to worry about bed time or school.” That was my ultimate dream in life, and alas, I have reached it to enjoy the greatest possible delight that life could offer me.
Suffice it to say that magic is how I manage to finance my expenses, but not selfish magic. Magic that is useful for others and productive. It would be too complicated and tedious to explain the details of my intentional career choices through the chaos of random opportunities to be where I am today. That was a good seven years ago, in which case I have caught up sufficiently from where I left off, and I daresay I am somewhat of an expert on the subject.
The point, aside from subtly attempting to win your favorable interest as a potential suitor and guild member, is that I have some simple suggestions as to how I believe you could restore your share growth if there has been a decrease of late, as I am suspecting. First of all, the USA’s malignant government is doing nothing to help any part of the economy in the USA, aside from the ponzi schemers and corrupt scammers who profit off of everyone else’s work without generating anything useful themselves. However, there are some matters you can do much better with.
First of all, in the USA, our culture is one of Freedom, as you know. Not only does that mean freedom of expression through media and religion, but also freedom of sexual expression. Those three concepts are the main pillars of Freedom in the USA that makes our nation special and different from all others. Whether the government realizes it or not, the spirit of this nation endorses those concepts and will see them protected even if it is necessary to destroy the government with guerilla warfare to do so, just as we did to achieve our independence in 1776.
My advice: begin capitalizing on the demand for adult entertainment that the US citizens and everyone in the world wants. That does not mean making games entirely pornographic, but it is as I described on a stream: if there is a line between child audience and adult audience, the games being developed, all of them, I have never come across one that wasn’t, fall onto the child side of the line, even though adults can still enjoy them. Switch that up. Develop games so they are more geared toward adults than children. Two reasons: adults have the money and adults have more time that is suited for gaming. Children should be more focused on making themselves into an adult who will be productive in the community rather than enjoying entertainment and sharing their insignificant opinions.
Adults… we are disillusioned at some point and realize that there is really nothing we can do because we already passed through our childhood and no longer have the energy, motivation, or opportunity for doing what is necessary for starting a new life. So… we play the cards we are dealt by our own decisions, usually have to accept a life of humble, blue collar work, and if we do not trouble ourselves to have children so we can play more video games, there is very little else we can do with our free time after work. “Idle hands make for the Devil’s work,” as they say… so, make sure adults like me are fully entertained and satisfied by making the “incel” the primary target audience.
Trust me, that is what you want. “Incels”, despite the negative term, are actually pure hearted, childlike adults with strong moral integrity. If we do not have something to do, we want to find something to do, and most times that means working on “society” itself, which seems to disrupt things for tyrants because of our childlike ways. We tend to not care for all the adult drama and bull shit, and are content to playfully disrupt whatever by being a well placed fool at the correct moment simply for our own amusement.
We don’t have anything to lose, nor do we have anything to gain because of the ceiling that prevents success in the USA. We quite literally give no fucks about anything and that is what makes us so dangerous to you people. It’s not so much that we want to “change the world” and throw our lives entirely into the radical work of doing so even if we die, but there is nothing else that is worth doing with our time. We are in fact so bored, that dying wouldn’t be so bad. That, leaves radical social reform the only favorable option to keep a clean conscience and be charitable to others without having material wealth to give since we are prohibited from obtaining it. That is the easiest work and also the most useful, which makes for a good profit of spiritual treasure, not that the tyrants even know what that is otherwise they wouldn’t be tyrants. I wonder why they imagine that their positions are difficult to understand…
The downside of that kind of radical choice is that it leads to the logically conclusive realization that the common citizen is being militarized by the USA government to maintain oppression over others passively. In other words, the government uses taxes to do what is military work of a tyrant against a populous and thus every citizen becomes a combatant in the war we are fighting. Just because they do not have a gun pointed at us, does not mean they aren’t contributing to the problem, and that is enemy enough in a war for survival, which this kind of radicalism is. It would not be a problem for anyone if tyranny was illegal and prevented by justice systems, while charity and benevolent utility was the priority of all government operations instead. If that was happening, nobody would be mad enough to kill other people.
However… that is why people like me get a gun and shoot a bunch of Jews at their ritual site, if they aren’t able to fight with artistic expression they dedicated their lives to developing like I do. I will not get a gun and shoot them because I am more dangerous and destructive to them writing epistles like this. We are not afforded a means of combatting the nation of Israel on a level playing field, specifically because government suppresses the reach of our voice, ignores our criticism, and pretends like we are invisible, so we have to fight what is available, which is the other common people like ourselves, even if they are passive about it. Personally I hate passive aggression more than I hate hostile in-your-face aggression, so I gladly take the fight to those conniving bastards who cry and pretend like they don’t understand why they are the enemy.
My point is: the “incel” is the most important target audience that you want to satisfy with video game media. Not only is that going to make the most enjoyable games for everybody, but it will make for a safer community. That is because the “incels” are the true “Christ”, so to speak. They are at the very top of the social hierarchy by having moral authority over everyone else due to the passive evil of modern society which is tolerated and thus reinforced with active contribution due to the self-imposed ignorance of most people. That is what makes killing a bunch of random Jews at their ritual site morally acceptable. They are pretty much at fault because they gather like that, despite how much they want to deny the invisible reality everyone is aware of, including them. So, it always helps the community to clear Jews out whenever possible to do so.
Basically that’s about it. Make more adult games. Do you have any idea what kids are like these days anyway? Who the fuck cares about sexual expression or profanity in a video game anymore? Aren’t those old people dead? Do they even play games if they yet live? Seriously, tell the censors to fuck off, and be the first to pioneer into a tasteful adult media industry. I will repeat that: pioneer into the fertile, mineral rich land of the tasteful adult media industry that has not yet even begun development. (The Last of Us 2 was childishly bad both in taste and lack of realism due to the creator’s naive expression of nihilism typical of ignorant youth inexperienced with the big picture of life. Adult media is not only profane, intensely violent, sexually nude, or obscene. Adult media is intellectually stimulating to the heights of conceptual reality. Read the Shadow Singer for an example of how to do that while still being within your “normal” boundaries by being accessible to youth as well. You people don’t give me enough credit for what I do…)
Anyway, while you can still make plenty of “G” rated games, do not deny the “X” rated games either. Just ensure that your liability is protected by requiring a legally sufficient age verification to access. I don’t want to have to verify my age every time I log in, because I never have children in my home, but parents with children should also be able to enjoy that by a reasonable security measure. Most people probably don’t care what content their children access as long as it is legal. Don’t hesitate to ask if you want my help. I am not only suicidally bored without having anything to do with the low, artificial ceiling to prevent my business from thriving, but I am also suicidally depressed from various personal traumas. I would very much like to at least have a bone to chew if I am going to be stuck in this kennel for the rest of my life.
There may have been something else, but that is all you need to do to be profitable again. Just as the tyrants tell the law enforcement to fuck off so they can commit crimes, tell the tyrants to fuck off so you can make legitimate money with quality entertainment products and no limits to your freedom of expression.
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