There is no chance. All the forecasts for RAM and component shortages are for multiple years, backed up by the fact that contracts for RAM have been signed for multiple years into the future between the fabs and the big tech giants.

Publishers set the price on Steam. Steam doesn’t control pricing.

Every country subsidizes their industries. The US automakers have gotten tens of billions in bailouts whenever they trip on their face, plus decades of tariffs against cars made outside the US so they play safe in their home market.

Do you even have a clue what the article is about? The ‘original’ design is in use. It is in the game which was released and is being played by people.

They would be nowhere if they didn’t have his money. Otherwise Musk actively hinders his companies with his idiocy. This is well known from SpaceX employees.

https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224?mx=2

The companies’ success is from being in fields that the employees are passionate about so they’ll grit their teeth and put up with it to be able to work there.

And fighting for free speech, are you kidding? He’s fighting for his own speech period. Anything he doesn’t like tends to get journalists temp banned or shadowbanned from Twitter for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensions#%3A~%3Atext%3DOn_December_15%2C_2022%2C_Twitter%2C%2C_CNN%2C_and_The_Intercept.

The enemy of my enemy is a useful temporary ally.

It’s this famous Hong Kong movie scene: https://youtu.be/szPqlLQxSGY?t=1m31s

The audio in the animation is the Mandarin dub, the YouTube video is of the Cantonese original.