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Please don't pull a notch, please don't pull a notch...
Put on your https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Postone hat and the time portion is especially key here.
I hope they can handle this unlike Notch (Minecraft) - reckoned becoming a billionaire overnight ruined his life.
It looks more like it showed that he's an asshole to entirety of the world. Ruining he did of his own
- Vastly different wealth makes you unable to relate to normal people
- You have to justify that somehow to yourself and maybe others
- The easiest answer is that you're successful because you deserve it and that means other people also deserve their relative failure
- Resentment builds and you treat people differently because you see them as both failing and deserving of their failure, instead of through the lens of luck that would take away all the ego credit you built up from your perceived success
This happens in pretty much every category - top athletes think they trained harder, executives think they have a better business mind, etc. Seems like artists are the most likely ones to realize that they just got lucky and can't really claim much credit. There was a great article from the creator on the end poem in Minecraft recently about this - they literally wrote the poem but attributed it to luck/god/muses/pick-your-magical-force so didn't feel justified in claiming the royalties even though they could sue Microsoft for a DMCA violation on every copy of the game sold
Worth noting that in the Steam store it says Windows only right now. (no Penguin/Linux yet)
Works great on Proton so: 6 hours in with ~20 dwarfs and decent automated production
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$2m in the bank is enough to easily draw $100k/yr from interest, which fits the GP’s “set for life if we make wise choices” IMO. That is way above median income in wealthy countries. Assuming you don’t try to live in SF!
Even in the US, $100K/yr puts you comfortably above median income. If I had $100K/yr of GUARANTEED income, I would stop working for money and do whatever I felt like for the rest of my life.
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If they’re smart they hopefully have incorporated and will only need to take money out of the corporation to pay themselves to cover their expenses. So they won’t pay tax on the full amount up front and will have most of the money pretax for future business expenses
I would guess Steam will only distribute games from companies for legal reasons...so most likely, yes.