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That would be fair, can't have that

I like stand-up. It's probably the only time of the day I see my coworkers. Also we don't do status reports or anything so maybe I'm just lucky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Everything I've listed is a non-exhaustive list of things CD Project did to get raving reviews for Cyberpunk on release. People may have forgotten about it but they did not allow gameplay videos, only allowed screenshots from promotional material and also promised reviewers that all the bugs and performance problems would be fixed by a day one patch.

So yes, they can and do influence reviews, even if not by literally sending money.

There's a lot you can do to influence the review that's not literally paying for it. You can do everything paid trips to your studio for a preview, you can review embargo it until the release date, you can dictate what screenshots and videos they can use and at the worst you can just not send a review code to a publication that didn't cooperate last time.

Or maybe you just have a rabid fanbase that thinks everything you shit out is gold so they harass reviewers that give a "low" score.

GDP is when you pay rent to yourself.

I really got into it when I realizef that I had to buy the cars and other vehicles if I wanted people to use them, rather than they magically appearing alongside workers.

The worst part of this is that if they retaliate as they should, they would just be playing into the escalation Israel has been scheming to pull the US directly into the war.

BalkanMapper videos on Youtube. These small boxes are news selected by him for the daily update on the ukraine war.

Well besides Kursk the fighting on the south is considered a different front too.

They are great until you actually need something from them

Clearly you can invest in the downfall of capitalism /s

All media is biased, that's why you read news critically.