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Found their "financial reports" in the community posts on youtube
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Either they are retarded and can't to math or I am. No idea how their warchest correlates with reported net income and no information on their assets at the beginning of each report.
 
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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Don’t know if this belongs here, but after 33 years, Game Informer is shutting down, all staff being laid off.
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Like most old media the first thought is "that was still going?"

I can't think much of anything about Game Informer other than gaystop always shilling it.

Do have one memory of buying a Game Informer mag only because it was the reveal of RE4 and the rest of the Capcom 5 (Killer7) and looking at the cover date and seeing it's been over 20 years is making me feel my age.
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(leave it to fucking redditors to be unable to take a proper photo or scan of a magazine cover.)

Also couldn't help to notice the announcement for a dual screen portable system by Nintendo up top.
 
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Edit: I wasnt logged in and twitter only showed me YEARS old content for some reason, making me think the guy was almost silent on Twitter.
His current front page is not too retarded so I guess is OK too...

Frost Twitter account has had 4 posts between MAY 2021 and now (Second Wind resigntion) I kinda have to appreciate the guy for having zero spergouts on twitter by not engaging on twitter. A story in 2 posts:

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I really liked the guy, which I discovered at the Escapist debacle with the Second Wind channel.
 
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The last time I read that dirtrag was when they had printed some shitty op-ed near the front of the magazine sucking off Mafia 3 (this was around the time that game was released) as being this great game and why we need more games that push the message along with crying about Gamergate and how evil it was.
 
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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Don’t know if this belongs here, but after 33 years, Game Informer is shutting down, all staff being laid off.
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This makes me sad, not because the magazine was any good. But it had a strange  heart to it. The cringe worthy jokes or puns didnt feel like a corporate entity failing to connect with you, it felt like some unmonitored retard made himself laugh and put it to print. It wasnt pretty, but Game Informer had it's moments imo.
 
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Crustacean Supremacy said:
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Cheers!

Also holy moly they're losing money and now contextually we know they fired their sales guy. What a disaster. I'm not financial analyst but I sincerely wonder how they Ended Q1 with $222,117.95 on hand, lost $13,678.79 in Q2 (which would put them at $208,439.16) but still somehow arrived a different number for "end of Q2" - they claim $182,873.78 or in laymen's terms a fucking Twenty Five Thousand Dollar Discrepancy. You should probably do a sanity check on this stuff if you're trying to be transparent because it sure looks like "oopsie whoopsie we lost 25k somewhere".

The sales team also looks like they drove sponsorship revenue hard - going from $5500/month in December to $23,200/month by June, lending some credence to the theory that the sales team was actually good and Nick firing one of them was pants on head retarded.

Sebastian allegedly dropped the salary info in the SW discord and it's allegedly as follows.
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They said this was "out of date" and my best guess is this was what they were making at Escapist. If it's out of date - I'd have to guess it's the Bi Weekly model and Yahtz was taking $325,000 and Nick $209,092 - which means that the Warchest couldn't pay Yahtz's salary for more than a few months. If we assume (for some reason, idk) they get paid monthly then that moves Yahtz to taking $150,000, which seems insanely low for his draw. That would also put the lower paid folks at $45k/year (before taxes) which sounds bonkers - like literally quit today and be an ASM at Starbucks.

Nick paying himself literally twice what nearly anyone else makes is insane given how the company is struggling. It's unclear how ownership is handled too - if they effectively split it 12/13/11 ways or if Nick/Yahtz have a "Lion's Share" but no matter what they're in some deep trouble and fast.

If that salary list is even close (and I'm sure it is, given how many low salaries are on it) they need a minimum of $55,127 per month to stay afloat. Going by their own documentation it's actually $74,377.66 per month (Salaries / Contracters from Q2 divided by 3). They aren't going to have much time to figure this out at the current rate and any major speedbump could derail the entire operation. Despite the CEO trying to diversify their income stream - they are still 60% reliant on Patreon as a single income source. If people rally against that (or they get banned or whatever) it's lights out instantly.
 
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While Alyssa Mercante is stalking everybody's favorite Quarter Pounder, The Quartering, today she's running a Trans Lifeline stream called GET RICH OR DEI TRYING with her so-called "Famous Celebrities" like Kaceytron, a male ally cuck name Brendan Groom, and Christie the Tranny "MILF". The goal is to reach over $2500 while playing shitty woke-related games like Valorant, The Sims 4, and Overwatch 2.

Her Tiltify Donation and Auction

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And as a bonus, this is how much of a male feminist allied cuckold Brendan Groom is.

EDIT: And remember, no TERFs and Donald Trump supporters allowed!
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Tanner Glass said:
lost $13,678.79 in Q2 (which would put them at $208,439.16) but still somehow arrived a different number for "end of Q2" - they claim $182,873.78 or in laymen's terms a fucking Twenty Five Thousand Dollar Discrepancy
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I am more troubled by the discrepancy between December 23 and Q1 24. In December they reported a warchest of $195,386 and ended Q1 with a net income of $109,646, yet the warchest at the end of Q1 is $222,117 and not $305,032 - almost $83,000 difference in values.
Also, salaries seem to be for a monthly model. They claim in Q1 and Q2 to have spent $170,911 and $223,132 on them including freelancers/contractors. Summing this table up we get $68,877 for a single payout. Assuming bi-weekly model, they would be spending around $150,000 a month, going against the reported values. But if this was a monthly model, then they would have spend around $137,754 in Q1 (accounting for the fact that they only paid salaries for two months) and $206,3631 in Q2, which aligns better with the reported values.
 
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Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Don’t know if this belongs here, but after 33 years, Game Informer is shutting down, all staff being laid off.
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The articles weren't memorable, but as a kid I liked collecting the magazines for the cover art. Oftentimes for games on consoles I didn't own:
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They might as well have closed the whole company when it went digital. You can't even view the old covers now that the website is shuttered.
 
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Frosted Snowflakes said:
While Alyssa Mercante is stalking everybody's favorite Quarter Pounder, The Quartering, today she's running a Trans Lifeline stream called GET RICH OR DEI TRYING with her so-called "Famous Celebrities" like Kaceytron, a male ally cuck name Brendan Groom, and Christie the Tranny "MILF". The goal is to reach over $2500 while playing shitty woke-related games like Valorant, The Sims 4, and Overwatch 2.

Her Tiltify Donation and Auction

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And as a bonus, this is how much of a male feminist allied cuckold Brendan Groom is.

EDIT: And remember, no TERFs and Donald Trump supporters allowed!
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So she managed to raise over $22K for a bunch of selfish trannies. And it's all thanks to her allied paypigs and paycucks like Jessica Star, Adam Schlesinger, Samantha Beart, Mike Drucker, SpawnOnMe, RobertMakesGames, WWE superstar LA Knight, Stacey Henley, and many more on the list. What a waste of good money thrown away for a DEI & SBI screeching clickbait whore like her good little paypiggies and paycuckolds.

GET RICH OR DEI TRYING 15-hour Twitch stream
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EDIT: And she's rubbing the donation money all over Hypnotic's livestream. Watch until the end.
 

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