Black Myth Wukong isn't as big a deal as western people think it is. ( and other little snippets )

It is definitely going to be the best selling game from the East of all time so far. It has amazing graphics and has lots of variety expected of a AAA game. All in all it's a great game. However, it is nowhere close to beating the top players in the video game industry such as GTA.

Since it's launch, GTA V has generated 8.6 billion USD in revenue till date. Meanwhile, Black Myth Wukong has only generated 250 million USD in revenue so far.

Black Myth Wukong has taken Eastern video games to new heights but those heights remain below the peak of the US video games industry.

Starship launches are pretty much a guaranteed success in the days ahead and we can expect spaceX to dominate the space transport industry for decades to come. Tesla is also doing quite well for itself so far in terms of sales in the 100,000 USD plus department. This again puts the US in the lead when it comes to technology application.

East Asia is still going through a population collapse scenario. This everybody knows. Surprisingly less known is the fact that Cuba may have lost 10-18% of its population in the past two years.

Russia and Ukraine are both suffering heavy losses through this war. Both sides will be left weaker than before by the time the war is over. Russia more so than Ukraine as it doesn't have an EU equivalent to support it after the war.

Expect a new trillion dollar company to emerge by year end, and a new trillion dollar company to emerge every year after at minimum.

Israel - Middle east conflict continues. Saudi Arabia still unwilling to participate against Israel. Same for UAE. This makes three Western aligned nation states in the middle east.

Random fun fact - domestic bees may actually comprehend that humans are taking their honey and produce honey taking that into account. They are okay with that deal because they get protection in exchange. The bees can also leave if they don't like their place.

Singapore is going to keep growing economically for a long time. It is likely that their economy will grow positively for far longer than the economy of Taiwan would. Taiwan and Singapore are both perfect societies as the natural population of both these territories dies out but the nation state itself lives on.

The European Union is naturally going to expand all the way into Russia and one day take over Russia entirely. It is pretty much inevitable due to Russian culture being the easiest to assimilate for the Europeans out of all the neighboring cultures.

Israel's primary challenge is that it's population is getting assimilated with the natural population of the middle east over time. It is inescapable so Israel is going to become an arab population over time, resulting in it falling down to the common arab IQ over time.

Brazil's GDP has been growing on the back of trade with China. There is a real chance that Brazil's growth will stagnate once again over the course of the next few years. This would cause the South American population to stagnate over time. It is very likely that they will never reach the level equivalent to the quality of life of the average European.

Mexico's cartel problem is actually improving over time as the GDP per capita of Mexico keeps going up and it becomes more profitable to be in any business other than involved with the cartels. One can expect the cartels in Mexico to collapse or at the very least to become quieter with their businesses once the GDP per capita of Mexico crosses 30,000 USD per capita.

AI is overhyped to the degree that it hasn't yet developed capabilities that make it better than human, nor is it likely to develop any such capabilities any time soon. It would still be decades before AI becomes smart enough to be more than a tool that just made all research and design processes faster. The singularity is not near, because so far human groups have been able to keep up with everything that is going on.

The next stage of human evolution is going to be a single gender society. You cannot create perfect equilibrium with two genders where both are biologically programmed differently in the majority of cases. The transgender movement is humanity's first major attempts at going beyond the common human form, and there will be more such attempts over generations, in the long term resulting in humans with a single body type.

The west is trying to collect as many humans as it can because the west already has the global population models played out and knows that the global population decline is going to be far worse than anything presented so far. Expect global population to fall below one billion humans and most human societies to be unable to grow with a declining population. There is a great filter for nation states fast approaching and less than 10% of societies are capable of getting through it.

Africa's population could be safely assimilated into the rest of the world by 5 way splitting it among the rest of the continents in the correct ratios. Humanity will have abandoned Africa altogether in the centuries ahead.

Fun thought : Humans still haven't made the entire planet human friendly. It makes sense for humans to do so and turn the entire planet into a human friendly garden, then take that tech and apply it to anywhere else humans move to.

Even nation states with Nuclear weapons are losing relevance in the world today, due to the fact that these nation states still suffer from reaching economic stagnation and falling into decline, to the point that they start running out of people and funds to maintain their nuclear arsenals. There is also the fact that most nukes of the past could possibly be intercepted with present day technology and the political and future economic cost of launching nukes is too darn high. For context - Look at Russia. There is also a small probability where Russia may be willing to nuke its own territory to defeat the Ukrainians within if the Ukrainian operations end up being too successful. Pakistan also while being a nuclear capable nation state is very clearly failing. Being a nuclear power by itself is not enough in current year.

Nepal is going to end up being another failed nation state. India is the only crown jewel survivor nation state in the middle of Asia.

Globally liberalism is still winning. The US is continuing to move ever further towards increased taxation for corporations along with increasing quality of life for the poor. The US is well positioned to be a nation state with zero poverty and homelessness, while maintaining a high quality of living that cannot be caught up to by other nation states. The US wins due to competitors not being able to keep up. So far US left wing has only had to slow down in the case of transgenderism but even that has not reversed direction so far.

There is an attempt to connect all the places in the world via transport lines in times to create a permanent physical transport network. Chances are this project will be successful within the century, as all nation states are already actively working to be connected to their neighbors on the same continent.

Climate change will be reversed in another 50 years. Global wealth continues to go up. Self driving cars have turned out to be a far harder project than initially predicted.

GTA VI is going to make billions easily. Predecessor is also out now giving Paragon another chance to be a long term successful game. The Eastern gaming industry is not going to be able to catch up to the western gaming industry. There are just too many games. Trailer for directive 2080 is also out which looks interesting. Western gaming industry is doing alright if you look in the right places. The new black ops also appears to have a more action packed storyline than the other CoD games in recent time so that's a good thing too.

Tesla optimus robots are making good progress. Tesla might actually successfully become a robotics company and corner that market as well. We are nearing the point where wars will be fought by humanoid robots and drones on one side and meaty humans on the other. We can expect the US to start winning all the conflicts it participates in against non-developed nation states very soon. Replacing the human element is going to be the next success story of the US military services.

Pitbulls are being banned in developed nation states. Hopefully soon they will be banned across the board and pitbull extinction will take place. It is good that humans actively work to exterminate all types of life that are a threat to humans. We should also exterminate tigers and lions along with Mosquitoes.

Trans rights remain human rights. Transgenderism is the first child like steps towards transhumanism where humans move up to humanity 2.0 where humans are stronger, faster, smarter, due to technological enhancements made to them. Humanity is naturally going to reach that point where its evolution is controlled manually by humans themselves. It is an inevitability.

The entire high tech chain is going to be moved back to core west, meanwhile the lower end and middle tier technology chain is going to be outsourced to the rest of the world. China made all low and mid end tech cheaper but suffer from not being able to compete in the high end tech market.

The Russian people are going to get replaced by traditionalists from every other part of the world. There is likely to be a mass influx of Indians to Russia after the war is over.

Conclusion:

The world goes on.