Is that not on Krafton for buying Unknown Worlds for $500 million, and then offering an additional $250 million if they achieve particular goals?
If it was unrealistic, then don't buy the company for that much, and provide a contract with those terms.
From Unknown Worlds' perspective, it would have been irresponsible not to take the deal, assuming no other conditions.
That Krafton's CEO got buyer's remorse isn't their problem to deal with. Caveat emptor and all that.
To be fair, $500 million is a lot of money.
You can barely blame them for not wanting to turn that down.
Should it pan out as planned, they'd get another quarter of a billion. That's money enough that if you're halfway sensible with it, you and your descendants would never have to work again.
Even when evenly divided across the entire company, it's still a life-changing amount. ($1.6 - 2.3 million per person)
An ice-cream cake is better eaten with a spoon, for example.
It's one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.
A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.
I don't know about that. It's more likely to have been for categorisation reasons. They're the same sort of disorder where severe Asperger's has strong overlaps with ASD, so they might have been bundled together to avoid confusion when it comes to diagnosis.
Because the form of autism most people are familiar with is the high support needs versions, where someone will never mentally mature past being a child, and will need lifelong care.
ADHD doesn't have that counterpart, so it and lower support needs autism were simply seen as personality failures and eccentricities that could be corrected, or left in place without harm.
"If only you would concentrate harder and were more careful"-type business. A lot of people still have that association with autism and ADHD.
It's also quite unexpected, given that it's Apple, and they've traditionally made more expensive machines, with worse hardware. In my country, for example, it is nearly unheard of for a new Apple computer to cost less than four digits/US$800+.
Particularly at a time when it's more typical to hear of new computer prices going up instead, due to shortages.
Bring back trinary computers.
…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.
Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don't replicate quite as well.
I don't miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it's on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer's booting up.
It really is a terrible business. I had a friend who went the United States once, tried it, and then had a psychotic break where he started thinking he was a male sheep.
He ultimately had to be sent to a farm upstate for treatment. Some place called the Ram Ranch.
I can never quite tell whether that means that they loathed it, or that they went mad for it.
That's the trouble, you see, most people have moved onto multiverse cardigans now.