A fool and his money, people really confuse success with cleverness, intelligence, and even foresight, often successful people don’t even know why they’re successful, and statistically it rarely has to do with their personal choices, it’s often dumb luck, people rarely have original ideas and make novel choices, human gonna human.
I used to be a manager at a smoothie shop. went to like two banks a day with different business needs, guess that’s not allowed… who knew?
It’s not an issue of prediction, or prophesy, it’s that all the available information right now looks like a classic bubble. could it find profitably? idk. is it profitable? No. is there billions or trillions in debt changing hands too fast for anyone to keep track of? yes. is someone selling somke? most likely these are the situations in which con artists thrive. probably not everyone is intending to sell smoke. but not all of this is going to work out, some may come out on top, but some will fall, and that will be a bubble.
yeah, the magic system was gone and magic wasn’t viable, then they downgraded every form of alchemy enchanting and so on. smithing was a nice feature, but it’s kinda badly designed as you just end up crafting an excess of arrows, bolts, or daggers until you max it out. it’s just a much more hollow game in the end. they didn’t need to simply any system that far, it’s not like people who aren’t interested in custom spells are gonna be mad spellmaking exists. they just won’t do it.
also the empire started in Skyrim the original Emperor was a Nord, so… Skyrim IS the Empire, as much as anywhere else or more.
time preseption is easily broken, it’s not a very good internal process, I took too much one time and in a single sentance sometime said to me I experienced years between the words just eons of space time melting through reality. but really I was just tripping balls.
It’s not a bubble because of guess work, it’s a bubble because AI companies are taking on absurd amounts of debt, are trading that debt very quickly between themselves, and none of them have been able to show a profit and they are cheating every number in their favor and it still isn’t showing any profitably. so it’s not if the bubble bursts, it’s more, will this bullshit keep going if they never find profitably. all their avenues are pretty garbage, tokens are replacing payroll as a cut target for business, and the productivity they provide is not meeting need, AI slop is unpopular, police and military are slowly realizing a language model isn’t a reliable detective/ director of operations, also voters are alarmed they are trying to let AI do literally one of the most dangerous jobs you could trust to what’s effectively a particularly verbose racist toddler