MGM

Qlide

My MGM chips are worthless at the Wynn.

tied_laces

Not really but the inflation rate and the fed MGM’s plus jobs claims has a big effect. When people feel confident that they won’t be laid off or are will improve jobs prospects they spend more.

GregoryLeeChambers

The MGM Grand was completely engulfed in flames for 3 days and didn’t collapse. No steel structure has ever collapsed from fire alone.

Kiiaru

For whatever reasons, South Korea chose to subsidize animation, but not gaming, a move that they may come to regret. And for whatever reasons, Canada and the UK chose to do this for gaming. Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/video-game-subsidy-battle-heats-up-1.877686 12 years old and still relevant and proof that Canadian gaming subsidies have been around for a while. https://www.vg247.com/uk-game-tax-breaks-approved-by-european-commission#:~:text=To%20become%20eligible%20for%20tax%20breaks%2C%20a%20company,that%2025%25%20of%20British%20games%20will%20be%20eligible. 10 years old, UK offers tax break for game design. This also applied to film and animation being done in the UK. https://kidscreen.com/2013/04/04/tax-relief-for-animation-hits-the-uk-now-what/ As for South Korea. It's so common knowledge that they the place to outsource animation that there's a Wikipedia article dedicated to it as if it's a product from their country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_animation Read below if you want some half-assed cartoon history I spent too much time writing to answer a question you didn't ask. I'm not deleting it. But it's not important whatsoever. Ok. So I guess I'll start the story off with animation in America following WWII. Cartoons were up-and-coming and the US government thought it'd make for a good way to get their propaganda out so the government started subsidizing animation with the implications that cartoons would be made pro-america on issues. Disney made a few and I'd hyper link them if I knew how. https://listverse.com/2017/02/05/10-disney-propaganda-cartoons-from-world-war-ii/ I can't remember when the subsidies stopped, but they ran until the 60s. Basically encapsulating the "golden age" of animations. Tex Avery, Hannah Barbera, Chuck Jones, Warner Bros, MGM, United Productions of America, etc... It's a long list. Basically. All the old school cartoons. Im also unsure why they stopped, but I'd guess that with the rise in popularity of real film, the government pivoted to that? Idk film is complicated. Not that animation isn't but I'm familiar with animation. At any rate... Lacking the slush fund that got animation big, most studios in America found themselves struggling to keep the lights on (and by most, I mean basically all. To put it in perspective, even Disney was financially getting fucked after Walt Disney croaked) and ended up getting acquired by bigger networks to stay afloat. There is what is known as the Renaissance of Animation that took place in the 80s and 90s, and that is where the beginning of outsourcing began! (At this point I should've just made a YouTube video...) It was cheap to do animation overseas at this point. They designed the characters, wrote the shows/movies, story boarded it out, and then sent it over to Asia where labor is cheap and everything in cheap over there because it's the 90s. For some shows they'd have the important scenes still done inhouse in America too, and then outsource the ones they didn't care about (batman's animated series comes to mind for this but there were others).

hyperfaded_

The last statement is laughable. It's like saying MGM is scared of players lol. The house always wins.