That’s the right approach, for sure. My wife and I watched it, me having played the game, and her having tangentially seen me playing bits and pieces but basically knowing nothing about the plot. It was interesting comparing her reactions with mine, but I think I got more out of the show being able to compare to my memory of the game.
It’s how i always try to approach movies when they’re based on a game (sometimes books too). Still, i can’t say it did me a lot of good with how mixed bags some adaptations are (looking at you OG Mario movie and Uncharted)
Could someone just make, like, Raunchy Mastercard and just process payments from everyone including all the porn and weird shit that the other mainstream companies don’t want? It seems like the payment processors being puritanical dipshits is a weakness that could be exploited by an enterprising competitor.
But then again, we’re talking about a natural monopoly that has been in place for decades at this point. I wouldn’t expect them to exactly play fair.
One of the great mysteries of the 21st century is how a tiny number of US companies control most of the world’s payment processing, when it’s not a technically difficult problem.
You could implement an entire end-to-end payment processing system in a year with a team of a few dozen competent engineers. The only difficulty is getting banks and retailers to sign up to it, but when the big players charge so much and create so much trouble this doesn’t seem like it should be a tough sell. In most cases literally all you’d need to do is charge 2.4% instead of their 3%.
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