They’re trying to milk it as much as possible to pump their memecoin, I’m not on Rockstar or Sony’s side here but Cyberleek are doing that hence why they don’t just release their build with maybe a donation address unobtrusively below like the self-respecting crackers instead of the giant watermark on every snippet of footage they release

I suppose you could have a more favorable reading in that they also actually care about Sony keeping disc drives in addition to making money, once they release a playable build they give up all their leverage, have nothing left to threaten with to push Sony etc to keep physical media readers around(if they actually gaf about that)

Judge for yourself

Maybe it’s just the cynic in me but imo they know TakeTwo\Rockstar won’t ever do that, great way to get publicity, ah well hope they release the build regardless

They’re down around 30% from average output, they could theoretically make up some of the supply interruption caused by the Hormuz blockade and recent Houthi attacks on the KSA’s output, through the Druzhba pipeline that goes through Ukraine(as in territory held by the Kiev governments’ forces) to Slovakia and Hungary, it’s currently supplying about ~165,000 barrels per day, but has a capacity of 2 million per day however it transports crude oil to refineries in western Europe, not refined diesel so I don’t think this deal covers it, their actual ability to supply diesel to the US and other markets is limited as it stands

If trump and co want to bring prices down they’d either have to supply logistics somehow, or incentivise Russia to sell crude and Europe to buy by removing sanctions on petroleum exports more broadly( which wouldn’t require the EU to lift its sanction which only applies to Russian seaborne oil exports), or swallow the defeat in Iran and do what they need to do to get supply moving again there

merely that most recent ones have been directed at things meant for entertainment and personal use.

Most are, the Sugar Boycott surprisingly boycotted sugar(a good for personal use) produced by slavery, the Boycott against South Africa boycotted buying goods(for personal use) from South African companies, and included artists refusing to play gigs there and criticism of artists that did, sometime leading to them losing gigs elsewhere like Laura Branigan who lost bookings in the US after playing in SA(entertainment)

An angry billionaire tweeting their evil bullshit can be, but isn’t perceived as such by the general populace enough to avoid purchasing a game licensed from them.

After Kanye West’s anti-semitic tweets, a boycott of his brands like Yeezy began e.g. His branded Adidas shoes(personal use), his music(entertainment)
Eventually leading to many companies cutting their ties(endorsements, appearances at festivals, selling of ‘Yeezy’ licensed goods etc) with him, this led to him losing his Billionaire status(he’s now worth ‘just’ $400 million according to forbes, so perhaps not a ‘total victory’, but seeing Joanne have a similar reduction in wealth and mainstream reputation would lead me to seeing it as a successful boycott),
this shows people can and will get inspired to boycott the licensed products of a billionaire if they tweet some bigoted shit

The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to desegregation of the transit system there and helped ignite further civil rights causes, marches, protests etc(although it’s still not a complete process the US still discriminating against its Black population)

The Sugar boycott led to the fall of several sugar firms and eventually led to Britain abolishing slavery

The Boycott against Apartheid South Africa led to several south-african companies going bankrupt and eventually to the fall of apartheid

And most pertinent to this discussion as it was against a single person and their revenue streams the origin of the term ‘boycott’: the shunning of Charles Boycott by Irish people, leading to massive social and political reputational loss, forcing him to flee Ireland

Not to say that boycotting a single show(or all media based on her IP) to harm the profits of a single bigot is quite comparable to ending the triangle trade or South African Apartheid, as said it more like the (successful)Boycott of Charles Boycott. Anyway to say their haven’t been successfully boycotts is ahistorical