• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Its source is a wiki, noted in the bottom right corner. I’ve seen plenty of these numbers reported publicly before. By its very nature, it’s going to lag behind real time.

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      3 hours ago

      Funny you should say that, because I checked the source and they haven’t compiled the 2025 list. You know what would definitely halucinate one…

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          2 hours ago

          I see different figures for the list. The one in the infographic does not exist.

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            2 hours ago

            There were three edits in the past few days. Feel free to look at the diff, but I’m not making a Fandom account to do so. It would stand to reason that it was this list, and those three edits probably account for Palworld’s number being lower in the graphic and why the wiki has two more games on it, if they pulled the data more than a few days ago.

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              2 hours ago

              If only there was a pervasive tool nowadays that is famously inaccurate, likes to hallucinate and frequently cites deprecated data… Something artificial that slop content mill producing shitrags like the visual capitalist like to use… I can’t quite put my finger on it…

              edit: Fyi, that’s why any writer worth its salt puts dates on their citations and usually citations include urls. Just another piece of the puzzle that when put together screams “visual capitalist is a shitrag low effort content mill and people should not propagate their message”.