And to protect the public IS what the cops are paid to do, right?

I have to whatabout, but the Disney deal with Fox should have been looked at even more closely than the Microsoft-Activision deal.

Ok, since you had a hard time understanding that...

Oh yeah its pretty bleak, especially sitting over here in the US going “I wish our side of things was even doing that much” and then realizing our laws are even further behind even if regulators were wanting to do more.

Mate, did you have a stroke in your first paragraph or did kinja/predictive/autocomplete mess you up? (please read as playful, not insult)

So what’s the reason for the change in EU regulators focus?

...it’s a little strange to me why this merger has gotten so much scrutiny while others haven’t.

I’ve donated a not-insignificant amount of my time and money to progressive candidates but im going to enjoy creative mediums and I separate art from artist.

After all, not caring about anyone but yourself is the cornerstone of being nice.

So, you were never interested in being nice in the first place if that is still your take away.

For someone who theoretically actually wants to say nice things, you’re certainly really upset at the possibility that maybe just doing whatever you want might not actually be nice.

Look at the astonishing degree to which you’re advocating “don’t say anything nice.”

That’s what I refer to as “crazy” - making ill-intent your default assumption.

What do we do about it, though?

It’s crazy that that is the reality. That hyper-competitive people are so warped and twisted inside that they’d consider positivity to be an attack.

So you can say with 100% certainty that no one has ever expressed something positive at the end of the game and meant it in a less than positive manner? You can say no ones ever been disingenuous with a positive statement before?

How what is crazy?  

Wouldn’t the toxic people be gaslighting you into thinking the emote is always a negative thing?

Being positive at the end of a game has always been controversial. Its not something that suddenly sprang up a couple of years ago. Its not some new phenomenon. Its the same thing we’ve been dealing with for decades.

Most of the time, when I see gamers calling something “toxic,” I turn into Inigo Montoya from The Princess Diaries—“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”