If a lawyer was involved, it’s highly likely that he or she would have heavily resisted going public on this until all legal avenues has been exhausted, because if it went to court there’s a good chance she’d blow the entire case up if she tried to use her public forum to extort the other party.

Indeed. Divorces can take years and if there’s a watertight financial control order in place, I can’t see it being dissolved overnight.

It’s less ‘New Enterprise’ but rather they finally made the Enterprise-F canon - it’s been in Star Trek Online for years.

The console ‘high-end GPU’ is still the equivalent to a mid-range laptop part and it’s priced cheaper because they know MS/Sony are going to shift X number of units...

They’re also likely styling out the fact that they had to overpay for silicon and manufacturing capacity during the crypto-boom and even though the demand isn’t there anymore, the component/manufacturing partners won’t reduce their quotes, so this is built into the prices to keep the shareholders happy...

Grand Theft Animal

Maybe they’re happy to let Schreier continue to do it because they know nobody will see his output as he’s blocked everyone on the internet who dares question his output, figures or why he sees himself as an internet paragon whilst also using his ‘fans’ to dogpile the people who question him?

I guess the problem with vertical integration is you become insular and think that you a) know everything and b) can do everything as well as (or better than) everyone else...

...and when that involves grifting magic digital money, its destined for disaster.

But is this not just a case of ‘all is rosy so we can afford to be nice’. They’re no Google, but the second GamePass has it’s ‘Netflix 2022' moment and the service suddenly stops growing or even contracts, I can see Microsoft’s pleasant demeanour disappearing quickly...

I think it stopped being a spoof and very quickly pivoted to homage early in the first season.

The reasoning may be different, but Bungie definitely archived off a load of content people likely paid money for, with no way to access it, for no obvious ‘reason’ other than they weren’t given resources to continue to support it, which either says ‘our product is badly written and the only staff who wrote the code…

I’ve tried plugging a USB DVD drive into a Xbox Series S and it’s not recognised, so implementing it could be something as simple as adding a generic USB driver, but my guess is if it was going to be an external drive, it would be a proprietary unit with some DRM and an excuse to sell it for >£50 to offset the digital…

Most patents are, by design, super convoluted so that they fit into a specific use case.

Most patents are, by design, super convoluted so that they fit into a specific use case.

Probably due to Battlesector also just getting some DLC.

You’re not wrong here - it’s most clearly highlighted when adults try to get their children to enjoy stuff from their childhoods. Some things work, but most stuff just falls flat...

I’ve tried to introduce my children to some retro games (via a SNES Mini, Sega’s MD Classics & some older 90's PC releases) and apart from…

GamePass for PC is fine due to the strange ‘dual account’ system MS kitbashed into it, but the GamePass for Xbox/XBL sub can only be used on an account’s ‘home’ Xbox.

Star Wars had hundreds of ‘hours’ of semi-canon written material though (well, up until the point where Disney de-canonised it).

Star Trek, even more so than Star Wars, has always used hand-waves papered over with pseudo-sci-fi exposition, so it was actually refreshing that they did that!

Done stolen that meme like some celebrities NFT!