Bricking is slang, so it’s always the right word. Slang has no true proper use. The dudes can’t use their boxes, from the user perspective, it’s been bricked.

According to the author of the article, it’s personal units. Gifted or not, they are not MSFT property.

Don’t worry guys, the CEO of MSFT is cool and hip, he’s got this

I’m sure Microsoft’s wonderful PR machine can fix this.

LOL I think I quested for like 150 hours for the first EQ epics, never did come close as the original Shadowknight epic quest was redonkulous and required multiple raids to level 60 areas requiring hours and hours of farming raid mobs hoping for a rare spawn.

I know how the corporations want the legal system to view it, as a license.

Ok to be fair, I harsh on Witcher 2’s combat all the time (vanilla plain sucked, lets face it) but CDProjekt worked hard on fixing it.

Witcher fans remind me of LDS. Constantly knocking on your door telling you how great their thing is (WItcher 2) and how bad and wrong your thing is (Skyrim/Dragon Age/Dark Souls).

So, drink a cup of maybe poison and either become a Witcher/Warden or die? I think we need a new trope now.

Some people seem to think that an NDA is a holy parchment. It’s a bullshit legal document drilled up by mediocre corporate lawyers on power trips.

Indeed, but this is a highly debated power that corporations currently have. It is completely anti-consumer and with the right legal team, can be upended.

Yet corporations and millionaires get out of contracts ALL THE TIME. You’re delusional if you think the wealthy and powerful play by these same rules.

We already have something for that, it’s called the legal system.

Did you know that most EULAs and NDAs are nonsense that would not stand up in court if anyone had the time or money to fight them?

Breaking an NDA is fine, but bricking YOUR PERSONAL CONSOLE is way over the legal line.

Games for Windows Live and Steam say no.

This is the evil, essentially unchallenged practice of draconian EULAs. According to the console makers, this is legit because their EULA and NDA’s spell it out.

Her ratings back then, would probably dwarf Conan’s ratings today. By a lot.

Yeah trying to watch Wilmore is painful. It’s always on the verge of maybe being good, but never gets beyond “so what’s the point of all these people talking again?”

Why would they want that when they can instead have a Bro outside of the US with a horrible history of unfunny tweets and mediocre stand up gigs?