Then we have a rebuilt resistance and defected stormtroopers to have the final battle make actual sense.

There are actually plenty of workarounds that got discovered only a couple of minutes after the video got released but after me and a bunch of other people discussed it with Marcel Vos on his Discord server, he found easy fixes for all of them.

Do you think it’s illegal to assess potential acquisitions...? Or outspend your competitors..? Hate to break it to you but none of that shit is illegal. Acquisitions are not illegal. Mergers are not illegal. Outspending competitors isn’t illegal. Hell, if the last one was illegal, Epic would have been shut down years…

Company desires to defeat competition. News at 11.

Stop....you’re disrupting their attempt at a narrative....

You’re right, it felt like 8 hours of sepia tone.

I felt the same way about GTA, Spiderman and FF for quite a while.......weird that it is only a thing now that it is happening to PlayStation?!?!

I’ve only bought a couple of things from LRG and that’s one thing I’ve appreciated that they do open pre-orders. So if you want a copy you’re guaranteed one. They usually produce a few excess to sell at conventions and for replacements. 

This is probably the best way I’ve seen this explained. Good counter for the “what if Black Panther was white” types.

True. And for this specific case model, name and rep are practically the “product”. So even more so than most other celebrities. It should have been important that he could break with the promotion entirely, including de-branding name and likeness. I have a feeling that’s why he’s stuck. 

Or maybe, as libertarian-bros are always saying about whitewashed casting, she was simply the best candidate for the role?

Yea, this all looks like smokescreen tactics to me. Granted acquisitions and mergers are never good for the consumer by default, but Sony probably needed to buy time for their Exclusive IPs to take shape, as the pandemic and chip shortages had to have delayed releasing their top games 3+ years into the console launch.

I’m shocked. It’s almost like the arguments against the merger are mostly contrived. Sony doesn’t want the deal to go through because they don’t want MS to gain any market share, even if Sony currently has more than double the market share of MS. This acquisition won’t double MS’ market share and even if MS does make…

Because, it’s all likely but currently redacted, that Sony demands that same knowledge from MS to allow Sony owned studios, like Bungie, to develop stuff for XBox.
And they should have no legal protection of their “positioning”. Even merged, MS/Act/Blizz is still a massively smaller chunk of the industry than Sony…

New Kotaku story is “written” by “journalist”, uses excessive scare quotes.

i think it looks pretty good

VW ID.4, Ford F-150 Lightning, Cadillac Lyriq, Chevy Bolt/BoltEUV, and all Teslas are the only current EVs in fact that meet the full “made in USA” stamp of approval to qualify for the IRA 2023 $7500 tax credit.

“It’s Kravin’ time! Is...is that anything?”

Then I guess it’s appropriate that it was a worker revolt that disrupted the machinations of a vast faceless corporation.

This is the kind of cake the IGA that is not very close to us sells. I am glad it is not very close, because this cake is too good. https://www.google.com/search?q=carlie+c+iga+cake&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihz4bNrsv_AhU-GFkFHaHLCjwQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1309&bih=719&dpr=2.2#imgrc=mcGDNXf39DuYOM