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I think the problem is, the FTC and Regulators have been asleep on the job so long, Microsoft can probably fairly argue a legal version of “why us exactly?”

This whole thing is so weird for me. I don’t really stan Microsoft, but the number of stakeholders that seem hell bent on holding Microsoft to a standard they don’t hold other companies to is kind of mind boggling. Microsoft IS NOT the dominant player in either the Console market nor the Game Development market.

Carmack is actually speaking to a fundamental reality of Tech in 2022. In order to create a product sufficiently polished you often have to staff up to levels that often create a lot of ineffeciency. Carmack came from id where a small team created a world changing game and if you wanted a job there, they didn’t care -

I mean there’s a comment on the same topic that Jeremy Clarkson and people like him should kill themselves which was well liked.

It’s more - given the competitive landscape the DoJ is already allowing, what’s the difference?

Meh - call me when a real antitrust case hits Apple, Google, or Disney.

Sorry - haven’t really been around. Not saying anything that having parents is a bad thing. I’m saying people doing stupid shit is not exclusively a “didn’t have good parents” thing. Drug use and alcohol abuse also occurs with people who also have had loving parents.  And you know what?  Most parents cover this.

While that may have worked for you (primarily answering just so you’re not sitting in the greys), understand your experience is not universal. My statement isn’t a negative statement about fathers. It’s a positive statement in the individuality of children and experience. Neither fathers nor mothers will be at all

You’re oversimplifying. The need that streamers (or cam people if you want to give it that) provide is for people who are lacking intimacy. It’s obvious THIS is not the best way to get intimacy, but that is the draw for these people because parasocial relationships can be deceptive.

It’s best to simply handwave them as celebrities at this point. These days it’s a distinction without a purpose as people like Logan Paul or Kaitlyn absolutely swim in circles that bring them in touch with other celebrities and by extension other people of power.  That’s their peer group, not the viewers.

So you have one pop culture moment fighting against another pop culture moment. I mean, that tracks.

Sometimes a victim doesn’t have to be perfect.  Sometimes an antagonist doesn’t have to be reasonable.

I think the problem is the type of person who might be inclined to “make someone feel bad” by doing killing themselves is often not the most logical person to begin with so going to the next level of framing someone is just probably a bridge too far. It’s fine for fiction I guess, but it ring’s hollow where if the

Honestly, I’m not sure I buy Faludi’s reasoning there. Douglas was the star in terms of selling the movie (at the time, he was a very big name so you can start with out of touch Star right there with drinking problems if I’m remembering correctly) and the executive’s language while outwardly expressing sexism simply

China is a bigger market revenue wise but it has a lot of drawbacks for a company (especially an American one.) Maybe if/when China comes back out of this nationalist/mercantilist phase the calculus will change for businesses, but a lot of American (or Western businesses) have to offset that revenue against

Exactly. If you want to make a movie now, how much value is there in thinking about the theatrical experience when all that detail you populated in the bottom right part of the screen is compressed into a 50 inch monitor on 1st viewing? It renders a lot of cinematographer/director conversations moot.

This is always a case of whose Ox is being gored. It’s absolutely fair to say an unfaithful adaptation can be superior. But it’s also fair to say that when something is made, “who is this made for” and “is this a rational decision?” GOT is an excellent example of making a show FOR the readers of the books, at least

Love Salma Hayak and I think this story is more tongue-in-cheek than the chat commentariat is taking it - but “Harvey Winestein came in to my trailer and suggested we just spoon for a bit.”

If you don’t take it the way Perry is saying it, as goofy coworkers figuring things out, you’re left with the creepy aspect.

You’re absolutely not. I love that film for being a romantic comedy with a few more rough edges than the usual.

It’s mildly interesting to me that it felt like in 1990 it was impossible to tell a story about two straight men having a deep friendship with anything that wasn’t superficial because of the fear that sort of relationship would be deemed too gay by the public and here we are in 2022 and we’re in the exact same place