I suspect - no he didn’t.

This mostly -

I basically stopped waiting for Sony and just bought an Xbox Series X. I’m sure I’d like the PS5 as well as my last devices have been Playstations, but I’ve been fairly unimpressed with Sony’s attempts to keep the market stocked and I’ve gotten the distinct impression that sort of like their exclusives, leadership…

I think you can pretty much give Cameron the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t an idiot and read it more as a story writing joke.

I read the original, not the edit.  So yea.

I mean you’ve sort of got him pegged. I’d contrast this with John Carmack who left Meta after 3+ years because he just couldn’t get anything optimized.

People act like companies can be “50 people” all the time because frankly they’re idiots. A startup can be 50 to 15 people no problem.

I mean I kind of agree with you? What’s interesting to me about this case is it’s making the argument Microsoft can’t grow this big because if it does, it can do the things other companies are doing which already suggests problems with the market to begin with and that things in it aren’t necessarily done towards an…

I was actually a member of the now defunct site Whedonesque. Whedon was absolutely a monster when it came to Nepotism. It was not only his family, but he would rely on the same actors in everything.

Exactly.

Sure - but that move to block distribution to other platforms would be a valid FTC case. The idea that someone COULD do that is not really that valid since most Games or Movie publishing is basically already based on a a monopoly of IP as a premise.

Ultimately the line between nepotism and privilege becomes indistiguishable at a point. If it’s not related to you the author in what you do then I think that’s fine. But all nepotism is by definition: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving…

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…