I think you replied to the wrong post.

Yea, I was always confused as to whether or not I was supposed to be shocked. I saw what they were doing but it seemed... a little Khan-ish.

I’m also not sure how realistic it is to believe that you can protect stars from Twitter people.

I mean they’re both rich at this point so why not? Most people’s “mistakes” are “I hooked up with a deadbeat with no future.” The worst thing either of things will get out of this? That one or the other’s just a jerk.

A lot of running jokes in the audio community stopped working once the internet happened.  Because everyone was suddenly in on it, you were intruding on the movie rather than simply throwing in a sound that those in the trades knew about it.

Question: Has Chibi reached the same saturation level as grimdark in the 90's at this point?

Given the abundant evidence that game designers really can’t create games at this budget for “any play style” as the open world aspect or certain quests just seem to dictate specific things, going with the on-the-fly respec is probably a fair way to go.

Poor David Lowrey.

I think this is just one of those things like the Sony/Xbox stuff, where people have just stopped asking the really basic questions. Questions like - what constitutes transformative works, the rights of Youtubers in general, and Nintendo’s actual legal basis for its claims.

The recourse for that is either more legislation or forcing the FTC to define what it actually finds as anticompetitive and then holding them to thorough enforcement.

Umm no. Exclusivity has existed since the 8 bit era.

This is the accurate take.

I mean Fey is also one of the first showrunners/lead writers I’ve seen in SNL history where her casts kept showing up and not leaving.

It may also have a bit to do with what happened to journalism over time. Granted, coverage has always gone to the major players first and foremost. But there was a period there when it felt like all the coverage moved to them (instead of most) whether that was by design or because those companies were pushing for that.

I’m a strange person in that I am not in support of the merger but Sony’s/FTC’s arguments here are bad and shouldn’t stand.  Sony should also be looked at for their behavior in the Japan market by using exclusivity to prevent newcomers.

In law, you attack the argument your opponent makes. All of us can find the market definition bullshit, but if Sony/FTC can’t even win legally in their own made up definition then they have a bad argument.

They’re Microsoft.

For people who read more than Kotaku, keep in mind WSJ and others in business are paying attention to this because there’s anticompetition but also trade policy implications.

Microsoft has attempted to increase market share in Japan before. So no, it’s not really a bullshit argument. It might not be a market they have exclusive focus on, but outright dismissing it is tantamount to saying the Xbox employees and agreements signed by Microsoft in Japan over the years are essentially bullshit.

The FTC did that. The FTC, in an effort to make look MS larger than they were removed Nintendo from their definition of that market, because the Call of Duty argument was insane if Nintendo was included.