While I firmly believe Epic is in the wrong, here, for the Fortnite shenanigans, this part gets murky for me.

They banned the team, but did they also ban these members from individually participating as part of other teams?

Attempts at inclusion that do nothing more than reinforce and expand on the stigmas and stereotypes about the group you’re “including” are, and will never be, inclusion.

Epic has never, and will never, be on any moral high ground.

While true in one perspective, under a democratic gov’t that doesn’t consider it a utility, that also means we collectively do not, either.

This is really what I think a lot of people in Europe just cannot really understand about the geography of NA, because it’s not the lived experience there. What you consider a rural or low populated area tends to be very different from what we do.

When it comes to vaping, that’s a drastically murkier reality. Apple’s ban there is widely seen as a preemptive measure to limit their risk here when it came to deaths already happening, the fact that many vaping apps had begun selling or advertising vaping substances which were becoming controlled (which does already…

The problem is that there are actual implications for allowing anything and everything.

There’s a fundamental problem with that comparison.

The difference between Sony and Apple is that Sony do actually provide and host the downloads along with other services.

You beat me to it and with a profoundly shorter post than mine, lol

Fair that is wasn’t the scope of success I said - you’re right.

Well, there were other bakeries when I wrote it - aka Android devices. Now, yeah, none of the bakeries in town will sell Epic’s croissants.

Ultimately, I fully expect Epic to fail in court.

From a market/antitrust standpoint, they absolutely still do where THIS argument between them and Epic is concerned.

And Google had followed suit and removed it off the Play store, too. Idk if it was ever supported on fire tablets, but that’s basically the full market saying “Fuck no, Epic, you don’t get to use our app delivery infrastructure and pay us jack shit”

True, I was looking at global! That’s a totally valid note.

Probably not.

Yeah, per your edit, I’d say it’s a reality that ‘99 was an EXTREMELY strong year. I mean, every year does have 5 or so great movies. But that doesn’t mean it has transformative films. ‘99 was unique because of how many films truly changed the future of cinema.

Tbh I didn’t make it to the halfway point. I just couldn’t tolerate it.