The overall trends are just flat out weird, to be honest, and I can’t blame Bloomberg for missing the mark on what the data is saying.

Yeah, that seems likely. Commuting of ANY form among white collar workers overall is down, after all.

“Sure I’m worth billions but I’m not getting a paycheck, so when you suffer, know that I’m right there with you, eating off-brand caviar, drinking Johnny Walker Green instead of Blue, and suffering other privations.”

I can’t really give Spencer credit for observing what’s blindingly obvious about the console/AAA side of the industry. I’ve got many reasons for thinking that the Activision buyout is a terrible idea, and this is a big one. The whole industry is careening towards a pretty serious reckoning, and nobody seems able or…

So I put sixty hours into the game, beat it, and I will be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that was more terribly written, and that’s the biggest problem they can’t fix.

Not quite, it’s explained better than I can above, but the short of it is they probably scheduled these sales months in advance. It is interesting, however, that so many senior executives who will surely be fired if this stupid idea backfires have been selling down their positions.

They probably aren’t, or weren’t before this went through. Every time a company does something stupid lately, it’s usually the result of an institutional investor of some sort having disappointing returns in a quarter, freaking out, and seeing what it can squeeze from its investments. Usually this takes the form of a…

In a broader sense, selling down their positions sets the table for them to flee if this decision fucks the company. Both of which now seem more or less inevitable.

The same people saying Microsoft can afford to lose a few thou are pissing blood MS might not be able to buy Activision at a bloated price.

While the actual crimes were not cool and should have been dealt with (within reason), gotta say this guy’s attention-seeking make me think if it hadn’t been highly visible he wouldn’t have given a shit or bothered calling the cops.

This guy’s just looking for excuses to not switch, that simple. “I don’t have an external outlet anywhere in my home” yeah sure OK bro I live in an apartment in a building constructed during the Harding administration and have one, but keep telling us that.

You’re right that the basic, no-frills versions of these vehicles are much cheaper. The asterisk, of course, is that most dealers don’t carry them and for a lot of people, even $30k is just too much for their budget.

And to some degree, as shitty as it is, I get it. The no-frills versions are neither as profitable nor…

Well, the whole function of owning a Porsche is to communicate “I have the money to own a Porsche,” which makes its buyers a bit less sensitive to price.

What, doesn’t everybody masturbate and then check out the comments on a video game website?

Or! Hear me out here! Permanent ban from all multiplayer for life. If somebody hits eight strikes they’re being a prick deliberately. There’s no right to online multiplayer. Kick them to the curb.

2050 is actually a reasonable timeline for humans to visit Mars. The main reason to do aside from being a rich man-child who wants to run away from his problems is that the technology to survive on Mars would translate to gains that lead to thriving on Earth. Pretty much every modern technology has, under it all, NASA…

I mean I would love if Embracer realized they were getting in bed with a real piece of shit of a regime but I suspect it was more the Saudis realized Embracer was unsustainable.

Google “Jamal Khashoggi” and start reading.

Yeah, what I saw of the gameplay didn’t wow me and then I found out you can basically be a giant homicidal dickcheese and the only impact on the game is a few NPCs are sad. Zzzzzz.

If this were a generic single-player RPG, I’d agree with you. But it’s one of the larger tie-ins/marketing tools of a franchise that Warner Bros, in particular, is very eager to try and revive. Whether it speaks to Avalanche screwing up, Rowling burning her bridges with a big chunk of her fanbase, or something else,…