Just to push back, Microsoft has actually released a lot of first party titles with their acquisitions and its not that much of a mixed bag, most of it has been really well received. The problem is people seem to forget the ones that weren’t exclusive even though they were finished sometime after an acquisition, and…

Yes and no. From the point of view of killing Joel, in an anarchistic world Abby and her team were the good guys and were justified in punishing Joel for the small crime of condeming the world. In the greater context where her little found family joined up with a militia to preserve their own lives and likely did many…

You couldn’t accept that Joel was a bad guy to some, I get that. But Joel would have done the same thing in that situation. Because he didn’t live in a black and white world of good guys and bad guys, his world was more grey. To be a good guy to some you had to be a bad guy to others. So even by Joel’s own compass, he…

So you’re just going with confidently stating that every kind of evidence that doesn’t agree with your bias is categorically false, and yet it’s us who are trolling.

Your trying to excuse China by highlighting something similar from America doesn’t really do anything. There is a point somewhere where it no longer serves anyone to rank evil against other evil. If you could factually point out the US bodycount was x times larger than the Chinese bodycount (which seems likely), that…

This is actually really good trolling from you, you and daba daba are doing so good at this. So again I am just going to reply to any others reading this thread.

Its very true that western propaganda colours a lot of the things being spoken about here. There are a lot of lies, and we are right to approach things we…

This is true. For example many people are crying out about Liam taking over as Geralt, but if he wants to bulk up like Cavill, well we’ve seen his brothers, he has access to every aid he could want to do that. I could see him nailing it.

You got to the part where you’re finally playing as the good guys and that was the nope bit. Well that is certainly a take. Well done I guess.

The key difference being that Sony has been a well oiled production machine for a while now, while Spencer inhereted Mattrick and Harrison’s best attempts to ruin the Xbox franchise forever. That takes a lot more undoing before you can even really begin heading in a good direction.

I don’t think you have a really good grasp on how long term video game development is, and how when something gets messed up it takes an absolute age to fix. You can track this across many many large studios and publishers, the work of correcting a course that was set for the wrong direction takes forever in this…

Please. You’re killing me. :,D

Yes. Loads of companies. The work I do for the company I work for is critical to the running of the business. But it for sure doesn’t take 8 hours a day 22 days a month. Not even close. This is true for a thumb suck of 85% of my colleagues across multiple corporate companies I have worked for.

I fear we will never see a better world as long as the stock market and board of directors/shareholders concepts exist as they do today.

What you described as the intent does sound a bit more like the Phil I am used to hearing. But agreed, they for real needed to work on that speech more if that was the case, because it was saying one thing while using all the dog whistling opposite things.

Microsoft dog-fooding their future adoption of ChatGPT into…

all of this is literally the exact opposite of what a troll would do

There is absolutely no comparison between the US and China.

I don’t know about that. I think execs cancel games lightly all the time to the detrement of the devs who take it more personally.

I mean, his boss just fired ten thousand people, of which some percentage were under his pervue.

This I feel is probably the most accurate take. I still think its poorly worded, because even if you take the most nefarious meaning to be true, its still kind of oddly fumble-worded to not even be clearly negative. I feel like there will be a clarifying statement in a few days.

“I got that reference”