Curious if they are gonna go the Games Workshop way and sue everyone that is making anything vaguely related to D&D.

Sony gave Fromsoft money to make Demon Souls and Bloodborne. Thus they get exclusivity on those IPs. If Microsoft paid Fromsoft to make an IP that would be fine.

Buying massive companies with hundreds of IPs wholesale for exclusivity is a huge escalation.

Crunchyroll isnt a brag 😆 it was a downgrade.

You’re saying you’re fine with Microsoft being 10 times worse than Sony tomorrow because today Sony and Microsoft are equally bad today. Because let’s not get it wrong, Microsoft is right now doing what Sony does, they’re petitioning to be worse.

Buying Activision Blizzard is a bad thing?

Because they’re not attempting to buy Activision/Blizzard.

Yes, it is irrelevant. The industry is not on trial, this one deal is. The FTC just has to decide whether this deal is bad for consumers/competition.

They’ve also gotten far, far cheaper to “manufacture” and distribute.

This Activision deal is not the same thing as Sony to buy up smaller studios one at a time. Sony buying a single studio does not significantly change the competitive landscape. This deal is on a completely different level, as the price plainly indicates. Those smaller deals can fly under the radar. The FTC is…

The third-largest company in the world (by market capitalisation in 2022) complains that a company which doesn’t even rank among the top 100 anymore doesn’t let them do what they accuse their competitor of.

Like when Sony bought Bungie and said no Destiny 2 on Xbox? Oh, wait, that’s not what they said. Shit, nevermind. Or when Sony bought Crunchyroll and said it wouldn’t work on Xbox. Oh, shit, again, it didn’t turn out that way.

Where’s all this shit Sony has been doing for over a decade plus? Please inform us.

Not all hate crimes are based in ethnicity. Even when they are, it’s not always distinguishable by a glance, such as in the case of the Irish and Rwandans. I’m not saying Squeenix shouldn’t put more color in their game, absolutely they should, but I’m seriously struggling to conceive of a dumber response than implying…

Yeah that’s never happened before. Serbia/Croatia/Bosnia etc totally aren’t a thing :P. Not all racism and hate crimes are rooted in skin color.

Even that’s suspect. The feedback mechanism of allowing firms to fail if they have bad ideas and the risk/reward tradeoff that liquid capital markets create is critical to the most efficient economic evolution and innovation.

In other words, all the time

Not just that but also too many attempts thought a command economy is a great way to achieve communism when it inevitably fails under its own constantly growing complexity.

Fully transparent communism is a winning strategy. the problem is that all of our real world communism examples are not transparent. This tends to breed corruption. We are not super transparent in the US either but since we have 4 year elections with proper safeguards to insure each state gets a fair shake it means…

In a way, weren’t Neopets the first NFTs?

They've copied everything, right down to the toxic online fanbase.