Okay but also: get over yourself. Your acceptance of this world is a poison and the fact that you willfully coerce others into sharing it thru a high-minded narcissism is despicable. You are no better than any drug dealer. So fuck off forever.
Wheelerguy
wheelerguy
LOL what competition? The U.S. is the most acquisition-friendly capitalist society in the world. YOU GET AN ACQUISITION APPROVAL! YOU GET AN ACQUISITION APPROVAL! EVERYONE GETS AN ACQUISITION APPROVAL! The FTC is fucking useless.
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I had an ‘82 GL wagon, dark green, 4 speed manual, and the lifesaving 4 low shifter for Colorado mountain winters.
I got it for free from the neighbors when the clutch went out on my first car, the ‘89 Beretta.
I drove that thing into the ground, love-hated it as a 17 year old in high school but it always got me to… Read more
Thing is that is how a lot of human beings work and it’s really hard to prevent projected oriented task groups from winding up working that way. The deadline being far off at first makes you compromise working directly on the project for other things, the intermediate distance where it’s getting closer but not closer… Read more
Don’t hold your breath. Microsoft only spends money on things that are already making a fuckton of money (Established Franchise) or are projected to make a fuckton of money (Emerging Franchise). And even if the latter only makes some money or even a shitton of money, that’s still not a fuckton of money, and will get… Read more
Even if Phil Spencer looks like the gaming buddy you always wanted and their Pass is a ‘great deal’ to many, Microsoft is not a force for good (or evil but that is another discussion). Read more
Yeah it’s shit. But it’s not “anti free market” as everyone likes to call out. It is absolutely the end result of the free market. The ultimate goal of any entity in the free market is to eliminate or acquire all competition to take 100% of market share. This is the result of unfettered and unabashed free market… Read more
You do realise how what you describe is bad tho right? Corporate hegemony and lack of competition and legal oversight are bad things. Read more
Popularity and quality are not mutually exclusive. It’s entirely popular for something high quality to also be popular.
“good” ? come on now. mass appeal does not equal good, quite the opposite
It all feels kind of watered down, safe, and PG. I love comics, so after watching all my action figures fight it out in Endgame, I could walk away satisfied. I loved the Marvel Netflix shows for trying to be different with violence and sex. Disney is pretty clear that they’re not ever going to let that happen again.
Disney’s monolithic dominance of popular culture in the last decade has been absolute, and it sucks. Read more
while everything for us as people who like to play games is getting worse Read more
To be fair, it isn’t just our fault. Certainly, “voting with your wallet” should have been applied way, way more often and we should not have defended companies for doing bad shit when those same companies would drop us like a bad habit if we weren’t profitable anymore, but even that will only get us so far. It would… Read more
Yes, they also kinda won those cases in the US. Had they lost, pretty sure they wouldn't have been in a position to launch Xbox in the first place.
Don’t let Sony off the hook here. They want the exact same thing, and while Microsoft gets all the heat from gamers over what they almost did with the XB1, the far more spectacular failure to exert control was what Sony did with the PS3. Read more
Because, for Microsoft, it isn’t about creating content. It is about controlling the market by limiting consumer access to just their ecosystem. Read more
Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard is in a whole other stratosphere. Read more
Soon enough we will have a thing called E-Corp amright?... Read more
I have 6-year old Asus laptop that was $1300 when I bought in 2016 that is still playing Halo Infinite at 1080p at medium/high settings. I used that laptop for thousands of other things during that time that no game console could ever dream of doing like cutting 4k video and I was easily able to grab it in a minute… Read more