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It's nice to be naive that these guys are grifters who don't actually believe the shit they say. But it's even worse at home.

Basically treats his wife like she is his servant. This his concept of love is her doing things for him. Even when she's heavily pregnant.

What a garbage person.

When it comes to Kotick I think he's gone either way. His job was to get this acquisition through. He failed if he doesn't. He's getting a pay day when he leaves either way.

The problem would be that guys like Phil Spencer would probably have to go as well.

Zikten posted...

would Microsoft still make a profit, if they stop doing business in the UK? If the entire world is ok with the merge but the UK, then maybe they should cut ties with the UK

Would they still make a profit? Probably.

Is it worth the sheer amount of lost profit over a video game company? Goodness no.

Let's just say you're a high ranking Microsoft executive or a high value investor.

You've got Xbox which was pitched directly to Bill Gates 24 years ago as a direct attempt to stop Sony PlayStation from taking the place Windows PC's could have in the living room. They were willing to take a loss on this goal. Over time they were convinced to make a more traditional console. The living room TV would eventually be taken over by Android and iOS in the long term but that happened a long time later. At least they got their foot in the door which lead to the red hot 360.

A bit too red hot. Thanks to the Red Rings of Death Microsoft had to sink over a billion bucks in an attempt to claw back their reputation.

They're then convinced by the Xbox team that the future is going to be a motion sensing smart camera and taking over the cable box. They invest a lot of money into this vision. New tech and even investing in television content. It fails.

They buy Minecraft. A hit! They are now convinced that making games into a service is the way to go. Game Pass and cloud streaming is their answer. They buy a shitload of studios. They buy Bethesda. They want to buy Activision. More money being sunk into the brand than ever before.

So where are we today? Yet again we have a potential scenario where Microsoft are on the hook for billions with nothing to show for it. Game Pass and xCloud already weren't hitting their expected targets. Profit margins haven't been reported for Xbox for several years.

So if I am a head honcho at Microsoft who is pissed off that over three billion dollars and a whole lot of time has been flushed down the toilet who is going to be paying for this? Probably Xbox.

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*Tucker voice*

Reddit moderators must strangely be burying the story. What don't they want us to know? What do Fox and Tucker have to hide? Apparently we are supposed to just accept that they fired someone that they thought was worth 5 million dollars a year a week ago? Why is that?

Is it okay for a conservative talk show host who may have raped children to just go back to his million dollar mansion without any accountability? No. It has never been okay. People are asking questions and we want answers.

Honestly those are fair questions that they don't want you to be asking. Ask yourself why is that?

deoxxys posted...

Superheros, anime, medieval adventures and space operas face I've always been my favorites. I have always dreamed of a time where we would have lots of available to us. But now it's just slock that comes out on a conveyor belt to consume en masse.

To be fair that's what happens when something becomes a trend. It's not really unique to Disney. The superhero and sci-fi movies from the other studios are typically worse.

deoxxys posted...

Marvel hasn't been good since Endgame.

As for Star Wars, Star Wars under Disney has never been good. Like even if it was prequel levels of okay that would have been better.

Andor is the best live action Star Wars thing since Empire.

Who here has watched Barbarian

I seem to remember a lot of rocket launcher dudes too.

It just didn't feel like it had a fun flow.

Was Tucker Carlson fired for being a pedophile? Was he a rapist of animals or was something even unimaginable at play? What action has he done that would cause such a massive reaction? That's the questions we need to ask.

darkbuster posted...

I always thought the teacher is the one that was the main thirst trap.

VirtuousWrath posted...

The teacher is way hotter.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/1/AACT2jAAEa65.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/0/0/AACT2jAAEa6Q.jpg

Lmao.

Reminds me of when Trump would speak to journalists pretending to be his assistant.

lolife67 posted...

That's also ignoring the animated shows. I typically find people who say that aren't really Star Wars fans. They see the films because they're pop culture, not because they actually care about the franchise.

It's popular with YouTuber reactionaries to hate on Disney at the moment so I'm sure that's overall a factor too.

Saying Disney ruined Marvel when they've owned them over the entirety of their movie peak is really silly.

I don't really know what people are confused about. It's a BOTW follow up. Discovery and experimentation is the game. Just expect a sequel to BOTW with new traversal tools, mechanics enemies and puzzles.

Anything else is a bonus. It's a game about exploring and being surprised so lack of coverage is the point. Aren't we tired of knowing almost everything about a game before we play it?

There's not going to be any rapid shift from BOTW so don't expect one.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

"Zombies huh... Had a feeling you'd show up..."

I kinda miss silly dialogue like this in games. Dead Rising had that perfect level of camp while the sequels tried too hard.

Second Sight was my psychic power shooter of choice back then lol

This whole anti-woke crap DeSantis has focused on hasn't given him the momentum he was hoping for with the Presidential election either right?

How delicious.

I thought Reverse Flash killed his parents to set him on his journey. Or is that a CW and Flashpoint only thing?

If it's just cloud gaming I wonder if Microsoft would consider simply not supporting xCloud in the UK

Isn't it obvious that most Westerners think eating bugs are gross because we were raised to think that bugs themselves are gross?

Like we freak out if we unexpectedly find a bug on us lol

No idea if rat milk is a good replacement for cow milk but I know I'd have a tough time convincing anyone it's worth it.

In saying that perhaps education could change mindsets but it's certainly an uphill battle.

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Oops damn Bobs

Jagr_68 posted...

Shame this leads up to absolutely nothing.

Even if it doesn't can't it just be a fun movie on its own merits? Remember when superhero movies could do that?

WingsOfGood posted...

Profit is there. Chasing subs not the issue. If they not making it, they are mis-managing.

Returning CEO Bob Chapek is under the opinion that they were mismanaged yeah. That's why shareholders brought him back to make changes within the company.

WingsOfGood posted...

Also apparently subs grew in NA and most sub loss was in india afternlosing rights to cricket lol.

Tbh that's probably an argument that they weren't focused on the right stuff lol. Like why are they pumping up Disney+ with big budget TV shows and putting less emphasis on theatrical releases if a cricket licensing deal can ruin their momentum lol

WingsOfGood posted...

That is.... Literally whay I said...

Yes but you're taking about Disney as a whole. Not Disney+ specifically. A lot of these corporations are suddenly realizing that aggressively chasing subscription numbers isn't really worth it.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/studios-spending-streaming-1235483366/

Another factor that made the cable programming business so good to Hollywood for the past few decades is that Disney, the former Time Warner and Viacom were able to jack up the wholesale price of their most-watched channels every four to five years in their contract renegotiations with cable operators.
When Netflix came on strong a decade ago and popularized the direct-to-consumer streaming model, Hollywoods major studios saw a big chance to cut out the cable middleman and build their own channel platforms. As it turns out, attracting subscribers one by one is a much heavier lift than leveraging the value of must-have channels against cable operators.

Seasoned showbiz watchers are predicting 2023 will be a hard year of restructuring, layoffs, budget slashing and strategic second-guessing for the biz. There will be cuts; there will be shutdowns of underperforming assets.

Consumers are spending more money than ever on home entertainment services. Thats been a success. The question is, why have profits collapsed? says Benjamin Swinburne, media analyst for Morgan Stanley.
The math on the costs of streaming versus earnings potential isnt adding up, which is why every major media and entertainment conglomerate ended the year with double-digit declines in their stock prices.
This is a very painful transition, from one model to the other and from one technology to the other. Its going to be a multiyear shakeout of the major players, says Swinburne. The reality is that everyone outside of Netflix is pretty early in the streaming game. Theyve gone into it guns blazing to build businesses. Pivoting from heavy investment mode to maximizing profits is not easy for any company, especially those with legacy infrastructure costs.

The history of the content business has been Produce once and sell it as many times as you can in different windows, says Perrette. Whats happened the last 15 years or so in the streaming business is that the belief became Produce once and monetize once. Somehow, in the streaming context, that got translated to Forget windowing, forget exploiting content on multiple platforms. The streaming business got into the content-warehousing business. For the economics of content, warehousing is not a good strategy.

The 2023 outlook for Big Media is grim, in part because the pay TV arena reached a milestone in the third quarter of 2022. The total volume of affiliate fees the money distributors pay content providers to carry their programming earned in the quarter by the largest publicly held companies, including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast and Paramount Global, declined year over year for the first time in more than a generation. By Wall Streets measure, the collective dip was only about 2%. It may even rebound slightly in future quarters, but it was nonetheless a psychological threshold that set off a new level of alarm behind studio gates.
The industry has seen huge growth in streaming costs, but there hasnt been anything similar in the reduction of linear spending. Its been almost entirely additive. Thats why the industry finds itself where it is right now, Swinburne says. Investors are looking for a sense of urgency around costs in linear that hasnt been there in the past.

WingsOfGood posted...

-make billions in profits
-not enough must raise price

That is unsustainable

I think the outlook is that Disney+ in its current form isn't making them as much money as they otherwise could be. So yeah they're pumping up the price, cutting back on the expensive content and putting more focus back on theaters. Movies going back to making a billion dollars in theaters again is probably making that choice easy to make.

Look at how this Australian news site having so much content over a beer that is barely even sold here.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/2/AACT2jAAEav0.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/3/AACT2jAAEav1.jpg

So fucking weird

So Reverse Flash has to be a major character in this too right? They seem to be keeping him quite under wraps.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

can someone explain the whole fucking TRAILER STARTS NOW five second nonsense that keeps happening at the beginning of trailer videos

To catch the attention of people scrolling through their social media feed.

Zikten posted...

The comic version had all the major justice league people too. It's called Flashpoint but it deals with the whole DC world

Flash tries to prevent his mother's murder, and accidentally fucks up the timeline. One change is that in Gotham City, Thomas and Martha Wayne watch helplessly as their son Bruce is shot and dies

I am hoping they include that in this movie. It's my favorite part of Flashpoint and creates a new version of Batman

Seems like he creates the Burton Batman universe with this one

epik_fail1 posted...

Donald Trump still have a significant amount of fans

Well yeah. He was President.

But we hear a shitload less about him without his Twitter account.

epik_fail1 posted...

Those are exceptions, not the rule. Almost everytime people try to cancel or deplatform people, they end up getting more popular.

Who are your examples of people who got deplatformed off a major platform and gained more popularity? Do you think Tucker Carlson is going to gain popularity after this?

"try to cancel" isn't the same thing so don't bother with that one.

epik_fail1 posted...

Except that she is objectively wrong. Everytime someone try to deplatform someone(unless a major crime has been done) they always make that person a martyr and it gives free publicity.

Milo Yiannopoulos and Donald Trump beg to differ

The Lost World on PS1 is absolutely painful to play normally thanks to the ridiculous difficulty of the game but with cheat codes you can skip playing as a Compy for several hours and play as a raptor or T-Rex immediately before those sections are also ruined by high difficulty and cheap design.

Bam just seems like a guy who always has an excuse to be like who he is. Tbh I don't think much about him would be very different if Dunn was still alive.

Dude is like those child stars who suddenly received a whole lot of fame and money without learning the responsibility that your actions and behavior have consequences over the long term.

I was disappointed enough when I rented these.

Solo_Wing posted...

Now this is how you do boycotts (dunno how but this one absolutely achieved something compared to Hogwarts boycott)

I believe the trick was to have a CEO who was a major Trump doner.

So basically have the people who agree with you politically in power.

Norman_Smiley posted...

So why is that? I stopped watching with Noah but I heard everyone was generally happy with his ratings. It still seems like a show where wacky personalities could shine.

Shows like this aren't as important or broadly watched as they were 20 years ago. Talk shows are in a similar situation.

https://twitter.com/DisneyJuniorUK/status/1650419738063798273

https://twitter.com/DisneyJuniorUK/status/1650395061417304069

What a great system they've got going on over there

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/5/AACT2jAAEaW3.jpg

ChrisReeve posted...

Jason Alexander threatened to leave Twitter, but he's still there and tweeting. What's up with that?

He just came back to clarify he didn't pay for Twitter Blue either. Nothing else has been said.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/0/AACT2jAAEaWy.png

Weren't there pictures of Little Mac and his trainer in the Punch Out restaurant?

I actually think Illumination would totally go for it. It's a perfect plot for a simple kids movie.

Garabandal posted...

If there's no afterlife, if you'll never be reunited with your loved ones again, then what's the point of living?

To spend time with your loved ones now?

Greg Doucette was the lawyer guy who kept dunking on that anime voice actor who was a sexual harasser. That got him some attention probably.

Regardless the point of the verification system was simply to say that 'this notable person has been verified by Twitter'

For whatever reason those two people were notable enough to be verified. It doesn't mean it was only for super famous people. First guy has 100k+ followers and the second guy has 300k+ followers so they clearly have some sort of following.

So...who cares? The verification system was still doing its job.

ChrisReeve posted...

It's not that hard to just follow the rules.

Reminder: The rule suddenly existed because Elon Musk let people buy verified badges and didn't think that people would use it to troll.

Yeah it's a bit of a weird game. Most of it felt a bit off. It finds a bit of its groove near the end but then the ending is a mess again.

Was a bit of a disappointment tbh. Bayonetta Origins was surprisingly the better game.

ChrisReeve posted...

Also, parody accounts are allowed on Twitter if they're clearly labeled as such in the way required under the rules.

What prompted that rule again?

ChrisReeve posted...

If these celebs or whoever is maintaining their accounts are too lazy to report parody accounts that don't follow the rules, that's on their lazy asses.

Do you think celebrities spend their time looking for fake accounts?

I thought this show was already out. Don't we know?

If it had a proper resolution it wouldn't look so bad. The low resolution just absolutely kills the presentation most of the time.

Hopefully it gets a free patch on Switch 2.

ChrisReeve posted...

Literally all they have to do is post a video saying this is my Twitter and pin the tweet if theyre too cheap to pay $8. Lmao.

Ah yes we all know how good the internet is at verifying things

TheGoldenEel posted...

People think that people who are paying for Twitter blue are losers, so Musk is keeping the blue check mark on certain accounts to troll

It's a really stupid troll considering they're still not paying for it. Seems like he's just giving it to everyone with a million plus followers for free after all of this anyway.

At least he's making himself and his followers constantly look stupid.

Thinking back for whatever reason a lot of Twitter Blue's business decisions seem to revolve around Stephen King.

It started when King said that he wouldn't pay $20 a month for Twitter Blue. Then Elon Musk asked him if he'd pay $8. Pretty sure he said no.

Then it comes around time that the tick was going to be taken away. It came back. Stephen King clarified that he didn't pay for Twitter Blue. Elon Musk pipes up that he pays it for him. Now this.

Why does Elon Musk care so much about Stephen King's Twitter account?

--Zero- posted...

I dont care for Musk, but he owned King there.

No he didn't. Elon Musk said he paid for King's Twitter Blue and this is King saying he doesn't want him to. It wasn't about starting a dick measuring contest for charity donations.

For whatever reason Elon Musk always replies to Stephen King about Twitter Blue. It's sad.