(10-12-2025, 10:02 PM)jooseloose wrote: I just love how much the ActiBlizzard purchase has completely fucked Microsoft over and basically set them on the path to going third-party  I don't think there's ever been such a major fuck-up like it in gaming.
Phil Spencer 
can you or nintex remind me how this fucked them over specifically
not that I don't believe you, I just don't follow MS
like what, was it so expensive for their gaming division that they couldn't fund any new games, which was what they really needed? have actiblizz's games all been shit and losing them tons of money?
uhm actually trump admin is fudging the numbers and we still have more deportations under biden
Trump really won over HamasEra with the ceasefire with how this thread is going. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!
(10-12-2025, 11:44 PM)HaughtyFrank wrote: (10-12-2025, 11:36 PM)Boredfrom wrote: Quote: If you are a Black or Brown person admitting that "my people are now in danger," first of all, where the fuck have you been the last 400 years of European and American imperialism?
That's just objectively untrue for people being picked up by ICE right now but of course that's not something Nepenthe has to worry about so who cares
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(10-12-2025, 09:01 PM)BIONIC wrote: Blessed Sunday:
No one can escape Jeff’s wrath 
he called her "pretty"
thats objectifying
(10-12-2025, 09:31 PM)Boredfrom wrote: Quote:Idk, USA protest are tame and low energy compared to how the rest of the world protest.
cam eleon wrote:People in the USA are worried about being killed by the police.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-white-house-budget-office-says-substantial-firings-of-federal-workers-have-started-in-government-shutdown.1322167/page-5
USA protests are tame because:
- 50% of people disagree with your leftist cause du jour and won't protest
- 30% of the remaining people care but aren't as extreme as era so they won't feel the need to protest
- 18% of those remaining people who care and are willing to protest can't because they're living paycheck to paycheck and are scheduled to work that day
leaving 2% to feebly sit in their college president's office until they get kicked out
screen shot your jeff posts I ain't doing it for y'all, I refuse to use X the nazi platform. 
(10-12-2025, 11:48 PM)benji wrote: (Except she has no pets, damn, thwarted again!)
Being that she's a furry, do you think perhaps that this is a legal requirement?
(10-13-2025, 12:13 AM)Uncle wrote: (10-12-2025, 10:02 PM)jooseloose wrote: I just love how much the ActiBlizzard purchase has completely fucked Microsoft over and basically set them on the path to going third-party I don't think there's ever been such a major fuck-up like it in gaming.
Phil Spencer
can you or nintex remind me how this fucked them over specifically
not that I don't believe you, I just don't follow MS
like what, was it so expensive for their gaming division that they couldn't fund any new games, which was what they really needed? have actiblizz's games all been shit and losing them tons of money?
Is less that they don’t have funds and more like both Activision and Gamepass has not given the results they wanted to justify Xbox’s Hardware and first party titles.
Gamepass didn’t become the Netflix of gaming, CoD actually did a tiny little worse last year and their hardware was lagging behind both Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft big wigs just lost the patience with Phil Spencer’s promises.
(10-13-2025, 12:23 AM)HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth wrote: (10-12-2025, 11:48 PM)benji wrote: (Except she has no pets, damn, thwarted again!)
Being that she's a furry, do you think perhaps that this is a legal requirement?
Kamala Harris is a furry? Then how could she support genocide? 
I doubt it's the purchase, it's that 95% of Xbox's revenue comes from stuff that isn't hardware. If you aren't putting the hardware on store shelves there's no point in putting the game boxes.
This is why they were shifting to Xbox partner hardware but I can't imagine they won't still have to put out at least a single cheap Xbox for the foreseeable future. They are really stupid if they think making a Sony platform monopoly won't threaten GamePass. Although I can't imagine there are many people left who were there and remember why Microsoft even started the Xbox in the first place. (Hint: they feared a Sony platform monopoly.)
couldn't MS have died BEFORE they bought Bethesda??
10-13-2025, 01:32 AM
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Xbox is making more money than ever. I have to imagine they had forecasted dumping the S and X for some kind of Series C for cheap and crap that would push up closer to the X but they could sell for the price of the S. Then the supply situation fucked all that. They seem to have decided to pull the hardware plug anyway and ride it out.
The idea of all the purchases I think supports the idea that they have enough content that they could undercut Sony in price and still create a big enough market that Sony doesn't start turning everything into exclusives again like the PS2 era. I find it hard to believe GenocidePass would do well without an actual Xbox platform as a base. This is the main reason I don't buy that they can go third-party. They aren't a publisher, they're a platform provider. They aren't looking to make money selling their titles as games on a Sony platform but as reason to subscribe to GenocidePass. The rest is all extra you just don't leave on the table because it's dumb.
The third-party fantasies are all based around the idea that Microsoft desires to just stop taking in tens of billions in revenue (that they can funnel to Israel) every year because it "lost" the "console war." I assume it must be unaddressed trauma from Sega, which was doing so poorly as a platform provider that its owner had to personally cover its costs multiple times.
I do think if they take a break for a few years, a triumphant return of new hardware could really revitalize the brand
just imagining the reaction to them coming back after 5 years or something, waves of nostalgia driving purchases
dream cast II by microsoft 
In case y'all ever forget not to trust libs, scratch a lib, find a Nazi:
I think Microsoft is simply changing strategies, letting partners take over the hardware side primarily, re-apportioning existing hardware to sell them in areas with actual demand, and let partners take over those areas.
Microsoft will be North America primarily I think, everywhere else is up for grabs by Asus, Lenovo whoever else wants to get into it
10-13-2025, 02:10 AM
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When you completely miss the point of what the offense is:
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to both
https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-spirit-exports-to-canada-plummeted-85-says-u-s-trade-group.1322632/page-2#post-146301058
Figgy wrote:Wish I could buy Canadian to not support red states. Unfortunately, that means I am just paying tariffs. I'll just buy products from blue states for now and in the future. 
Easy because of how many companies are incorporated in Delaware. 
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-spirit-exports-to-canada-plummeted-85-says-u-s-trade-group.1322632/page-2#post-146302750 wrote:So then why are these companies so silent about fighting to get the tariffs removed? Quote:Oh you can be sure they are absolutely hammering them in back channels and lobbying. They won't do it publicly to avoid backlash from MAGA and weakening sales in the US further.
They say in a thread about a press release issued by an industry trade group. And which features this quote:
Quote:In a news release, council CEO Chris Swonger said trade tensions are having an immediate and adverse effect on the export of U.S. spirits.
"We urge the President to help facilitate a lasting return to tariff-free trade with our longstanding trading partners to ensure the continued growth and vitality of this great industry,” he said.
I'll be using a shock collar on your balls if you dont supply me with some fatboy roy content 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/republicans-could-draw-19-more-house-seats-after-an-upcoming-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-vra.1323235/#post-146343604
Quote:Given the lack of posts, I assume others are equally unsure of what to say at this point. Any kind of hope (in this case, midterms) feels like it's being ripped away.
Quote:I'm actually thinking of blocking politics altogether because every day there's a nightmare story like this that makes me want to jump off a bridge.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-grandmas-brother-was-mentioned-in-two-new-york-times-articles-in-1975.1323079/
Quote:So I'd always been told that my grandma's brother worked for Chrysler as a big-wig back then. I was doing some digging and actually found some NYT articles from January 1975 where he was mentioned. He was VP for automotive sales and helped create a rebate program for people to use when purchasing a car. It's a neat story.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/08/archives/chrysler-plans-rebates-to-stimulate-auto-sales.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/25/archives/auto-rebate-plans-spread-amid-glee.html
Almost as neat as my grandma's other story, where she went to see him at work, admiring his nice office, checking out his University Of Illinois degree on the wall. Mom told me grandma's next words were "Rodney, you've never been to college or Illinois"
Quote:Given the lack of posts, I assume others are equally unsure of what to say at this point. Any kind of hope (in this case, midterms) feels like it's being ripped away.
The lack of posts is probably because there is no a lot of people at ERA that actually understand US politics to say this is the case or is the usual doom posting from a random article.
Also, the SC related threads have become eternal “buh buh poor us” for stuff that is yet to happen.
Rune Walsh wrote:There will be only one option left to have your voice heard.
Tell us what you mean with that, my dear. Don’t be a chicken shit coward and say it, so retards like maximumzero can hear it.
(10-12-2025, 07:05 PM)Nintex wrote:
Xbox is also transitioning
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#boycottswork
10-13-2025, 03:44 AM
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(10-13-2025, 03:13 AM)Taco Bell Tower wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/republicans-could-draw-19-more-house-seats-after-an-upcoming-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-vra.1323235/#post-146343604 Quote:If it happens, Democratic states must follow California's lead and do their own redistricting.
They can't, they already did this years ago.
Quote:And people thought Republicans would allow fair elections.
Or have them at all.
Quote:There will be only one option left to have your voice heard.
Quote:This all feels so helpless.
Quote:Stop acting surprised…. Republicans have planned this. They have had all of this stuff figured out. Unfortunately, they have the people in the right places to do the wrong things.
Why do you think they are doing half of the shit they are doing now? They don't fear losing power.
Quote:It's 100% gonna go 6-3 in the Supreme Court(as has been the trend), section 2 will get gutted, & we'll basically no longer have free & fair elections in this country. Sick & tired of this fucking bullshit this whole admin has been & will continue to do that will harm millions
Quote:The us put a bloddy criminal in charge. It's already over. Now it's just that the wheels of history move at 1 minute per minute, it feels slow, but it's already over, the coup is happening slowly but surely and can only be stopped with trong and fast clarified action.
Yep, might as well just give up now and save time.
Quote:This is why it all matters. If Hilary or Kamala were in, they would be able to add the SC justices.
 There's no vacancies, what justices could Kamala add?
Quote:The Republican Party managed to get control of all the branches of government. They won't be relinquishing power without something drastic occurring.
The reason they're doing what they're doing is because they know there will never be any repercussions for their actions.
The Republicans had control of all three branches of government in 2017. And 2005.
Quote:> republicans unpopular. Destroyed America
> country becoming less white. currently at 42% non white
> suppressing minority voters
> most of the country is in the big cities
> most of the money comes from bluestates
> country is becoming more susceptible to socialist policies become the status quo hasn't worked for them for decades
this country gonna go thru some shit in the next couple decades
Hispanics are white little bro. The rest of this stuff has been true for your entire life.
Quote:So this would mean that even with a traditional massive blue wave where we win back a bunch of seats we lost in 2024, it wouldn't matter and the GOP will actually end up with a larger majority than they have now?
You gained two seats in 2024.
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