Kidd Bandit vs.
The saga is over and the misery begins! Microsoft just bought Activision in the biggest buyout in game industry history. I am disgusted. Let’s discuss why it’s horrid!
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$68.7 billion. It was almost nice, but like all things Blizzard it comes up short.
Thumb tacks? No real ones?
Yup, the “It’s because I’m a dirty cow” made me spit my tea. More of that and less wrestling please.
I’m down for thumb tacky wrestling clips
FINALLY the Boglin content I’ve been waiting for
I know there was a content warning, but I still got disgusted by BobbyK….
Repeat after me: Microsoft has never contributed to the industry. They gave us paid online, killed free dlc and local multiplayer, and even every successful first party microsoft game was one that was retroactively bought out as an exclusive.
even worse, kotick seems to be dedicating his fortune to a bunch of charter school/voucher school bs, which is basically just making education garbage for everyone. this follows the way of bill gates, who spends his immense fortune making sure that lifesaving vaccines are patent enforced and stealing oxygen from hospitals.
I need the full version of that DuckTales song immediately
“Choke the life out of Kidd Banditt with a Boglin.”
How can anyone follow up after a line like that. Got my Like instantly. I don’t care about the rest of the show that’s what I come here for.
reading about IRS demanding $29 billion from MS for unpaid taxes. MS says they’ve paid $67 billion in taxes since 2003, which only makes up about 14% of their total revenue since then. (yes, I realize this is a gross over-simplification of how taxes work but $67B in taxes is literally only 14% of their total revenue between 2002-2022)
What’s wild is that there are SO-CALLED “gamers” out there with this notion in their diseased gray matter that somehow, some way, Microsoft making things more exclusive is somehow COMBATTING EXCLUSIVITY! What a buncha tardys.
comix zone in the background caught me off guard lmao
For example, see Guitar Center and GameStop. Back in the day, they bought and closed or converted most of their competitors, but due to lack of competition, their industries stagnated, and now they are both on the verge of bankruptcy.
Even if they paid those 11,000 people they fired this year $100,000 a year – which they probably didn’t – the amount it’d cost them to keep them for a year would be less than 1% of the CASH they had at the end of the last financial year.
Regarding Stray Souls, Artur Laczkowski, owner of Jukai Studio and creator of the game, has been liking racist and transphobic tweets up but got caught and then promptly deleted the tweets and basically used the “I have black/LGBTQ friends” excuse but you can find the receipts if you look for it…
11:19 This kicks ass, excellent work Z. Mann Zilla!
Steph, I think you’ve always done an excellent job of providing the proper framing for the actions of corporations and their toadies, and this is another banger. Never let us forget how these scumsuckers treat the people they have power over.
Some part of me thinks that Blizzard being bought out can’t possibly make things worse anymore.
The rest of me has seen more than one Jimquisition.
I highly recommend Corey Doctorow’s talk at the DEFCONN hacker confetence this year.
Over the past 30 years, more and more consolidation has been happening which would have been straight-up illegal if anti-trust regulations hadn’t been reduced or removed since the 1980s.
Companies have also been successful at getting laws passed which made the way they originally established themselves into crimes so that other companies couldn’t do unto them as they had done unto others.
The end result is a kind of mutual hostage-taking which degrades platforms and hurts everyone – even investors who want to milk a company for long-term returns rather than “slaughter the fattened calf”.