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I got into a lot of discussions with people who seemed to believe that Microsoft would "save" Activision-Blizzard. Clean up the culture, create a better work environment, shift the focus away from live-services and micro-transactions. People were expecting a lot of their older games to make their way to GamePass... Which is a whole other kind of predatory pricing.

Lo and behold- AB went ahead and laid off almost 2,000 redundant positions after the acquisition and don't seem to have changed their business structure much.

It's so funny to me how vigorously the internet defended Microsoft, a much much larger company than Sony, buying Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard, each much larger companies than Kadokawa.

Consolidation is bad for everyone except owners and I hope this doesn't happen.

Silver linings: at the very least this would probably result in the Bloodborne re-release people have been begging for. If it were Microsoft purchasing them I would expect a ton of immediate layoffs and maybe studio closure after a few years. While Sony has closed a couple of studios (mostly their own home-grown ones that were re-structured into other things) they seem more focused on actually using their acquisitions than just gobbling the IP and eliminating competition.

As a senator, Harris was ranked the "most liberal" voting record for her tenure.

Now I'll admit I don't know the exact methodology used and I don't love the word "liberal". And of course in a global context that would certainly not be considered "left".

But, in a US context, to say that Harris was "never anywhere close to the left" is simply falling for GOP propaganda. She may not be Bernie or AOC but she was not as far off as the GOP would have you believe.

I saw so many takes and got into some arguments on Lemmy this week with people claiming that Harris lost because she abandoned the left and changed her campaign at the last minute to be basically a Republican.

No one could provide any concrete evidence of what she did and how though. I'm guessing they either were victims of or were actively distributing this propaganda.

I'll admit I'm using it loosely here because it's fun

Oh yeah my bad it's wasaay better for your friends to just say "wow sounds like you're doomed to be broken, good luck with that".

This is just a mentally unwell person lashing out at those around them trying to help. Jokes and memes like this are more harmful than helpful.

Yes because I don't expect every friend of mine to be a licensed psychiatrist capable of diagnosing and prescribing medication. Heck, even a lot of medications use that exact same qualified language in their advertising because the human body and mind are incredibly complicated and inconsistent things.

It's like when I get a cold and my mom tells me to keep my fluids up. It helps and shows she cares even if it's nowhere near as good as antibiotics. And yes of course I already know to stay hydrated. Just like I know how the weather has been and I remember the story she tells me 4 times a year of that time my older sister broke the neighbor's window with a basketball.

Lashing out in anger at those trying to reach out and help you isn't going to make you feel better even if their advice isn't perfect.

I can at least understand that line of thinking. He spent a lot of his first term golfing. He didn't build the border wall or repeal the ACA or do a lot of what he promised his supporters he would.

Still not an excuse. He did incredible damage in his first term and I expect this one to be worse.

And he's not even saying he's going to do Project 2025 but I expect him to.

Say the line Bart!

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

I keep seeing that claimed everywhere. I'll admit that I make an effort NOT to consume political ads (or ads in general really) but I don't remember anything right-leaning from Harris outside of supporting the status quo for Israel and Palestine.

I did hear ads on the radio in stores supporting making billionaires pay their fair share and lowering taxes for the working class. Ads attacking Trump for giving tax breaks to billionaires and wanting to cut Medicare and social security benefits. Ads supporting pro-choice and attacking Republicans for wanting to ban abortion. It's possible that there were ads for different demographics, but the same radio station was also airing right-wing ads with incredible amounts of transphobia- dead naming and misgendering individuals and claiming they were criminals coming for your children.

It's entirely possible I missed something because there's just way too much election content for one person to read, but I really have no clue where the narrative of the right turn is coming from.