Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

These are really neat after having tried them. They feel nice too.

Merry Chuuuuuumas!

I think of this video every Christmas

This week requires intense willpower to reduce calories ingestion before next festivity, new years

If the ftc/cma don't fight the microsoft and activision merger to the line they should just disband, they serve no purpose if they don't fight this. This is a clear cut case of anti competitive business practices that will end up hurting the consumer, Microsoft is already a behemoth compared to Sony in the gaming market and have a long history of being a pos. The only time they aren't a pos is when they get backed into a corner because of being a pos and someone else not being one.

They literally own Windows and force people to upgrade whenever they demand you do so, which means they indirectly control 95%+ of all video games on PC. The leverage they are going to be able to bring to bear in the next 10 years is insane, and that's without this merger.

Radial, our FTC has been held captive by the business classes darn near forever.

They hardly ever meet a merger they can't agree to.

Aaaand just like that, my Fire Emblem campaign comes to an end. Maddening beaten on NG+. After early game I weirdly started steamrolling through it. First map of part 2 made me worried a bit, I pulled through because Byleth dodged multiple 30% attacks. But all is well that ends well, I guess.

I'll have to say, I sure had an itch for Fire Emblem and scratched it until it bled. I still want to go through Silver Snow path too.. It's a fun game.

Let's not pretend like Sony hasn't been making anti competetive moves since the PS2. They've been the kings of exclusivity and basically soft purchasing franchises forever. Microsoft has tried to promote cross platform play and licensing and Sony won't play ball. They're not a victim here, they're getting a taste of their own medicine.

Everything every company does is anticompetetive.

That's like the only goal beat the competition, by any means necessary. (literally)

New companies start up with the intention of being bought specifically cause they don't want to compete.

Lol there must be a steam deck promotion going on for youtubers.
Tons of "why you should get a steam deck" being recommended

There is a big difference between a console company effectively funding the production of a game for limited time exclusivity, and a company straight up buying the entire company with the power of your parent company to force them to make games for yours. Also FF7/16 limited exclusivity is not the same as owning CoD outright.

If Xbox was winning the console war, would they want cross platform play? would they be offering such a good deal with the gamepass? I highly doubt it. Companies tend to make "pro consumer" decisions when they are are losing, and they are losing becasue they messed up and made an under-powered machine that their customers were outraged by at the time.

If this goes ahead what will happen is that instead of paying for limited time exclusives or directly funding games nobody else will, it will then turn into buyout wars (with all the corporate espionage that comes with it) to literally buy every single company making games. Every other company will be forced to do what Microsoft did, and it will end up in far less games being made that are cross platform long term.

Instead of Square Enix getting paid a chunk of cash for a year exclusive on ff16 and being able to decide what they want to do, Sony will buy them out and force all games they make to be Sony exclusives forever. They will be forced to do this, becasue Microsoft set the standard they are now forced to match to be competitive.

There is no good outcome to the consumer long term from this, it will either lead to Microsoft becoming dominant and as such ceasing to be "the good guys" or an escalation of buying out game companies instead of allowing them to be independent.

Microsoft's complete monopoly with Windows is already a major red flag, one companies like Valve are fully aware of and planning for in future with the work on Steam OS.

The reason it's bad is becasue they are escalating, Sony and Xbox have been having fist fights for years. Now Microsoft brought a gun to the fist fight, and as such Sony will have to buy a gun to compete if it is allowed to be used.

You know, there is so much going on in a fighting game: cancelling, conditioning, punishment….

Everytime i see folks theoryzing fights, makes me impressed how much dudes get prepared for a high lv match.

Im ok having to work with like minimal time interval of few frames to prove whos the boss, but fitting a massive combo in that short span of frames, it seems like something completely out of my reality currently

Once the FTC decided to take action, the acquisition died.

The EU was against it too.

Decided to put Siren w/the other story avatars. Her ear wings so big! Happy w/it for now, but maybe eventually redo Bahamut and Diabolos since they were the first ones and made to stand by themselves w/o support.

I think they all came out practically perfect, Siren needed some coloring on the tips of the wings to be more green but I think they did a great job.



Full rez

Manitoba: "For you, the day this -40 hailstorm graced your province was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

That M. Bison quote is still one of my favourite lines in cinematic history. You won the internet with this one, my friend.

Is that what the "M" in his name stands for? Manitoba Bison? That makes so much sense!

so does ff11 siren have boot-shaped feet, or is she wearing boots? i'm very confused

Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, N64 are all pretty much killed by PS1. Then Sony dominated the console market until Nintendo switch: which is the real market dominator now.

And people complain about Microsoft???? Sounds like MS bias to me.


Oh ho ho quick, why don't we all start a game company and sell it to Microsoft and get rich quick!

Don't worry, nobody is buying every single company making games. It's not worth the investment given how easy it is for anybody to start a game company today.

It's also not easy to convince a game company do console exclusive because of insane amount of PC users available. You are missing a big chunk of buyers without the PC market.


Different situation...

Windows is a "platform". Once a platform gained majority of userbase it's hard for anyone else to compete: if you release a new OS in the market nobody will use it if their software can't run on it.

Game is a totally different situation. Literally anybody can start a game company and enter this market by releasing a game. So the situation that one company own all the game company literally wouldn't exist. It's much, much, much harder to dominate the entire game market compare with the OS market.

I actually forgot to log in to this before it poofed. Two months ago, it's sad when online games end and I spent so many hours in this one and also money, I'd be curious how much I spent overall. I see a lot of people angry too, apparently the jp servers stayed online

https://mobile.twitter.com/FFRK_Official/status/1575656402408083456


They are legs/feet shaped like hi heels, lol. Theres so many design choices I always wondered how they came upon it. They should have done stuff like that for their nostalgia website.

I legit want that Alexander figure. Gimme Draylo!

So was it actually Tuesday like Bison remembered the day or was he being facetious, like it was just another forgettable day of the week?

I like to think he remembered it like "Bish, that was just last Tuesday, I know."

This was a trope in the MS DOS days.

This is my goal too.

Make some sort of marginally viable product, then sell it for a couple of millions

Ow, damn...

Every single thing the security finds not correctly, they demand to simply shut it down...

If you want to know someone, give her/him power

Wasn't balrog and m bison supposed to be named the other? But you can't call character Mike Bison? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Do you remember if you had a VIP tier? If no VIP tier, then probably not as much as you think you did. Though I know the VIP metric is based on total spending within a specific time frame, but I can't give the exact window of opportunity.

I actually knew two people who were the lowest tier of VIP and they were surprised they got admitted to it.

EN Character	JP Name
Balrog	M.Bison
Vega	Balrog
M.Bison	Vega

I don't think it was ever confirmed but the most common fan theory is that they didn't want to have any issues since Balrog's original name (M.Bison) and appearance were similar to Mike Tyson, so Capcom just shuffled the names of three of the four final boss characters in Street Fighter 2. Those names have permanently stuck for the rest of the IP's lifetime and makes for some interesting "WTF" moments when you're watching a Street Fighter anime with the original JP dub but the subtitles change the name on you, lol.