Only if it was silent chainsaws and then making Molusk and The Suckerberg do the noises like Homer in The Simpsons Movie

Just learned about it last week here on Kbin, because of the Reddit blackout.
I’ve been feeding a lot of sources to my RSS programs, and just found out a lot of sites either hide or don’t have RSS, so that project was enticing.

So I contributed with 4 sources to help it grow ahahah

And when, for some reason, there isn’t an RSS feed given by the website, check RSS-Bridge and see if it has the site you want ;)

(and if it doesn’t, if you know PHP, consider contributing with your own bridge)

Is it gonna be a knife fight?

I love LTT. It’s entertaining, and he shows cool stuff. And you can even learn a thing or two.

And I am gonna be even more unpopular than you.
I find Steve from GN to be boring as fuck to watch regularly (though I watch him when I want to see a specific review, like I do with other channels, his content is very good in terms of information), and he resorts to clickbait regularly, even if a different kind of clickbait (that waste of sand thumbnail, if it was LTT, would be criticized forever).

And more, even if you want to buy something instead of watching for entertainment, you shouldn’t rely on 1 single review anyway, so pretending GN is the be-all-end-all for tech reviews is ridiculous.

A few weeks ago they did a video about mech keyboards, without the face or clickbait title, and it was performing much worse after 3 days than even the daily video. The difference was in the hundreds of thousands of views.

Even now, it is one of the worst in terms of views from the past month (excluding the last 3 days, which will probably increase in views still) with 1.1M views, against the 2nd lowest which has 1.2M views, but it is a video about Mac gaming, and that isn’t a particularly performing topic.

Right now?
No, I don’t think so.

But Windows is getting worse, and GamePass won’t be cheap forever.
Same with them putting the games on Steam, it can change on a whim.
I mean, even on PC, nothing stops them from walking back and just making everything Xbox exclusive in the future again.

They can make changes that make it impossible (or extremely hard) for their games to work on Linux using Proton.

There are many ways they can use these company mergers to fuck the consumer in the future.

Consolidation is always a bad thing, in my opinion, because it takes away choice from the consumer and puts it in the hands of trillion-dollar companies whose sole objective is to make ALL the money all the time, forever.

Wasn’t the Disney stuff under Trump’s administration?
It seems Biden (from an outside perspective, as I am not from the US) is at least trying to reign in companies a bit, so this block isn’t that surprising.

The EU decision surprised me more, but I can understand their arguments.

As a gamer, this could be great in the short term, with Activision-Blizzard getting good leadership and hopefully new games from franchises which are not CoD or Diablo.
Medium/Long term, it could be awful, with Microsoft getting more and more market share and then turning around and fucking us in the ass really hard after they lock us in their ecosystem

Always has been 👩🏽‍🚀🔫👩🏽‍🚀

Companies have no moral, if they could get more money by selling children to the highest bidder, they would.
Many already make use of child labour in asian countries anyway.
Not to speak about the changing laws in some US states lowering minimum age for working, bringing back child labour.
It’s always money.