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What watch has ongoing decibel measuring?

People keep thinking this is bad for Activision. Activision wants this. That should tell you all you need to know.

Bobby Kotick might quit after the buyout because he's a power-hungry wannabe-murderer, but there's zero chance he doesn't get hundreds of millions in payout no matter what happens. He's happy about the buyout.

This isn't going to affect much of how Activision develops games, except 0 of them will be on Sony hardware going forward, unless they actually honor that deal for Call of Duty, but that's it. All this does is ensure consumers have less choice.

They don't need to do anything except weather some consumer backlash for a title or two. Eventually as publishers make their games compatible with Chinese regulations, they'll stop making games with content that offends China. Players may not even realize it's happening and publishers get to spend less money. So say goodbye to skeletons and such in massive games.

It's really bad. This is all about Game Pass. MS wants to acquire enough of the industry big IPs to force people onto Game Pass. All of tech right now is trying really hard to get people locked into subscriptions because it's effectively free, easy money. You don't have to convince consumers to constantly buy new stuff. You just need to dissuade them from canceling a subscription, which is much easier.

Then they just gobble up more of the market share until they've hit their theoretical maximum. Then they can raise prices because they've captured the market and driven competitors away. They've already made it so you pretty much need Game Pass if you own an Xbox. Long-term they could stop selling PC games on Steam, but they probably won't because the PC market is so much smaller than console and they can point to that as a "win" for consumer choice.

Sony has nothing successful enough compared to Game Pass and as they fall further behind they'll likely abandon it entirely.

Ties spike my chronic neck pain no matter who tight or loose they are. I 100% understand this.

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B) something that isn’t naturally occurring

1. Humans are natural. We are evolved animals.
2. Humans created everything humans consider artificial.
3. Therefore everything deemed artificial is actually natural.

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They were referring to the comma. Commonly used with a verbal pause. So like: "It's not...though?" As if the "though?" was its own thought and the only part of the sentence that had the question inflection.

Yep. It's all about helping people transition. So much of American food culture is centered around burgers, steak, BBQ, etc. It's really hard to just drop all of that on a dime, even if you want to. These products help people with that mental itch.

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It was made by inventors and workers. The capitalists own the company. They don't create.

You are not a capitalist.

They'll mince you once you're too old, broken, or inconvenient.