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[civildisorderstream]

2023, The Year of Self-Sabotage

Has anyone noticed the trend businesses have been on in 2023? There's a LOT of self-sabotage going on in the business world. Throughout my life, and everyone else has their own observations too, once in a while you see a company make a boneheaded decision about their product or service. And once in a while you'll see a decision get made that is bad, but maybe it at least has some justification (even to an anti-capitalist goober like myself). But this year has been nonsensical moves of greed or product/service sabotage that make no sense for longevity or harm what's in the best interest of the consumer.

Activision-Blizzard: The Overwatch debacle, and Diablo Immortal's scummy practices.

Netflix: The account sharing debacle.

Twitter: Maximum divorced loser Elon Musk destroying its functionality and branding and we still call it Twitter.

Reddit: Inspired by Musk's stupidity, the API tools debacle. Shame on the Reddit communities for not knowing how to strike btw (you don't put a time limit on it).

Hollywood: Pulling shows and films from streaming services to declare them as failed products and somehow get a tax write-off for it.

Also Hollywood: Willing to take quarterly losses greater than the annual cost to meet the demands of two striking unions put together.

Unity: Announced in the past day that it will charge developers a fee for installations because greed.

Titan Submersible: "Safety is for losers" says billionaire who proceeds to use his shoddy tech to do a murder-suicide.

Starbucks: Breaking ALL of the labor laws to try and stop unionization. Admittedly a reach to be on this list but the situation (like all the others) is ongoing and can compound.

Embracer: A massive corporate company that bought a bunch of smaller companies. Thought a 2 billion dollar deal with the Saudi government was a sure thing, so they spent 2 billion dollars on stuff. Deal falls through, so they start closing companies they acquired.

That's just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. These aren't business decisions done for the sake of consumers. These are all decisions done to spite consumers or the workers who produce the products and services.

People try to remember years as being the "year of" something. And it's a thing I do too. For me, 2023 is the year of corporate self-sabotage.

[thecrofttomb]

Happy birthday to ✨HER✨, our iconic adventurer and the undisputed queen of gaming, Lara Croft.

*The screenshot was taken using the game’s photo mode.

[wolfleblack]

Embracer has sold Gearbox to Take-Two for $460m

Following weeks of rumours the beleaguered Embracer Group has announced the sale of Gearbox, the developer best known for the Borderlands series, to Take-Two Interactive. The deal is for $460m and is expected to close by the end of June this year, whereupon Tale-Two interactive will acquire ownership of Gearbox and several key IP such as Borderlands, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Homeworld, Band of…

[heycolorwind]

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[memesnotwelcome]

My attitude towards squeenix these days: whatever. Selling off these properties just means they’re now with people willing to take chances and reinvigorate the art. If SE wants to give that opportunity away to do crypto/nft bullshit, fine - I hope you fail spectacularly and end up with an equally absurd tax bill.

Anyway, now do Capcom.

[thecrofttombblog]

Anime de Tomb Raider finalmente revelado pela Netflix

Ontem, na sua transmissão ao vivo DROP 01, a Netflix anunciou e revelou um impressionante catálogo de futuras adaptações baseadas em franquias bem conhecidas. Entre elas esteve presente a altamente antecipada série animada de Tomb Raider, desvendada com um teaser trailer, o qual podem ver abaixo.

Co-produzida pela Legendary Television e a dj2 Entertainment em parceria com a Crystal Dynamics, “Tomb Raider: A Lenda de Lara Croft” (título original - Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft) irá acompanhar as aventuras da nossa heroína depois dos eventos de Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018), guiando assim a narrativa até ao próximo jogo da saga.

A série estreia em 2024, em exclusivo na Netflix. Mais detalhes em breve.

[the-rageaholic]

Whitepill overdse? Too bad, gamers! Choke down another!

[randomalistic]

Selfshippers who ship with weird/unappealing characters. I love you. Like hell yeah you go get with Mr Crocker. Go get with lord faarquad

[lillhappycloud]

I have feelings about how these two are mirror opposites in reaction to monstrous trauma.

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[thecrofttomb]

Tomb Raider Anime Finally Revealed By Netflix

Yesterday, in their DROP 01 livestream, Netflix announced and revealed an impressive catalogue of upcoming adaptations based on well-known franchises. Among those was the highly anticipated Tomb Raider animated series, unveiled with a short teaser trailer, which you can watch below.

Co-produced by Legendary Television and dj2 Entertainment in partnership with Crystal Dynamics, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will follow the adventures of our heroine after the events of Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018), leading the story into the next mainline game.

The series will premiere in 2024, exclusively on Netflix. More details to come soon.

[smellbringer]

Gaming News 4/23/24: Halo Online Returns, Embracer Splits, and More

Has it been a month between articles? Fuck yeah. Told you I’d crash again and my brain currently feels like molasses even now. But that’s enough self-kicking, onto the news. Halo Infinite Teases a New Event and No One Is Happy Yesterday 343 teased a Banished themed event for Halo Infinite and for a fandom like Halo there’s a lot of venom going around. Mostly because there’s an assumption there…

[tagnoob]

Embracer Group Announces Plan to Re-Arrange Deck Chairs

Yesterday the bumbling CEO of Embracer group, Lars Wingefors, announced that the company would be split into three groups in an attempt to distract from his disastrous handling of the company over the last year, which was based on a business plan that seem to have all the sophistication of: Buy a bunch of companies ?????? Profit! All of which led to the need to lay off more than 1,400 people,…

[wolfleblack]

Embracer is planning on splitting into three separate companies

Despite previously saying that it had finished its restructuring process, Embracer has announced a massive shift in its business: the company intends on splitting into three separate companies, each run independently of the others. Embracer announced this latest undertaking this morning in several press releases detailing how the company will become Middle-earth Enterprises and Friends, Coffee…

[xtremeservers]

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