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Well, retirement does eventually come knocking so I wouldn't put it past to cash out. It's just odd though because they already had Microsoft spring a cancellation on them not too long ago. I get the feeling Microsoft's aggressive acquisitions have more to do with see what sticks again rather than cultivating what they already have. Closing Ensemble to me was an unforgivable sin, I can't help but feel Obsidian's future with Microsoft will be performance based and they won't merely shrink to ride out a few market flops like private Obsidian can. Look how much of a waste Rare has been, With Viva Pinata they could have gone on to be Microsoft's Media Molecule if only they kept innovating. Lionhead Studios was another fantastically poorly managed studio. Microsoft also missed the opportunity on Bioware after bankrolling ME1. One of their best exclusive came from Insomniac, which was built on their relation with Sony. Now their best acquisition is Ninja Theory, once again built on a relation with Sony. They lost Bungie, which they had to pay off to get them away from Apple in the first place. They lost their relation with Epic. Coalition and 343 only exist to not lose their only solid IPs left, which both seem to be waning into the dusk anyways. I also hadn't realized that Turn 10 wasn't owned by Microsoft until the recent wave of acquisitions. I want to think Microsoft actually brings something to the table, but they inject too many extraneous business strategy into something that could otherwise be far more straight forward.

I give it another decade until the public wakes up to the court of public opinion being a false measure to progress. Accountable closed door proceedings have always carried more weight and allowed for sustained incremental progress with minimized fallout.

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Well, Obsidian now has 1 owned IP which is proving successful. They now have an upstart publisher that treats them well, they Take-Two's Private Division which is a AA oriented publisher model for independent developers which they have a game signed with (Obsidian's current largest project in a while.) Make of that what you will.

Started Ozark and really like it. Because I can't wait a half month for new episodes I started Narcos. Very different shows. I wish more shows would be done like Narcos, it's like a long form dramatized history lesson drama. Much like Band of Brothers, just with different cinematography and tone.

This I would actually also be okay with. A 19th century fantasy game would be neat. We could have fantasy Marxism clashing against fantasy fascism. As long as the material is given appropriate consideration (and there is no option to let fascism win, because as much as I love options in role playing, **** fascism). Bleh... I love the idea that industrialization won't be happening in Eora and that the world can take a different path towards the future. Also, I'd be pissed if they time-skipped on the third game. Give us one more with The Watcher, then explore other stories in the series down the road.

He was discovered through the internet, made his fortune by signing with major label. The argument was they should just produce and distribute for themselves and pull out of the extant streaming services. Lmao dude.

Production & Distribution are expensive, self-investing doesn't make much if you don't have exposure either. Swift has bargaining power that goes beyond the sway her talent alone commands. This should be obvious. Her parents work in mutual funds and she could afford studio time, then she got picked up by a larger label and pushed into the public's eye. Of course she has put in work to continue climbing to where she is. It's the capital investment around her that holds all that bargaining power within the music industry to pull out of iTunes. Nobody ever starts from the tip top, this wasn't about denigrating her success it's about who has leverage in the industry. Some unknown cafe troubadour who dropped out of Julliard because her 2-year scholarship dried up won't influence anything by pulling out of existing distribution models.

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More about bargaining power, nothing to do with skill. Taylor Swift's success ratio is more due to manufacturing exposure than anything. Milking the little guy gives music services their long returns, bargaining with the top 40 give them their quarterly returns.

That was more of her just getting leverage. Pretty sure Coffee Shop Joe & The Knees Bees won't have much sway. But you already knew that.

Pretty sure those are both after pub pissers.

Sounds like a chinese finger trap, another dubiously sounding thing.

Martin had a lot of output early on though right? I thought he wrote a ton for television and had a steady output of stuff early on. Is any bemused over a near retiree slacking when he has royalties on one of the biggest long form premium television series?

Novel approach but software companies are already implementing it. Like mini-honeypots. This is cool.

If you let the soldier's in fear away from their spawn points they break, but the plus side is they are all well tuned for where your supposed to encounter them.

Agreed. I think the problem is when people try to speak on behalf of their identity and then make a suggestion that is equally wrong. There are more Inuit in Canada than Yupik so it's a safe bet, just shouldn't be a catch all nor is it a replacement for Eskimo. Inuit simply has a different scope. I also think Eskimo should not be projected as being a slur, given how that's not how it's typically used. It's been a few years now since the whole Eskimo debate seemed to have any flame behind it, so I think it's mostly tabled for now anyways.

I don't think collector's editions are ever worth it.

First Israel tweeting mean girl gifs to Iran, and now this... Twitter's true value is in being a political broker.

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Cool idea, seeing as MCA won't be back I think the future of Pillars is to go forward.