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WelfareBuysMyWeed

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  1. Considering how you interpret fucking anything even tangently related to a republican as being political (hint: making fun of rick perrys hair is not political), you should get fucking banned for being a walking talking cr.
  2. Seems like slorch's "rebuilt, decent, competitive league" doesnt want to compete in recruiting.
  3. Bro george carlin isnt gonna fuck you, stop trying so hard
  4. I dont like carlins politics? Thats fucking news to me, lmfao.
  5. https://www.voicify.ai/custom-george-carlin Go nuts.
  6. Nope. The classic image of IQ being a bell curve is actually a misrepresentation of the data. They normalized the distribution in studies, iq isnt a bell curve at all. Not to mention iq in general is bunk shit.
  7. And aggy sure as shit aint getting a big ten invite lol
  8. My favorite part of this quote is how he confused average with median.
  9. You are on a texas longhorns message board with tens of thousands of posts. Because you are a shameless cuck with an embarrassment fetish.
  10. who in the flying fuck is dying to watch this shit? lol
  11. oh ya, I was posting that in agreement with your post Only problem with that is that the Big 12 is made up of the kind of teams that good teams schedule as cupcakes, so more OoC might just make the Big 12 slide even further into irrelevancy.
  12. Would just like to mention that the Big 12 getting an automatic invite isn't a guarantee at all. It's the top 5 conference champions. For example, assuming OSU was the Big 12 champion in absence of Texas, they still weren't among the top 5 champions at the end of last season. Ignoring Texas, it would have been Michigan, Washington, Florida State, Alabama, and then SMU would have been the 5th auto bid. And then, even after them, Liberty would have been next in line above the Big 12. Ignoring Texas, OSU would have been the 7th highest ranked conference champion. Last year, the Big 12 wouldn't have even sniffed an autobid. Get fucked, Bitch 12.
  13. We think you are ovulating all over this thread, not crying
  14. The decent, competitive league which had no ranked teams this year except those outgoing? Seems more like the Big 12 built a shitty league full of losers and bitches, more accurately.
  15. Sledgehammer had so many people fired today that they are closing their office in California, wow. Like, an entire studio shut down today, and that still doesn't encompass all the layoffs.
  16. Just got word that basically the entire Austin customer support division is gone now. So I'd actually expect there are some posters here on this very board who were laid off today.
  17. That's actually part of it too. Acti-Bliz owned King as an independently operated studio. Buying Acti-Bliz got them King, who makes Candy Crush.
  18. "this unannounced game I just heard of, made by people I don't know nor would have ever heard of, were not talent" is some head up your ass bullshit. I have friends on that team which were fired today. They absolutely are fucking talent. edit: perhaps this was too inflamatory, I apologize. I'm just very upset because a lot of people I know were fired today, and the industry has been miserable so far with this stuff. We're in january, and the gaming industry has already hit 60% of the layoffs for the entirety of 2022, and 2022 was an abnormally bad year. Meaning this is very, very, verrrrry rough times, not just for those fired, but for everyone who works on games.
  19. First up, I worked for Valve for 7 years, so I know this stuff. Second, no, Steam has lots of smaller games, but Battle.net has the whales. Even beyond Battle.net, there are other enormous services out there that eclipse steam. Steam, while in my opinion the greatest thing to happen to all gaming period, does not have World of Warcraft. Steam does not have League of Legends. Steam does not have Honor of Kings. Quite literally, all the biggest PC games are not on Steam. Third, I have been hearing from friends all day long about who was toast and this is something that isn't being reported -- the vast, vast majority of the layoffs are coming from Treyarch, Sledgehammer, and Raven, along with a huge portion of their Xbox team responsible for physical distribution. In other words, their COD studios, which aligns with exactly what I said. They didn't buy Activision for COD, and it wasn't redundancies because Acti-blizz largely does not have physical distribution teams.
  20. And microsoft also runs a PC gaming store installed on hundreds of millions of computers. My point still stands, Call of Duty is not Acti-Blizzards primary product. The number of players CoD pulls is nothing compared to their other properties. The fact is, Xbox, the home gaming console, has been a money pit for microsoft and being the "top selling xbox product" isn't a huge milestone considering how poorly Xbox sells compared to their competition. Microsoft didn't buy Acti-bliz for CoD. They bought them for Battle.net, the biggest PC gaming entity.
  21. Oh, but those people aren't included in these layoffs. Those people got golden parachutes. Bobby Kotick should literally be in jail for the shit he pulled at Activision, and he's walking away from this with a *9 figure* severance package. And I do game development, I've shipped 8 AAA titles and have been doing this shit for 25 years now. No, it's not colossally inefficient with most people doing fuck all. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
  22. Except these layoffs aren't solely coming from Activision. Studios not part of the merger at all, essentially entirely separate companies under the same umbrella mega corp are being hit as well, like Zenimax and King. This is not because of redundancies. Also, Game Development is not like general tech development. Redundancies are much less of a thing, because in game development, you will usually outsource to third party companies positions that could be redundant. Employees doing game development are talent. This would be like Disney buying Warner Bros then firing James Gunn because they already have directors. And, really it should be said very clearly: Microsoft's gaming focus with Xbox, and Activision-Blizzard, do NOT overlap very much. Xbox is console and living room focused, Acti-Bliz is PC focused. This is like saying Halo does the same thing as World of Warcraft. No, entirely different audiences, on different platforms, not competing with one another. One of the arguments Microsoft made to the FTC about why they wanted Acti-bliz specifically is because their markets did not overlap widely and they were not redundant.
  23. Boy it sure feels like the Microsoft Anti-trust suit of the 90's was a million years ago now. Just got word that a bunch of my friends just got affected by this. I knew of their layoff before they did, because of course Microsoft announced this to the press before telling the actual people affected by this.
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