At many companies you find out when your badge doesn't open the door, and someone from security walks up behind you to escort you to your cubicle so you can clear out your personal stuff, then to HR for the exit interview and final pay, and then out the door.

There really is no nice way to tell people they've been laid off. The best you can hope for is a severance package that will tide you over until you can find another job. If you're in your 50's then you'd better get a lot less picky about what you'll do to survive because the odds are good you'll never do the same kind of professional work again.

In 3 months time, we will hear more whining about how they can’t find skilled workers. I’ve already read about callbacks to reemploy niche workers. These kind of ppl would have to pay a small fortune to get me to do something like this, otherwise I’d be happy to tell them to eat my ass.

> This doesn't even make any fucking sense! I didn't ask a question! And I explained it in detail so I actually already proved what you said wrong...wtf are you talking about???

No, you didn't prove anything wrong.

I was making it very clear.............did Sony do what Microsoft has clearly done with Zenimax/bethesda, and they are going to eventually do with ActivisionBlizzard?

And the answer to that is no.

Square-Enix still has control over what they do with their Final Fantasy games.

> .....it doesn't matter if they helped create them!

Yes it does........it means Sony didn't take anything away that already existed.

Because Sony had a hand in creating God of War, Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us.

Were any of these games multiplatform IPs that were being sold on Xbox and Nintendo platforms, and then Sony purchased the developer with the eventual plan to only have them on Playstation platforms?

No.

Sony created these IPs.......they didn't "scam you" or "take" anything that you had to begin with.

> What matters is the amount they bought! I mean they just bought Bungie! Stop trying to convince yourself that they're a good company.

They don't control Bungie's main IP, Destiny.

Did you know that?

The publishing rights to Destiny and FUTURE Destiny games remains with the executives of Bungie, and a member board made up of Bungie employees.

In other words, Sony cannot restrict the platforms that Bungie decides to release Destiny on.

They literally made a deal that still gives Destiny autonomy.

You couldn't have picked a worse example to compare with what Microsoft is/has been doing.

> Not to mention funny how you seen to ignore the whole Sony buys exclusives when that's the argument....it's almost like you know you're wrong!

What "exclusives" did they buy? And are they PERMANENTLY bought?

You can't answer, or don't want to answer this....do you?

Then the current administration doesn’t either, because no one’s going after Facebook.

*mean

not median, mode, or geometric mean

edit: apparently all the reddit aspies don't like precison in language anymore

Like post date, location, category, salary, and so on…

How did they even have that many employees? It's a fucking job aggregator. Basically runs itself minus some poor network engineer in a dark room keeping the servers on.

A millionaire and nine people making minimum wage have an average income of over $100,000.

Found this article linked on the same page:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/tech-industry-layoffs/

Over 120K people, so far. I think this bloodbath is only just getting started.

Or he was using that as a smokescreen after users of tiktok made him look bad by conducting a campaign to inflate his rally numbers. For one or two of his rallies before the 2020 election, users would signup for tickets to his rallies in the thousands. When they had set things up expecting thousands and only a fraction showed up. Kinda irked him.

He didn't give a shit about "national security" especially since Facebook collects the same "data."

Would the Phone Game between AI systems be fun, or no?

Ummm maybe try reading before typing nonsense please....

So..........to answer your question, they never permanently control FF7, because they didn't buy out the IP outright.

"Which is what Microsoft is attempting to do with COD.

Correct?

This would also be a deal that Microsoft could make with Square-Enix, but chances are Square-Enix wouldn't make such a deal because Final Fantasy is an important IP in Japan where they expect to sell many copies of the game, and Xbox has almost no presence in Japan."

This doesn't even make any fucking sense! I didn't ask a question! And I explained it in detail so I actually already proved what you said wrong...wtf are you talking about???

"Actually, they helped create almost half of them, to make games that they were publishing. In other words, the correct terminology would be that Sony helped create "second-party" studios that would later become "first-party" studios once they released a successful game, and Sony wanted to continue working with that studio."

.....it doesn't matter if they helped create them! What matters is the amount they bought! I mean they just bought Bungie! Stop trying to convince yourself that they're a good company.

Not to mention funny how you seen to ignore the whole Sony buys exclusives when that's the argument....it's almost like you know you're wrong!

Please enlighten us on:
- How you know what they have and haven't seen.
- What ages of those they have or haven't seen.
- Why you think curation isn't the same as the "algorithm" learning what you do and don't like.
- How any of what they said implies they are technologically ignorant.

Go on, I'll wait.

A FF game not developed by square and most likely subject to different license agreements was released on xbox.....where is 7? Or 15?

"You dont see a difference between some exclusivity deals and buying massive multiplatform publishers to make popular multiplatform franchises exclusive forever?"

List me a time Microsoft took a popular IP and made it only on xbox after the 360....right you can't! Let's look at minecraft a very popular IP and Microsoft kept it on Playstation.....minecraft could easily sell a shit ton of consoles especially given Microsoft bought it but they didn't, so it wouldn't make any sense to do it other IPs that sell as well.

Not to mention that's not the point of this argument! That wasn't the original argument so don't try to change it!

I mean he literally said he wanted to ban it because it was a threat to national security. I’m no trump fan, but I distinctly remember this.

Well, guess we all know what job search platform those former employees won't be using...

Deterministic just means that the process isn't stochastic, which aligns with my understanding of AI models (at least after they've been trained). Chaotic means the output is highly sensitive to small changes in the input, which admittedly also isn't a great description of what's going on, but does capture the difficulty of predicting the output without restoring to non-determinism.

The kids are on the chat snap

Severance is a 30 day trial for Indeed Plus

Let me interpret, "Most of our users can vote."

Da fuck do they need so many people for?!!

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Filters for what?

> That game was not announced at the time

This is some ridiculous internet fanboy logic.

Just like your other post in which you said "Well, they didn't PROMISE, did they"

What comes after that? "Well, they weren't crossing their fingers behind their back when they said it, did they?"

How many arbitrary rules do you want to put in place in order to defend Xbox here?

This was a game in development for Playstation, they literally were told stop for non-gaming, non-technical reasons. They were told to stop, and it clearly had an anti-consumer impact.

> You keep cherry picking to support your emotional viewpoint

After your ridiculous logic, you have no place to lecture anybody about "emotional viewpoints."

> Sony has indeed prevented games from being launched on rival platforms

No, they haven't

Please show me a permanent buyout, and them shutting down existing game development.

You do understand that marketing deals or timed exclusivity is a TWO PARTY partnership. Sony didn't FORCE anything, they didn't bully their way into anything.

> (Final Fantasy would like to have a word, it doesn’t matter if they don’t own the IP, they are paying to keep it off the Xbox).

No where near the level of what Microsoft is already doing with Zenimax, and what they will eventually do with Activision games.

Once again, Sony didn't bully Square-Enix. Squre-Enix made that business choice.

> Now Microsoft follows their established lead and everyone freaks out?

Once again, your entire basis for this line is based on making a clear and dishonest claim.

Your fanboy is absolutely showing here.

> It was only last generation that Insomniac released a game on the Xbox (Sunset Overdrive), and now that studio will never work with anyone but Sony again.

Sunset Overdrive bombed, Insomniac choose to work with Sony on a Sony-controlled IP. And they made their most successful game, and then they choose to continue doing business with Sony, and their owners chose to get bought out.

Once again..........Insomniac is NOT a publisher, and NOT even a major publisher.

Once again.........Insomniac HAD NO MAJOR GAMING IP at the time they were acquired. The IP was already in Sony's hands.

You were never getting a Spider-man game on Xbox. Zero Percent chance of that ever happening.

Do you honestly believe what you are typing? You're trying to compare these things as the same?

> Yes, some IP has been lost in the process to Microsoft

Zenimax, a publisher that averages between $500-$550 million in revenue annually--which puts them on the level of Capcom or Konami--was bought out entirely.

And Activision--which generates about $7.2 billion in revenue annually--and is probably the single biggest third-party publisher that conducts most of its business in the west, and is only behind Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo.

You're over here trying to downplay it as "well.........some IP"

They need Indeed.