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this whole xbox thing feels like a true emperors no clothes moment. there is so obviously no plan, anything announced yesterday is overruled tomorrow, that even reporting the facts feels laughably insufficient.

other than call of duty and wow i genuinely think the smart move is to assume that any other xbox game thats more than a year away is never coming out. ‘mass layoffs and activision taking over halo’ just doesn’t describe how disastrous and destructive microsoft’s actions have been

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

I don't know what's more terrifying, that they think they can sell $1000 consoles, $100 games that are made by no one except Bobby Kotick typing "Make me a Call of Duty game" into Grok; or the fact that this might actually work.

this is still no example of an acceptable, let alone "good" game being made by AI much in the way there is no example of an AI film that lasts more than 10 seconds before collapsing under its own discontinuity