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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The antitrust concerns center on cloud gaming, not the consoles. The UK regulator basically said that it’s unlikely that Microsoft would profit from making CoD an Xbox exclusive, but it would be extremely beneficial and provide a substantial benefit to make it exclusive to their cloud gaming platform.

    Because the current cloud gaming market isn’t massive this basically meant that Microsoft would be the only choice for most consumers and could stifle growth and innovation in the industry, which would negatively affect UK consumers. Microsoft proposed that they have ten years where they are forced to put games on specific competing platforms. But the problem with that is they wouldn’t need to include any new entrants to the market and they got to dictate the method of sale. This would obviously prevent new entries to the market (who’s gonna pay for the cloud gaming service that doesn’t have CoD, when you could go to one that does) and would prevent someone from innovating the purchase method (say they wanted to introduce a subscription that gets you access to all games on the platform, they would be unable to include CoD in that). And theh generally don’t like things like this because after 10 years it’s just going to become an exclusive anyway, so it doesn’t ultimately correct the issue.

    I’d recommend you read the report on it, it’s very thorough.








  • probodynetoUKCasual@lemmy.worldMonday Musing
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    2 years ago

    The heats not too bad with a fan tbf. As for what I’m doing today is work, but busy work as they don’t really have a project for me to get on with since I finished this one faster than expected, and the next bit is delayed.

    But otherwise sleep has been a pain as this year the hay fever seems to have activated my asthma which is fun. Oh and I have massive blisters and raw skin because Dr. Martens are way worse to break in than I anticipated.




  • Sorry so much insane shit here. Firstly she’s using a made up report by some random bloke on a conspiracy site (edit: which I’m pretty sure is called trailmix, so I think they’re nutty) to substantiate her tweet, sure fine, pretty normal shit at this point.

    But next she says that bud light and target are losing $27 billion over their LGBT stuff, which like, where does she get that from. That cannot be true whatsoever.


  • probodynetoFormula 1@lemmy.mlLe Mans results are in!
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    Really ready good race in the early parts. I’m a bit unhappy that Porsche didn’t win (or even keep a car on the lead lap) but it’s been a great first le mans for the reinvigorated HyperCar class. And I’ve finally seen someone other than Toyota win me mans!





  • I think google are pushing tablet support more in general given that they’ve released a tablet as well. Can’t quite remember but I think they’re doing something like putting apps that don’t have tablet forms into a cropped window like that 16:9 mode you can choose to encourage developers to support tablets better.