Paul the sparky wrote:

Fortnite Nan is best Nan.

Sure, until she has to buy a new Xbox and then she’s *the worst*.

I don't think I really get what I'm looking at there.

Oh I see. I recognised Doom but didn't know what it was being played on

That’s some god tier fucking about there. I hope it was done on someone’s work time.

Are my efforts at video tags for nothing now? Fuck you guys.

nick_md wrote:

Are my efforts at video tags for nothing now? Fuck you guys.

Heh. I didn't like to mention it.

mistercrayon wrote:

It could play DVD discs but you needed to buy a remote to play dvds. I think they bundled the licence for dvd into the remote.

Bingo.
Sony and Phillips owned the DVD license/codec (I think). The box could read the discs but not play the movies. So the remote control basically covered the cost of the license.

Yeah that's about where I'm at too. I've no answers and I know my own buying history with them so I'm not here for whataboutery, it just leaves a horrid, rancid taste in the mouth even thinking about buying into any more of their hype machines.

It’s interesting to think that a few years ago people were cheering for Guillemot in his defence of his company from the hostile take over from Vivendi.

You would think the company would be in a healthier place with a different top row.

The bit that really made me think in that vid was that the leaks we’d all been getting in the week prior to the forward event weren’t even fake “hype” leaks, they were put out to try control and suffocate the other worse news that they knew was gonna come.  The big sites also seemed to duly fall in line and report on these leaks of exciting upcoming shoot mans rather than the more important stuff of massive corporate irresponsibility.  Shits.

Yeah that's fucked up and the next Ubi stuff can get in the bin.

afgavinstan wrote:

So here's a statement from a sacked Ubi employee over sexual abuse claims https://twitter.com/GreatWallofChin/status/1285364499592159233?s=19 Just terrible. Even more so the people in the replies applauding him for his "growth, man". Disgusting.

regmcfly wrote:

Yeah that's fucked up and the next Ubi stuff can get in the bin.

It's a real difficult one this, but where do you draw the line in the sand, because this heinous shit goes on everywhere you care to look.
*and for the record, I'm not having a pop at anyone here, these are just random musings.
A quick Google of Nintendo for instance, reveals that the head of Nintendo Russia is also a massive cunt. Now that story is almost two years old now. Nintendo claim they had an internal investigation, gave the guy a warning, and from what I can see, he's still in the same position at the company. So what changed? Probably not much.
So what do you do? Boycott the entire world, because this shit goes on everywhere? I'm not pretending to have any sort of answer here, but it's an interesting topic for discussion.
Are you never going to watch another film because Hollywood is broken? Television? That's no different. Sport? Filled with utter scumbags?
I'd be willing to guess that you could dig up similarly depressing dirt anywhere you care to dig.
So what's the answer? I'm not convinced boycotting everything in the world is going to help anyone, but the voices do need to be heard, and the villainous scum do need to be rooted out.

I mean that seems a pretty reasonable position Elf.

Very difficult one though. Picking and choosing which bastards we do something about or shout more about. The whole world is full of them. 

I guess we start with where is easiest to try and make a change and voice concerns etc.

I heard one take that was, if you want to support/enjoy the art without supporting someone problematic, pirate it. That was in reference to R-Kelly at the time, but it seems even better suited to large-team efforts like film/games, you can ensure the hard work of the staff is seen and appreciated, without giving financial support to the problematic entity itself.