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It's the same engine Morrowind was on.

Yeah, but British is a thing, and everyone knows about it (the British made damn well sure, back when they were the main global bully)... American, on the other hand, doesn't work, because it refers to the whole damn continent, not just the USA... so if we want to refer to the citizens of the US Yankee / Yank is about the only option we have; not the best, maybe, but probably the least worst.

Horoscopes. Fortune cookies. Political speeches.

In the US, sure.

Outside, a Yankee is a Yankee, even if they're cosplaying a ghost while standing in front of a burning cross and waving a confederate flag. We don't care enough to ask in which state they had the misfortune of being born. 🤷‍♂️

Yankee, or Yank.

You just haven't turned the current high enough.

Yeah, sorry, I was thinking from a PC standpoint and sort of ignored the whole console perspective (though, frankly, the console market seems to have been absolutely fubared from its inception, from a consumer standpoint, so anything Microsoft does will probably be as relevant as farting into an ocean of shit...)

Yeah, I sort of forgot the Angle part of Anglo-Saxon, didn't I..?

(Plus, there was probably quite a bit of Latin already there before the Norse and the Norman, at least south of Hadrian's wall, though far from enough to make Old English a Romance language... all in all English has a very complex history.)

Activision Blizzard was already about as anti-consumer as possible, so in this particular case at worst nothing will change, at best Microsoft might actually clean house and there might be some improvements for the consumers...

And hydric acid too!

No one's saying they can't also be dropped from a plane while strapped to a heavy weight. Planes are big, there's room for CEOs and boards, and anyone else who promotes enshittification. 🤷‍♂️

Grammatical gender ≠ biological gender ≠ gender identity. 🤷‍♂️

The old man the boats.

It's easier to understand when you look at English history and realize that English is essentially three different languages (old Saxon, Norse, and Norman) badly put together (a great example of this being meats having different names than the animals they come from, since the people farming said animals spoke Saxon, but the people eating them spoke Norman), with plenty of Latin, Greek, French, and other languages sprinkled on top, all written with a limited alphabet that's incapable of properly reflecting the pronunciation of those languages' words.

It doesn't help, though ,that at some point the English alphabet got simplified with things like ō becoming things like oo, without taking into account that things like oo were already being used to represent different sounds, or that at one point over a period of a few decades in the middle ages for some reason all English speakers seemed to decide to randomly switch around the pronunciation of all their vowels without changing how they wrote them (!?), or that, while all languages borrow words from others, unlike most others English for some reason doesn't bother to adapt their orthography or grammar (a French or Catalan speaker will have no problem understanding why façade is written like that and pronounced fassade instead of fackade, for instance, but I'm sure most English speakers won't be so lucky, especially if they write it facade... and then you've got things like fiancé, or the plural of radius being radii, and so on)... and you end up with the oos in book, blood, door, and boot all being pronounced differently... and, for some reason (probably the borrowing one), the one in brooch being pronounced a particular fifth different way... 🤷‍♂️

Luckily, Activision Blizzard already stopped investing in quality and started shafting customers quite a while back, so worst case scenario (in this particular case, your criticism is still valid for most others) nothing changes, best case scenario Microsoft actually cleans house and the market becomes slightly less anti-consumer with one of the worst offenders gone...

That seems like an excellent idea, we should all make everything possible to make sure such AI overlords are built.

Please don't hurt me, or an eventual future indistinguishable facsimile of myself..?

People don't use Windows because it's a "fantastic" OS for their needs. It very evidently is not "fantastic" (or anywhere close) for anyone's needs but Microsoft's. People use Windows because it comes bundled with their PCs due to Microsoft's monopolistic malpractices, and because they can't get bothered to figure out how to get rid of that bloatware / malware (or, they would get rid of it if possible, but are held hostage by the software — or malware, e.g., Adobe — they need to work only working on Windows, again due to said monopolistic malpractices).

CD Projekt Red..?

I was a Relay user. Now I use Connect for Lemmy. 🤷‍♂️

With Malcolm McDowell and John Rhys-Davies.