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I had a university professor give me a 99 on a written exam because "only Jesus is perfect".

I didn't really care but it's also something I may never forget because of how bizarre I found it

They aren't. They often don't.

Have movies typically planned and scheduled 10+ sequels/spinoffs in a shared universes prior to the MCU? I don't remember ever hearing that X1 is going to come out this year and Y1 the next with Z1 in the winter, etc etc over the course of 4-5 years.

Is that really similar to "pirate movies" or westerns or whatever from back in the day? When it comes to budgeting? Locking yourselves into set releases publicly, blocking theater schedules, etc?

Something can be lighthearted or action based and still be interesting film making in contrast to the paint by numbers MCU films and some others.

It's pure action, but Fury Road is an example of a simple action movie that had thought put into the editing, cinematography, etc. Barbie is light hearted but similarly had some ideas to play with.

Yeah there was a little bit of that in the original WW2 games: CoD 1-3 and the expansion games and console exclusives.

I honestly hate stories like this. What is the use of knowing this? Who does it benefit to hear this story and proliferate it?

So we can all go "wow what a monster" in the comments?

How many things happened today that actually will affect our lives instead?

Sony started this game

Did they, though? I think exclusives predate Sony and even the PS1. They've been a part of the console space since basically the inception of the medium. Xbox itself launched with an exclusive "killer app" in Halo. Timed third party exclusivity and exclusive Map Packs were very popular with the 360 when it was on top in the seventh generation as well.

I don't think Sony has ever made an acquisition of the same scope as Zenimax either in price or in how much of the market was fenced off from a studio they previously had access to. That's not even going into the Activision deal.

Maybe we can now point to Bungie, but that was still half the price. Most of Sony's acquisitions over its time were studios that were already de facto developing exclusively for their consoles. Even Insomniac. If you look at their history, Sunset Overdrive is a lone anomaly.

Exclusives suck, but I don't see them going away as long as consoles and capitalism exist. You're basically throwing shade at Sony for daring to fund the development of critically and commercially acclaimed games that gave them the reputation of having a quality first party library. Starfield on the other hand was developed as cross platform title until Microsoft paid 7.5 billion to acquire a major publisher. Wasn't this confirmed this week by the document leaks?

Few complain when Halo is released exclusively because no one is being surprised that those games are now exclusive titles. That isn't the case with the new Bethesda deal.

It's only an exclusive if it never comes to the platform.

What the fuck did you think was going to happen?

Microsoft would develop their existing first party studios and improve the quality of their first party titles, invest in third parties that they already had exclusive relationships with, or invest in up and coming studios?

Had Bethesda published a Microsoft exclusive since Morrowind?

There are so many other instances you can choose then.

So baseless conspiracy without a shred of evidence.

Hexbear is leftist and lemmy.world defederated from the instance so you're speaking of phantoms

The ACA was a Heritage Foundation health care plan that acts as a de facto subsidy for private health insurance. The best we ever get is still conservative.

The conditions that allow someone like Trump to come to power are manifested by the neoliberal policies extolled by the Democrat and Republican establishment, alike. Your party leaders are Reaganites/Thatcherites. The biggest policy win for Democrats in recent history was a Heritage Foundation plan that acts as a de facto subsidy to private health insurance.

And most people do not live in swing states so most "protest votes" do nothing to tip the scales.

creating more division within the left

Liberalism isn't the left.

create more Republicans in the process

Create more leftists, actually.

ivory tower orthodoxy

It's the Democratic establishment that abhors populism and typically walks in ivory tower circles. Liberalism and neoliberalism are the dominant ideologies in the Ivy League schools, not socialism.

Yeah everyone should have that right, but I don't think it does anyone any favors to allow these type of posts on this comm.

It's one thing to invite dunking on yourself in the comments section of a topical post. It's another to create posts just for the sake of stoking inter instance drama in a comm not made for that.

This is literally just bait and has no place in this community. Moderators should delete this on that grounds alone.

If it's allowed, then I wouldn't begrudge any Hexbear user(s) from spamming the comm with random political theory posts, especially those of the communist variety

Fair enough.

It will be interesting to see how this holds up in the courts, whether they can argue it's in fact a BFOQ, or whether that actually applies here.

The customer is making the choice not the business. When you search for primary care physicians in most networks, you can search and filter by gender. Again, is this illegal by your insurance/network to allow this filter?

Is it illegal to choose your primary care physician based on gender? Maybe I'm not reading this entirely correctly, but why would it be illegal to similarly choose your ride driver by gender?

Wouldn't discrimination be more if Lyft refused to hire male drivers or something to that effect according to the civil rights act?