"The Art VS the Artist"

"The Art VS the Artist", a post on whatever dot scalzi dot com by Athena Scalzi.

Honestly, I don't really have a whole lot (new) to say about this topic, because I've already written a veritable shit-ton about it in the past.

"Microsoft Buying Bethesda for $7.5 Billion"

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"Microsoft is set to buy Bethesda for $7.5 billion! We discuss this cataclysmic event and how it could potentially reshape the video game industry."

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My thoughts prior to watching the above video: God fucking damn it. Requiescat in pace, Bethesda. Fuck the modern video game industry. 2020 truly is the worst year.

My thoughts after watching the above video: I don't give a fuck about the nuts and bolts of this deal. My thoughts are unchanged. God fucking damn it. Requiescat in pace, Bethesda. Fuck the modern video game industry. 2020 truly is the worst year.

It doesn't matter, Ian, if I can still maybe play future Bethesda games on PC or PS5 or whatever. What matters is that, regardless of where the games end up, Microsoft is still now able to stick their grubby, diseased fingers into whatever pie Bethesda bakes from this point forward. (Not that Bethesda has been all that great even before this point, true enough. *cough*horsearmor*cough* But that kind of shit is not going to get better now that they've been bought by Microsoft.)

Also, Ian, The Orange Box was Valve and Half-Life, which has shit all to do with Bethesda.

And when Pat, around the eight and a half minute mark, began his "Microsoft has so much money!" thing and started singing the praises of Xbox Game Pass and displayed his apparent hard-on for Microsoft potentially buying Rockstar someday and him just straight-up giving a blowjob to the Xbox Series X and quivering with anticipation about how wonderfully devious an idea it would be if Microsoft were to really fuck Sony over and make all this shit exclusive to their console and how many people that would piss off, that's when my eyes started to glaze over and I started to check out of the whole video. Seriously, when did Pat become such an asshat? Or has he always been like that, and I've just had blinders on until now?