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That would be the point of the article, yes.

They do sadly, and that's not saying Roku is good, it's saying how terrible everything else is. I now have 2 custom setups at home to avoid it, but I am a fraction of a fraction of their watchers.

Microsoft doesn't know how to make software anymore. That's not an anti-AI thing, or even an anti-microsoft thing, they just truly don't know.

It's not a tech company anymore. The people in charge aren't nerds, they aren't coders, their business people now. The org is so large and cumbersome that the left hand never knows what the right is doing. How can they possibly make software when you have to go through 42 teams for even the smallest feature request, miles of red tape, approvals, legal, everything. Small startups can build better things because they don't have all the stupid bureaucracy of big tech, and Microsoft just keeps adding more. "Maybe even more overhead will get us operational!" It's no wonder to me they're falling behind, they don't know how to make things anymore.

This is more or less confirming it. Roku's been in a death spiral for a while, and I saw that ads were showing on the home page now.

I feel like everyone thinks those sites are really great until they get burned badly.

Correct, as I said I worked there. However not going through them also closes you off to massive amounts of business. The alternative is that those rooms go empty and nobody stays there costing the hotels massive amounts of money. Some money is better than none.

Think more Expedia and booking.com, sites that thr hotels have no say over.

I worked Expedia for a while, and there is a complete disconnect between them and hotels. Hotels offer spare availability, we sell it, but customer shows up and the room is gone. Our service showed it but maybe the hotel had already sold it and we were out of date, maybe the room definition wasn't correct. So the hotel says they can't do anything, call Expedia. Expedia doesn't want to give back money so they fuck around with horrible customer service. The customer blames the hotel.

It's why I never recommend third party booking sites anymore. Book directly with the hotel. Get the loyalty program with the hotel. Yes maybe Expedia saves you 20 bucks a night, but your experience will be guaranteed with the hotel. Expedia can't make those promises.

“I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” she said. However, Zaragosa noted this political loyalty co-exists with the disappointment she feels over the months her husband spent in detention.

For sure, if I was detained and my spouse said this, I would be starting the divorce process. Same if I did it to them, I would expect them to divorce me. The choice between supporting a politician and supporting your spouse should be the easiest out there, and yet she failed that simple test.

Thanks. I don't think that's quite karma hitting them like the thumbnail suggested

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Its like they think we don't see all of this. Why would we trust Microsoft at all? I'm saying this as a long-time Xbox fanboy, I was on board, I have shirts, I bought all the Xboxes, I defended them during the xbone era, and they still burned me. Your list is exactly right.

• They are incapable of making quality games internally.
• they refuse to let writers do what they do best and instead meddle and water down stories
• they set wildy unrealistic expectations on games and studios and then like you said if it's not literally the best game ever made of all time (on the shoestring budget and timeline they set) they blame the studio and close them

Why would I ever trust anything they made?

My spouse is playing Outer Worlds 2. They enjoyed the first, so playing the second. It is a fun game. It's not amazing or groundbreaking, but fun. A solid sequel. Not everyone will like it but there's a good following. How did Microsoft respond? They raised the price before it released to 80 fucking dollars (for what is solidly a 40 dollar game), they then backtracked to 60, still people refused to buy it at that price, they blamed the studio (obsidian) for lack of sales, and now told them they won't make a third one because they just don't see the demand.

Can anyone say that this clickbait titled video is worth watching?