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Have you played MERGER ?
By Michael Elliott
MERGER is a single player Forged in the Dark RPG about trying to survive in a world of living predatory corporations. While the game is certainly a metaphor for living in late-stage capitalism, it is also quite literal. Corporations in MERGER are large, faceless, monstrous entities that span time-zones and continents, gestalt organisms built of millions of individuals. We made them but they answer to no one. They use us to reproduce, feed, and defend themselves.
Your character can see these corporate bodies for what they really are. They glimpse flesh in the cracks of the cement, see eyes looking back at them in the conference room, and can feel blood under their feet as they walk between skyscrapers. Are they alone in this revelation? Will they attempt to leave the corporate body, or remain a cell in this immoral behemoth, biding their time to strike? Play to find out what happens!
Have you played ?
Yes I have played it
No but I've read it
no but i've heard of it
never heard of it
merger
We don't stream, so what will this mean for us, I wonder. That is, if the N crooks decide to go full streaming with everything. You never know these days.
You've probably read the news that Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros. I'd like to know what you think about this. Will they be allowed to close the deal? Wouldn't that violate anti-monopoly law? The WGA is concerned about the consequences this merger could have, especially on workers' conditions, wages, content diversity, and the reduction of creative freedom (www_wga_org/news-events/news/press/2025/wga-statement-on-the-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery). Your opinion?
No it's not a monopoly. Think back to when regulators let Disney to buy Fox even though Disney was absorbing its competitor. From an anti-trust pov, Netflix buying WB is a vertical integration.
First, Netflix owns one facility for its studio, it rents production space and hire contractors. WB owns two major studio facilities (one in California and another in UK) and rents out its own studio so makes money off its own asset. In contrast, Netflix rents space from WB for production, like the Sandman series.
So this possible merger is closer to a vertical integration rather than absorbing a competitor.
Second, a combined Netflix/Warner/HBO/Discovery will result in about about 34% of the streaming market, therefore will be them ahead of ahead of Prime Video (22%) and Disney+/Hulu (21%). So again, not a not a monopoly.
What Netflix wants is Intellectual Properties and franchises, which WB has the largest library. The merger would make Netflix a legit competitor to Disney across the board: production, distribution, and franchises, making Netflix a peer of Disney. Where D+ streaming was Disney using their weight to push into Netflix’s home turf, this merger is Netflix using their cash to push into Disney’s home turf.
Ода Сардоникс одно из любимых слияний, эта мега женщина сразу очаровала и поэтому я решила заморочиться чуть-чуть;D
думаю следующая на очереди малахит