Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Arkane union says Xbox is ‘sabotaging’ Blade development
A French union representing workers at Arkane has accused Xbox of “sabotaging” the development of Marvel’s Blade by putting a 19-month ban on hiring new staff.
The union’s statement reads: “Today, as work on Blade is going fine, and the level of quality of the game to be expected is on [par] with what Arkane has accustomed its players, workers have to face the harsh reality: our studio might get closed because, and only because, Microsoft decided to, even if that means sabotaging the game it funded.”
“The decision to close Arkane is solely the brutal application of a never-ending search for maximum profit optimisation,” the post continues. “Arkane is profitable. Just not profitable enough for Microsoft.”
The union has outlined a list of demands for Xbox. These include giving Arkane a say in who would potentially acquire the studio, and a higher redundancy payout should Arkane be closed down. Right now, Arkane says that the redundancy being offered by Xbox is “outrageously low.”
However, Arkane makes it clear that it would like to remain open and continue development on Blade. It also argues that it is in Xbox’s interest to stick with Arkane: “Even this closure itself is done against any financial logic, as closing Arkane today would probably be more expensive than finishing the game.”
via: VGC
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Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Vou ser sincero com vocês: até algumas horas atrás, eu achava que Patrick Stewart fizesse parte da comunidade LGBTQ+. Via frequentemente fotos dele trocando selinhos com Ian McKellen e até imaginava que pudesse existir algo além de uma grande amizade entre os dois.
Para minha surpresa, ao pesquisar mais sobre sua vida, descobri que não. Patrick Stewart era heterossexual e foi casado três vezes, sempre com mulheres.
E os selinhos? Eram apenas uma demonstração pública de afeto e carinho por Ian, que é assumidamente gay e um dos seus melhores amigos. Mas o mais importante nunca foi o gesto em si. O verdadeiro significado estava no fato de Patrick usar sua imagem, como um dos atores mais respeitados de Hollywood, para apoiar a comunidade LGBTQ+ de forma aberta e natural.
Patrick Stewart não tinha uma masculinidade frágil e nunca precisou provar sua heterossexualidade para ninguém. Não se preocupava com o que pensavam ou diziam a seu respeito. O que realmente importava para ele era ajudar a construir um mundo mais tolerante e acolhedor.
Um mundo em que seu grande amigo Ian McKellen, e toda a comunidade LGBTQ+, pudessem viver com dignidade e paz.
Sir Patrick Stewart foi, sem dúvida, um homem à frente do seu tempo.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
For every game I request, the Xbox version is available last. Usually a 2-5 day penalty for playing the Xbox version.
A lot of Xbox codes come in a few days after public release, when other counterparts were available two weeks earlier.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Un po’ di backstage de #LAssurdaStoriaDellaGialappasBand
Vi aspettiamo al cinema!
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
TRUE STORY
After we announced Croc and saw the request for XB.
Papa Mike: Hey can we do XB?
Argo Mike: But we only got like 9 fans, can we still do it?
PM: F* yeah we can. Wanna?
AM: F* yeah!
PM: Lets go!!
This just happened in the past 2 hours folks.
@ArgonautGames_
@PMStudiosUSA
Thats how we roll!
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
No, @elonmusk, the U.S. stopped funding Ukraine last year. In fact, U.S. companies make money on American weapons for which we Europeans pay.
The more you meddle in our politics and the more you play politics with your products, the more you damage your brand.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.
All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.
From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Opinion | Xbox made multiple commitments to its players and fans by announcing Marvel's Blade, State of Decay 3, and Senua; the latter two even being advertised to their most loyal customers not even 5 months ago.
Xbox is holding on to their promise with State of Decay 3. It'll be released and it'll be on Game Pass, just as announced. That's good. As a costumer, I don't care if the logistics behind the scene changed. That's fine.
As for Marvel's Blade and Senua, those are commitments you made to the Xbox community. I'll not be easy on Xbox if these promises won't be fulfilled; and neither should you. The Xbox brand took enough damage during those last couple of years. Returning to Xbox means rebuilding trust with your fans.
I do understand the Xbox reset. I do understand why it's needed. I do understand why some studio departures are needed, even if they hurt. But if you made commitments and promises to this Xbox community; stand by them. Just as you stood to much worse ideas such as Halo or Fable becoming multiplatform.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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why @Windows?
HDR on Windows 11 is a pain. You have to turn it on by hand, then remember to turn it off, or your desktop looks washed out.
This free app does both for me automatically. Why isn’t this built into Windows?
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Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Im Plenum des Europäischen Parlaments habe ich über Angelina gesprochen. Sie war ein Jahr alt. Am 19. Oktober wurde sie in einem Park in der Ukraine von einer russischen Drohne getötet. Ihre Mutter Ina starb kurz darauf im Krankenhaus.
Das ist die Realität in der Ukraine. Das ist der mörderische Krieg des Kriegsverbrechers Wladimir Putin. Er will die Ukraine vernichten, Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer töten und die Zivilbevölkerung vertreiben.
Und der US-Präsident sieht nicht nur ungerührt zu, er nimmt Putin auch noch in Schutz.
Ich habe im Plenum klargemacht: Europa steht an der Seite der Ukraine, humanitär, wirtschaftlich, technologisch und militärisch. Wir halten an den Sanktionen fest, bis Putin das Töten beendet.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
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Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
We are excited to share that AMD FSR 4.1 will be available to developers on XBOX Series X|S very soon.
We have partnered closely with our friends @AMD to optimize and tune the models to deliver incredible performance and quality on both consoles and the ROG XBOX Ally and Ally X.
This sets the foundation for our work together as we collaborate on FSR Diamond and Project Helix.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Trump openly lies that Zelenskyy “doesn’t care” about ending the war. He also lies that Russia is generously sending cheap diesel to the world. Russia is selling it under a deal Trump struck with Putin, after the US lifted sanctions to allow it.
Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia can stop the war any day by withdrawing. Ukraine can’t.
Breakdown of Trump lies⬇️
“I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.”
Trump lied.
Trump’s own words give other reasons for going easy on Russia. Later in the same post he says that perhaps more importantly, Russia is doing very little to help Iran and he wants to keep it that way. Bloomberg reported that he waived the Russia energy tariffs because they were getting in the way of lowering diesel prices before the midterms. When he announced the diesel deal with Putin, he didn’t mention the war or sanctions and performatively called lower prices for farmers, ranchers and truckers his greatest priority, all the meanwhile being the culprit behind the increased prices.
He has shown no similar concern about driving Ukraine away. He said Kyiv "had better damn well stop" its refinery strikes and that Ukraine should replace its president, and Ukrainian officials say US counterparts warned that the US would cut off intelligence if the strikes continued. Russia, meanwhile, hit power plants in Ukraine within hours of Trump announcing his energy ceasefire.
"Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Trump lied.
“Very little compared to what they could be doing” is a standard nobody can test. Moscow and Tehran have a deep military relationship. Russia’s air war on Ukrainian cities was built on Iranian-designed Shahed drones.
Read the sentence in context. Trump says he wants to keep Russia’s help to Iran limited and will, unless stupid people get in the way. That’s an admission that he’s going easy on Moscow over Ukraine to keep it quiet on Iran.
His own military has said otherwise. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed Russia has been aiding Iran during the war, including expanded intelligence sharing and satellite imagery to help Tehran target US forces. Ukraine has said Russian satellites photographed Diego Garcia, Incirlik in Turkey, Al Udeid in Qatar and Saudi oil and gas fields, all of which Iran later attacked.
Russia was shipping TNT, ammunition and drone components to Iran across the Caspian Sea, helping it rebuild arsenals used up fighting the US and Israel. Moscow has also coached Tehran on drone use and electronic warfare, drawing on its experience in Ukraine. Eighteen American service members have been killed in the war. Trump knew this months prior, did nothing to protect service members.
“Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this.”
Trump lied.
Ukrainian strikes forced Russia to ban diesel exports, which tightened global supply, but the main cause of record US diesel prices is the war with Iran. Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz after the first US and Israeli strikes in February, and shipping crude out of the Gulf now costs about $33 a barrel, up from about $2. NBC reported that Trump has tried to blame the Ukraine conflict for record diesel prices rather than his own war on Iran.
“Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World.”
Trump lied.
Russia isn’t sending diesel out of goodwill. It is selling it under a deal Trump negotiated with Putin, after the Treasury licensed transactions in Russian diesel, including US imports, through April 2027. Russian industry experts had already been calling for the export ban to be lifted because Russia was losing profit. The shipments come to about ten days of US consumption and are expected to do little for prices. Trump provides nothing to back up “at a low price.”
“Zelenskyy doesn’t care.”
Trump lied.
On Oct. 11 Zelenskyy said Ukraine would stop striking Russian refineries if Russia stopped attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. He made the same offer in an ABC interview, asking Trump to tell Russia to stop hitting Ukraine’s grid. Trump announced his energy ceasefire after that interview aired, and Zelenskyy’s office learned of it from social media. Ukraine suspended its refinery strikes anyway and resumed them only after Russian missile and drone attacks broke the truce.
“He doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.”
Trump lied.
Trump struck the diesel deal with Putin by phone while his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were meeting Ukrainian officials to discuss a plan to end the war. Ukraine was at the table with Trump’s own negotiators when he went around them to Moscow.
A senior CFR fellow said the deal came as a major shock to the Ukrainians, to European governments, and to members of Congress who thought Trump was being moved toward new sanctions on Russia. Zelenskyy later said the US-Russia agreements were made without informing Ukraine.
“With all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past…”
Trump lied.
Europe isn’t giving Zelenskyy money. Much of what it spends goes to US weapons makers, under a program Trump set up himself. In July 2025, Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launched PURL, after the White House complained that Europe should carry more of the cost of Ukraine’s security. Under PURL, European allies and Canada buy US-made weapons, which are then sent to Ukraine. By July 2026, partners had put nearly $7 billion into it, and the program supplies 95% of Ukraine’s Patriot missiles.
The European money Trump is complaining about is going to American factories. He knows that because he arranged it. His administration has also reportedly threatened to shut PURL down to force Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries.
The Biden-era aid followed the same pattern. In 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said as much as 90% of US security assistance for Ukraine was being spent in the United States, on new weapons or on replacing weapons sent from US stockpiles. Biden said nearly two-thirds of the 2024 Ukraine package would go to US industry, in states like Arizona, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas, where Patriots, Javelins and artillery shells are made.
“Giving him” is chosen to make the aid sound like cash in Zelenskyy’s pocket, and the rest of the sentence uses that to suggest he is dragging the war out for the money.
“His male population is low, wounded, and/or dead.”
Trump lied.
Ukraine’s losses are heavy, but the numbers don’t come close to what Trump describes. CSIS estimated in July 2026 that Ukrainian forces had lost between 525,000 and 625,000 killed, wounded or missing since February 2022. Former NATO commander Christopher Cavoli put Ukrainian deaths at about 150,000. In a country of roughly 36 million people, that is a terrible toll, but it is nowhere near a male population that is mostly wounded or dead.
Ukraine still fields one of the largest armies in Europe. Zelenskyy has said the armed forces total about 880,000, second in Europe only to Russia’s.
Ukraine does have a real manpower problem. The number of conscription-age men in the country fell from about 8.7 million before the invasion to roughly 5 million by early 2024, through death and emigration. Recruiting enough soldiers is a constant struggle. Trump turns that strain into a claim that Ukraine’s men are gone.
He also leaves out Russia’s losses, which are far worse. CSIS estimates Russian forces lost about 1.4 million killed, wounded or missing over the same period, more than twice Ukraine’s toll. Cavoli puts Russian deaths at about 450,000. Trump doesn’t say Russia’s male population is low, wounded or dead.
Trump has a record of inventing Ukrainian casualty figures. In January 2025 he claimed 700,000 Ukrainians had been killed, more than four times the estimate today.
“His oceans and seas are gone.”
Trump lied.
Ukraine still controls its Black Sea coast west of the occupied south, including Odesa, and its ports continue to export grain.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times. Last night alone, there were strikes on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions. Tens of thousands of families remain without power. Energy workers and repair crews are working virtually around the clock to restore electricity supply. Overnight, the Russians also struck residential buildings in our regions. As of now, 12 people have been reported injured, including two children. Two people have been killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the site.
In total, over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic. The main targets of these strikes are energy facilities – the Russians are trying to cause a blackout. And America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements. On the contrary, they take every signal of an opportunity to make money as proof that their bet on war is paying off and they can keep fighting. It is because of this position of Russia’s that the war continues, not because Ukraine is rightfully defending itself. It is Russia that must face pressure for peace to have a chance. Thank you to everyone who understands this and helps.
Domenico A 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. Enough is enough.
President Trump should rescind the diesel deal with Russia and use the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act to impose harsh sanctions on nations purchasing Russian energy, work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
