Arnab Das

A Loser.

[` @worshipVK]

I don't think Jatin sapru ever gets angry but whatever he said today made so much sense 🚨

"We've dropped Shami, Siraj, Kuldeep and Jadeja for what? For Gurnoor, prasidh, prince and sundar. And on top of that, some people are desperate to drop Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma too.

These are the two players who have carried Indian cricket for the last 18 years. Gill probably knows now the only batters he could truly trust in this lineup are Kohli and Rohit. I've been doing commentary since years and I can vouch that, no youngster will thrive in next world cup the way Kohli and Rohit will do."

Even a sweet guy like Jatin is fed up with this management and their cheap tactics against Kohli and Rohit 🙏

[worsteve @worsteve96]

Cake rarity has been changed from Very Rare too Common, we should get a compensation for all the bps that has been spent…

[Valoresense @Valoresense]

Pressure vs Focus

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT, As I turn 43 this year, I have realised, as a man, no one cares about you. Not your wife. Not your family. Not your friends. Not your workmates. Nobody. People act like they care, but deep down, they don't. You are on your own. Always on your own.

[ASHA @asha_shar]

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX:

Team,

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.

History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them.

Asha

[Vayla Singh @valarr_dohaeris]

Life of Indian men

- Born as family burden-bearer
- Start grinding studies at 5
- Zero time for play or passion
- Endure scolding, beatings, and comparisons
- Battle crores for IIT/NIT seats
- Face rejection after rejection in job hunts
- Trap in soul-crushing 9-9-6 corporate grind
- Carry loans, parents, siblings on weak shoulders
- Forced into arranged marriage and kids
- Slave for wife’s dreams, kids’ future, parents’ health
- Kill own ambitions, sleep, and happiness daily
- Sweat blood for decades with no appreciation
- Dodge biased courts and society’s blame
- Die silently with a mountain of regrets

[Uma @uwouma]

Apply for as many jobs as you can. Target roles that are above your qualification. Go to the interviews that scare you. You will gain so much confidence from that experiece that you'll naturally become a better candidate. This is one of the things that job hunting taught me.

[Emma 🍉 @uisgeart]

never change dbd endgame chat <3

[Hens @HensDBD]

333 Wins in a row, with that I reached my goal and I'll retire the world record Jason winstreak and put the totems in the bag
EU servers are safe again 🙏

[sigma @viollion]

Time to play those games you bought on sale 2 years ago and never installed

[Jack• @Jackistan45]

Football : "He pushed me sir, give him red card sir, I need a substitute sir" 🤡

Cricket :

[Valomarii @valomarii]

This is frying me bro why did they make it look like she’s done something atrocious and cancelled her

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

Imagine It's 2030 and You have $600M in Your Bank Account and you're chilling like this on Tuesday morning, lock in bro.

[Anonymous☃️ @inceptiionnn]

Just waiting for that one day🤞

[Simon @realsast]

what did he even get angry at???

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

I've always wanted a PC app that turns it into controller-first "console mode". I was bored today and had Fable5 for company so I just built it. Honestly with all the Playstation drama, this may be all you need :)

Totally free btw.

https://t.co/aDjFiv2eqL

[prion_tv @prion_tv]

Boss asked me to stay late at work and my client didn’t show up for court. The German man is somehow behind this