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[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Stop doing this in church. It's so lame

[Raphouse TV (RHTV) @raphousetv7]

Kids At Church Remix Yung Miami’s “Spend That” For The Lord: “Give God Praise” 🙏⛪🎶😂🙌

[Francis @ghostof_francis]

A nigga just wants to be financially free

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

😂😂😂

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

The camera just switched to daytime mode 😭

[John Hartsfield @JackmoveJohnny]

Xbox really just fired over 3 thousand ppl and sold off at least 4 of their 1st party studios, and it's still not as bad as that shit PlayStation announced last week. What a world.

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Naw that unfair af

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

PlayStation can close your account if you're inactive for 36 months, causing you to lose access to all your digital purchases, including games, DLCs, and other content 😳

[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

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Naw because I'll have tell my fiancé.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

You suddenly receive $2.5M today.

But for 12 months:

You must tell absolutely no one you have money.

No flexing.
No hints.
No lifestyle changes.
No helping people secretly.

You have to keep living exactly as you currently do. Could you actually pull that off?

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Hold my Arizona and pass me my controller. 👾🎮

[Mr. Mike @mrmikeMTL]

No human interaction for 7 days. $1,000,000. Could you do it?

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

That mean you need to get back in there 😂😂

[𝓓𝓮𝓯𝓷𝓮✨ @iamdefnee_]

Her duş aldığımda vücudumdan bu parçacıkların döküldüğünü fark ediyorum. Sebebi ne olabilir sizce endişelenmeli miyim ?

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

The divorce rate, and the fact that some women use it as a payday.

[Jessica Love @jessica_lovee95]

Why do so many men seem uninterested in marriage these days, or is that just something I’ve been noticing in my own circle?

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

The people who live there.

[LADE HER$ELF @Thebiglade]

Who is allowed to show up to your house unannounced??

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Yeah I'm just gonna buy a ninja ice cream maker for my girl and kids. Fuck it

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Running an ice cream cone under steaming hot water and it resists melting, eventually it washes away

Many ice creams in America will no longer melt because the ingredients have been changed, they are actually engineered to not melt. Modern ice creams have:

- Higher Levels of Stabilizers and Gums
- High percentages of Vegetable Oils and Fats instead of Dairy Fat
- More Air than standard ice cream, sometimes over 100%
- More sweeteners, maltodextrins and other solids adjust the freezing point

Many ice creams can’t even legally be called ice cream anymore in America

Our food is a science experiment

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

My girl gonna gave to be mad. I'm getting that Ratchet and clank. Even tho my PC is down.

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

I never in my life played a full version of Ratchet And Clank. It's on sell in steam for $24. Mind you it's a Summer sale going on in steam and all my wishlist game are on sale. This the type of FOMO I hate. I got time to pre-order GTA6 but not for this.

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

As he should. Thats a damn baby

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

I wish I thought of this. Women throw all the bread at stuff like this.

[Dr. God Abeg ooo @josh_uglyasf]

Women are going to Brazil to pay $13,000 to have their body counts spiritually reset to zero.

The treatment is offered at a body count recovery center in Brazil.

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Ghost of Tsushima

[Raven @Ravenismeee]

If someone offered you $10 million to play the same video game for 12 hours a day, every day, for an entire year... which game are you picking? 🎮💰

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

The mood swings, the cravings, and everything else in between.

[DERİN @deriniko9]

Kadınlar regl, hamilelik, menopozla uğraşıyor, erkekler neyle uğraşıyor?

[Knoyze on Twitch @Knoyze]

Couldn't be more wrong

[Tori_ @Toribabieegirl]

90% of men’s conversations is about women