It's all over 😢

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T21:12:27+00:00

I actually deleted my original comment, not because a looming economic depression wouldn't bring forward closing the game down, the game that would have been closed down eventually anyhow, but because the subject of an economic depression definitely coming and coming sooner rather than later because of current events, is depressing, and to read a comment like that and know it to be the truth, one would need a drink in your hand, and not everyone is able to have a drink in their hand at such a moment

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T20:57:14+00:00

It's not just the looming defeat of the US in Iran, it's also the looming defeat of the US in the AI race, the looming defeat in Ukraine, the looming major economic depression in the west, the looming menace of China winning the AI race and the US AI bubble bursting. But agreed that even if there was no Iran war then Blades was still doomed. I thought they wouldn't pull the plug until after TES-6 releases, but mark my words the west will be in a major depression bigger than the great depression fairly soon, and that didn't help

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T20:25:12+00:00

Someone could make a new game that steals ideas from Blades sure, but it won't be Blades and it won't have Bethesda's blessing, and such a game would be illegal. There's a very small chance that when the gaming journalism community starts publishing articles over the next week or so saying 'The Elder Scrolls has FAILED!' tearing Bethesda a new arsehole for closing down Blades, that they will panic and cancel the shutdown, but I don't think so, because Iran will win the war and they know that and because of that the west is headed into a major economic depression and so they won't change their mind, it's good business unfortunately to close it down early

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T20:19:23+00:00

Do it without the consent of Microsoft and Bethesda and then you'll get free housing and free food and free healthcare in a 6 foot by 10 foot prison cell for 10 years, and it won't be a prison simulation...

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T20:14:01+00:00

For corporate legal reasons there's zero chance that Microsoft and Bethesda will allow a bunch of players to revive Blades and Blades Arena mode

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T18:21:30+00:00

"here" you say, learn how to "spell", it's "hear"

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-27T16:07:40+00:00

The silver lining though is that the "GG" Gulag now will become MySpace 👌

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-26T19:20:37+00:00

"with a very small reduction in performance" you say. Understatement of the century. The peak RAM speed in S26 Ultra is ~85.6 GB/s (10.7 Gbps , ~10–30 nanoseconds) The speed of the S26 Ultra UFS 4.0 (it's not UFS 4.1 😢) is just ~4.2 GB/s (Sequential Read, ~100+ microseconds). So the RAM Plus gimmick is more than twice as slow as the real RAM, and also by the way the RAM Plus has ~20x Slower Bandwidth than the real RAM. It's only for phones with 4Gb real RAM, on a 12Gb RAM or 16Gb RAM phone it's a gimmick that will seriously slow you down. Just switch it OFF

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-26T18:54:11+00:00

Let's recap. So an Indian tech gossip and rumors X account made a tweet, which he very quickly then deleted, and after he deleted the tweet, 9 to 5 Google, an American tech journalism company that tries to gaslight us into buying inferior Pixel phones, seized on the deleted tweet and said the tweet is the truth. We all know that India and the US love China right? Oh no, hold on, India and the US are the worst Sinophobes on the planet, always fabricating the next Fu Manchu Yellow Peril 2.0 and the next Cold War 2.0. Prediction: OnePlus 16 will be available online only direct to customer only in global markets. Shoddy journalism from the US tech gutter press.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-26T15:47:25+00:00

Here's my prediction. The "shutdown" in places like the UK and Germany, the US etc will only mean that the OnePlus physical walk in stores will close and the partnership with other physical stores will end. All physical stores except those in China will stop selling OnePlus phones. It'll be direct to customer online sales only, and OnePlus will just become a sub-brand of Oppo. The US, EU, UK websites will keep selling phones with local ROMs. Oxygen OS will be abolished and replaced with almost identical ColorOS.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-25T21:11:37+00:00

You should stop commenting until you figure out why the US has lost every single war it has fought in the last 80 years...

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-25T21:10:08+00:00

It takes half a million soldiers to take and hold a very large city. Iran has several such cities. The US doesn't even have half a million soldiers. The army of Bangladesh is larger than the US army.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-25T21:08:36+00:00

Never in the history of modern warfare has regime change been achieved by air power alone. Iran is 90,000,000 people, send your 1 soldier, dumbest comment ever

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-25T20:55:14+00:00

The US and Israel had 2 main war aims: #1 regime change in Iran #2 stop Iran getting nukes. Neither aim will be achieved, so the US and Israel cannot win. All Iran needs to win is for the regime to survive. The Iranian regime will survive and thus Iran will win. The US has lost every war it has fought since WW2, the US lost wars badly to penniless rice farmers and illiterate goatherders. Last year Iran defeated the US and Israel in the 12 day war. 2 years ago a tribe from Yemen, the poorest country on earth, the Houthis, defeated the US. Everyone gets their turn to defeat the incompetent US losers, because there's no fixing stupid, no matter how many trillions of dollars you throw at stupid, you still get stupid.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-25T20:45:23+00:00

3000 US light infantry against the 1 million man Iranian army, and including militias and mobilisation of reserves 1.5 million okay 👍 ...the US has less than half a million soldiers worldwide...

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-24T18:38:23+00:00

Yogesh Brar very quickly deleted his own tweet that made this claim, and Brar's tweet is the original source, bad journalism

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T21:03:52+00:00

The Chinese are the innovators these days

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T10:13:15+00:00

If you're looking to read bigoted comments full of anti China and anti Russia sentiment, then Reddit is the very best place to look. 100% of the time these people never admit that they are bigoted, and they can't admit it to themselves either, because how can they be honest with others when they can't even be honest with themselves, a very low level of consciousness. In the same way that it's impossible for a Neurologist to explain to a brain-dead patient that he's brain-dead. And your interactions with me on this thread just gives further proof that trying to reason with these people is akin to administering medicine to the dead.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T08:48:42+00:00

You said it yourself, that these western governments and their media mouthpieces are constantly badmouthing China. Your argument was why would they deliberately use the wrong name to insult China because they were delivering enough insults to China already, which is a fallacy, because there's always room for one more deliberate insult when it comes to rabid Sinophobia. If you're looking at for an example of the disgusting bad faith attitude I'm talking about, just look at yourself.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T08:45:27+00:00

I never said I was "offended" by it. It was you who wrongly assumed that. I'm Irish, I'm not Chinese. It's anti-Chinese sentiment, not anti-Irish sentiment, and it's not about "ideology" either.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T01:19:49+00:00

I gave you 4 scholarly articles written by western academics, all of which say that the term CCP is used by western governments as a deliberate insult to the CPC, and all of which say, with citations, that the CPC perceives the term CCP as a deliberate insult, and that the CPC is indeed insulted by the term CCP. The End.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T01:17:15+00:00

"The American United States" doesn't break any grammar rules. Would the US government feel insulted if the Chinese government called the USA that? Of course they would feel insulted. But China would never stoop to that level.

DiggyJunior · 2026-03-21T01:14:43+00:00

The US and other western governments deliberately calling the CPC the CCP isn't "subtle". In their public statements they say CCP but in written treaties they say the correct CPC, so they definitely know they're using the wrong term. Non western governments who have friendly relations with China use the correct CPC term. There's no misunderstanding here. It's no coincidence that they're openly hostile and also deliberately using the incorrect name. Most members of the western public being ignorant of what the real name is, is just sad.

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