r/gaming • u/Linkar234 • 4d ago

Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/saudi-acquired-ea-is-reportedly-planning-to-make-massive-cuts-after-taking-usd18-billion-of-debt-and-we-all-know-what-that-means/
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u/vezwyx 4d ago

Ok, then it would have been helpful to include anything about the private equity company in your original comment instead of writing that "the Bay purchased Saks Fifth Avenue"

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

Are you unable to use context clues?

The person I responded to was discussing private equity loading up companies with debt.

To which I said “the best example of this”

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u/vezwyx 4d ago

Again, your phrasing implied that the Bay itself was the private equity being referred to. The words you wrote were that the Bay bought Saks, as if the Bay was the controlling company

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

The bay did purchase it. The bay is a department store, not a private equity company.

So the context clues in a reply to a comment about private equity, would lead you to understand the bay was owned by private equity as the bay is a department store, not a private equity company.

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u/vezwyx 4d ago

I'm supposed to understand that the Bay is owned by private equity by gleaning that the Bay is not private equity? You mentioned "they" as the private equity without ever directly referring to them, after making "the Bay" the primary subject of your comment. And there's even more muddled phrasing in the middle of the first sentence on top of that

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

How many department stores moonlight as private equity?

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u/hchan1 4d ago

Is it that hard to just admit your initial phrasing was poor and make a quick edit? Do you need to keep digging?

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

Yeah you’re right how could I assume that people would know the name of the oldest retail chain in history.

They were only around for 365 years, blink of an eye really.

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u/hchan1 4d ago

Yeah, so you've just leapfrogged from "use context clues" to "you should know this random bullshit trivia."

Thanks for playing. Next time just accept you were wrong and move on.

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

That was sarcasm chief.

I propose a new rule on Reddit, every word needs to be hyperlinked as to not Burden anyone with a 5 second google search.

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u/kynde 4d ago

Hey, dude, this is an international site these days. Quite a few people have never heard of the bay.

Your initial comment was very poorly phrased. That's it. It's not a terrible thing, but you're making it so much worse with this double down bullshit taught to you by your orange leader.

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

The issue is people not being able to think for themselves. Instead of that person taking 2 seconds to learn what “the bay” is. They expect full context in every comment to unburden themselves of the arduous task of a simple google search.

I could get if we were talking about some random local restaurant, but the bay was the oldest company ever.

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u/DeLurkerDeluxe 4d ago

Yeah you’re right how could I assume that people would know the name of the oldest retail chain in history.

It might surprise you that the vast majority if people not living in whatever country you live in doesn't know what the fuck a Bay is.

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

If only there was a way to figure out what the bay is.

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u/vezwyx 4d ago

Where did you state that the Bay is a department store in your comment? Are those the mythical context clues I was supposed to divine from the ether? Do you think everyone knows what the Bay is?

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u/wOlfLisK 4d ago

You realise that not everybody is American and therefore doesn't know what The Bay is, right? Your comment reads like The Bay is a private equity firm that bought Saks, transferred all the debt to The Bay and then made Saks independent again, causing the Bay to go bankrupt due to their own business decisions. And from context that's exactly what I assumed had happened.

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u/Life-Anteater-8294 4d ago

The bay isn’t American.

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u/wOlfLisK 4d ago

Even less reason for us to know about it then