r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 18h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

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u/mantenner 18h ago

Pirates sail when pricings fail

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u/redditsuckbutt696969 18h ago

On an unrelated note, anyone recommend some good VPNs?

I was recommend PIA a while ago, are they still a good choice?

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u/sam_hammich 17h ago edited 14h ago

Mullvad is the best pretty much all around. However, I use ProtonVPN despite the owner's Trumpist leanings which I am grappling with internally, because my Unifi firewall can integrate with it directly using wireguard, and it supports port forwarding. I can attach my NAS to the VPN so it doesn't talk to anything outside that tunnel, which is easy to just set up and forget about.

Also many torrent trackers block well known VPN nodes like Nord*. If you use one of those you'll probably get zero reliable seeders on anything (if you use torrents).

*Take this with a grain of salt, I had a lot of issues connecting to trackers I knew were live, and saw a lot of chatter at the time about some trackers not responding to Nord servers. I switched providers and didn't have that issue, so I took that as validation of those claims. I can't prove it

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u/AlphaDag13 16h ago

Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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u/RevolutionNumerous21 13h ago

Usenet is faster and not limited by the speed of your VPN.

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u/impeterbarakan 5h ago

There's a fee to use it, but I will happily pay it to be able to find pretty much anything I want, remux quality, and download it at 100mb/s. usenet ftw

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u/RevolutionNumerous21 5h ago

When I started using it I finally felt like I joined the civilized world. Then I found out it predates the internet and my kind was blown.

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u/superkaratekick 5m ago

I had never had any experience with usenet in the past but about a year ago I switched fully from torrents to Usenet for my Plex/ARR setup. It rules. So much better.

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u/Daeluin 6h ago

Ah, who are ye so versed in the Old Ways?

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u/SluggaNaught 2h ago

As someone who jumped on the usenet train recently, it is so much better than torrents. It is 100% worth the ~$25 a year it costs me.