I hope the BC team is bringing more original Xbox games to the service because the offering is still very sparse.
Then my dream scenario is bringing servers back online for original Xbox games. Considering the amazing work the bc team has been able to achieve, I don't see why they couldn't find a way to make it happen.

Honestly, I cheesed through the last mission. Since I never play with engineers, I used a buffed grenadier with anti-armor grenades and finished the mission in two turns due to AoE damage.
The method works in both normal and hard mode.

The one before that I played "legit" and finished it in three turns. I initially thought I had to shoot all targets from a distance but once turn 3 started and the game allowed me to move closer it was a cake walk.

If Discord is indeed seeking for a buyout, then the only potential buyers are tech giants. Discord is gonna be extremely expensive. And out of tech giants, Microsoft is definitely the best choice I think as they are the only big tech company which has large presence in gaming. The issue is though, is that they already have similar app but with focus on business - Teams and they also have Skype. I just feel like buying out Discord will put them in a situation where they would have way too many similar assets which needs resources to support them. And there is a problem that Discord uses AWS but Microsoft buyout will most likely mean migration to Azure. So, I agree with Ryuu, it's gonna be Amazon most likely. Discord already has strong ties with them anyway.

Discord should honestly go public.

Not gunna lie, this is what is keeping me from playing Cyber Shadow, every achievement in that game ends with a 6 or a 1. My OCD can't handle that lol

Time for a new playtime update. My last update was from Q4 2020, so it's been pretty much exactly one quarter.

Minecraft moves up from #13 to #9. The cave update should release soon so I expect some more hours.

Played two more hours in Far Cry 4 thanks to the FPS Boost. Did some arena achievements and grinded to max XP.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 shoots up to #19, pushing The Crew out of the top 25.

Played some Forza Horizon 4 lately but not enough yet to get it into the top 25 (roughly 15 hours).

Fallout 4 could be up next. But maybe I'll play Octopath Traveler first.

This is a nothing move.  In the big scheme of things its not going to matter one way or the other because the only service MS is really concerned about is Gamepass.  Its evident that MS has other plans and marketing that will be going towards building their ecosystem around the name change.  Xbox live, Xbox network who really cares what name it is.  I believe the bigger scope is that they are bringing a lot of other different services to market and do not want to tie it to Xbox live.  Nobody really cares what they tie these marketing names to in the long run.  Xbox Network probably will be the the top level and then underneath they will have different names for everything else.

My bad, seems like they indeed use Google Cloud and not AWS. Seems like it's easier for MS then as I don't really remember Discord having any deals with Amazon. On the other hand, it's gonna totally suck if Google gets them. 

Cyber Shadow is the game that ironically fixed my gamerscore after it was spoiled by Ashen

MS is looking for a service like this with the amount of users especially since they put in a bid for TikTok.  MS is all about getting as many users into their ecosystem as possible so making a purchase like this is right up their ally.  I would not be surprise if MS is willing to go a little higher to land Discord if their userbase is that large.  MS would definitely try to tie in Gamepass, XCloud and their other services.

Might get a few BC games. For example, I completely forgot about the existence of Lost Planet 3.