Ryuu Diary Entry 1:
Game Played: Tinykin
Total time played: 6 hours and 21 minutes
GS:510G

Great start for King Ryuu!

Truly inspirational, proud of that little squirt 

Ngl, this is looking more and more interesting the more I see.

Only played a couple souls likes. Looking forward to getting pegged by this game. 

The report from MLex about the pre-hearing has a few interesting bits of info that are new:

- Any potential remedy entered into with the EC and CMA will also be offered to the FTC: "The deal is undergoing review over in Europe and the UK and we are hoping that they will be resolved and if there are remedies that are appropriate we can come back to ... the FTC to talk about a resolution," said Beth Wilkinson (MS' lead counsel).

- James Weingarten, deputy chief trial counsel at the FTC, said that staff (he clarified that when he used the word "staff" he meant himself) is always open to a remedy or settlement proposal during or before litigation, although "There are no substantive conversations happening at this time."

- MS/ABK and the FTC agreed to an expedited discovery schedule (so they can start requesting and inspecting documents in a shortened time period).

- Beth Wilkinson told Chappell (the administrative judge) that if a resolution isn't reached with the FTC, the deal will go forward and close after a remedy is reached in all pending jurisdictions. But that the companies assume the FTC would go to federal court in that case.

- She also said that's why they wanted to front-load the discovery, just in case the FTC went to federal court because MS/ABK have a termination date of July 18, 2023. "We are preparing for all options", said Wilkinson.

MS sounds quite confident:

- They are still expecting to close the deal in the original termination date
- They sound positive about the review process in Europe and UK
- If they get the go ahead from the CMA and EC, and the FTC doesn't settle, they'll go forward and close the deal in the US (expecting the FTC to go to court)

Very interesting! Now let's see what the CMA brings to the table this month.

Source: Idas

Nice, Microsoft will attempt to close the deal if they get approval from everyone except the FTC.

So they'll be calling FTC's bluff if they don't accept anything, either sue to block us or shut up.

This was always the obvious move.

I think I saw that it's actually pretty rare for a company to do this so it shows that Microsoft has basically 0 fear of the FTC if the others approve, Lol. If this is what happens then damn, what an embarrassment for the FTC...You'd think at that stage they'd have to come to a deal with Microsoft to avoid looking absolutely useless.

There's currently Axon vs FTC happening which is largely about companies being sick of FTC's delay tactics and wanting the Supreme Court to give them the option of forcing FTC straight to federal court during the acquisition process, the decision for that is meant to come before June 2023 and I thought Microsoft might just wait for that (because SC is 100% going to rule against FTC) but I guess they're in a no shits given mode, Lol.

I mean yea...literally nobody thinks the FTC has any kind of case here, so why would MS give a fuck about them

Yeah, I kind of figured MS would just bypass the FTC if the CMA and EC both approved the deal. Doesn't make sense to wait for the August trial date. Here's hoping for good news on the European front soon though.

With the new congress taking over, the FTC's bs will slowly fade into nothingness. Most of the loud yelling done, was just to score political points before the mid-terms. In a few more weeks it'll be like the FTC never said anything.