So infuriating when you have some dickhead making themselves unfireable by intentionally convoluting the codebase and chasing out any other hire. And even worse when management bought into it and think the guy’s an actual irreplaceable genius.

Probably even believes it himself. I hate narcissists.

“It feels like Apple is testing the limits of brand loyalty.”

Brand loyalty is not a concept that should exist. Stop it.

You’d have to assume so!

You have to remember, the price isn’t only due to the hardware.

We often still think of “hardware” as if it’s some tool we actually own like a wrench or a hammer that we can freely use how we like, and the price of it should depend only on the cost of manufacture.

But in the modern world, the electronic hardware we buy is subsidised through gated ecosystems, and by profiting from slurping data and selling ads.

The reality is that Meta hardware is priced aggressively low to encourage adoption - on the basis of all the money they expect to make later from your data. Same with smart TVs and everything else with a similar business model.

Valve’s hardware will seem expensive, but that’s just the price you have to pay in the modern world for some small amount of control and privacy.

Personally, I’ll pay it gladly.

Exactly. They’ll back down a little bit to reduce some of the bad publicity, and then later they’ll quietly expand the remit until the same end is reached anyway.

The frog is boiled slowly.

The anime Moriarty the Patriot had some interesting scenes for me.

It’s set in Sherlock Holmes-era England, and all the locations are closely based on actual places.

They visited the city I went to university in, and I recognised it down to the level of invididual buildings like “That place is a pizza restaurant these days!”

Pretty surreal honestly - when you are so used to everything shown in media being so utterly divorced from your actual life.

Good anime, too.

Yeah, I’ll definitely wake up a few times for the food. It’s already paid for after all, can’t waste it :)

Wake me up in 30 hours

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I had the same thought as you, but there are perhaps other factors which could contribute to this too.

We see the chart and assume the shift is due to more negative bias in how people respond, but it could also be due to a change in how people post.

For one, the demographics of reddit would have slowly changed over time, from largely a bunch of nerds in 2010 when reddit was niche, to a more general cross-section of society as reddit became closer to mainstream social media.

This (among other factors) may have brought with it a shift in motivations from people genuinely seeking advice (and therefore posting truthful stories) to people seeking validation and a cathartic dose of upvotes (and therefore posting highly biased stories which favour themselves, and paint their partner in a terrible light)

Now, I don’t think that explains all of it. I do feel on a purely personal and qualitative basis that the Internet in general has certainly become more toxic over the past decade, and that people are more angry and hostile now. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a single-factor cause.

“Empty” is pretty contextual.

“Washed” means to be played out, over the hill, past it. Uncool, no longer trendy, not part of the younger generation who are “with” it.

Not understanding the term “washed” therefore serves as proof that you are, in fact, washed.

That’s just having actual accessibility and difficulty settings, but with extra steps.

I appreciate the ability to mod games, but decent difficulty options really should be first-class citizens that the developers have put some thought into. Accessibility is important.

Absolutely loved GameFAQs in the day.

I’ve just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it’s SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.

If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube playthroughs, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)

Unfortunately the ‘religion’ of believing and doing what awful people tell you on social media is stronger than ever, and only growing.

On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.

The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.

To be fair, probably his back would pop off, and his battery would shoot out like a missile, but then he’d go back together like nothing ever happened.

Yeah, it’s a real shame they never made another. I’d love a third Alien movie also, but we’ll just have to make do with two.

Isn’t this The Entire Point?

That there is value in truth, even if the truth is painful?

That we should believe in and fight for a cause, even if fighting is hard?