2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.

I think about this comic often nowadays.

The real question is if Valve plans to swallow the jumps in price. They must have designed the machine before the price hikes, so I wonder if they already had a price in mind and whether they’re gonna stick to it.

the next 1000x in 4-5 years

At the risk of stating the obvious, Ars is working backwards from this metric to get their headline “double every 6 months.” 2^10 = 1024, to get that number in 5 years means doubling every half-year.

But Google didn’t set incremental 6-month deadlines for 5 years straight, they set a single 5-year deadline. Because in 6 months shareholders can call their bluff quite easily, but in 5 years they’re hoping everyone is A) distracted by some new disaster, or B) there’s a new tech hype cycle they can push. They’re trying to stall the bubble popping by pointing to a nebulous future where they magically scale to infinity, and hoping we all forget that they ever made this claim.

It’s probably not the most stacked but I think 2017 was still a monster year for games.

Breath of the Wild Mario Odyssey Persona 5 Nier Automata Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice Divinity Original Sin II Doki Doki Literature Club Cuphead Prey Star Wars Battlefront II Destiny 2 Nintendo Switch itself

These were, for one reason or another, some of the most monumentally influential games in the last 10 years, no matter if you’re talking AAA, indie, platformer, shooter, open world, RPG, horror, you name it.

Just gonna drop this here.

The price is off-putting because we can see the sticker in order to get sticker shock. But lootboxes and gambling have no upfront sticker, the true cost is obfuscated and extended over years. In that regard, Paradox is much more transparent than Valve.

That being said, my beef with them is their “subscription for DLC” model, at least the version I saw being rolled out for EU4. That and the free updates tend to be fairly unbalanced if you don’t also buy the corresponding DLC for that update. That seems skeevy… but still not as skeevy as lootboxes.

This is the most amazing post I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, I’ve got something to add. The ruling class will use LLMs as a tool to lay off tens of thousands of workers to consolidate more power and wealth at the top.

LLMs also advance no profession at all while it can still hallucinate and be manipulated by it’s owners, producing more junk that requires a skilled worker to fix. Even my coworkers have said “if I have to fix everything it gives me, why didn’t I just do it myself?”

LLMs also have dire consequences outside the context of labor. Because of how easy they are to manipulate, they can be used to manufacture consent and warp public consciousness around their owners’ ideals.

LLMs are also a massive financial bubble, ready to pop and send us into a recession. Nvidia is shoveling money into companies so they can shovel it back into Nvidia.

Would you like me to continue on about the climate?

Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don’t believe in automation, adopt Docker.

Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it’s like working in a dumpster fire company, the only job he’s ever held is to pour gasoline.

The robots are there to replace the apologetic delivery driver, not the rich asshole. They’d never let that happen.

Bots can just as easily be programmed with an address blacklist. At least a delivery driver with a spine could choose to ignore that list, if his livelihood wasn’t on the line…

Little bugger

So the cats were in the bathroom, with no one else inside, with the door closed? Cats are flexible sure but I’ve never seen one get under a door jamb.

Critikal created a great tribute to his mentor on YouTube, should go watch it. RIP

The flip side of that same coin is that, IME, fediverse developers champion data privacy, anonymity, and decentralization. These developers believe that users should never offer that much personal data to one platform, so they build and advocate for platforms that don’t require that data. Building a lowercase-f facebook on the fediverse would betray that foundation.

I think few open source projects enjoy the user satisfaction that VLC does. Even Linux itself is not as friendly to its users.

VLC (by cause or by effect?) also doesn’t have evangelists trying to push it. It doesn’t need them. Contrarianism is a strong motivator in today’s culture.

It’s a Jeep thing.

I was going to reply “at least the burning of Alexandria was an accident,” and then I thought to look that up. Seems egotists destroying public collections of knowledge is just baked into humanity. We’ll never be free of its scourge.

I don’t know, I think a rag calling itself Windows Central might have a bias towards Microsoft…

Even the tone of the article sounds like their arms are tired from carrying their water.

One thing after another, Microsoft is forced to respond time and time again to ongoing rumors that it’s leaving the hardware space.

A new Xbox rumor started this weekend that’s now blown out of proportion, as usual.

Can you bitch any harder?

“No. { Several paragraphs of argument that’s not mutually exclusive }”

Arghh hate that shit. I don’t know why online argumenters love to start with “No and.” I don’t block because of it but man, nobody learns how to have a constructive debate anymore.