“All right, you look like a future pedophile in this picture, number 1. Number 2, it doesn’t even have a first name, it just says AppLovin!”.

It may have been more like:

Unity: “We love money and hate our customers, who can we hire to realize that vision?”

EA CEO: “Finally, a job that understands me”

Gives a whole new meaning to the word “deadname”

• Update to a newer SoC; NVIDIA’s latest chips at this thermal displacement are like 4x as fast + would easily run PS4 games
• Upgrade the controllers to be more reliable + feel better

That’s pretty much it; the OLED model is fine as far as physical design + screen, it just needs more competitive performance and to fix the Joy-Con drift nightmare

If the best praise their PR people have to put forward is that it’s not quite as horrifically buggy as previous Bethesda games, that’s… not a great sign; Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in large part so that this specific game would be an Xbox exclusive, if it’s not the level of masterpiece that gets people to buy Xboxes just to run it then it’ll be one of their biggest fails since Clippy.

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It’s just companies and influencers, nobody else is posting much there. And half of the influencers are only there to try to get you to follow them somewhere else. (feed is absolutely crammed with Taylor “not wearing a mask outdoors in 2023 is literally genocide” Lorenz hawking her new YouTube channel and I don’t even follow her)

Meanwhile Mastodon continues growing steadily, and I’m getting as much engagement there as I ever did on Twitter with maybe 10% as many followers.

I blame Apple for not creating a viable system for paid upgrades; it’s perfectly reasonable for a developer to expect to be paid for a major app update - even if it was largely to support a new OS - but without a subscription, the only way to do that is to launch a brand new version of your app, which loses you all of your carefully cultivated SEO / links / etc. (doing this via IAP is impractical because you can only build your app against one version of iOS at a time; it either supports the new version or it doesn’t)

And I suspect Apple does this because they don’t want people to have to pay money to continue using apps on a new version of iOS, or a new phone; if buying a new iPhone meant forking over $50 to upgrade your favorite apps for it, that might mean fewer people buying new phones.

So don’t blame developers for this, in other words; a lot of them would be perfectly happy to charge users the occasional upgrade fee instead of a recurring subscription, but Apple doesn’t want them to. (they’re also very happy to have their 30% cut of all of that lovely subscription revenue)

A line of guillotines, one for every tech CEO Lemmy doesn’t like (plus a couple of other random people specific instances have beef with, like the Dalai Lama)

How would they even stop people from doing something like this in international waters with willing participants?

This is like the Mario equivalent of an Instagram dessert.