All the UX people are tasked with cramming garbage AI and data collection into everything while everything else is “designed” by a bunch of overpaid engineers checking off boxes on “features” it should have regardless of where they end up or how usable they are

When I was in college studying Comp Sci I did a whois on Woz’s domain and sent an email to the registered email (this was generally before the days of free whois protection), not expecting a response, just mentioning how cool his work on the Apple I & II was among others, and how as a CS student was exciting to see where technology had gotten to, asking him what he was up to.

I got a response a day later, thanking me for my email, talking about how he loved hearing from students, telling me about his current dancing with the stars stuff (this was in late 2009), among some other quips and such.

Felt incredibly down to earth and casual, and while I know it only took him maybe 5 minutes to write that email, or maybe it was even copied and pasted, it was super cool to get a response from such a tech icon.

Love how the bottom of the page is like

We are an independent registered charity with no affiliation to religious or political institutions.

Meanwhile, the founder

In 2007, she published Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics[7], to a conservative journal called The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly before being republished by Spinifex press.

The journal is periodically published by a conservative think tank called The National Catholic Bioethics Center.

In 2009, Tankard Reist spoke at a forum called, “Event: Inspiring Christians Series” in the Belconnen Baptist Church on behalf of Sheridan Voysey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

She’s all about women. As long as they produce children regardless of how they were impregnated and are wives in Catholic marriages.

Sounds like you might have some wicked whims

It’s unfortunate they don’t know what /s means

I really hope so, but sadly I don’t think it will be. In the same way that people buy the same FIFA, the same COD, etc every year, it lives off its brand name and FOMO of those who only play multiplayer games.

GTA V still rakes in like $800 million or so from shark cards every year. They release a new vehicle, a new apartment, or whatever and everyone flocks to buy it.

I think GTA 6 will just fill that space

Yup, I’ll buy it years down the road at a massive discount just to play the campaign; all their effort is going to go into multiplayer and milking those microtransactions anyway

Yeah the original was released Nov 2019 for PlayStation exclusively and then a PC port was released July 2020.

So potentially 8 months after the DS2 PlayStation release before a PC port, if they’re following the same schedule

Join our discord

It’s so weird to fight for digital ownership of one thing and then put all the organizing work and discussion into another closed corporate ecosystem that could shut down or charge per head at any time

lol sure for now, all of those “we’ll control this buyout” lasts for like a year until the org is dissolved or whatever because the majority shareholder has changed the deal

Ah that’s good to know, thanks!

Can’t argue with that, it would be nice for GOG to have:

• Cloud saves
• A controller pass through with configuration as you described

Those are really steam’s best features, and if GOG had those I’d likely stop buying steam games

I doubt it, if you are concerned if I’m the person you’re thinking of you should tag me, or go through my post history.

That being said, Gabe owns 50.1% of the company. If he dies, and transfers that to one person, it doesn’t matter what his employees think, public or private, unless the bylaws for the corporation (yes, a private company like steam is still a corporation) state otherwise, the majority shareholder can vote on future direction and win.

Additionally, you underestimate tech employees and their willingness to exit on the right terms. If valve becomes valued at 100 billion dollars, and they can exit with their 1 percent stock at 45 years old, neither them or their family will ever need to work a day again and they can exit the global firestorm and live on an island somewhere.

You’re putting far too much altruism on everyone.

I really hope Gabe lives for another 20+ years. Steam has its issues but they are few and far between in comparison to the alternatives. And I’m afraid that when he passes, whoever takes up the mantle will go public, or sell, enshittifing the platform.

Yup, any “never” decision under modern capitalism should be treated at “within this quarter.” All that matters is quarterly growth, and all company decisions will change every quarter

Absolutely, I’m definitely not criticizing the devices, I have an iPad Pro and the thing is very impressive in terms of computing capability for such a thin and light device and especially considering its battery life.

My only gripe is with the restrictions on the OS. I’d love to be able to use Darwin on iPadOS the same way I do on Mac for local development tasks.

With Apple opening up restrictions so we can use things like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id1564628856 for emulating other OS’s it’s certainly a step in the right direction, but I do wish they would consider the other “pro” side of potential mobile computing users, one side is creative professionals (photo/video/audio/writing), but they don’t have that same support for the development side of the pro world.

Hell, I’d buy an 11 inch MacBook Pro or Air with an M series chip in a heartbeat, but it’d probably be easier if they just opened up the iPad to a local dev environment

They have laptop level chips right now

There is no more iPad, just pro, air, mini, and the newest air has an M2 chip, though it’s a bit handicapped with one less GPU core

That being said, no, an M2 chip on an iPad Air is nowhere near dedicate GPU hardware like on these handhelds.

https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&D=Apple+iPad+Air+6th+Gen+(M2)&testgroup=overall

As you said, maybe once you get into iPad Pro ranges with the M4 chip, but at that price point it’s way more.

My guess is the parent comment didn’t have markdown list formatting and improper newline formatting at first, so it appeared as on line for a bit before the commenter edited it, but he just responded snarkily instead of being like “hey your markdown formatting borked here”

Ah that’s disappointing to hear. And also probably extends my point that now warhorse has grown, and their execs are making bad calls that I’m sure the devs would choose not to make

Agreed, I’m always saddened by quotes like “well the devs should have” when it’s almost certainly “the execs should have.” Unless a studio is owned by its devs, or they make up some of its leadership, which are few and far between, the devs don’t have the say on the shitty things that happen to the product they’re working on, and often when the devs have more say you end up with like Kingdom Come Deliverance from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhorse_Studios. One of my favorite games, was supported by the studio for long after it came out, and now they’re working on a promising sequel