After reading your comment, I spent 10 minutes trying to find the right phrases to get the average salary of a sex worker in Amsterdam in comparison to a Wendy’s Worker in America.

What am I doing with my life?

Seriously. Reminds me of those “I’m Rich” apps which just displays that text, and actual idiots wanted to flex so they bought them.

NFTs. I’m so glad it died so quickly. What a scam.

Can’t wait to see Ubisoft’s first AI only game.

Halo 4 was wack.

Halo 5 hasn’t been released on PC yet.

Halo infinite was pretty good, but forgettable.

Replaying the remastered Halo trilogy, yeah… They’ll never recapture that magic.

Apparently if it’s not cross promoting on Mountain Dew or something, people think it’s dead.

This is going to sound weird but I volunteered as a parent on a school field trip. And all the preteens (boys and girls) were talking about CoD.

My tinfoil hat assumption is that they’re continuing to buy their way into social relevance.

I don’t know about you but content has gotten better for me.

Ranma 1/2, Squid Games, Super Mario Bros Movie, new season of Arcane. I felt like every 1-2 months, there was always something interesting.

Also note that I don’t pay for Netflix. I do own stock.

BUY MORE NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTIONS…

I worked for a company that hired a PR firm after we got 1-starred reviewed to hell because we shut down a right wing hate site.

To try to “improve our image”, one of the PR firms proposed we make a tiktok and wanted staff to do dumb ass dances?

Like wtf. We sell B2B.

Reminds me of that Space Jam movie where all it did was shove pop culture references in every scene in the most shallow way possible.

I can’t find the meme but it was calling it a blender where you just go, “Oh look Scooby. Oh look Droogs. Oh look Steven Universe.”

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

I wish the tagging system was expanded to include more details.

While I think it’s helpful to know if a game is “souls like”, i also want to know if the game has a ending, or will be in continual development, or if it’s good as a pick up and put down game…

I haven’t picked up the phone from a random call in 15 years.

My wife, who is an on-call medical professional, used to pick up every single call. Only in new hospital do they allow it to go to voicemail/text message. But her call log is like 95% spam calls.

Battlenet brought some really clever innovations back in the day!

If it was 2010 and you had both running, battlenet was clearly superior.

Battlenet’s UI and presentation looked great. Automatic patches, lots of settings to where files should go, info about the game. They also had this sweet feature where you can play when it has the core files, and it continues to download in the background, which still doesn’t exist in non-battlenet games.

Really though, 2010 was also when Blizzard started to fall apart too. Constant churning of WoW expansions, deciding to split StarCraft 2 into three games, and making Diablo 3 look “prettier” was all bad signs.

Earlier this month, I had a parent-teacher meeting with lots of parents and she had to explain to one parent to please stop allowing her 2nd grader to come with weapons. The parent kept putting a butterfly knife in the kid’s bookbag and she explained that they are doing everything they can to ensure safety, but now when a 2nd grader has a knife.

That’s incredible that they evolved.

A lot of American cities that were becoming software dev hubs in the 90s ended up crashing or worse, fintech.

I remember listening to a NPR Planet Money podcast that said Iceland has the most published authors per capita.

Also cold.

Did it falter?

While I disagree with how long they’re been in early access especially when other games are in early access and doing it better… The updates were still pretty impressive. The new biomes were pretty interesting.

I didn’t really get the point of Goat Simulator. But the other games easily hooked me for 50 to 100+ hours. And they are all excellent coop games.

Meh. I’ve played a few of these Korean MMOs when theyre brought over the States. I don’t mind them.

If I was a kid with unlimited time and no pocket money, they’d be amazing. Turn off world chat, ignore the micro transactions store, and it’s easily solid 10-15 hours of quality gaming. Some even have really high quality cinematics. Once Human is really polished and fun.

After 15 hours (and like every single MMO since forever), it becomes a slog. By that point, I usually jump back into a single player game.

Like a jerkle circ?