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  • People have been saying these things since 2020 and it has convinced me that people in online gaming forums are out of touch.

    Here’s my argument against the Series X though:

    • It has nothing I can’t play on my PC. Even though Sony has started releasing their games on PC, their ports usually come years later. I don’t hold this against Microsoft though, I’m more than happy to play games like Halo on PC instead of buying another console.

    • Sony console exclusives are better and more numerous than Xbox exclusives. This has been the case since the Xbox One.

    • The DualSense is a way cooler controller. I’m pretty miffed that the Xbox controller still doesn’t have a gyroscope, When utilized properly a gyroscope makes aiming in shooters a lot easier.

    So the way I see it, there isn’t much reason to buy a Series X beyond its awesome backwards compatibility.



  • The bigger problems Apple has are their enterprise device and user management, and the fact that many businesses are still reliant on Windows-only software.

    Most companies I’ve worked for buy machines that usually aren’t much cheaper than Apple equivalents, at least in terms of MSRP, despite the quality often being worse. My work-provided 2022 HP Z-Book 15 is more expensive as configured than my personal M2 14" MacBook Pro, and is still a shittier machine in just about every objective (and subjective) way I can think of. This is because enterprises typically buy business class laptops like Lattitudes and ThinkPads rather than lower cost (and less durable) consumer oriented machines. That said, it is not uncommon for IT departments at large enterprises to pay well under MSRP for these machines when buying in bulk.





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    1 year ago

    I hate the dumpster fire that is “definitive edition” as much as the next person, but…

    It’s not $60 for San Andreas, that’s the price for all three bad remasters.

    It’s not an ENB mod, actual artists made new shittier assets, and developers poorly ported the game to a new engine.

    And this horse was already beaten into a fine paste over a year ago.





  • Exactly.

    Reddit enshittified because their management is incompetent. They couldn’t turn a profit running ads on a site that mostly serves text, and they couldn’t build a mobile app anyone actually wants to use. They wasted millions of dollars of development on nonsensical bullshit that never panned out instead of improving their core platform.

    YouTube enshittified because hosting this much video is insanely complex and expensive, and people demand it for free. The idea that PeerTube or Odysee could replace it is farcical.

    YouTubers themselves will not leave for anything that doesn’t pay them as much or more than YouTube itself. This is why most of them putting content on additional platforms are doing so on Nebula, Floatplane, or Patreon. Not PeerTube.



  • You claimed the iPhone didn’t change the market, but it did.

    I don’t think any competitors would have eaten Apple’s lunch if the iPhone launched 6 months later. They may have had more features out of the box, but it took years for anyone else to catch up to the iPhone’s UX and build quality. Features like copy+paste didn’t matter as much as having YouTube anywhere you go on a 3.5" screen and a mobile web browsing experience that wasn’t cancer.

    All one needs to do is look at the rapid u-turn Android took in design after the iPhone launched to see how much of an impact it had. Before the iPhone, Android phones were going to look like Blackberries.