Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
Its not just “risk averse”, its easy money. Look at Forza 6. Or the dozen different sports games that get rehashed every year. They sell like crazy.
- Comment on Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Google spent a lot of time developing sandboxes environments and now they want to tear it all down…
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they’re going to accelerate the pace, obviously…
- Comment on The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser. 2 weeks ago:
LOL it’s the first one on the site, too. Thank you for this nostalgia.
- Comment on The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser. 2 weeks ago:
Does it have that “game” with the frog in the Blender?
- Comment on Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, can they?
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 2 weeks ago:
…no one said anything about Nintendo?
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 2 weeks ago:
It may be your last but this is the way it’s been for decades. People keep buying them.
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 weeks ago:
They’re not more expensive when you factor in lower game costs and zero subscriptions.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 3 weeks ago:
I have 3 counter-arguments for this “dirty coal” nonsense:
- Plugging into a 100% coal-powered connection still produces far fewer greenhouse gases per mile than ICE (and especially diesel).
- The emissions are created at the power plant, and not pumped into the air directly outside your home where your children might be playing.
- Electricity can come from pretty much infinite sources from coal to gas, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. etc. but oil only ever comes from 1 place.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 2 months ago:
Right. The point is they’re not even pretending.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 2 months ago:
I mean it’s in most CEO’s best interest to pretend to care about the general public.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 2 months ago:
True that, but the problem is that would have been a fairly normal recession but now we’re careening towards a straight up depression.
- Comment on Even Silicon Valley Says that AI Is a Bubble 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard of this guy before but fuck him. He doesn’t even consider the global fucking impact of (another) recession that they’re intentionally causing.
- Comment on Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign 2 months ago:
All depends on what type of games you play. I never use them.
- Comment on Home-building robots could help fix the housing crisis 2 months ago:
Depends on where you build it but yes, most of the value is in the land itself.
- Comment on Home-building robots could help fix the housing crisis 2 months ago:
I live in an area where a lot of 3D-printed houses are going up. They tout the low cost of construction but guess what? All those savings go directly into the pockets of the builders. They still charge market prices for the houses. Because why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds 2 months ago:
Tariffs don’t even impact video games, and yet they raised the prices by 33%
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 months ago:
It’s kind of a shitty thing about modern gaming, is that the game revolves around the community, and if you’re not part of the community, you don’t know WTF is going on, because they never explain anything in the game.
I got pretty sucked into it playing Destiny 1 like 10 years ago but eventually it was too much fucking work and not enough fun.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 months ago:
I hope to never ever see this kind of behavior happen within the Fediverse, because we are supposed to be better than this.
That’s pretty naive, honestly.
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 2 months ago:
That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.
They wouldn’t lose money for the same reason Steam doesn’t lose money; they sell them at market value. That’s (part of) why they’re so expensive.
- Comment on Valve suggests further delays for Steam Machine: 'We hope to ship in 2026' 2 months ago:
They didn’t say valve said anything.
Its literally the title of the article…
When someone says 2026, it is a year. There is zero implication of one half or the other.
Yes, exactly, there’s zero implication that it’s the other.
- Comment on Valve suggests further delays for Steam Machine: 'We hope to ship in 2026' 2 months ago:
OP opined that the wait might be longer, which isn’t false.
No they didn’t. They said Valve suggested it would be longer, which did not happen.
The first half of this year is still 2026, sure, but 2026 isn’t just the first half of this year. 2026 by itself is a whole year.
…and? You’re reaching here. That is in no way any sort of suggestion.
- Comment on Valve suggests further delays for Steam Machine: 'We hope to ship in 2026' 2 months ago:
What does that have to do with this conversation?
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 2 months ago:
They’re going to do what Steam is doing and just open up Xbox branding for licensing on PC hardware, much like they did with XBOX Ally. So there will be something for everyone.
Except people who hate Microsoft, but they were never going to buy it anyway.
- Comment on Valve suggests further delays for Steam Machine: 'We hope to ship in 2026' 2 months ago:
They suggested no such thing. “Early 2026” is still part of “this year”…
They literally just referred back to their previous post about the timeline.
We shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans.
This is just malicious clickbait.
- Comment on Ethical alternative to Canva? 2 months ago:
Slides like a presentation? LibreOffice Impress.
- Comment on Ethical alternative to Canva? 2 months ago:
Dear H,
GIMP is a private and ethical (free) alternative to Canva.
Love, A
- Comment on VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can 2 months ago:
Yeah you’re missing all the VPN ads.
- Comment on VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can 2 months ago:
Ugh. Tired of hearing people say this. No, VPN alone won’t make you anonymous online. But they are a mandatory part of an online anonymity toolkit.