ThunderComplex
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- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 3 days ago:
The very tl;dr is that Apple has been catering to shareholders first and foremost to the point that all else suffers. To elaborate a lil more:
The video shows an internal email from the iPhone VP of marketing that basically says they should only add features that are good enough and that what the iPhone already offers could be considered too much. “ Anything new and especially expensive needs to be a rigorously challenged before it’s allowed into the consumer phone”
Then there’s the thing where Cook allows stock buybacks which Jobs didn’t. I am not sure what this means exactly but it plays into the broader point that Jobs was a product genius and Cook is a financial genius. (also, they spent $77 billion on stock buybacks, this will be relevant in a second).
Lastly there is AI. Apple is lacking in AI chips so there was a request to double their amount, which would’ve cost about $10bn. But this request was denied. So they had to not just work with their own aging chips, but rent cloud computing infrastructure from Google.
tl;dr Cook is cooked or something idk
- Comment on Black Ops 7 release date spotted in the wilds ahead of Call of Duty's latest Gamescom blowout 5 days ago:
Finally. CoD releases are so sporadic and unpredictable, I can never plan ahead for a new release
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
“No” -John PlayStation
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 1 week ago:
If you think $32k is so much to spend on MTX to call him John Microtransaction I’m sorry to say that he’s probably still just a medium sized fish.
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
Oh ok yeah I missed those
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 6 discussion 1 week ago:
I am confused tho she just told her they’re moving to London, right? Am I missing something? You said “finally” but I didn’t notice this was brought up before?
- Comment on [Episode] CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 6 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Definitely surprised me too they’d just end a episode on crying
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 2 weeks ago:
Aliens
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Got 3 games I rotate now of which only 1 I haven’t played before.
Death Stranding: Finished it on the PS4 way back when and bought the PC director’s cut a long time ago but only recently picked it up again.
Cyberpunk 2077: Technically bought it day 1 but I am just now doing my first modded playthru.
Starfield: I am not a Bethesda fan so I was 0% hyped for this and only watched a lot of YouTube content about it. Randomly decided to pull the trigger recently tho. Completed the game vanilla first now I am doing a modded playthru and taking my time with it.
This one surprised me the most because I’m having fun and really enjoy my time with it. Funny thing is that most of the negative stuff mentioned about this game absolutely holds true, the game kinda ass. And Nasapunk is an oxymoron. But I’m a raccoon I enjoy trash. And if u shove 600 mods down Todd’s throat you actually get a really cool experience out of it.
Still wouldn’t recommend it tho. - Comment on [Satire] Great Barrier Reef ‘not white enough’ Pauline Hanson says 2 weeks ago:
One might say that she… doesn’t like it, huh?
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 2 weeks ago:
Knife launcher (now available in full auto)
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 5 discussion 3 weeks ago:
While I enjoyed the first episode, I noticed that I liked subsequent episodes less and less. To the point where after episode 4 I started thinking of dropping the show.
And I’m really glad I’m sticking with it because this episode was really cool. Now looking forward to what they’ll come up with next. Tho I do hope that they don’t try to out do themselves and give us 16 simultaneous plots next. - Comment on hygiene 3 weeks ago:
Go to the bathrooooooommm!!!
Not yet! - Comment on The stand makes the difference 3 weeks ago:
Work for it? Sorry but that sounds like work, and I only do things I’m instantly good at or I don’t do them at all.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s exactly it. If I squat such that my feet are flat then my center of gravity is waaay behind me. Luckily this has never impacted me in my day to day life.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 3 weeks ago:
I never understood how heels on ground squatting is possible I always just fall over trying.
- Comment on Piss Post 3 weeks ago:
No, add these as new dimensions and make it a matrix so we can have pissing while shitting while cumming while dying
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 4 weeks ago:
Eh I don’t need much just gimme next week’s lottery numbers thx
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 4 weeks ago:
That also sounds like a challenge
- Comment on Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs 5 weeks ago:
Well, the only evidence I found at a quick glance is that the movie was released about four months before ChatGPT. And it had been in production since about 2020 which is obviously way before LLMs became a widespread.
So I think that’s a strong case it wasn’t written by AI.
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 2 discussion 5 weeks ago:
So after the episode last week I’ve been watching a few nichijou memes (sadly it’s not streaming here so that’s all I can do) and OMG the shrine is that shrine from when the 3 girls were sitting in the rain in nichijou right?
Also is it just me or is that one poster in the magazine studio suspiciously similar to the art style used in “Hai Yorokonde”? (could also be a common art style that I am just not aware of but that was my first thought).
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Haha dum me posting without fact checking myself again.
Funnily enough I’ve seen that dogs scene before. I just kinda assumed City was some kind of sequel or something. - Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Saw this in my feed and decided to give it a try. I’m not a huge anime watcher and only kinda know of nichijou because of a meme (good morning evernyan! Oh my gah!) but so far I’m really digging this. I don’t get the connection tho??
The art style is really cool and I was kinda shocked because I’ve never seen anime try to emulate depth of field like this before.
Definitely going to upgrade to a more heat resilient briefcase for my ramen needs tho.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 3 months ago:
This implies the PS5 pro is the PS4 pro pro pro
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 3 months ago:
I’ve only bought one $80 game thus far (And that was during a 30% steam sale so only $55) and from my years of experience of buying games, I can confidently say that my enjoyment in games goes down as price goes up.
Although weirdly all of the $80 games that released so far have been pretty bad so that’s strange.
- Comment on What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man? 4 months ago:
Riders Republic is so much fun. It has a relatively low skill floor but also a really high skill ceiling. Go watch some stunt clips to see just what you can pull off.
The different sports are a lot of fun and honestly what other game lets you transition from Skateboard to BMX to Jetpack in a span of a few seconds.
Only downside is that the more fun sports are locked behind a DLC purchase but it goes on sale quite frequently.
- Comment on Schedule I, a first person drug empire management game, released in early access on Steam (demo available) 4 months ago:
I liked the next fest demo and I’m glad the game seems to be doing well for the devs.
- Comment on Wanted to give Spider-man 2 a try (released in October 2023 on PS5), but seems like the port is a mess 6 months ago:
The port is a mess but I’m lucky I only get the crashes and none of the other bugs (except one occurrence of audio being fucked). Turning off ray tracing completely eliminated crashes for a while but now it’s back to crash city regardless of graphics settings.
- Comment on The Programming Games Humble Bundle is another sweet deal worth grabbing 7 months ago:
I own all of these games already so I can tell you this is a good bundle. Any single one of these games is worth the full price of the bundle alone.
The 3 Zachtronics games included are a great sampler of of the studio and I like that this isn’t just a “All Zachtronics games bundle”.
There are better programming games out there but I think this bundle strikes a good balance between fun games that require light programming knowledge and wow this is just programming lightly disguised as a game.
