Ah it’s a <make up weird quotes that don’t reflect the general feedback and then react to that> episode. I too remember people in the street shouting “you never should’ve tried something new BioWare!” after making that memory up.

In truth the biggest criticism they got was when they released it unfinished, promised a bunch of content and then let it die because they smashed the numbers into a calculator and came to the conclusion it’ll not be worth it. No fucking shit. Fixing the mess you sold people for full price won’t make you a lot of profit, it’s something you do to make up for delivering unfinished crap in the first place.

Imagine a plumber who does pipe work in your house and when you call them because they did a shoddy job and it’s leaking they say “Nah, wouldn’t be worth it to fix this. I’ll rather go do a different project for more money.”

Fuck right off.

“How much to let me poop on your chest?”

“I’m sorry I don’t so this kind of t-[he pulls out 4 32GB DDR5 RAM sticks] …OKEYDOKEY!”

You’re not wrong but it still feels bad.

My nieces’ favorite video game of all time is dead or alive 3 on the original Xbox. There’s a switch with new games and fancier graphics connected to an OLED tv but at the end of the day they just want to kick people as simply as possible. Old ass console connected to an old tv in a guest room.

Nobody is better at sniffing out what’s actually fun than kids. They might get tricked by marketing here and there but once they get their hands on things it’s a simple process for them. Does this spark joy?

It’s like a rewiring through new experience. Back in the day games were improving in looks and gameplay rapidly. Then the latter started deteriorating for many big studio titles.

You tell me some new AAAA Ubisoft game is coming out and my gag reflex starts to tingle.

A new pixel graphic indie title with great reviews? Sign me up.

The fruit that was once sweet has become poison.

no

Since olden 4chan (rip) days Australians have always been top of the heap when it came to shit posting. If anyone could make a giant poopy fatberg it’s them.

10 years is not a long time and once the cat is out of the bag it’s rather difficult to get it back in.

It was the same for other manufacturing. You can’t manufacture most commercial items at a competitive price not just because the difference in labor cost but because there’s simply nobody left that is capable of doing it at scale in the US or Europe.

We’re just trying to help those nerds spend less time on their PC, you see? Yes, we produce memory but at our core we’re a grass touching company.

This whole situation is really weird. He describes a gun fired as making “click” noises like in the movies. That’s not how a gun with a silencer actually sounds like. Such strange reports.

First they came for our neighbors and I didn’t say anything.

Then they came for family members and I didn’t say anything.

Then they took my chicken tendies and I was mad but didn’t say anything.

BUT…when they take my PC I will REEEEEEEEEEE

Yeah, neglected would be the better word. I think the software in some trains is actually from 93-94. During this time period of increased demand they just let it run with bare minimum maintenance.

Forget about the personality for a minute. They have a different thing in common. Uselessness. I tried AI for a bunch of general use cases and it almost always fails to satisfy. Either it just can’t do the task in the first place or it makes mistakes that then cost too much time to fix.

There are exceptions and specialized models will have their use but it’s not the Swiss army knife tool AI companies are promising.

The dumbest thing about wikipedia exec pay is that there’s barely anything for them to do that would justify it. It’s not like they’re plotting the course of the company. It’s doing the same thing it did 10 years ago and if everything goes well it’ll still be doing the same thing 10 years from now.

Here, let me take care of the 2026 workload by writing the Email for them.

Dear staff,

please continue as before.

XOXO Your CEO

This is all a sick game

Could be the name of the website. Close your eyes. Walk away from the screen.

This generation of software companies really seem to have abandoned all previous goals for “Let’s see how shit we can make this!”

“Sir, if we can finish our robot it could help with any household chores and even take over most of the care work for the elderly. Then in future patches we could make it waterboard the user unless they get the waterboardless premium subscription. Then we’ll increase the cost and slowly reintroduce waterboarding even for subscribers.”

Guillotine baiters

His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can’t reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.

Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?

That’s what AI currently feels like.

I don’t see many users upgrading the memory on a laptop like this either but would criticize soldered RAM based on the aspect of repairability. T14s are often used in business which means hundreds of machines handled by IT departments. Boards will die and technicians will throw them out including the RAM. Now granted most companies don’t bother with hardware repairs anyway but somewhere down the chain someone will have these machines on their workbench and the easier it is to fix them up the better.

You got the perfect time. My rhythm is to get up, go to work, come home and nap for 20-45min so I can then tackle the rest of the day. It’s like a soft reset.