Not sure that’s right - before the internet I had no clue what was supposedly good or not. I’d rent games from blockbuster and just try them one by one. Lots of shitty games and I had no idea that Mario or sonic or anything was meant to be good.
Now it’s a lot easier just based on metacritic or steam reviews to figure out if something is good or not.
It’s a nostalgia thing - I don’t remember the games where I got stuck on the first level and could never finish the game (which happened). Or were just boring so I quit after a half hour.
I do remember donkey Kong country, super Mario bros, sonic Etc. Which all worked well and were fun.
I think it’s because people only remember the good games and not the stinkers.
I played a lot of shit games I can’t recall because I played for 30 minutes max. There was one game I never passed the first level as I couldn’t figure out what to do, I think something to do with jelly beans and a blob. How is that good gameplay lol?
But of course myself and others can tell you about the games we played for hours like Super Mario Bros which didn’t really have bugs and were good.
And someone recently told me the Xz exploit doesn’t matter because no developer is stupid enough to install beta releases to prod systems lol.
Laziness and/or low skills leads to a lot of IT failures.
Games were definitely buggy and I honestly think people forget how much better the quality is nowadays.
I also think there is something to it just being the 90s or so and not having much choice. If you only have one game to play then of course you’re going to replay it to death. If I have a steam library of 1000 games then I’m much less likely to.
A lot of this is just nostalgia for the past and the environment as opposed to games being any better.
The real question is why the fuck is this guy passing for two password managers if not more, especially if he isn’t even using one?
Gmail is still good for me at least. Does everything I want, doesn’t need new features and I don’t see ads or anything.
What more would I get from someone else? I’m not going to pay for privacy at end of day.
Hahahahaha.
In 5 years time they’ll whittle the pledges down a bit.
In 10 they’ll remove it altogether.
He was very much the Elon Musk of his times, and it’s very possible he would have gone down the same route of extremist views and decisions that completely failed because of his egoism.
Tell me you’re an apple fanboy without telling me you’re an apple fanboy.
Good! It’s a massive story.
Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.
Generally I’d agree it’s shitty behaviour though.
This has been the case for ages so it’s not anything new.
My reading of chip wars and similar chip fabrication places is this stuff takes decades to develop and is insanely expensive. Is that not the case here?
This makes no sense. He himself was a billionaire who fucked over both rich and non rich people. Just because he failed and took other rich people down a peg doesn’t make him some sort of martyr.
Favourite is probably Naughty Dog as it’s one of the few studios that keeps producing amazing games and is fairly consistent.
Most other studios drop the ball at some point.
Welcome to 5 years ago? This has been around for years…
Your comment is equally guilty of assigning blame to something without any strong evidence or similar.
Without actual studies looking into it it’s all conjecture.
It’s a hard call on Reddit.
This article seems to leave out the reality that Reddit’s big win is data and an in built machine learning capability in what is good quality. For future AI and LLMs it’s actually a treasure trove of information that will only rise in value.
Realistically it’s had massively bad PR and issues but people still use it over Lemmy and many others, and Lemmy/others aren’t going to overcome it any time soon (if ever). So it doesn’t seem like it’s going to go away at end of day, and it’s still one of the best sources of information on the internet available.
At end of day it’s stocks so it’s coin flips all the way. No one beats the market consistently over time that doesn’t also utilise insider information.
Welcome to the world of business. First time here huh? Might wanna strap in, this is pretty harmless when it comes to capitalists and its by-products.