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On the flipside, MSFT has an insanely solid position right now. Their customers are hostages and they've got a commanding position in AI. They feel unassailable.

Will this one have actual gameplay?

Expecting a pretty bad jobs report on Friday. Further, I think odds of a soft landing went down a lot today.

Need to feel something, man.

Starting to feel big warning signs.

Willing to give them a lot of leeway after how good the finale was.

people who enjoy persona games are weird

Also, aren't augs mostly war veterans? So, nothing like BLM lol.

"I hate when writers use seemingly arbitrary rules to come up with when to include non-normative characters. So here are my arbitrary rules as to when it's okay to include non-normative characters!"

I didn't finish it, but it wasn't bad. If anything, it was too Deus Ex, in that it had like 5000 vents to crawl in.

Good call, definitely no market for good cyberpunk rpgs right now.

SoFi stock is a day trader's dream. Every time it goes below 7 buy, sell anytime it goes above 9 lol.

No, they could have added it later. They've added more content than any games I can think of except maybe Minecraft/Terraria/Stardew. You can capture creatures and send them to your freighter, but there's no creature breeding or trading.

This game tells me that if No Man's Sky had unique, collectible, tradable animals it would have sold 10x more copies than it already did.

The chonker heatsink on my 4080 means the fans only start spinning when it gets above 55c, which is only while playing a 'real' game.

The dev team is like 10 people. Nintendo should just fucking hire them.

Usually am.

You might be confused, SR4 was good. Not the recent game.

This looks like Saints Row 4 but a looter shooter? IDK, tentatively in?

I have been addicted to Double Jumping ever since Shadow over Mystara.

Wow what the fuck lol. But yeah a 12th gen CPU is still more than fine.

The guy is clearly both autistic and English is not his first language, and he gets 4+ hour long interviews with people who don't give interviews to other people. Cut him some slack.

Apparently, we're all supposed to watch this and fall hopelessly in love with Sydney Sweeney.

Do you have onboard GPU? Remove the GPU card and see if the computer is still acting funny on onboard?

You undervolting anything? That's what usually causes crashes under low load but stable under high load. Possibly BIOS is doing some kind of ECO thing and doing it's own undervolting?

Not sure how you took any of what I said as an endorsement of DEI. Not-scapegoating something is not the same as an endorsement. But whatever, that's the world we live in. No one can have a nuanced take on anything anymore, and then people wonder how we all got so dumb.

VCs have to manage enormous amounts of risk to stay afloat, and investing in people who remind you of yourself is always seen as psychologically less risky. This is just how human biases work. "People who remind you of yourself" can mean a lot of things, but it can definitely lead to racially...

oh shit i was supposed to sell before earnings that wasn't i

What? When was this question even asked? This was about how tech startups (apps) are funded and how it's nothing like how video games are funded. Anyway, I'll just leave this here: But yeah, it's definitely the white guys being denied opportunities in this economy of ours. That's why your...

My point is just that it costs a lot of money to scale something like Instagram, where it generally costs inverse money (costs go down the more copies you sell) to sell more copies of an indie game that doesn't require any centralized server infrastructure. So, again, apples to oranges.

Every single one of these companies fired less than half the # of people they hired during the pandemic. Usually around a third, oddly consistent throughout the entire industry. Also, most of them are still hiring. This is just a backlog of normal stack-rank turnover that was put off because...

We're not even talking about the same thing. You're comparing a small business loan for a few $K to a top tech company being able to get <2% loans for $billions to defensively hire anything that looked like talent to starve competitors, which is a thing they did the entire time loan money was...

Scaling Instagram or Snapchat is infinitely more complex, and expensive, than selling more copies of an indie game (which Steam just handles for you, taking their cut, a cut which generally shrinks the more copies they sell, so you actually get inverse scaling costs.) It's even considerably...

Indie gaming (Lethal Company/Palworld) and tech startups (Uber) have nothing in common, both in distribution and in funding. This is an apples/oranges comparison.

Because the top dogs had infinite low-interest, nearly free money from the fed to monopolize talent. This is the real reason for a decade of inflated headcounts at top tech companies - they were actively trying to starve startups and mid-tiers of talent.

Thanks for agreeing with me, that was my entire fucking point! But yes, it actually did change the makeup of the top 20%. HR filters are bad, and recruiters are the laziest fucking people in corporate America. I've literally met one corporate recruiter I would consider a smart person in the...

No, the point is that most people at a company are borderline useless, or at least interchangeable. But if you just keep hiring from the same cluster of people who are all related to the useless people you already have, you will never accidentally find better people outside of that cluster...

The pareto rule pre-dates the internet by quite a lot. Many highly influential business texts have been published on the topic, going back nearly a century. Heck, Scott Adams wrote and entire Dilbert book about this, ironically.