This is something I find most gamers I chat with don't just not know, but violently do not want to know - they pine for $50 games from 1995, but without realizing that's $110 in 2026 dollars. Games got a *lot* cheaper because the prices got sticky, which is why you see a lot of strain.

Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 3w ago

When GTA 1 came out in 1997, it cost the 2026 equivalent of $104. An NES game that came out in 1986 cost the equivalent of $150. That's closer to what a game should cost in 2026 than $80.

hot take: if OpenAI or Anthropic were smart they'd co-opt an open source groupware project like Nextcloud to undermine the ecosystem advantages that Google has with Gemini, the same way that Google used Android to undermine the ecosystem advantages of the iPhone/Mac ecosystem.

Nerd pet peeve: when people talk about "star trek predicting the cell phone". Walkie talkies existed. Star Trek just took that to the next level. Then Motorola tool aesthetic cues from scifi when doing their product design. That's not prediction.

If we give up grounding technology in human needs, and instead merely use it to accelerate outputs then there is no job left for any of us except organ donor.

Mesoamerican 6D demons strike again

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the billionaires are not ok

Highly recommend this piece by @segyges.bsky.social www.verysane.ai/p/polly-want...

Polly Wants a Better Argument

The “Stochastic Parrot” Argument is Both Wrong and Actively Harmful

verysane.ai

the first skunk born with the stinky mutation probably thought he was never gonna get laid

"Datacenters in space" feels like a litmus test for how grounded a particular technology brother/sister is or isn't. I have trouble understanding the brain of the person who buys it. I'm no space expert but it just seems like the most dot connecting sort of BS.

there really is nothing more dangerous than a dumb person with an LLM and no sense of shame.

Fallout season 2 started off really strong, but woof stuff really piled up as the season wore on. I'm always wondering why the ostensibly cheapest thing, writing the story, always seems to fall through, when the expensive labor intensive parts of production always nail their mark.

Hot take: a fair number of things people use spreadsheets for could be better done with a regular doc. You can put a table in a doc. But formatting text in a spreadsheet is a pain. Most information that can be displayed in a table can be more easily read as a linear document.

Dudes Rock

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

I want opinions on how different programming languages handle concurrency, mostly from a syntax level. Give your hot takes.

people will talk about turchin's elite overproduction thesis but where's the elite underconsumption thesis?

I was exposed to these arguments in middle school because of a weird edutainment magazine my parents got me (Muse magazine!) : jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...

Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen

It's basically impossible and they know it.

jasonpargin.substack.com

Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/

I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...

Code the ultimate UI: A UX designer designs a programming language.

YouTube video by Austin Tech Live

youtube.com

there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them

Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.

Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.

Our meetup next month features @jcklpe.bsky.social discussing Enzo, a programming language of his own design, join us! www.meetup.com/eff-austin/e...

I'm a ux designer and I designed and implemented my own programming language called Enzo.

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it. I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

They Might Be Giants (For Kids) You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween bsky.app/profile/ianb...

Everyone should be forced to read Wittgenstein for this reason. It would save this world so much trouble if we just strangled linguistic prescription in the cradle.

clams cartel@mktulpa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

found a freak