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- Comment on Id Software co-founder John Carmack "can’t muster anger or outrage" over Xbox gutting the Doom studio, but does say it'll "dampen the mood of the founder reunion" 1 week ago:
Man, that article is so on point. Props to Mark Warren. I already complained about amplifying single people’s opinions but this is so perfect. Calling out an AI pilled C-suite for just falling in line with other AI-pilled C-suites cutting actual people right and left
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 1 week ago:
Don’t get me wrong, this wasn’t meant to be taken as an attack on Romero as a person. I mean as a guy I actually like him. His map sale with proceeds for Ukraine was a great move and I loved it.
Even my comment about him not being relevant, he doesn’t need to be relevant. He made his mark and it was great there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that being it.
As an industry and even economy as a whole though, we focus on this myth of the individual and amplify specific people way too much. I don’t know why this article is the one that got to me because really his comments are valid, leaving a company after pouring yourself into it can be insanely hard. For some reason it just felt like a micro representation of the problem.
People hold up Musk as a genius and amplify his words and ignore every engineer actually doing the math to launch ships for SpaceX. Molyneux gets held up as a creative genius for FABLE (well, did, his image is slipping these days) but ignores all the work done by Shaw, Elfman (still love that’s his actual name), Yarwood-Lovett and the rest.
I dunno. It just got to me. Like I said could have been in a bad mood and not trying to bash Romero.
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 1 week ago:
I might just be in a bad mood today but I feel this entire article is part of the problem. The way I see it this is a guy who hasn’t been relevant in ages is still getting his words amplified about a studio that can’t do anything new since 2010 being shut down by a company that owns too much.
Like every industry it seems all the money has been rolled into a few gargantuan beast umbrella companies and they smother out new and creative things with endless rehashes of the same old same old and they keep the same figureheads who might have been creative at one point on a pedestal for worship long after they should be in charge to feed an impossible infinite growth.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 1 week ago:
Okay so I’m just into chemistry and astronomy as a hobby because I love learning, no expert. My understanding though.
The launches definitely aren’t great but they’re actually not the biggest issue. The problem is the satellites, when they’re deorbited, generate 50+ lbs of aluminum oxide which just floats on the upper atmosphere for years (like 30 years). Aluminum oxide is an especially potent catalyst for ozone depletion. The mega constellations that Musk wants would require multiple satellites to be deorbited daily, quickly piling up the aluminum oxide. The low orbit internet satellites are relatively short lived. So he wants either Kessler syndrome or enough aluminum oxide to eat the ozone in a year
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 1 week ago:
They’ve also been shown to have a not insignificant impact on the ozone. We’re so fucked
- Comment on Star Wars Eclipse "literally cannot be finished" if layoffs go through, its devs reportedly say 2 weeks ago:
The gacha game never even fully released if you mean Spellcaster Chronicles. They did an early access and then killed it.
- Comment on [Controller] Think these people will be disappointed 2 months ago:
Even just doing the car thing and calling it “steam controller 2026” would have been fine
- Comment on Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI 2 months ago:
What do you call a 25% reduction in motherboard sales if not reduced consumption?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 months ago:
I mean that’s Glitch Productions’ entire schtick basically and it seems to work well for them
- Comment on Mathieu Comandon Explains His Use of AI in Lutris Development (my interview!) 3 months ago:
My state’s lottery team still use cobol, my buddy is working in fortran, and many sites I touched are running on php7 (discontinued in Nov 22). Not sure it’s really all that niche to work on old tech.
- Comment on Mathieu Comandon Explains His Use of AI in Lutris Development (my interview!) 3 months ago:
As someone who’s job involved VB6 just two years ago. I think we have a very different experience of software development. Sure there’s some companies who rush to the newest, but for others that costs money, they expect you to just keep plodding along with the tools you have.
- Comment on ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI" 3 months ago:
I mean I do think your stance is backwards on so many levels but yeah, I’ve been on the Internet enough to know that not everyone speaks English as a native language or something so grammar is eh. Doesn’t make ya dumb. Internet can be a nasty place for sure though. A little positivity probably is a good thing.
- Comment on ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI" 3 months ago:
You call out the arrow to the knee line, and yet, how much entertainment have we all gotten out of memeing about it?
Yeah, I’ll take my games with bad human acting over more AI slop any day.
- Comment on where the heck is it 4 months ago:
It’s an M.2 or NVME drive (basically same thing). It looks like it’s under that white rectangle in the bottom left of your image (it’s a little fuzzy so hard to say for sure). They have a heatsink on top of them held down with a screw. You just undo that screw and it can pop right out. The heatsink can peel off and be attached to the new M.2/Nvme.
With that said, my experience with bootloops is usually more of an issue with the BIOS. I would try updating that or reflashing it if it was recently updated.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 6 months ago:
I’ve been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I’m part of the Linux number.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 6 months ago:
Yeah, I’d be more curious about the past three years combined. I know several friends still playing BG3 because they haven’t had time to finish it. As backlogs grow I feel like this will only become more common.
- Comment on AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms 7 months ago:
Bro, even the study saying AI coding isn’t great is shilling for AI. That conclusion “It’s going to get better, we swear, despite the evidence we have counter”.
Good Lord does AI need to die already.
(Normal caveat I’m talking modern LLMs, not all AI is evil, blah blah blah)
- Comment on Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says 7 months ago:
I mean, I kind of expected it. It’s a natural progression of them providing alternatives and there’s growing demand. People knew they were supporting Fex for a while. It just kind of made sense.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 8 months ago:
I dunno about child grooming, but certainly something unsavory. The child grooming is more on Roblox these days.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 8 months ago:
I don’t know if they’re accustomed to the norms more but Hooters starts as in person encounter. It’s already a very different dynamic from lurking online amongst hundreds watching a person knowing they can’t see you.