Agreed. I forgot to mention too that with windows 11 microslop has been prioritizing imaginary gain rather than genuine human work. The whole company feels like it’s a mess, and a drastic shift has occurred. Even compared to a decade ago, it’s drastic. 10 years ago, I thought they were iffy on some of their choices, but they seemed to want to fix windows 10 and the Xbox brand. But it’s only gotten worse now it seems lol

I don’t really trust it, to be honest. I have had an xbox from the original to the series X. But for the past 5 or 6 years, they have been extremely radio silent on a future for the brand. They focused completely on gamepass and nothing else. They shut down so many studios. It just feels like its a gamble

I feel like the DS and 3DS were much more innovative. People are missing out

I popped that sucker on 3x speed with captions, and it was a great watch

I’ll believe it when I see it lol.

Yeah I liked it! I felt like I was too dumb for some of the puzzles lol.

Lol of course that’s a thing. Welp so much for my big brain ideas. As usual its already a thing haha

Hmm I get where you’re coming from. It does seem concerning that they aren’t organized as much as they should be.

I have felt similar to you in some ways. The fact that people didn’t already have some kind of structure earlier on feels like a massive missed opportunity but I recognize that it’s probably easier said than done to organize a whole independent movement across a country. I agree it might very well end up that way.

I guess …I always like to prep for the worst and hope for the best. But don’t lose hope. I think there’s always time to turn things around.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it that I suppose I have thought of but haven’t really considered it in depth. I suppose my mentality has been “work within the accepted framework because trying to convince people of anything else feels impossible.”

I’m likely ignorant to a lot of this, however.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a change like that though. As long as conditions improve for everyone and it’s peaceful, I dont think i care what kind of system is put in place as long as everyone is treated properly. But now that I think about it more I can kinda get where you’re coming from. I am curious if it would work at scale, and in the meantime, what we could do about things currently. It feels like that would be a polar opposite of capitalism entirely.

Anyways, sorry, im rambling with my thoughts here.

I just hope that the outcome is positive. Hopefully, something can break the cycle

Okay at first I was wondering “who the hell would want to do this?” But then I thought maybe its like…if you need a TV for an event? Being able to rent out a large TV might be helpful? But like thats so absolutely niche.

But its the only way I could ever see it make sense. If you needed a very large flat screen only for a few days or something you could rent it instead of paying a few thousand.

I’ve been wondering for a while what will happen. If the USA doesn’t fully reform government, nothing will change, and this exact situation will repeat one day. They can’t just reinstate democrats and republicans that are focused on corporations and their own pockets. This really should be a fundamental rebirth of America once they remove the nazi threat.

A creator I follow on youtube has stated that their views have fallen off completely on tiktok. Some fellow creators have gotten strikes against their accounts, and one had their account deleted.

Seems like the US government is just purging anything they feel contradicts their lies

Microslop needs to figure their shit out. I think 11 has been worse than any previous “bad” windows version. I’ve never had such an unreliable experience with an OS before.

I would swap, but I’m forced/still have reason to use it for various programs/work.

Yeah, it’s not great. I feel terrible for the guy because he lives on his own and has a mortgage to pay. I just hope he can get back on his feet sooner rather than later.

My job just let us know that they are going to invest about $170,000 into AI subscriptions per year. A few days later, they fired an artist they had hired for over a decade. A chunk of us are pretty upset but the rest don’t seem to care. They’re too busy playing with Ai making it generate “funny” pictures.

If you want people to update, you have to push out tested solid updates. Otherwise, the risk outweighs any potential benefit. Watching the windows 11 updates has been so weird

I think the biggest thing is that people don’t seem to understand how AI works. If they understood it’s just predictive text and not like…actual intelligence, I think it would solve a lot of issues.

Part of this, though, is how AI companies keep pushing to personify their AI and keep making them sound better than they actually are. It makes people think its this magical thing

It depends on the game, but i like long RPG’s. Sometimes, it can start to wear out its welcome. But for the games where it works well it’s cool. You get to experience this big world, usually going from a weakling to a strong character by the end. The stories can be really interesting (or bland too).

I recently decided that I am going to take on a game that could potentially take me hundreds of hours to finish and it’s daunting, but if at some point if I start to hate it, I’ll put it down and Google the results of the story and feel content.

I always think of the rooster call that’s used in Ocarina of time.

There’s also a laser beam noise that gets used in a couple n64 games and various other media. And a couple sounds from golden eye that I’ve heard used.

I can’t say for certain, but I think the popularity is probably due to a lot of these reused sounds being part of sound packs and compilations from the 80’s and 90’s