I once finished an Android developer tutorial, and immediately decided I wanted nothing to do with Android development.

The last game I played that I immediately thought “wow, there’s no way this would even be possible in a previous gen” was GTA3.

Even this latest gen, the biggest improvement feels like the SSD rather than the raytracing.

58,008 clearly wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3Y0npvS5c

Hey, it wasn’t about racism or slavery!

It was about state’s rights…

To keep black people as slaves.

If you do this, remember to change the keyboard layout to match.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102134

Yeah, but what I mean is Tesco and Walmart are a convenient stores that everyone knows about, but if I buy an Ali Express quality fire hazard from those, they’d get into trouble for it.

While Amazon will ask you to take it up with UFTNGDNH Ltd, who conveniently can’t be contacted any more, but here’s CVBXDFXE Inc selling the exact same items under a different “brand”.

You can be sure it comes out of an Amazon warehouse. And that’s not the same thing.

Although frankly, it should be. I don’t know how they’ve got this cushy position where they take items from others, store them, and then ship them out for enormous fees without taking on any retailer responsibility.

You can. I can. But how many people do, and how many just flick through on their phone and click “Buy now” without really looking?

And send a billionaire a third of your dinner money while you’re at it!

Much like a Telltale video game, your really bad choices lead to game overs, while all your good choices lead to pretty much the same place.

I’m glad that full stops are now passive aggressive, because that’s been my intent all along.

I guess my ageing i5-8400, 16GB, GTX 1060 rig can keep hobbling along a while yet.

Although I was amused to see my Legion Go S actually has a more powerful CPU now.

My Go S already came with Steam OS. Why they still messing about with Windows?

Spotify has lossless now. Although if you’re listening on anything with Bluetooth then you probably won’t notice anyway.

TLDR: We rewrote the taskbar and didn’t bother implementing it.

I’m sort of going to blame Sony and Microsoft here as well. Since their game subscription services came out, games going on permanent discount seems to be a thing of the past. I reckon they’ve been told to do it just to make the subscription services look better value.

Back in the day, as far back as the ZX Spectrum for me, games would come out at full price and then a couple of years later would come out in a budget range. Even Nintendo would do it on the GameCube. Now it’s just full price forever because fuck you.

I miss the “flash sales”.

They got rid of them, and the Steam Sales were effectively just the regular discounts you can get anywhere else.

That and people like Rockstar figuring out that you can put “50% off” if you bundle in a load of funbucks nobody asked for.

What the user sees:

Do you want to use this thing you paid for?

[I agree] [Go into a complicated menu that doesn’t matter]

Danny Moses: You’re completely sure of the math?

Jared Vennett: Look at him, that’s my quant.

Mark Baum: Your what?

Jared Vennett: My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.

Mark Baum: That’s pretty racist.

Jared Vennett: Look at his eyes, I’ll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China! HE DOESN’T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH! Yeah I’m sure of the math.

And the amount of time dedicated to ox-bow lakes. Where are they all? You’d think every second meander would be an ox-bow lake by now, but I’ve never even seen one.

I think geography teachers made them up and hoped nobody would ever check.