I was expecting something a little deeper or more subtle than what I got.

That’s the problem when these things gain reputations. The reputation builds it up to be more than the piece of art can deliver.

Now imagine playing it when it was new and you weren’t “expecting” anything but a military shooter. It would still be just as blunt, but it landed back then far more effectively than when you go in knowing the reputation the game has built in the many years that followed.

But this isn’t the formula for all games. While we might agree that games from 2000 or even 2010 are “showing their age”, at this point 5 to 8-year-old games are less and less likely to be seen as ‘too old’ by comparison to hot releases.

As someone that grew up in the '80s and '90s, it’s wild how much different the pace of change in games was then compared to now.

In 1991 I was playing NES games and 256-color VGA MS-DOS games, in 1998 I was playing Half-Life. Every single thing about the experience of video games changed in that span.

In 2017 I was playing Breath of the Wild, in 2024 I’m playing more or less the same game in Tears of the Kingdom.

Definite wins for me:

• Weather widget small tile with added info (multi-day forecast especially)
• Shared Apple Music playlists
• Local awareness Emergency Alerts

“Everything is an RPG” says the guy whose company has stripped out all but the most basic of RPG elements from their games.

God heals, but always within the exact parameters of what is possible by the modern medicine of that exact era.

Amputees unfortunately can still go fuck themselves.

Put a large collection of albums into your “Library”.

Now try to pull up a list of a single artist’s albums within your Library.

The “Library” management is so remedial that it’s basically a joke. It can’t measure up to iTunes from 20 years ago. It’s completely unusable for a serious music collection.

It may be fine for people that just listen to singles and playlists, but every other music service can do that too, while also offering complete functionality elsewhere.

YouTube Music is a half-baked, half-complete product. It’s inexplicable that it exists when they literally just needed to do nothing but rebrand Google Play Music.

YouTube Music is the enshitttified version of Google Play Music.

I’m 95% a PC gamer, but if I was a broke college student, a Series S plus Game Pass would keep me busy all the way through school.

Another version, with a discount for owners of the original games.

Of course, OpenLara is free…

Apple Maps + CarPlay is so much better than Google Maps + Android Auto that the latter is embarrassing.

I say this as someone that has owned Android phones since the very beginning (HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1).

Game devs: “No thanks, we’re waiving the fees by using a different engine.”

I guess to contradict my own point, the point of watching the show became less about the quality of the show itself, and more about college-aged Danielle Fishel and college-aged Maitland Ward screen time.

Boy Meets World

GoT should have just never happened in the first place, and we should have gotten 5 more seasons of Rome instead.

And even if some prototype device is, that doesn’t mean the production device will be, once things like heat and power usage have to really be accounted for.

The first time was when even the “old man” veteran professional athletes were younger than me.

There’s essentially no difference between Bud Light and dog pee, so the grass should react the same in both scenarios.

Debian: “I’m a Docker container”

For the last X number of years, I’ve listened to people proclaim how Microsoft has changed, they’re not the '90s Microsoft anymore. They make things open source! They’re putting Linux in Windows now instead of trying to murder Linux! They’re not doing Internet Explorer things anymore! You old Slashdot readers are stuck in the past!

'90s Microsoft sends their regards.

Tile didn’t use Ultra Wideband until after AirTags existed, and I think even now it’s only the Tile Pro that has it.

I used Tile for years before AirTags came along. The difference is night and day.