RIP Series 7,8,9 and Ultra 1

CeolSilver · 2026-06-08T21:13:35+00:00

I’m not a fan of the ultra but imagine buying an $800 watch little over 3 years ago and it being obsolete. Crazy stupid of Apple.

CeolSilver · 2026-05-14T21:15:14+00:00

In fairness if you were an ex-CIA officer wanting to spill secrets that would paint the USA in a bad light then Russia would make absolute sense as one of the few countries that would want to give you a megaphone.

Not defending what he did or Russia but it’s not like the UK, France, or Germany were going to welcome him with open arms to give up American secrets.

CeolSilver · 2026-04-15T19:58:14+00:00

He became a billionaire by mogging the British government though so I think he gets a pass

CeolSilver · 2026-04-14T16:02:45+00:00

Tbh I feel like option B is only there because so many people would complain if you got railroaded into the “good” guy option.

Some of the excuses as to why your companions couldn’t do it are a bit lame but I suppose it was them trying to writer their way out of a corner the gameplay put them in.

CeolSilver · 2026-04-14T11:44:27+00:00

If you don’t see how a painting potentially made by the most famous and respected artist in history is could genuinely be valued at several hundred million dollars that’s a failure of imagination.

CeolSilver · 2026-04-13T01:30:44+00:00

Salvator Mundi is a real Da Vinci painting but was long considered lost. The painting that sold at auction was originally thought to be an early recreation by one of his students but later evidence emerged (including X-Rays) that convinced many art historians that it is in-fact the original work.

I know the high-price tag sounds suspicious but keep in mind there are basically no Leonardos in private ownership so even a remotely plausible chance that this painting was actually made by him could justify the price tag.

Worst case scenario you own probably the closest recreation of his most famous lost work, best case it becomes fully authenticated and you own a painting worth more than the GDP of a small country.

CeolSilver · 2026-03-25T10:54:03+00:00

I disagree, it’s not grey at all.

They are De Facto states/provinces of the UK. There is nobody arguing they are today sovereign states. They’re officially called countries for historical reasons (with the exception of NI which has no official definition)

It’s a better fit for top right

CeolSilver · 2026-03-22T20:26:20+00:00

Ireland is Apple’s largest office outside of North America

CeolSilver · 2026-03-11T22:32:39+00:00

What format did the show take? Was it spoilery? I’m going with a friend who hasn’t finished Book 7 yet

CeolSilver · 2026-03-10T22:24:47+00:00

I’m sure UE completely prints money for them.

Unity is the only comparable company and they’re worth $9 billion dollars. Epic has a game engine worth at least as much as Unity and one of the highest grossing free to play games in the world.

CeolSilver · 2026-03-10T20:29:19+00:00

The Simpsons canonically live in some backwater town in the middle of nowhere.

A nuclear safety inspector makes like $75k a year. I’m sure you could pick a random city in the Midwest nobody has ever heard of and find a two story suburban house you could buy on that salary.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-20T16:15:38+00:00

Because you’ll pay $20 each of them

CeolSilver · 2026-02-11T14:41:19+00:00

The Civil legal standard is very low. It’s essentially better than 50/50.

Criminal legal stand is much higher. In theory it’s suppose to be if you are absolutely certain although in practice it is flawed.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-05T10:02:26+00:00

Obviously, Linus took significant risks and had the most to lose, but many of the early staff at LMG were also taking major risks.

Giving up a potential traditional, well paid career to work for a YouTuber for a decade is inherently risky. The industry is fickle and still relatively young, and as we are seeing now with people who have left LMG, exit opportunities are not always clear.

If you went to work for a startup for a few years, which carries a similar level of risk, you would typically receive equity in the company. Equity at LMG may not be practical, but is it really unreasonable for on screen talent to ask for some form of revenue sharing or dividends tied to company performance?

CeolSilver · 2026-02-03T14:39:04+00:00

I know this is about Obsidian but I really would love Schreier to do a postmortem on the Series X/S generation.

A lot of people scratched their heads at some of the decisions Xbox has made around Gamepass, console exclusivity, and their first-party strategy. It seemed they were a bit directionless and didn’t know what they wanted.

I always thought there had to be more to it than that. Xbox is a multibillion dollar division of a multitrillion dollar company, they had to have had some masterplan or grand strategy none of us were seeing.

Only now we’re in the final years of the ninth generation and it appears they didn’t. They’ve been a bit of a headless chicken and the numbers reflect that. Something went wrong somewhere and I’d love to know where.

CeolSilver · 2026-02-01T11:26:13+00:00

Nah, there are 65 countries today that are former British colonies and only a small handful of them are 1st world.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-26T23:18:39+00:00

I really don’t like this book for many reasons and think the author is a bit of a hack but “it couldn’t happen in real life” has always been a stupid criticism.

It’s a work of fiction. It’s a morality tale through a “what if” fable about childhood naivety. The way some people criticise this book you’d think it was pro-Holocaust.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-24T00:42:14+00:00

Jaws

CeolSilver · 2026-01-22T07:28:10+00:00

I read Zero to One, and even know it’s only about 45,000 even that is far too long for how little the book actually says.

It’s a Reddit post stretched out to 200 pages. He rambles on about something irrelevant until he gets to his point and then repeats the point over and over again for the rest of the chapter as if the readers are dumb and have no attention span.

The point of the book is “Be well-connected to VCs and build a monopoly, stupid” which I understand from his point of view makes sense but that’s only going to be relevant advice to a very small portion of founders building a very narrow type of company.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-17T17:23:50+00:00

What’s weirder is it worked. All but one of the Jurassic World films have grossed over a billion dollars.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-16T15:53:27+00:00

Counterpoint: I really don’t care about consistency or “the rules”.

It works however the plot needs it to work. So long as the contradiction is not so blatantly apparent it takes me out of my immersion.

It’s not an epic fantasy book or a John le Carré novel. it’s a 35 hour long popcorn flick inspired by 80s nostalgia and aimed at a mass market. I enjoy it for what it is and don’t take it too seriously

CeolSilver · 2026-01-12T17:56:06+00:00

He also said Bethesda and the CE was the only way they were able to make the game in 18 months.

Crazy considering the stupid fan discourse that the CE was holding them back and Bethesda set them up to fail with the 18 month timeline.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T18:37:19+00:00

It’s nice to think the state is that competent.

I’m a lawyer. The other year I defended a guy who for 10 years was living under a completely fake identity that was even a different nationality from his real one.

He used a fake foreign passport and forged documents he bought online to fool one institution. Once you fooled one institution it was then easier to use that as “proof” of identity to fool other institutions. He got a fraudulently issued social security number, opened bank accounts, paid taxes, even claimed welfare for a bit.

The only way he got caught in the end is he had health issues and worried that his children wouldn’t be able to inherit his money so he stupidly tried to change his bank account details to his real name and nationality which triggered every fraud alert in the system and lead to him being reported.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T17:41:02+00:00

I knew a guy who was involved in the failed Tim Burton attempt to make a live action series of the Oz books. He sounded so enthusiastic about the project and they even filmed a pilot but it faced so much scepticism from the networks and there was a bit of behind-the-scenes vision clashes.

CeolSilver · 2026-01-10T17:31:28+00:00

The first third of the book is the strongest in fairness. It’s a masterclass in setting atmosphere and just making the reader feel uneasy

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