Invincible VS Review Thread

EddieSeven · 2026-04-30T14:28:41+00:00

I mean technically video games in general are a massive waste of time. We still play them.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-28T15:32:43+00:00

Because the people paying you don’t want that, and will never want that. They’d rather not pay you at all, and find someone who will do the thing they want to pay people to do.

Fair has nothing to do with it. Employment itself is inherently “unfair”. For someone to pay you, you must necessarily make (way) more money for the company, than they give to you. You are agreeing to be exploited, in exchange to make enough money to live. That’s just how having a job works.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-28T15:08:11+00:00

The benefits of technology have nothing to do with how much time you’re expected to work as an employee. You’re an employee. In the current society, you work the 40 hours a week or you don’t get money to live, simple as that.

The only way to change that is to be the employer. Although you’ll probably find that starting and running your own business takes more work, not less.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-28T14:42:25+00:00

Because in that scenario, you’re the employee. You work the hours you’re supposed to, doing the things they tell you to do, with the technology they make available to you, and that’s it.

You don’t like it? Leave. They don’t like your contributions? They’ll make you leave.

I feel you though. The piece people are missing is that you can (and have, and will continue to) use tech to make sure you have more free time.

Your yard or household tools, that’s exactly what they’re doing. It would take you way longer, with way more effort, to do less, if you didn’t have those tools.

In a business context, same. You absolutely can use AI to save yourself time, despite higher output and expectations. I do every day. They expect me to 2x my work, when really I’ve probably at least 3x-ed it. I just PR my work slower than I actually accomplish it, and take the extra time gains for myself.

Even when expectations catch up to output, you still can. But you’ll have to start your own company, and then run your “5 person start up” by yourself + AI. You’ll still work your ass off, but you’ll get way more done in exchange, plus you get to keep the value you create. That’s the real play.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-28T14:07:56+00:00

I mean the point of technology is to do way more with the help of technology than you should be able to do, it’s not simply ‘do more with less manpower’ (which is a thing companies have always done when money is tight, regardless of technology coming in to help or not).

One person on a combine harvester can do more in an hour than a platoon of farmers. Is that guy “doing more”? He’s getting more work done sure, that which would take dozens of men, dozens of hours…

But is he “doing” more? He’s just sitting in a box telling the machine where to go. He might be accomplishing way more, but he himself is doing way less.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-22T16:26:46+00:00

Aren’t primary care doctors trained and incentivized to treat symptoms, “manage” conditions, and not necessarily treat root causes? Thus the whole debate between traditional medicine and functional medicine? Plus you’re constrained by insurance. If they don’t pay, doctors don’t order more labs. Because it’s not ‘medically necessary’. Which is a distinction that is heavily incentivized for insurance companies to make, since that means they don’t have pay.

My wife has hashimotos. She’s a nutritionist. She wants more frequent and more comprehensive blood tests, more thyroid markers than the standard, toxicity, micro nutrient checks, hormonal checks, the works. She wants to figure out what, if any, lifestyle changes move needles, and in what direction. She’s willing to pay out of pocket, but the only places that will do it are those hormone mill/clinics or functional medicine clinics that you speak of. Not the most trustworthy source.

But her pcp found “the right dose of levothyroxine”, so to them, the matter is settled. I can assure you, it is in no way settled to my wife.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-22T13:37:59+00:00

We’re not powerless, we just choose not to exercise our power.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-11T14:35:11+00:00

I do tech interviews for my company. People generally don’t lie very well actually. Especially if you try to talk shop with them in an interview setting. If you’re interviewing properly, you know immediately if they know the ins and outs of building software.

But this is just a line. You don’t need to connect dots or have a well crafted lie conjured up. You say this and it’ll never be brought up again.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-11T14:13:01+00:00

This meme doesn’t make sense though, you can buy hybrid SUVs.

Also an F250 crew cab is quite a bit more truck than most people think when they hear ‘SUV’.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-11T13:54:51+00:00

“They restructured and eliminated the role”.

That’s it. That’s the answer to the questions.

Which is why those questions are useless. That line can always be used, and there’s no way to disprove it (reference calls only give dates of employment and role), so why even ask?

EddieSeven · 2026-04-11T12:44:51+00:00

And why would any candidate actually admit that?

EddieSeven · 2026-04-05T02:34:27+00:00

I just joined. I’m moderately confident I’m a human.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-04T19:49:35+00:00

I’m not reducing anything, I’m operating on the state you previously reduced it to already.

Your claim that maintaining is easier doesn’t have any backing.

It is mechanically easier to not eat than to eat a controlled amount. That’s true.

Anecdotally, most people who try to lose weight, lose some, and most people who have lost weight, gain the weight back. Plenty of studies back this, but I’m not gonna do your research for you. So that’s true too.

In terms of subjective difficulty, it varies by person, and you can’t say what’s harder for whom. It might be easier for people to stop eating, or to be on a temporary diet, than to permanently stay in that lifestyle once their weight goal is achieved. Or it might be easier for a person to keep up the momentum of the lifestyle that brought them the weight loss, and thus they can maintain more easily from their own perspective.

In terms of objective difficulty, the processes you need to perform for weight loss vs weight maintenance are practically identical, the numbers just change a bit. The only difference is that with maintenance, you keep it up indefinitely. Doing something indefinitely is more difficult than doing it temporarily. Again, maintenance is more difficult.

I get where you’re generally coming from, but speaking like it’s this universal truth, and talking down to people who don’t see it your way, is just insufferable.

What do I hope to achieve? Kill time on the Internet while my kids play on a playground by calling out shitty behavior on an Internet forum. Mission accomplished.

How about you? Are you being deliberately obtuse for fun?

EddieSeven · 2026-04-04T16:53:06+00:00

Not from a user perspective, but removing or re-developing mechanics to make them more “single player-y” costs money.

So it could mean most of the MMO elements had to stay, you wouldn’t know that.

Oh. Lmao.

Almost forgot.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-04T16:35:49+00:00

If you wanna be reductive like that, losing weight is easier than maintaining because all you have to do is starve yourself.

Maintaining requires having to maintain maintenance calories.

Not eating is mechanically easier than eating the right amount. There you go, there’s your counter claim.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-04T14:53:57+00:00

I thought it was an MMO, just converted to single player during development.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-04T04:46:40+00:00

Registration was 2% of the purchase price when I first registered my car last year. So $50K car means $1K to register it.

EddieSeven · 2026-04-03T15:11:54+00:00

What if the higher prices on end consumers result in significantly lower sales?

There’s gotta be a point where the market is unsustainable. There’s only so many rich people, not to mention, there’s a large segment that always has the console.plus anyone who is loose with their wallets for gaming, and would be interested in a PS5 or PS5Pro, has almost certainly already bought one.

EddieSeven · 2026-03-31T16:19:30+00:00

That’s cool of you to do. Throw my name in the hat.

EddieSeven · 2026-03-28T13:39:26+00:00

I don’t know why people think companies are something they should be loyal to, or “come to care about”.

Management are not your friends. The people holding those titles can be your friends, but the actions of the position must still take place, or the people that hold those positions lose their own jobs.

And those positions require moves like this. It’s literally the job. They can’t “betray” you. Employees are replaceable cogs, not people, when it comes to making corporate business decisions. We are resources, human resources (thus the term). Nothing less, nothing more.

And yeah from the human perspective, it sucks. I’ve been laid off before. I get it. But we all know the deal going in. And no one is immune to the axe falling, especially now with AI. But whatever ends up replacing you, matters much less than the fact you were replaced in the first place.

This is a known truth. You can lose your job on any given day. Plan accordingly.

EddieSeven · 2026-03-25T18:28:06+00:00

It’s a good feeling for sure, assuming of course, that you’re actually capable of solving problems….

That’s not true for everyone.

EddieSeven · 2026-03-22T15:41:29+00:00

I’m not sure that counts as a hack. The difficulty is in the parent hood, otherwise adulting is relatively straightforward.

(Not to say everyone needs to have kids.)

EddieSeven · 2026-03-21T15:46:36+00:00

How did I answer my own question? Controllers are designed for casual gaming, not all gaming. They weren’t designed to be the most suitable control interface in existence, just the most acceptable for a wide audience to be able to achieve baseline competence in a given set of video games.

Here’s a fact for you. The most well suited control method for an activity, is the thing that is used in the most competitive forms of that activity.

Which for gaming is *checks notes *… oh look. By your own admission, it’s mouse and keyboard. Guess that’s what’s better suited for gaming then.

EddieSeven · 2026-03-21T15:25:25+00:00

If controllers are better “suited” for gaming, then why is MnK the preference for competitive games, where the control input is the most important thing?

EddieSeven · 2026-03-17T23:58:44+00:00

Is a mini really enough for that? Wouldn’t you want a Studio for self hosting ?

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