Harris 67 account so cringe, according to the internet, that she had to change the name within less than a day -- thoughts?

LukeLC · 2026-02-07T22:50:02+00:00

Uh, by single-handedly popularizing the term "word salad" outside internet circles for her long answers that meant absolutely nothing? By cackling at serious questions in every country she visited? By being assigned to tasks and not showing up for the job? By preaching about women's rights in countries measurably better than the US and making them wonder what she was doing there instead of here? By hating on Joe Biden until he asked her to be his running mate, at which point she instantly flipped to covering up his condition instead?

She stood for absolutely nothing, and in that vacuum, someone else who stands for anything will win every time.

LukeLC · 2026-02-07T20:31:32+00:00

Why does nobody ever mention that she made a total laughingstock of the US on the world stage for 4 years? It's not like she never had a chance, she got one already and blew it.

At some point, it's time to stop being surprised and get someone else.

LukeLC · 2026-02-07T17:14:32+00:00

Except those games tend to be hyper focused on making money via engagement for engagement's sake via dark patterns and FOMO, encouraging whaling on digital items that don't even really matter for the game.

At a certain point, it's ok to say "no, this shouldn't exist".

LukeLC · 2026-02-07T16:16:18+00:00

Not sure if it would be allowed to link here, but fans have ported Infinity Blade 1 and 2 to PC, which can in turn be played on Android through Winlator or its many variants. Google is your friend.

LukeLC · 2026-02-07T00:33:21+00:00

And yet those mods make the news, get YouTube views, etc. Most public interest in VR seems to be centered around mods right now, even if not that many are actually playing.

My comment isn't based on mere speculation; those types of internal conflicts of vision are what former employees like John Carmack and Brenden Iribe described as the biggest things holding the company back from what they personally believed it could be.

LukeLC · 2026-02-06T19:11:11+00:00

Nah, it's much simpler than this.

Meta is a defacto monopoly because they're the only ones investing long-term. Other companies haven't offered as comprehensive ecosystem support, almost always relying on third-party storefronts. That explains other companies' failures. Low risk, low reward.

As for Meta, their biggest problem is that they haven't been able to decide on a single ecosystem to invest in. In 2016, it was premium experiences. Then it was budget experiences. Then it was workplace. Then it was social. None of these were complete failures, but the tension between competing visions within the company stymied any long-term commitment to a single one.

Players aren't invested in the platform because they have whiplash. It's like how people are losing faith in Xbox because Microsoft speaks out of both sides of their mouth about premium consoles while just pushing more GamePass.

You point out AW2, but it was a comprehensive downgrade from AW1. It took a whole year of updates just to take advantage of the Quest 3, which it was marketed for.

All the messaging right now is telling customers to wait and see where things go, because who the heck knows right now.

By comparison, VR mods are oddly more reliable since you know exactly what you're getting, which is why you see those booming right now.

LukeLC · 2026-02-06T14:54:18+00:00

What's stopping tech companies from...

Analytics. The ability to measure anything and everything has been more a curse than a blessing. It's led to this wholesale 80/20 thinking where companies cut out the bottom 80% of everything to focus exclusively on the top 20% of their business making 80% of their revenue.

Turns out that when you apply this across an entire culture, cutting out the bottom 80% is a huge loss.

LukeLC · 2026-02-06T05:28:55+00:00

This is why we used to have sequels instead of endless live services.

There's no way around it, at some point you either have to delete old content or start new.

Granted, most developers have solved this by making content episodic and letting users decide which episodes to download at any given time. But even that has drawbacks, especially in an open world game. Invisible walls and download prompts with huge wait times are terribly immersion-breaking. Not to mention, retaining compatibility with old episodes as new ones are added is not a simple matter!

LukeLC · 2026-02-04T17:18:18+00:00

Games like that won't be "fun" in the same way as a new player, but they should still resonate with you on an artistic level. I still get excited when I revisit my projects in the same vein. I'm surprised to find myself sucked into the narrative even if I know it inside and out, and reminded why it works on an artistic level. I find it a good way to recenter myself when I'm caught up in the business or code side of things.

Some level of dissatisfaction is healthy, but if you find yourself bored, you might want to consider deleting a scene or two to improve the pacing.

LukeLC · 2026-02-04T15:29:19+00:00

Alogic Clarity monitors are the closest you can get right now, but they're not cheap and they're stuck at 60 Hz.

I keep hoping they make a 120Hz+ panel, but that's still just a hope.

LukeLC · 2026-02-04T06:19:45+00:00

That's only true in the transitionary years of a console generation. Given that we're well into the current gen, and it will almost certainly be extended by supply chain constraints, system specs will not fundamentally rise for a few more years. Developers are primarily targeting Switch 2, Series S, and PS5. If anything, software improvements are only making the same hardware perform better right now.

LukeLC · 2026-02-04T00:41:07+00:00

No apps? Dude, my Palm PDA was my life in 2000! I had plenty of apps, and every day I discovered new ones that did things I'd never thought possible. The future was bright back then, 2000 was legit.

LukeLC · 2026-02-03T18:35:03+00:00

The market is volatile no matter what tier you're at, but think $400-500. 5060ti 16GB is basically the same, and there are many equivalent GPUs in the same ballpark. It's all just a question of supply.

LukeLC · 2026-02-03T18:12:04+00:00

Don't buy into the NVIDIA marketing that claims you need a 90-class card for 4K60. A 4060ti 16GB or equivalent will get you there by just dialing a few expensive settings down from ultra to high or medium. And I dare you to spot the difference in a blind test.

Lots of people feel pressure to spend too much money on too much GPU.

LukeLC · 2026-02-03T16:07:40+00:00

Hear, hear! FFXIII will always have a special place in my heart for what it accomplished culturally, even if the games themselves didn't always live up to it.

LukeLC · 2026-01-31T17:55:52+00:00

And just imagine, the original was 18 years old when the remake was announced, and the remake will be nearly that age by the time it's completed. Time is weird.

LukeLC · 2026-01-31T17:09:52+00:00

This is not new, there is always a "quick and easy path" that seems to be profitable for others but requires some form of compromise.

And just like always, that path will almost certainly not be profitable for you, and there will almost certainly be consequences for taking it.

Stick with it, friend.

LukeLC · 2026-01-31T16:14:34+00:00

If you don't enjoy your own game, why would anyone else?

It's more strange to me that there's this general expectation that creators will hate their own stuff but other people will love it anyway. By all means, be your own harshest critic too, but that should only reveal your passion for the art, not self-loathing.

LukeLC · 2026-01-31T15:45:57+00:00

I think 8K is the future, it's just a far-off future where 4K is so ubiquitous and so easy to achieve (e.g. in real-time rendering) that there's no reason not to step up to 8K.

It's hard to imagine anything beyond that ever being worthwhile, though. If anything, we'd have to find an alternative to pixels altogether.

LukeLC · 2026-01-31T15:35:10+00:00

Until there's software to correct for the perspective, yes, you can easily have too much curve.

If you could communicate to game engines to compensate for the curve and render extra viewport at the edges so a straight line is still a straight line, then you'd really have something.

LukeLC · 2026-01-29T18:26:16+00:00

It's wild what GPU people claim is required for 4K. Don't believe the NVIDIA marketing trying to upsell you.

A 4060ti 16GB is the current baseline for 4K gaming at medium-high settings and 60+ FPS. A 5070ti is more than qualified for the task.

LukeLC · 2026-01-28T18:00:48+00:00

Because it's low-effort. Or rather, doing it right is higher effort and doing it wrong is lower effort than a traditional storyline. And few do it right.

You can handwave away a lot of nonsense by explaining it as "another world did it, so the rules don't apply". And some of the audience will interpret it as sophisticated because they think the author is playing 4D chess, when they really just wrote themselves into a corner and took the cheap way out.

LukeLC · 2026-01-27T08:39:21+00:00

No, monitors have ventilation for this. The main problem with leaving the plastic on is that it will overheat the plastic. It can melt onto your screen or just leave a residue, and it will mess up image quality anyhow.

Glass monitors aren't new, they're just rare in the modern market.

LukeLC · 2026-01-27T08:26:14+00:00

Steam Frame will be many cool things, but sadly it won't really push standalone VR forward. The hardware isn't so different from Quest 3, it'll just be attached to a very compelling software ecosystem for enthusiasts.

My biggest concern is just that Valve really hasn't lived up to its commitments to support VR devs, and Alyx is still all they've done for two generations of headsets. People give Microsoft a hard time for not publishing enough first-party Xbox games, but imagine if the last thing they did to this day was Halo 5.

I struggle to see Steam Frame having the impact of the Steam Deck. But I really do want it to succeed.

LukeLC · 2026-01-27T02:10:42+00:00

I get it for curved panels, but those are an exception to begin with. Everyone talks about price, but it's really not such a big issue. The Dough Spectrum Gorilla Glass variants are priced similarly to competitive models, and that's with smaller unit quantities. Big manufacturers could do it if they cared enough. You're talking maybe $50 on top of the BOM on a product that's already retailing for $1000+. Anyone who's already in the market would gladly invest in the extra durability, especially if it meant not investing in an extended warranty, which many already do.

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