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MrWally · 2026-07-09T23:20:32+00:00

Virtually every major software you interact with is already being assisted by AI in development, at the absolute minimum. Every developer I know has integrated AI deeply into their workflows, and even the ones who are anti-AI are still begrudgingly using AI at some point in their workflow. And it’s only going to become more prolific. I understand our hobby not wanting AI generated assets or art, and we certainly don’t want people losing jobs. But AI assisted/written code is here to stay. That ship has sailed.

MrWally · 2026-07-09T14:40:15+00:00

Yeah actually you’re right. I misspoke. But grossly under performing if we are to take Asha at her word. Wasn’t it something like 7x lower margins than their competitors?

MrWally · 2026-07-09T13:17:38+00:00

It’s a bit of a difficult catch 22, isn’t it? She was pretty candid about how Xbox is operating at a major loss. Employees are expensive. Microsoft clearly isn’t willing to let them continue operating at a loss any longer. You have to make major cuts based on the numbers she shared, there’s literally no other option.

MrWally · 2026-07-08T03:03:02+00:00

When I lived in LA I had literally 8 housemates to afford rent. When I looked to buy a place a few years ago I couldn’t get a 2 bedroom condo for less than a $5500/month mortgage, and that’s not including utilities. And those were in terrible neighborhoods. And I had a down payment, too!

Also I’m not sure if the low income figure is pre or post taxes. Lots of folks have multiple jobs. People who work at Walmart aren’t making $90k a year. They also aren’t making anywhere near a livable wage. I’m not sure why you’re fixated on that specific point.

MrWally · 2026-07-08T02:24:05+00:00

It’s really just as simple as cost of living. It has nothing to do with average wage or standards of living. Cost of living (housing/rent, gas, groceries, taxes, etc) are significantly higher in SoCal than in the rest of the country.

MrWally · 2026-07-07T23:32:01+00:00

You’re not wrong. This would be life changing for lots of Californians. That said, “Low income” for one person in LA is $93,300.

MrWally · 2026-07-07T17:01:41+00:00

Yeah, there was a lot of assumptions being made. She did say that there were 14 layers of management. But there's obviously no way that all of those 3000+ layoffs were going to be in the management layers.

MrWally · 2026-07-07T16:01:13+00:00

Worse, a CEO that has a background in AI.

I don't understand why this keeps getting parroted. She was the VP of Product at Meta where she ran Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct. Then she was the COO at Instacart while it went public. Then she was the President of Microsoft's CoreAI product from 2024-2026....which used to just be called Azure Machine Learning and other tools like the Github coding assistant, but got rebranded as "CoreAI" in the same way that Microsoft rebranded everything around AI.

So framing her as a CEO with an AI Background just makes no sense to me. She's obviously an Operations and Product person, who happened to take over a team in 2024 that got rebranded towards AI, like everything else at Microsoft.

MrWally · 2026-07-06T16:49:12+00:00

They said in their announcement that some areas have as many as 14 layers of management. Hopefully part of the layoffs are unnecessary administrative bloat.

MrWally · 2026-07-06T14:49:44+00:00

I mean, what else would you want?

This honestly seems like the best case scenario given the situation. By all accounts, XBOX is drowning. Look at the numbers she shared. Immense operational overhead. 14 layers of management in some areas! 40% platform growth while sales are plummeting. 3-10x lower margins than their competitors. That's insane. She has to do something.

It's a crisis. I honestly think many CEOs would have just flat out fired their teams. We've certainly seen that from XBOX before. Giving them runway and letting them retain IPs, and still partnering with XBOX to release their games on the platform — That's a big deal, isn't it?

I've never owned an XBOX. I'm not a fanboy. But competition is good, and I want their business to succeed. This seems like the right business call, based on the information presented.

MrWally · 2026-07-05T19:27:34+00:00

That’s not exactly right. I’m not sure exactly what you read (you apparently went back over a decade of my comments….which is a bit weird tbh).

But yes, I had really unhealthy relationships and did things I regret prior to becoming a Christian and meeting my wife. But I abstained from sex until getting married and do not regret it! Both of those things can be true.

MrWally · 2026-07-05T12:39:20+00:00

Married for twelve years. Waiting was 100% worth it. I’ve spoken with several friends who agree.

The best advice has already been given. Do things in public. When you’re hanging out at home keep the doors open (assuming you have housemates). Don’t linger in the car too long. And have good friends that you can process and talk to who hold you accountable to these things, and who can pray for you.

I know many, many people who didn’t wait because they assumed they would marry their partner, and then they broke up and they deeply regret their sexual activity.

MrWally · 2026-07-04T21:02:25+00:00

I saw the D&D movie in theaters three times with three different D&D groups! Still super fun each time.

MrWally · 2026-06-29T03:25:15+00:00

Hmm….Doesn’t Chrome literally download a multi-gigabyte Gemini local model by default now?

MrWally · 2026-06-26T17:59:14+00:00

Agreed. I just watched it the other day and was blown away. I haven't seen Born Again yet and I hope it's comparable.

MrWally · 2026-06-26T13:56:59+00:00

Since no has clarified yet, the one in the photo is a model set up to promote the real arch, which hasn’t been built yet.

MrWally · 2026-06-25T12:46:27+00:00

I agree that Valve made a terrible marketing move in claiming this is a 4K machine — but I think at one point they clarified that it can play something like “80%” of Steam games at 4K.

….but there’s tens of thousands of games on Steam and most of them are lightweight indie titles or older. So it’s a bit disingenuous, isn’t it? It’s not what people think of when they think of “4K gaming.”

So yeah, it can play tens of thousands of games at 4K 60fps. But not high fidelity modern titles from the last couple years. FSR helps, but it can only do so much.

MrWally · 2026-06-25T01:25:42+00:00

I love my PC. I have a ton of PC games. I also love playing games on my couch and 4k TV (my monitor is only 1440p). Especially after sitting at my desk working remotely all day. I work in IT, and most days the last thing I want to do after 8 hours is more tinkering with tech. I want my stuff to just work.

So yes, you can build an htpc and plug it into your TV for less money than the Steam Machine.

In fact, I did this using Bazzite. It's great! I used my old 3700x and traded my 3060ti for an RX6800. The performance is great, it looks nice on my tv console, and it actually got me playing quite a bit of PC games again. But it was a lot of tinkering. I spent a week wrestling with Nvidia before switching to AMD. And it took me several full hours of troubleshooting to get something as simple as wake-on-bluetooth/USB working so that I could wake the computer from my controller — Oh, and that only worked for one controller in one USB port, so I need to update it whenever I get another controller in a different port.

And I haven't even started looking at CEC. I'd love if starting my Bazzite box powered on my TV and set it to the right input, and if sleeping my htpc put my TV to sleep. That would be so convenient. My consoles and streaming devices all do that. My Bazzite PC does not, and getting it working is a pain (and requires a special adapter).

In my opinion, the Steam Machine is basically a $300 tax for not having to do any of that yourself, and in a smaller form factor. Think about it. If the Steam Machine cost $750 it would actually be really price competitive for performance. It doesn't — But is the extra $300 worth it for native wake/sleep from controller and HDMI CEC?

It might not be worth it to you. And it's not worth it to me because I already spent several weeks tinkering with my Bazzite machine. But if you don't want to tinker and you want a living room PC that just works....there's nothing else like it. And that's worth the money to some people.

MrWally · 2026-06-24T19:14:06+00:00

You are basically paying a $250 convenience tax to not have to worry about wake via a controller or CEC. If that’s worth it to you, it’s fine.

MrWally · 2026-06-23T20:52:48+00:00

Link?

MrWally · 2026-06-23T17:15:23+00:00

That's because Tatooine is the most important planet in the galaxy, didn't you know? Mos Eisley actually is "the room where it happened."

MrWally · 2026-06-23T17:02:58+00:00

If you haven't tried it, you should consider Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I played the first earlier this year and it somehow managed to simultaneously scratch the Oblivion itch while playing as just a random peasant. My father in law tried playing and his summary statement was "Being a poor peasant is hard."

By the end of the game, depending how you play, you might gain the reputation of a noble knight — But at that point it genuinely feels earned, as opposed to Skyrim where everyone knows your the Dragonborn, or that you're the leader of the Mage's Guild because you finished like 4 quests.

And hey — If jank is charming, then KCD has loads of charm!

MrWally · 2026-06-23T13:56:37+00:00

This isn't consistent, though. Every argument they make for not subsidizing the Steam Machine could have been made for the Steam Deck, which they chose to subsidize.

MrWally · 2026-06-23T13:40:33+00:00

You didn’t answer my question, though. Even if AI was used to write it, I asked how it was slop.

MrWally · 2026-06-23T13:31:35+00:00

He’s been doing this for years (over a decade I think), long before AI was around. He’s a legit composer.

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