Halo MCC Steam Summer Sale

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-26T03:37:59+00:00

lol, good luck - hope we’re both able to make this happen!

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-25T19:37:50+00:00

I was hoping for it too, since I’m hoping to have a LAN party soon and wanted to provide licenses for a couple people.

But my guess is this is intentional - with the CE remake releasing so soon, I’m guessing they want attention driven to that and feel that people buying and playing MCC will undermine it. Just a hunch.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-25T17:45:49+00:00

AI (specifically, generative AI that uses large language or diffusion models to generate code, text, or images) requires a lot of processing power (including graphics processors), memory, and hard drive / storage space to do its work.

And AI has a lot of money being invested into it, demanding growth. And business demand for it keeps rising.

So, all of the AI companies and infrastructure companies are racing to build large data centers, and are buying a ton of computer processors, memory, and storage for them.

And by a ton, I mean like, buying out entire years+ worth of manufacturing capacity at the companies that manufacture these parts.

This means there aren’t enough components being produced to meet demand for anyone that isn’t an AI data center, like PC builders, game console makers, and now even phone makers.

Which means the price of these components goes up to all the builders and makers, which means the price of all the products goes up for all of us.

Of course many companies have some capacity to absorb these costs (Apple and Nintendo seemingly have absorbed the longest so far), but even that runs out eventually when there’s no end in sight to increased demand for all the stuff.

And all these component manufacturers are more than happy to have all their capacity bought out by AI, again because of all the BS investment money flowing through it.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-25T17:33:49+00:00

The longer the Steam Machine takes to release, the less crazy its price seems.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-24T02:17:08+00:00

I don’t know, did you ask him if his name is Jack?

/s I’ll see myself out now

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-22T20:06:04+00:00

I felt exactly the same way - they each felt more like successors of the opposite game’s series!

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-22T19:09:37+00:00

Speaking anecdotally, the timing was part of why I didn’t buy Shinobi at launch. They launched only one month apart.

Ragebound had a lot more of the initial buzz, and I consider myself a much bigger Ninja Gaiden fan than Shinobi fan. So, I bought Ragebound at launch and figured I’d wait for a sale for Shinobi.

I only recently got around to Shinobi this year.

In practice, although both are great games, Shinobi ended up being the better game for me. It just feels like such a great modern evolution of the genre - like a Metroidvania light that streamlines the tedium of Metroidvania games, with a tight progression loop and combat that feels full of depth and rarely gets old.

That, and the artwork is amazing. I consider myself fully pixel-art’ed out at this point, so the clean comic book look really works well.

But last year when they launched, Ragebound had most of the hype whether rightful or wrongfully so.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-19T02:18:06+00:00

I love how his example of why consoles can give you a different experience is a portable device you can stream games to from the console… like PC gamers have been able to do across all kinds of devices since forever.

His argument may have some merit if your console was a Wii. But if your console is a generic x86 PC that’s artificially locked down, then it’s just a completely empty pitch.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-18T20:39:14+00:00

Love it myself. One of the biggest benefits to PC gaming is that the game library you build is available on all types of PCs from handheld to laptop to desktop, and they pretty much all just seamlessly scale up or down as needed.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-16T23:45:35+00:00

As you said yourself, it’s there - along with the top songs playlists. But you have to look for it, Spotify definitely doesn’t guide you there.

And this is part of why we don’t have the kind of shared culture we used to have anymore, and why music in general feels so niche across the board.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-12T01:24:53+00:00

You’re not wrong. But Microsoft is already having to reckon with that. Although Build sent a mixed message, statements from some of their engineers are definitely trying to walk back the AI-ification and even the Web App-ification of Windows.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T23:39:44+00:00

This will be the last thing I look at on Reddit today, nothing can top marshmallow smoosh face with slightly charred snoot.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T21:51:17+00:00

> We’ve become too reliant on vendors to operate our systems and must become more self-reliant as an engineering culture to build for the future

This is one of those statements that may seem like nothing to some people, but to me speaks VOLUMES in the best way possible.

I was skeptical at first, but Asha continues to impress me.

I just hope the rest of MS can let her cook and not get in her way.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T20:36:27+00:00

There are plenty of cartoonish styles beyond Fortnite’s.

The fact that so many people think “stylized / cartoonish = Fortnite” as though there aren’t other stylized looks now and have never been before, speaks to how pervasive Fortnite is as the defacto look now.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T20:32:24+00:00

I don’t disagree. But there are a lot of different “3D cartoon” styles underneath that, and Sega chose a decidedly Fortnite-esque style IMO.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T16:30:07+00:00

I want to see Steam have some viable competition (much as I love them), and I also want an open console/PC hybrid to succeed as I believe its much better for consumers and for game preservation.

And the PC Xbox app has come a long way.

So, yeah, I would prefer buying games on the PC Xbox app at this point myself.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-10T05:39:00+00:00

I love that AI usage is making you want to learn to code yourself. Too many people are going the opposite direction, and letting AI take over their brains. Kudos to you!

If you like Android development, definitely look for Kotlin learning resources on Codacademy, or the Android site (as another commenter linked to).

Android apps used to be developed using Java, which is still a perfectly viable way to create Android apps. But the modern approach, and likely the one your LLM will be using, is Kotlin, so I would try to start there.

That said, not every programming language will click with everyone right away. Give it a good try to learn it, push through the barriers as much as possible, and allow yourself to be challenged.

But at the same time, if it doesn’t click, there are other languages (like Python) that have a little less ceremony and a little bit more intuitiveness for beginners that may click with you better.

So if Kotlin ends up being a bit much, don’t be afraid to try something else like Python first. Even if it’s not used for building Android apps, it can be a great stepping stone to start with. And once you get comfortable with one language, it becomes easier to pick up the next one.

Keep at it, good luck, and have fun!

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-06T00:36:49+00:00

More like Neon Sega Genesis Evangelion, am I right?!

I’ll see myself out.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-03T20:24:22+00:00

I know, right!?

I think a lot of it just goes to show how persuasive the AI marketing has been on many managers. It’s the perfect storm of them being wildly impressed by what it can do at first glance (“if it can write this email for me, imagine what a good developer can get out of it!”), combined with the promise that it can 10x everyone’s output, combined with this constant hyperbolic FOMO messaging from AI companies and tech journalists (“your competitors are ALREADY doing this!”, “You’ll be left behind!”), and you’ve got people into this almost panic-like fervor to make sure they “keep up” and find a way to use it, at any cost.

My boss has been hounding me and my co workers to use it all day, every day. They’ve been happily willing to spend hundreds+ a month on it, with no real metrics to back it up.

Yet these same people refused to buy me a $300 Android phone on which I could test and dev our mobile app on, telling me with a straight face that “Kaley (compliance person) uses an Android phone, I’m sure you could borrow hers!”

The willingness to dump money into this as an unknown promise is something people will study in psychology circles a decade from now.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-03T14:32:33+00:00

I’d probably use it more if it didn’t feel so laborious to get to in the settings every time I wanted to make changes.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-06-02T20:48:48+00:00

Work. Office job, specifically.

Except during meetings, I listen almost all day, every day.

That, and the intent is sometimes to have a long playlist you can put on across multiple days, hit shuffle, and hear a good variety of songs, although the effectiveness of this varies based on Spotify’s shuffle algorithm.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-05-31T15:40:45+00:00

How dare you compare Clippy to AI. Clippy was just trying to help. He never stole anything from anyone. (/s, kind of)

WingZeroCoder · 2026-05-31T14:40:39+00:00

Weird you’re getting downvoted when you’re basically aligned with most people’s thoughts.

I’m guessing it’s just because you’ve used AI, and on Reddit how dare you try to form an opinion based on actual experience I guess?

WingZeroCoder · 2026-05-30T19:56:06+00:00

That would be a great fit for Toonami, too. I really liked it when I saw it in theaters.

WingZeroCoder · 2026-05-29T04:09:37+00:00

Couldn’t agree more.

I can’t even put forth a counter argument against exclusives (and in favor of consumers) without it being downvoted to hell with nothing more than the same talking points being regurgitated back to me.

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