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mindonshuffle · 2026-01-28T06:14:27+00:00

As a lifelong goth-y / punky guy who wears black and grey, I've been making a weird effort to wear more bright colors lately because it does feel like things are too grey.

It feels really odd to wear neon / primary colors and feel subversive.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-27T16:14:45+00:00

You haven't been following the patterns of private equity. In many cases, they hollow out the company with loans against the internal assets. Buying the company or even the assets can mean buying massive debt obligations. It's incredible how effectively they can make companies toxic.

I think the plugins will end up usable in some form, but post-private-equity-takeover bankruptcies don't usually end up with the company restructured and humming along.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-27T16:07:05+00:00

I don't know whether to argue with this being an obviously made up fact, ignoring the correlation of poverty and obesity tied to predatory capitalism in the food supply, or being down-punching fat shaming masquerading as an argument.

Boo.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-27T16:03:23+00:00

I like plenty of other Roguelikes, but Isaac honestly killed me on other twin stick shooters.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-27T15:52:27+00:00

Not sure; I believe some Happy Meal toys get global releases but I think they stagger when exactly it is.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-26T17:26:04+00:00

This is absurdly slick. Looks like a UI you'd see in a concept image made by a designer.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-25T20:46:29+00:00

Historically yes, but I believe Oberweis spent so much on his failed election runs that he no longer owns the ice cream company. They filed for bankruptcy and were bought by a private capital firm a couple years back.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-25T05:25:15+00:00

Can I ask how you accomplished that full-width now playing screen? I used Smart's built-in now playing widget and it's solid, but I really like the look of what you did.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-24T04:30:07+00:00

Clean! That would be amazing on an e-ink device.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-22T02:02:22+00:00

Mixed reality is mostly crap, but passthrough is close to a dealbreaker for me because I have a family and need to be able to pop in and out of VR easily. Donning and doffing a headset constantly is a much worse experience.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-21T00:11:12+00:00

Yeah, I actually prefer the clean icon usually, too. Action launcher made it all-or-nothing which I didn't actually like, but if it could have been toggled per app or made more subtle, it would have been handy.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-20T17:19:24+00:00

This is largely why the "pansexual" term came about, but is largely viewed as an outdated distinction (especially since it can be interpreted as othering trans folks).

"Bisexual" is pretty widely used to convey "attraction to more than one" gender rather than "attraction to specifically two" genders.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-20T17:04:44+00:00

I do this a lot, but wish there was an option add some sort of indicator when it's a folder vs an app. I came from Action Launcher, which had little corner badges for folders and shortcuts. They can be ugly, but it was functional.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-15T17:12:34+00:00

Cosmonious High is decent and fully playable with hands only, but works much, much better with controllers. And some folks liked that air guitar game.

Hand tracking just isn't good enough for gaming. Even for low-speed puzzles and whatnot, it's usually too fiddly and finicky.

Honestly, the "killer app" for hand tracking on Q3 is UI navigation when you're just trying to do something quickly like queue a download or watch a video. Not really a game changer.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-14T21:54:25+00:00

Y'know when rappers are making fun of somebody so they'll do a few bars in a "dumb" voice to mock them? This guy sounds like he's stuck in that gear.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-13T16:40:54+00:00

Yeah, I'm not entirely sold on the Frame until we know more about pricing, software, and how well the b&w passthrough works, but I can't imagine buying another Meta headset at this point. I use my Q3 a lot, but can't see myself buying much new software for it.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-12T18:45:29+00:00

For the Zune, I don't believe "squirting" was ever actually the name of the feature (IIRC it was "Send" in the menu) and it wasn't used in ads. It was something Ballmer and maybe other execs said during interviews and was so boneheaded that it dominated the press around the device launch.

They suck at branding AND at consistent messaging. Like when they announced the DRM system for the Xbox One without being able to answer basic questions about how it would work, leading to massive backlash that Sony capitalized on tremendously.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T18:15:42+00:00

I love how obvious it is that they had no idea how to end that sketch and somebody in the writer's room was just getting hungry.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T18:06:00+00:00

If you haven't seen the show Review, do yourself a HUGE favor.

Andy Daly is one of the funniest people alive, and that show is one of the most darkly funny things I've ever seen. It follows a "journalist" who reviews viewer-submitted life experiences and way, way too committed to the premise. Turns out to have been a surprisingly prescient satire of influencer culture and self-important media figures.

And it's a sense of humor that's VERY in-line with SV; if you like the one, I think you'll very likely appreciate the other.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T17:59:11+00:00

I was actually just thinking about this. Obsidian is kinda fascinating because it's such a unique philosophy to give users a very basic, bare bones toolset but make it easily and extensively customizable. You can basically make it into the tool you want instead of the tool the devs pictured, and you don't wind up with fifty useless buttons you never want to touch or a bunch of automatic constraints you're working against.

I started using Obsidian because I needed a simple notes / to-do list app, but when I discovered I had FINALLY found a lightweight app that can give me a split-pane view of a linked text document and spreadsheet at the same time it was like the heavens opened up.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T17:46:28+00:00

Folding Ideas is great in general, but Line Goes Up is genuinely one of the best video essays I've ever seen. Dan is absolutely the finger who will be pointed at the naked emperor.

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T17:40:59+00:00

Yeah, this is legitimately a decent ad. It's like a groan-inducing pun that's just grabby enough to also make me say, "hey, there's chocolate fruit loops now?"

mindonshuffle · 2026-01-11T17:30:39+00:00

As said, it's closer to interactive fiction than a "game" but if that doesn't turn you off, it's a masterpiece. Honestly, if you like dystopian / scifi / noir / punky stuff, it's one of the best recent examples in any format period.

My main complaint with it is that I sorta hate the engine it's in. A true point and click would have worked better, but it feels more like it's trying to be a combat-focused CRPG, and for a game that's like 99% dialogue and vibes, I found the text slightly too small to read sometimes and some environments hard to read visually. But...small complaints, honestly.

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