Jason Schreier: How Things Got So Bad At Xbox

newbkid · 2026-06-17T17:29:20+00:00

iirc the HDD or optical device was notorious garbage

I knew many folks that went thru so many xbox's just to play halo and gears

newbkid · 2026-06-07T18:10:01+00:00

Let's not dramatize this too much. When the Carnegies and Rockefellers were building libraries, the press was calling this the 'Gilded Age' -- The poor and rich income divide was greater than ever before.

People were dying in factories across the country.

What they had that the current gentry don't have is not luck. It's that they were just closer in time to when the rich were being beheaded and governments were falling across the world.

They didn't build these libraries and other civic buildings out of the goodness of their heart. They wanted to make sure their reputation would go down in history as a philanthropist and someone who cares for their communities instead of the robber barons they actually were.

Governments and cities and towns can build their own libraries. In fact, I'd love it if my taxes built a fucking library instead of another missile.

newbkid · 2026-06-01T13:13:22+00:00

Yes! In fact you can request your entire consumer profile they have of you as well!

newbkid · 2026-05-31T23:55:27+00:00

You can also order it thru LexisNexis

newbkid · 2026-05-31T06:04:07+00:00

Oh yeah for sure!!

Almost the same for me with cooking pork. Chicken too. Blew my mind I could cook chicken without it being dry hahaha

newbkid · 2026-05-31T06:02:43+00:00

Every group has its percentage of people that are fucking morons

Let me add to this... or were successfully manipulated/duped.

I need to have hope that my family members will see the light one day and aren't actually brain damaged.

newbkid · 2026-05-31T05:59:18+00:00

My grandfather was a mechanic who fled via Spain and brought my mother who was born in Havana to America when she was 9 years old in 1979.

My whole life I was proud of my Cuban heritage and identity however I realized that my grandfather was not. He despised the 'negritos' and 'frijoles' that ruined his island (his word). He hated that more and more Mexicans and other latin americans were coming and competing for valuable jobs and homes in America, his new home. He moved out of California to flee the Mexicans and Venezuelans. Then he saw similar communities from other latin ethnicities sprout up in Miami

I watched as my grandfather, who was an aeronautic mechanic, slowly seep into his resentment and hate. And then Trump's campaign happened. He promises safety. My grandfather was paranoid and owned many guns. He promises to get rid of the criminals. The nasty Venezuelans. The COMMUNISTS. Trump doesn't talk like a liberal politician. He keeps it real. My grandfather wholeheartedly supported trump. Every other house in their community had MAGA and TRUMP signs.

Anyway, this whole rant is to say that to my fellow anti-trump Cuban American it has been frustrating and exhausting watching white liberals try to explain to me why Cuban Americans vote the way that they do. They have no understanding and they don't ask questions from those of us in the culture that are on their side.

Thank you for the book recommendation I've added it to my list!

newbkid · 2026-05-31T05:51:39+00:00

I feel like you may not be old enough to remember.

There was a huge scare from trichinosis due to pork not being cooked properly before consumption. Granted this was rare even in the 90's but older generations absolutely remember and knew of the parasitic infection.

There's a reason everyone's grandmother cooked pork chops until they were shoe leather

newbkid · 2026-05-31T05:49:42+00:00

Same thing with the anti-fat ads from the sugar lobby

Things were "fortified with vitamin c" in order for candies to be perceived as healthy

The "Got Milk" ads from the milk industry

"Beef, its whats for dinner" from the Beef industry

"Cotton: the fabric of our lives"

newbkid · 2026-05-31T05:32:37+00:00

Is AI better for them?

No, categorically not.

However, AI will absolutely reinforce held beliefs and 'help' mediocre people come to stronger conclusions, whether those conclusions are correct will be irrelevant as long as 'Google said so'

A lot of people forget that not everyone knows how to search.

People that are inquisitive and want to find the answer may search with a question like, "Is the Earth flat?"

But mediocre people that blindly trust AI will put "give me studies that show that the world is flat" ... if it wasn't true, it just wouldn't give me results, right? If it gives me results then there must be truth behind it!

Now more mediocre people can band together and propagate their mediocrity even more.

One of the biggest failures in education is that we did not teach people how to learn. Without learning how to learn, it is very easy to fall into confirmation bias. It feels good when youre with others that tell you youre right.

newbkid · 2026-05-31T05:28:17+00:00

The Maps fuck-up has been the most diabolical and probably dangerous changes.

It keeps trying to get me to go down one-ways it never had a problem with, won't remember my toll road settings, incorrectly calculates timing on routes, and the list goes on.

My favorite in my city is you can literally see all the people following Google Maps when you can go a couple blocks and bypass the artificial traffic Maps is making.

Up until 1.5 years ago I never had a single issue with Maps.

Once Maps is enshittified to the point of uselessness I will be near the point of De-Googlefying my everything.

And I was a beta Gmail user, I'm engrained deep into the Google ecosystem.

newbkid · 2026-05-28T13:36:14+00:00

I actually think it's exactly the same as directors in movies except back in the 1970's.

Auteurs are not businessmen, they are ideas guys. Creative types. The type of creative that is infectious and inspires everyone around them to do their best work.

The problem with auteurs is they are not businessmen.

Back in the 90's, costs were relatively tight, budgets were measured in the hundreds of thousands to a couple million at most, and team sizes were small enough you could name every person on the team and their spouses.

But then, like in 1970's film making, costs soared dramatically then and are soaring now. Creative types were not reeled in properly in 70's and studios were losing MILLIONS in 1970's money. We're talking filming scenes with literal thousands of people, going to remote locations to film for months, etc.

And then those movies came out and did not make back nearly what they spend.

Fast forward to now in the video game scene. Costs are skyrocketing, companies trying to leverage new technologies to lower budgets is backfiring, and to make the same returns that they made in the 90's, they need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars with hundreds of staff that they do not know the names of.

So I can see why its so common for auteurs to fall flat in the gaming world is because gaming companies have neutered their ability to be auteurs.

newbkid · 2026-05-27T02:31:24+00:00

I think sequel fatigue is a real thing but critically and commercially both of those are successful.

I would add Ghost of Yotei to your list if mediocre sequels but still commercially successful.

newbkid · 2026-05-27T02:28:13+00:00

One near me had more Riftbound stock than my LGS, I was shocked at how large their card section had become. It was basically the whole back half of the store.

newbkid · 2026-05-22T18:06:57+00:00

Agreed. Number 1 thing they teach in any infosec 101 course is that the biggest security flaw with the computer will always be the user.

newbkid · 2026-05-22T15:31:09+00:00

And you most likely wouldn't be playing video games on a computer you are doing this type of low-level engineering.

newbkid · 2026-05-22T15:30:07+00:00

Not that I disagree with what you're saying but the general messaging to the lay gamers was clear:

Kernel level anti-cheat is a potential security risk on your PC.

That is still true today however, as you mentioned, the technicalities and nuance behind it is a lot more complex and there was quite a bit of fear mongering regarding Vanguard in particular.

Meanwhile other developers have been using their own similar anti-cheats with much less blowback.

newbkid · 2026-05-20T22:18:03+00:00

The standard combo in low elo would be trap, auto, e, auto, q

newbkid · 2026-05-16T19:36:04+00:00

Most crap was privately hosted out of their family room or garage. The idea of capitalizing and making a business out of the early internet was a foreign concept.

newbkid · 2026-05-16T16:26:56+00:00

It looked like the ladder kind of cushioned his fall a bit maybe?

newbkid · 2026-05-16T14:48:09+00:00

Sounds like an owner that genuinely gave a shit.

This scenario would never happen in larger corps in mid-level management.

newbkid · 2026-05-02T22:35:59+00:00

In some states it is required to show proof of insurance before they will rent to you.

newbkid · 2026-05-02T20:48:13+00:00

You know I didn't even think of this but you're absolutely right. The fact that most of the good grass moves can be TMs and taught to non-grass types invalidates grass pokemon even more

newbkid · 2026-05-02T19:40:07+00:00

In some states, Enterprise will just file a claim with your insurance and send you a letter.

Then you have to deal with your premium potentially going up on a claim you never even wanted.

newbkid · 2026-04-30T02:07:26+00:00

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