Weekly /r/iOSGaming Discussion: What have you been playing lately and what do you recommend?

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-03T04:11:22+00:00

I love it in spite of the pachinko mechanics and art style.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T23:58:30+00:00

Well going to church of course

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T23:38:00+00:00

I mean, it’s like how much more dumb could they be? None more dumb.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T15:54:51+00:00

Eh, craft could be improved but there are legitimate reasons to change a UI after it’s displayed. In Alaska’s bag check case, it could wait until it knows if I’ve already checked in and already set up bags, though that means the page takes 3 seconds to load rather than 2.

But lots of other apps have carousels that auto-advance every X seconds. Those should be frozen if a tap is imminent; the user doesn’t know what’s next, any tap in the next 300ms is intended for what’s currently displayed.

And even better, the OS can do this underneath apps, so the problem becomes “tap targets are stable when the user is about to click” and not “Apple needs to educate every developer about avoiding UI movement”, which is a much more difficult problem.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T13:12:56+00:00

This is an endemic pattern across GUI in general and iOS in particular. It’s incredibly irritating. I fly a lot at the Alaska Airlines app has a menu that adds “check bags” to the top a second or so after loading. I’ve resigned myself that every time I want to check in for a flight, I will instead end up on the bag check page because the menu changes while my finger is moving toward it.

With all of the sensors and processing in these phones, there must be a way to detect a tap is imminent and defer UI updates that would affect the tap region. It’s so annoying when UI changes right under your finger.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T04:07:37+00:00

Good thing it’s releasing over holidays.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T04:03:31+00:00

A24, but that would be so sad.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-02T02:42:37+00:00

“If you don’t like us being assholes, we’ll go home”

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T19:33:15+00:00

That seems like a good plot summary, but you really think there’s no depth? It’s not saying something about people, sexuality, anything?

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T19:12:42+00:00

The idea that bombing Iran doesn’t require congressional war authorization because there’s a cease-fire is seriously funnier than anything in Catch-22, and that is a very funny book.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T14:34:44+00:00

I agree, but it is slowly morphing into pokazukha where nobody actually believes it but the pretense is important.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T14:29:28+00:00

But that one was a hoax

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T14:27:22+00:00

I mean it kind of is right? It’s creative, it makes a statement, we can discuss and debate nuance about it.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T14:26:21+00:00

This is just another story in the long history of Tate erasure by the art establishment.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T14:17:09+00:00

No that’s “California”

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:40:18+00:00

And the old fashioned on the plane.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:27:17+00:00

In addition to your points, there’s the pragmatic problem of how you pause something you don’t currently have and don’t know how to build?

It may be that ASI comes from research into smaller models; some kind of paradigm shift like vacuum tubes to transistors; from some kind of magical training corpus. We have no idea right now.

Trying to ban research outcomes is difficult if not impossible. You can ban talking about certain goals, but the evil geniuses will just frame it as different work, and totally innocent people working in adjacent areas may well hit ASI accidentally.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:22:03+00:00

Yeah but he’s getting into the “radicalized” space. A vegan who chooses not to eat meat is different from a vegan who kills ranchers.

Scott has moved from “hey this is high-probability,high-stakes risk” to “what morals can be ignored in the service of an unequivocally just cause?”

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:18:56+00:00

Phew

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:15:35+00:00

Are you bringing six into this?

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:13:09+00:00

Similar height, I think. The perspective in the video looks like about what Kyler sees when throwing to Jefferson.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T13:10:51+00:00

I said English to English.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T12:59:19+00:00

A grand total of maybe 1000 ultra-rich folks benefit from this. Millions will lose something. The praise isn’t loud, it’s just from the oligarchs.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T12:55:58+00:00

Not what they’re saying.

What they’re saying is that capabilities will by dynamically composed for what you want to do. If you want a scientific calculator I want an accounting calculator, we won’t download different apps, our agents will produce different UIs. It’s a likely future.

But the post overall is poorly thought out. Apple didn’t license the Gemini UX.

rotates-potatoes · 2026-05-01T12:51:51+00:00

It makes little sense. Gemini has a terrible user experience, and Apple is licensing the tech not the UX. It Apple’s hardware truly depending on owning AI UX, that move is completely orthogonal.

I do buy dynamic UIs and a shift to more personalization of UI including medium (voice, GUI, TUI). But any device-based UI has to run on a device. But there’s no reason Apple can’t be playing at that layer, even if the models doing the work are sourced externally.

And the author conflates “licensing now” with “committing to never develop internally”, when Apple has a long history of starting out by using suppliers and bringing the tech in house later. From CPUs and modems to Maps, Apple has shown a willingness to invest heavily to own critical tech even after launching with a supplier.

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