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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Not having the touchpads is a big downside, but this still fills a huge niche that the others dont. My Xbox elite controller is cool and all, but has neither a gyro nor capacitive joysticks. My dualsense has a gyro, but no capacitive touch so I need to activate it with a button hold or leave it always on.

    The Xbox and PS5 controller also don’t treat the paddles as independent buttons by default, so you need an extra layer of software on PC that allows mapping those buttons to arbitrary inputs. Steam Input can overwrite this sometimes, but it’s very inconsistent on a game + hardware basis. The companion app is a concerning “feature”. Hopefully it’s just marketing trying to make up a fancy phrase for “hardware driver”.




  • I did a project for school a few months ago about how Netflix should branch into online/cloud gaming and how good of a business move it would be.

    I wanted to pick something lazy and absurd that clearly wouldn’t be effective, so that I could make up stats combining two industries my professor was woefully uneducated in.

    Imagine marketing this so poorly that the one person doing academic research on the topic is doing it as a complete joke and isn’t even aware that you actually offer that service. Rofl. Glad this article didn’t come out while that class was still ongoing.












  • Oh sir! Allow me to clear this up for you. These peons, these random floor workers don’t understand things like money my good sir.

    Why it’s the Hospital Admininstrators and Insurance companies that get all the money, not the sick people of course! This allows us to inflate the cost of our goods and services on paper, which in turn we can use to lower our taxable corporate income. And don’t worry - the insurance team makes certain our customers continue to pay while they are outside of and not using the business operations!

    Now we of course don’t charge them the “paper prices” because they too need to turn a profit - and no one can actually afford a $10,000 ambulance ride so we can just pretend to argue back and forth while we both write those all off. A delightfully devious scheme I might add my good sir yes yes!