LoFi-Enchilada

Spencer went out to say that they lost the most important generation to lose (XBOX One gen, not the current one. Corrected thanks to @Boldizzle ), and that they were going back to the drawing board to turn things around. They just hiked up the prices of Game Pass and the XBOX Series X. They also basically confirmed that there won’t be any mid-gen “pro” model and that they expect the next gen to come in 2028. And now their plan to buy the industry is also failing.

So what’s next? I doubt they have a queue of heavy hitting first party exclusives in the oven to maintain them until 2028. I’m almost certain that they expected to buy themselves some time by acquiring studios and turning their IPs into system-seller XBOX exclusives.

I like the beach a lot, but I’ve never been able to feel truly relaxed in one as there’s always more people around and with more people more often than not comes shouting, laughing, loud music, etc. I think I associate the beach with being active and joyful, than being in zen-mode.

My idea of relaxation would be at my house, reading my books and magazines on my iPad or playing a solo TTRPG with an ice-cold carajillo or rompope cup in hand, with Portishead, Massive Attack or Nortec Collective playing in the background, during those late summer/early-mid fall months here in Mexico City in which you can hang in the garden, balcony or whatever, and the weather is just warm enough to make you feel cozy, while a breeze of fresh cold air hits you now and then, feeling the best of both worlds.

For me it was RESIDENT EVIL: Code Veronica.

My dad bought a Dreamcast in early 2001. I was 7 years old and long story short, he also bought Code Veronica and Maken X which both were the fuel of my nightmares back then. My English proficiency was barely enough to understand the menus and such, but I couldn’t follow the story. I could never get past the first cabin and all I remembered were the burning, pale zombies, twitching on the ground.

Years later in my teens, I bought it when it was released for PS3 and I couldn’t get past the first half hour of gameplay due to extreme boredom. I thought it took itself too seriously and was super mediocre.

Now, at almost 30, I downloaded it for my iPad and I’m having a blast. It’s not serious or boring AT ALL… all the contrary; it’s the goofiest, corniest RE game I’ve ever played and that’s saying a lot considering "Master of Unlocking”, “Jill Sandwich” and “boulder punching Chris” are a thing. Granted, it has a ton of annoying backtracking, but once you get to the dialogue bits, the cringyness makes all the backtracking worth it.

@Books

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It’s super easy and comfortable, actually. The only thing that might bother me a little is iPadOS, which has been a little buggy lately. Otherwise, 13 inches of screen and storage isn’t an issue at all.

The screen is not small IMO. If it is for you, you can hook it up to an external display via USB-C to USB-C/HDMI or wirelessly via Airplay and basically turn it into a laptop/desktop with all the bells and whistles like external sound cards, keyboards, mice, external displays, MIDI instruments, microphones, HDDs/SSDs, etc.

I went for the 256 GB model which always has 100+GB of free storage because I always archive the finished projects onto either cloud or my own server, and delete them from my PC/iPad. Storage has never been an issue for me for as long as I can remember, but the iPads go up to 2 TB of internal memory.

I think that my only frustration with this thing is that it has the same hardware as the iMac/MacBook, and only because of the OS I can’t install desktop programs on it. In your case, what part of a full-blown OS would you miss if you were to use an iPad to edit photos?

iPad Pro.

First Apple product I’ve purchased since the 2005 iPod Video. It does live to its hype for publicists/designers: Ridiculously powerful/optimized device for its form factor, P3 color calibrated 120Hz display covered by laminated glass, and with the support of software like Nomad Sculpt, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher, Procreate, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro.

I think the only thing we’re missing is a hard-surface modeling package like Blender, and actually usable IDEs like JetBrains Rider, but this thing which is the size and weight of a magazine is already an amazing professional toolbox.

That’s exactly what I’m trying to say.

This all started because OP thanked God for this space to replace r/piracy, now that the subreddit is a meme cesspool, and a dude came to claim “people like him are going to make Reddit win”.

These people don’t realize we are the 0.01% of Reddit’s users, and two pathetic days of “blackout”, a week of memes and a couple of rogue mods isn’t this brave, heroic, mass-scale social movement that will suddenly kill Reddit overnight. Reddit will keep growing both in users and financially, and it’ll need years of hundreds of thousands of people ditching the site and replacing it with something else PERMANENTLY, for them to even feel a hit.

So regarding people’s comments about Reddit already being doomed and an inch away from disappearing because some of us left, the reality is that it’s exactly the opposite. They don’t need us to “win” which for them is to keep growing.

Right.

So according to your detailed timeline, when is Reddit going to see a decline in new users and total monthly users, because it has only went up and up with no signs of stopping. Is that part of being on the edge of their grave, or just an unexplainable anomaly?

Also, neither TikTok or Instagram are discussion forums. TikTok is a short-video platform and instagram is a photo sharing platform. Your comparison is like saying McDonald’s outcompeted Ticketmaster.

You tried to question Facebook being fine and I just shared cold numbers with you, and now you’re trying to question “who am I want to be”?

Don’t beat around the bush: neither Facebook and Reddit need you or your special hipster friends to thrive. You can argue that now they’re both trash websites all you want, and that this is the new oasis, but that’s your point of view out of the 1.660 billion active users that visit Reddit each month, and growing.

And also, you made that heroic-sounding comment criticizing “group mentalities” and then proceed to talk in plural about how “we” ended up here. The joke tells itself. 🥹

“Key content creators” like who, specifically?

I’ve seen this argument and I still don’t understand it. I might be wrong but do people actually believe the site was all shinny and interesting because of a group of superstar redditors who posted all the good stuff?

Reddit has 1.660 billion monthly active users. Sure, most of them just lurk around, but everyone is replaceable: mods, “content creators”, you name it. One goes away, and 100 more are in line waiting for their chance.

Yeah, that’s super hip and all, but Facebook is still valued at 711.96 BILLION dollars, and growing. Just to put that into perspective, Reddit is valued at 2% of that…

As you can see, all the interesting ppl you know leaving the platform didn’t make anything to them as a company, and it’s exactly what is going to happen with Reddit as most people don’t even care about the API thing. The official app has 100+ million downloads vs Sync, for example, which has 1+ million downloads on the Play Store (and I’m sure that on the iOS side with Apollo it’s exactly the same if download data was public). Thousands of new adopters will keep arriving every single day, new communities will be created. Next thing you know, your grandma hangs around in knitting subreddits.

As I’ve said, corpos will win at the end of the day, unless they get the middle finger from everyone, not just the 1% of its community.

It’s incredibly childish to asume a bunch of John Oliver memes are going to make Reddit “lose”. They’ll “win” no matter what.

Once people start getting tired of the John Oliver meme, they’ll either just stop and leave Reddit, or continue to use it normally. Mark my words: in 2 months, go and click the profiles of everyone memeing around with the Oliver stuff, and most of them will have normal activity on Reddit as if nothing had happened. And subs that continue with the memes are just going to be abandoned while replacement subs will surface and get bigger than the originals.

The only way Reddit is going to feel a hit is if hundreds of thousands people edit their entire comment and post history, delete their accounts, and never visit the site again. But then again, Facebook had a much, MUCH worse situation and they’re still fine.

Well, imagine private trackers being like subreddits or magazines in the Fediverse. There are private torrent communities that only share TTRPG books, files for FVX/Motion Graphics, Art/Photography books, Magazines from a certain era, STL files for 3D printing, etc. And all of these trackers have very strict filters for both posters and visitors so the quality of the content is top-notch.

In these trackers, there is stuff that you won’t find elsewhere, period. Talking from experience… Good luck finding scans of Spanish tech/video game magazines from the 90s/00s, or copyrighted stuff like precise 3D models of Nintendo Switch’s Joycon shells, out in the common web.

Yeah, I’m also a recent iPad Pro user. Last Apple product I bought was an iPod Video back in 2005.

Apple’s Keychain is just like BitWarden but is obviously much, much better integrated than BitWarden on an iDevice. It also has some neat options to suggest you different kinds of secure-passwords and it alerts you when one of them has been leaked. As far as it being secure, I’m know nothing about data security, but all the mumbojumbo on their tech specs sounds secure enough to me.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/keychain-data-protection-secb0694df1a/web

“See, to me that speaks to a lack of awareness.” and now "To me this says you’re intentionally looking for something to get offended about.”

Nice way of going around life just making wild assumptions about everything so your imagination carving for drama gets pleased, but no one is getting remotely offended. Plus you’re wrong, ask any Spanish speaking person where Cali is and they’ll say Colombia.

Illuminate me with your logic then… If I say I’m from Mexico, am I from New Mexico USA since it’s much more recognizable in the broader “English and Spanish speaking culture”? Or am I from Mexico City since it has more residents?

But all righty then, let’s just inherit the Reddit way and dismiss this entire thread (buncho’ offended foreigners looking to get offended, pshh…), and just default every conversation, place, name, and topic to the USA. 👍

Cali is the actual name of the Colombian city. "Cali” is, as @jcb2016_, said, just a ghetto way of saying “California”.

In any case, the lack of awareness comes from whoever defaults everything to the USA.

I think people need to cut the bullshit and tell it how it is:

• This whole fediverse thing ISN’T user friendly nor it is as practical as the main community platforms out there. This isn’t a substitute for Reddit.
• Content and interaction is lacking, but it’s up to us to change that.
• The communities are VERY fragmented. Between instances, some instances using exclusively microblogs, others using microblogs and threads… some magazines having their individual rules on which content should be microblogged and what should be threaded, duplicated communities across instances… it’s all a mess right now.

And after all, there’s something here worth building and following. Right now it’s underwhelming but who knows… maybe in a decade Jenny will use Kbin to write a quick rant about boba tea, and have other thousands of non-techies engaging with her.