Carighan Maconar

Yeah same, also I don’t usually need a year to think that. The next day often works. 😅

And it s hows… Excel. 🤦

That’s kinda what I meant with “feels intentional”. Some manager went “Yeah fuck QA for consumer products, put those 50 people to work on business/AI stuff instead, we make fuck all money from consumers anyways”.

NVidia is shitting the bed so hard it’s just ridiculous. It feels almost intentional, like we’re starting to leave the area of Hanlon’s razor. 😂

Though, remains to be seen what AMD cooks up in this race to the bottom…

I miss mercurial and it’s far more sensical flags and commands…

I mean it’s a Jeep. You don’t buy that if you don’t want a limp car, anyways. :P

VOLKSwagen!

Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!

I hate that its Kickstarter though.

Yeah, he sells it really well. “Stick it to the man, down with Amazon”. Sorry, but you’re one of the biggest authors around, you do not need some common schmuck barely making it through their monthly fees to carry your business risk. You can have ~any publisher you want in the world, and trivially have them release that book not on Amazon if you wanted to.

And that’s sadly the same in board gaming Kickstarters. Sure, the tiny mom&pop games that could never happen outside of Kickstarter exist. But the vast majority is big names and publishers using it to offload their business risk onto the consumer so they can have 0% risk 100% reward.

If the “I just want to get back at Amazon”-statement had truth behind it, the book would be sold independently. But not kickstartered. Shoulder the business cost in creating the product, then make the profit selling it.