Notices by atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org), page 10

Apple Vision Pro is a sales flop, production is slashed, and an update ain’t coming next year.

Can we all stop pretending that VR has any big demand beyond gaming? Because beyond the novelty factor, that’s the one good use for VR.

The problem with the Vision Pro is it isn’t a gaming device. Even if it were, gamers aren’t going to pay $3500 for something that doesn’t play their Steam library.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/apple-reportedly-slashes-vision-pro-headset-production-and-cancels-updated-headset-as-sales-tank-in-the-us/

@GreenFire I once thought Trump couldn’t get elected either but he was. Never say never.

Americans, explain this to me: what happens if Trump gets a guilty verdict but is elected President?

Does he still go to jail? Does he pardon himself?

With #WordPress and #Ghost both on the Fediverse via ActivityPub integration, I wonder if #Medium is kicking themselves because they haven’t federated their blogging platform.

I understand they operate a Mastodon server, but I think most people would also prefer to receive their blog posts.

She is still the best Catwoman.

Come on. Look at this smile.

You can’t deny she’s the best Catwoman.

@goatsarah I don’t know that saying.

I saw a double rainbow today.

How wild is it that legendary game developer @burgerbecky (Rebecca Heineman) is on the Fediverse?

Stuff she’s worked on:

• Wasteland
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• Myth II
• The Bard’s Tale
• Bugdom

She’s done amazing things!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/burgerbecky/statuses/112295365287945816

You know what’s sad?

There’s actual evangelical Christians that would welcome a nuclear war between Israel and Iran.

In a weird way, I blame the Ouya for my obsession with PC gaming.

Because, once the Ouya died, the only way to play many of those Ouya games was on PC. And it still is.

Once I realized this, I bought a cheap laptop for $250, hooked it up to my TV with an HDMI cable, and connected a controller to it via Bluetooth.

While this was more expensive and less convenient than an Ouya, at least Steam’s big picture mode made this pill easier to swallow.

It would be neat if someone made a $100 PC running Chimera OS for the purpose of running indie games.

@pfefferle Regarding:

You can now add/remove the capability to use ActivityPub for each User

This is a really cool and a nice feature!

Well, I’ll be. It looks like Threads fixed the image rendering problem with Akkoma.

Quite often on the Fediverse – more often than on other social networks – I find people talking about how things were so much better years ago.

And I’m telling you this is a trap. Don’t fall for it. Yesteryear is not better than now, it just feels that way because it’s over.

Progress exists. It’s important that we all acknowledge how things are better. More importantly, you are alive – enjoy this moment.

God damn. If X (formerly Twitter) starts charging for posting access, I don’t see how it can last for long.

Then again, I’ve said that many times since November 2022—and people still use the app. 🤷♂️

RE: https://indieweb.social/users/tchambers/statuses/112276913353578102

Looks like #Firefish has solidly returned to active development!

You can follow their progress by following @firefish.

@fediversenews

Truth Social ($DJT) lost -18.35% of its valuation today. For the past month, it’s lost -62.55%.

Put in another perspective, if you put $1M into Truth Social a months ago, you’d have $374,500 right now.

A month ago, certain people were telling me that Truth Social was a good investment because of its impressions. Somehow, I doubt those people actually invested any money into Truth Social.

@goatsarah @justinto @emmatonkin @ajlanes And you know what? I think the Fediverse can learn lessons from that. 😉

@goatsarah @justinto @emmatonkin @ajlanes I just think it’s wild that the Amiga and ST were made by American companies, but were not popular in North America.

And in a weird way, Arc is still with us through ARM.

It’s the British platform that somehow survived.

@ajlanes @justinto @goatsarah Yeah, so this will sound surprising coming from me, a PC gamer. For most of the 80s, DOS gaming sucked. This probably doesn’t surprise you but believe me, when you lived in the moment, it was rough.

I didn’t get DOS games because I liked them. I got them because I didn’t have an NES. Don’t get me wrong, when it specifically came to adventure gaming and RPGs, DOS was very good – I loved King’s Quest and Ultima – but if you wanted to play something like Contra or Super Mario Bros., DOS was brutal.

My mom was against an NES because she didn’t want video games to monopolize the living room. So I convinced her to buy a C64 that someone was selling at a garage sale – I told her it would help me with homework. Really, I just wanted a better gaming machine than our 286.