David Caulton

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Part of the UX tax is polygons. Eg start up time. The rest is just that the core audience doesn’t demand a great UX, so the competition hasn’t been about UX. It’s been ps vs Xbox graphics.

If someone made a better core game console with great UX AND a great catalog and polygons, it might win?

Nintendo is another case study. They didn’t follow us into the performance wars and just stuck to amazing game making. They have a better ux.

True. But Xbox has mostly been eroded by PlayStation.

I think the number of console gamers has been pretty constant over the years (and small). Meanwhile mobile gaming is for everyone.

Xbox is trying to slowly abandon the console since they’re losing anyway. Goal is to become a studio.

Good observation (Xbox alumni here). But gamers preferred polygons over convenience - so far. So these became little supercomputers with complex OS’s and online svcs . thus long boot times and huge software and service loads.

It has niched them to only core gamers willing to endure all this.

Oh if what you want to do is play TikTok videos use TikTok by all means! But if you want to play hard core games you have to deal with a console.

For casual games, phone or tablet.

Matt’s point isn’t that Xbox will view TikTok videos, it’s that what’s valuable is its content and games.

Game consoles always had to go through an extensive boot up process and we’re able to have lots of hurdles. The user has to jump through because they were the only ways to get to the games.

I was surprised that when satya took over and board was pushing for enterprise focus they didn’t spin Xbox off. But Terry had made Xbox hopelessly dependent on Windows as on OS and who wants a console that’s dependent on Microsoft for its OS?

Even more shocked by the doubling down eg blizzard.

Voyage of the Valkyrie - Wikipedia

This is the game!

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Also, there was a game for the pre-sound-card trs-80 that used this as a feature: you put an am radio next to the computer and they modulated the cpu to make “music” and sound effects.

I had a TRS 80 model one that I took to the dorm in college. When I had it on, nobody on my entire floor could watch TV.

Also, the MSN butterfly!

I call shenanigans! Clippy is unrelated to Windows XP!

Was just in Central Europe. HUGE amount of caping by people in all demographics.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

The goal isn’t to win, it’s to cost comedy in money and time.

Sometimes you just have to seize the factors of production.

Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife Duwayne Baugh is his wife’s prime caregiver as she battles a rare and aggressive cancer. But a years-old gun charge has the legal permanent resident in ICE detention, facing deportation to a country h...

“As I write, my head is pounding from the cancer that is eating my skull. I am in extreme pain and have been for quite some time. Duwayne is all I have."

Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/d...

I’m on your side but we need to fact check better than maga does.

They are shutting down the legacy in Indiana but not paying off all the workers.

It’s like a reverse Michael Jackson.

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This guy will now decide which jokes are appropriate.

Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT IS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY WITH A SICK WARPED RADICAL MIND, KILLING SMALL BUSINESSES WITH CRAZY TARIFFS, TAKING HEALTH CARE FROM CHILDREN, PARDONING J6 THUGS, SENDING THE "PRIVATE ARMY" TO ARREST GRANDMA, WRECKING OUR BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT, DEFUNDING OUR SCHOOLS, AND DESTABILIZING LONG-STANDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN RECENT WEEKS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY LABOR DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA! — GCN

Happy Labor Day to all including the scum. I’m glad at least one politician sounds as mad as we are.

Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)

h/t @joshuajfriedman.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s a remake of an even better film starring Dudley Moore and Peter cook.

She died trying to kill a congressperson for Trump.

The memes are endlessly entertaining.

The Republican Party is dead.