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mike_tysonon The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

I miss the kind of small, polished games we had on the GBA, DS and PSP.

Mobile gaming is just adware-filled games, while Steam is so flooded with releases that finding these games feels accidental.

There’s a gap in the market for a platform focused purely on small, high-quality games that max out at around 5-6 hours and which have the polish of a big studio.

mike_tysonon I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

two great films in PNG are joe leahy's neighbours and black harvest

really excellent insight into society and values there as it meets capitalism

mike_tysonon CSS Curiosities of the Past

it was frustrating but i preferred it to dealing with stuff like node, tooling, mobile and tablet views, that stuff really burned me out in a way that IE 6 never did.

mike_tysonon CSS Curiosities of the Past

miss those days.

i was seen as a genius at work for understanding quirks mode and how JScript differed from javascript/ecmascript

mike_tysonon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

this is like if Satan released an AI app that ran on your phone 24/7

mike_tysonon Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

this is really great.

Bills typo-filled rant followed by his minions passive-aggressively trying to pass the problem down.

it's reminds me of those Dilbert strips.

mike_tysonon 2026 Hugo Awards

these look like the books you see on goodreads choice awards

for some reason, i find that very off putting

mike_tysonon Tell HN: LLMs Are Manipulative

well the risk is in feeding these natural biases i guess.

if someone is asking a question to an LLM, i think it's most neutral to assume they don't know the answer rather than framing the answer according to their perceived biases and interests.

mike_tysonon Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig cartridge

> "However, a factory reset essentially bricked their Switch 2, as it no longer allowed signing into any Nintendo Account. "

"you will own nothing and be happy"

the amount of people who defend Nintendo on this kind of stuff is surprising

i have become increasingly disdainful of the consumer mindset

mike_tysonon Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users

wowzers, gonna need to buy the new iphone pro so i can use Apple Intelligence to generate those delightful new genmojis

mike_tysonon I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

part of the problem is saturation in the job market.

higher education, even job experience is no longer considered a sufficient barrier to entry.

reminds me when the guy who wrote homebrew failed the apple interview. if i recall.

ironic because they use brew so much internally.

mike_tysonon First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

Interesting to see hardly any comments on the 2hr battery life.

I think any other company would get roasted on that.