AMD now has “Max” chips and Dell now has “Pro” and “Max” laptops.

Everyone copying Apple.

“…whenever we have 8K TVs and content.”

The TVs exist, but there won’t be content for years and years. Companies barely stream usable 4K right now.

One of the presenters said:

“It’s clear AI is the new electricity.”

Hard pass.

Do you recall the platform(s)?

Every car company has a financial incentive to, every year, say it’s a “couple years off” to keep investors intrigued.

Back when we all were a little hoodwinked by elon and didn’t know he was a complete, lying asshole, he said around 2014 or so it’d take just a couple of years. Then another couple. Then another couple.

I don’t really have faith it’ll ever be there in our lifetimes in a way that’s I’d trust.

We already have Dragon Quest Builders.

I mean, he will on an alt.

Animal Well is also my game of the year.

No other game was more interesting and exciting when you found something new. Or solved a puzzle.

While on the surface it’s a simple Metroid style game, once you start noticing things it becomes so intriguing. I have a document on my iPad full of handwritten notes and maps. It felt so novel to return to a feeling of the late 80s where paper maps and notes were king.

While there were a lot of great games last year, I put so much more brainpower into Animal Well, and it felt so good to do so.

Great, new format wars. This time with expensive speaker setups!

Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at 60fps. That’s all I ask.

Bala-tro, not Ba-lottro.

Art design will always trump straight up graphical wizbangs anyway. There’s a reason Tears of the Kingdom is gorgeous and impressive over here running on a potato versus a lot of games that need more horsepower to run.

It’ll be perfect on that!

You’re welcome!

When you die in this game there’s no real penalty other than going back to the last checkpoint. So even if you leveled up or something you keep that, you just might go back a few screens. It’s great!

I don’t use steam too much, but I did get Minishoot Adventures, and it’s excellent.

It’s like if Zelda was a bullet hell. The base difficulty isn’t too hard, but it’s challenging enough. And you get to explore and do dungeons. It’s really fun.

Reminder: don’t buy things from Amazon.

Like, anything.

“But fast shipping!” No. Stop. Most places now have pretty good shipping, often for free if you happen to buy a certain amount. It’s OK if the thing comes in 3-5 days and not tomorrow. You will survive.*

*I know there’s a couple of niche cases where some people do need things quick and Amazon serves that purpose. But 99.999% of things are not that.