Though the main reason I would say that debt service cost is a much bigger factor for people's confidence is due to interest rates post COVID going from near 0 to around pre 2008 levels to accompany that increased debt.

There was a brief pause in the growth of consumer debt at the start due to various relief measures, but then it drastically increased through most of the pandemic period and continued to increase substantially afterwards.

It's also possible that growing consumer debt incurred through the pandemic and the increased cost of servicing that debt each month has captured any of the nominal gains in wages so that people have the same nominal disposable income but nominal prices are up.

The only goal that would make sense here is to make economy uncomfortable enough to cause people to be willing to pay significantly more to go premium economy or business class.

I really think LLM companies should be banned from having their chatbots use personal pronouns or take on human personas.

It's basically fraud and tricks people into not seeing these systems for what they are.

Any actual value these systems could have wouldn't be affected by it.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

I never considered that household income could include roommates.

Technically average household income increases when people make too little money to live alone.

Hitman on PSVR2 is actually really good.

Still some jank, but much better than the previous attempts.

The environments look amazing and exploring the maps to figure out all of the tricks feels great.

This has been a long slow transition, but they've finally hit the "we don't even pretend to care what our employees think anymore" stage.

All of the big Internet companies are now just like IBM.

All of the things that allowed them to innovate internally are gone.

No matter how much pay they offer none of their employees will take even the smallest risk required to innovate now.

It's the 11th anniversary of the Global Game Jam where we came up with Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

The first manual code of 241 is a reference to January 24th.

Tech CEOs really hate the more progressive culture their companies had when they were actually innovating and making good products.

They're desperate to double down on a new culture where everyone is miserable, they can't accomplish anything and they're just coasting on prior success.

It's still wild to me that It Takes Two combined some of the best co-op gameplay with possibly the most uncomfortable story and characters of any game ever.

My parents taught me to read with a set of Gremlins books that had a record that you could read along to.

Still kind of wild to think about, as Gremlins isn't what I'd give to a 3 year old.

So far my bluesky feed is really reminding me of what my Twitter feed looked like pre-2022.