Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
3d ago
I hope so! But i may concede that Satya is just racist.
Templexious
3d ago
How hard can it be to make Windows 11 run smoothly enough for people to risk their computers and 'upgrade'? Windows 10 was OK...
This would only require ousting Satya and a purge of every manager and new hire in the windows division, firing all the h1bs and rehiring the old microsoft os engineers and QA divisions and an eight-year long purge of the last few years of slopcode.
Note that this post was written shortly after seeing the News so it's likely modestly incoherent, and only given the most basic of editing pass. As always, hopefully there's enough meat for discussion.
Link to article below, but today I was greeted by an IGN article titled:
Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss
That in the same breath IGN and Microsoft feel the need to announce Matt Booty's promotion, is... indicative of how they perceive the public reception of this announcement. Kiwi Farmers are likely feeling vindicated, and potentially mounting despair, as even under the most anti-DEI culture we've had in ages, a man retires and is replaced by a woman, chosen by the venerable Satya Nadella.
Sharma is a former VP of Product and Engineering at Meta and former Instacart COO who is also a board member of The Home Depot. She joined Microsoft in 2024. In her email to Microsoft staff, she wrote, in part: "My first job is simple: understand what makes this work and protect it. That starts with three commitments. First, great games. Everything begins here. We must have great games beloved by players before we do anything. Unforgettable characters, stories that make us feel, innovative game play, and creative excellence. We will empower our studios, invest in iconic franchises, and back bold new ideas. We will take risks. We will enter new categories and markets where we can add real value, grounded in what players care about most. I promoted Matt Booty in honor of this commitment. He understands the craft and the challenges of building great games, has led teams that deliver award-winning work, and has earned the trust of game developers across the industry.
Now, I'm going to ignore all the fluff as it was incredibly well-prepared and likely approved by multiple PR people to have the just-right wording. I am be tempted to ask Satya: What was the point of letting (or directing) the closing of all those existing, profitable studios? You wouldn't need to back these ideas. Xbox has historically been a money-printer and the most present in consumers' minds, the one people would argue on forums and reddit and making youtube videos for days defending your honor? Such that even fanboys are rapidly admitting the rot has occurred under your feet?
And now, Gamers are left with shit on plates and eating it over the last 5 years, as Microsoft has done everything they can to push the limits of their fans' loyalties.
Xbox was already struggling under the thumbs of Phil Spencer, someone that actually enjoyed and was from gaming and gamer culture. Whether or not normies are going to Notice these canned and prepared responses and coincidental promotion alongside her remains to be actually seen, but even worse: the woman appears to have comparable-or-less Gamer Credentials than Zoe Quinn, so Sharma has to tap another person to be the internal "voice" of games. Probably already being talked about on one of the chans at any rate, so I'll leave that discourse to Those Places for the time being.
That said, unless I am blind and failed my reading comprehension like an average "Gamer", as far as I can tell, Sharma has done basically nothing related to games or gaming throughout her career. So the open-ended question is: why would Satya take that risk despite the general consumer climate?
Again, another quote:
The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming will be Asha Sharma, currently the President of Microsoft’s CoreAI product.
So yes, I'm sure consumers, who have been finally pushed off the edge onto switching off windows, and upset that they literally cannot afford gaming hardware any more are extremely excited for the lady that put Copilot into notepad.exe and the beleagured and oft-derided Microsoft Recall.
We will build agentic applications with memory, entitlements, and action space that will inherit powerful model capabilities. And we will adapt these capabilities for enhanced performance and safety across roles, business processes, and industry domains. Further, how we build, deploy, and maintain code for these AI applications is also fundamentally changing and becoming agentic.
Satya really loves his wordsoup that's for sure.
Loose thoughts that don't fit anywhere else in this already-eclectic post, and may be duplicated:
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Notably, as far as I can read she does not have any qualifications or past interest in gaming.
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Seems that Satya wants more wordsalad and wordsoup to throw at consumers to sound like they're Super Advanced and Definitely Things Will Get Better. Watch for more wordsoupification of the Xbox and microsoft gaming division.
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More push into renting in order to play games.
- LLM's getting more deeply integrated into games?
- More blank-slate RPG characters that are canvas-like?
- Perhaps using the LLM's to generate scripts and enemy placement for prompted levels?
- More realtime 3D diffusion?
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CoreAI is one of Microsoft's largest money-sinks in the company-- they have done their absolute best not to discuss the cost vs revenue during earning calls.
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Having been at both Meta and Instacart and head over the CoreAI department, means Sharma has some credible credentials toward running large teams and driving some level of product.
- That said, at a certain point, a credential at Meta should start being a mark indicating that you should not hire this person. Or at the very least, a warning bell to consumers that the thing you like is turning to shit.
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The incessant ai push means microsoft has gobs of compute, and gamers are being starved of what little compute they did have access to even a year ago
At any rate, if you're a capital-G Gamer, the sign was on the wall, but if you're actually invested in the future of the hobby, you probably want to migrate off Xbox before your xbox turns into an diffusion-ran agenticifed gas town, maximizing memory, entitlements, and workflows for such world-changing ideas as Microsoft has clearly been driving forward with such ... vision.
Templexious
18d ago
I generally stay away from reddit's /r/conspiracy board because it often just repeats what's been said in these threads a week late. But, I believe we have, perhaps, the funniest one I've seen in a long time.
Admittedly, I read the "Epstein didn't kill himself" angle as though he was murdered. But the latest iteration of the meme takes a hilarious new angle- that Epstein was taken out of prison, replaced with a dead lookalike, and now has grown out his beard and wears sun glasses, with an idf security detail following him around everywhere.
The clincher here, the funniest bit of the claim, if you will, is that the fortnite account, littlestjeff1, is his. To wit: that is in fact an active account and has been active through 2025 into today.
And, given that his xbox live account had been banned, and that there are references to littlestjeff1 - in the files (a YouTube purchase shares that exact name) lends credence to the theory.
I'm still skeptical, as it ascribes to netanyahu/idf intelligence a level of power that seems unreasonable on multiple layers, but it would be the very, very funniest writing of this season if the thing that gave away his cover was a public (now-private) fortnite profile, of all things.
Come on Jeff, if you're really alive, at least switch to Apex Legends.
Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1qwukr0/epsteins_fortnite_account_active_in_israel/
Templexious
1mo ago
I stan'd Tulsi Gabbard, and I've been taking nothing but L's out of her.
Templexious
2mo ago
That feeling comes mainly from your head, unfortunately. That is a terrible pro-CCP essay.
Templexious
2mo ago
In practice, it seems most non-muslim leftish figures are more worried about stoking "antisemitism" than they are anti-Israel.
Templexious
2mo ago
"fedposting is bad, actually" shouldn't be a hot take
Templexious
2mo ago
Paranoiaposting on this forum is funny, but I do wish more here held at least some pretense that they weren't.
Templexious
2mo ago
As entertaining as watching fedposters like you fedpost is, it seems bad for the sites continued existence and vaunted neutrality to enable and encourage it.
The one principle I'm learning from the neoliberals is that the importing of the best and brightest must never stop. Can't stop until the white supremacists on Twitter are, themselves, replaced by Indians.
Templexious
3mo ago
It is exactly what would happen on this forum, and if that prediction offends you, you should get off the internet.
Templexious
4mo ago
Any worldview of the current era which does not factor in the internet- tiktok and phone apps, specifically, is particularly worthless.
Templexious
5mo ago
As a once-young adult, young adult genre has always been trash, it's the label that your Christian mom will let you buy and read than anything else.
The genre deliberately caters more to the parents buying the books than to the kids.
Templexious
6mo ago
Not sure, I don't browse space battles much, people were just talking about pokemom fics and most evil crops up as one of the must-reads.
Templexious
6mo ago
I dropped the story at that chapter because it was such a lazy approach to trying to get readers on board with the idea. If the author was being that lazy with the pitch, what else were they being lazy about?
Just went back to reading Most Evil Trainer, which was actually good.
Templexious
6mo ago
I read the other comments so I'm responding to the whole chain rather than just this one comment.
You have a really twitchy mod finger for SS, and anyone talking about the actions of the state of Israel and its proponents.
The wiki article notes this, on her article:
Reporting on the controversy noted Chattah's history of negative remarks regarding Palestinians, including calling them "animals", calling for "wiping Gaza off the map", and calling 2 million Gazans, "even the children", "terrorists"; she deleted her personal X account shortly thereafter.[22]
Including a couple of other notes of her calling people she is against out of pocket, denigrating, terms. I'd daresay there is enough information on her loyalties from those proclamations. It's fair to call anyone who is Israeli born, who wants to kill gazan children, Zionist.
I'm confused why you choose to go after him so frequently.
Templexious
7mo ago
Cheap labor doesn't entirely explain it. There are thousands of Mexican, brazillian, eastern european, africans, and phillippine developers they could hire. And they could keep them in India and build offices for them there.
I still notice my confusion at the endless push toward the indiaification of the USA by these groups. Do we really want to bring over all of these people who will effectively never integrate because they won't have to?
Templexious
7mo ago
Musk's revealed preferences (ie, actions) strongly indicate otherwise.
Don't get me wrong, if i had a few billion dollars, I would also maximize my number of offspring, but the ideal of the involved father in a typical happy 90s marriage is not something I would suggest musk actually, demonstrably wants for himself.
Templexious
8mo ago
Then don't argue with people here? Engage the way you want to be engaged with. I disagree with Nara's "why are you here", because telling people that don't like an area's culture to leave just makes for an echo chamber.
Personally, I would rather more discussion of process and fun pontificating, including more levity, but have been hard-pressed to, be the so-named change I want to see.
But I stay and lurk anyway, because maybe I'll find something entertaining and insightful to say. Unfortunately, the law of the internet is here to stay. 90% of everything is shit.
Templexious
9mo ago
The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.
Templexious
9mo ago
Johnny Bravo has done a number on the psyche of a huge subset of men and kids from the 90s-00s.
Templexious
10mo ago
Phrasing it like that makes it sound like moldbug imagines himself as a faang middle manager.
Templexious
10mo ago
I am amenable to Scott's implied "the system isn't entirely evil" argument.
That said, I'm not willing to get into arguments over whether something was a side effect or the intent of a policy. Godspeed to any with enough gumption to try their hand in that so-called discourse.
But between him and moldbug putting out "okay, newage rightwing, sometimes the system is actually pretty good, we just need to change who the system caters to" posts, I've noticed my growing confusion on what they actually wanted with the change of the guard.
You can't just say "yeah, put these ideas into power" and then fail to notice that was part of the plan from the beginning.
This behavior from microsoft and sharma makes it incredibly difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt in any capacity.
The people bringing up "wokeness is the real enemy" is darkly ironic, as if whites are not watching a DEI hire be chosen over someone with plausible credentials.
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