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Not Even DLSS 5 Could "Beautify" Nvidia Right Now.

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  Woof. I tried to start this one a few different times over the last few months, increasingly as time went on. Even over the last 24 hours I’ve tried to land on an approach that really tackles the heart of my concern. This is an overwrought, complex issue that must be detailed with great care. The issue is not DLSS 5, the technology is symptomatic of a much greater issue: Nvidia.  (Please keep in mind, this is ultimately an informed opinion piece, you’re technically free to disagree, but I’ve done my homework). It should be widely known by now that I am no fan of corporate juggernauts, they do more harm than good with no exceptions, for however much good they contribute to any single sector, they are masking their sometimes outright comically nefarious activities. As the ne w “Biggest Company In The History of Everything Ever, no seriously, they’re bigger than Microsoft and Apple and Google and Amazon”, Nvidia is also similarly responsible for its share of negative side effe...

What's In Your Wallet, Sony?

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  We need to have an incredibly serious, direct, and timely conversation about the advent of the swathe of self appointed “professional business advisors” that have cropped up over the last few years. Y’all might not know this, I am a contract small business developer, my job is to either: analyze business plans at inception and strategize launch, or scale an already established business. I mention this with the explicit purpose of saying that I am, at the very least, vastly more informed on Biz Ops than the majority of the aforementioned “business advisors”. The fact of the matter is that, more often than not, you are probably engaging with an idiot when it comes to these “steam chart” conversations. I don’t mean to be blunt or crude, but there is no better way to describe the phenomenon of the completely uneducated parsing noncontextualized financial (or performance) data and presenting it as complete fact. This is less about Bungie specifically and more about the industry as a w...

Glitch: A Disruptor In Battle, And Fashion.

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  Glitch’s design in Marathon presents a vision of futurism rooted less in speculative technology and more in contemporary fashion language. Their form, palette, and motifs reflect ongoing trends in modern minimalism, streetwear, and post-internet fashion culture. Instead of dressing a character for combat, the design treats the body as a site of composition, identity, and cultural reference. Glitch’s silhouette is immediately legible because it doesn't try to impress with bulk. There is no heroic exaggeration here, no chest-forward dominance, no armor pretending to be anatomy. Instead, their body is long, narrow, and strangely restrained. The eye is pulled vertically, not outward. This is a minimalist body; built to weave through spaces rather than occupy them. The white crewneck layer is doing a lot of work here; It hangs off the back with a softness that feels subversive in a genre notably obsessed with hardness. It behaves like a coat, not a uniform. It flutters, it trails, and...