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But what if I don't want to be called Audrey?

This is right up there with the amazing isEven() and isOdd() functions I have seen. Truly masterful work.

Hey, maybe you're more common than either of us suspected. I do all of my steam usage on my desktop with a large monitor. Their UI is trash for it IMO.

My CEO does this and it is both cringe and highly disheartening.

Hah, first thing that I thought of.

That could very well be the case. We don't have their stats, so maybe they do get a lot of store users on their phone where people make purchases and then later play on their PCs... but I am pressing F to doubt here.

This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don't like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn't like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That's fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won't buy more games if you make it hard.

Serpent Isle was an excellent game and probably the last Ultima game I enjoyed (if you don't count UO).

It makes perfect sense and is historically accurate. The crowd chant of "We will rock you!" was a common warning in that period signifying that those who trespass against the nobility will be stoned to death.

Reminds me of the first chapter of Snow Crash.

I can't say I agree with most of your details, but your second and last sentence are on point. This bubble (or bubble conglomeration that you describe) are not like any previous bubbles and in the end we are most certainly going to have a couple survivors still standing and take everything. The main thing I disagree with is that it will be the only thing that happens. We're going to see a massive gutting of the financial markets and although datacenters are real things that get used, we don't need this many specifically power hungry GPU/AI designed datacenters if the AI market pops. All these AI services are massively lossleading hoping to be one of the survivors. I think that once we get even close to the "pop" we're going to see desperate price hikes and even the bigger companies are going to raise their pricing along with it. I suspect that many of those customers are going to have to admit that their AI plans aren't living up to what they anticipated and will heavily curtain their usage once the prices jump.

I was hoping the next CEO would be something like Walt Wario or something.