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[Effort] Gamedevs dunk on webshit startup, founder bussy blasted

"Mighty" is a startup that will sell you a subscription to stream your browser from a supercomputer instead of running it on your own PC. It is as r-slurred as it sounds.

The idea is that instead of making a browser with sane resource usage and forcing webdevs to learn to code they can allow the hellish cycle of Andy and Bill's law to continue for a few more decades while pocketing that sweet sweet subscription revenue. If that last sentence was gibberish to you click here.

Game developers, having one of the few jobs that require writing performant code, have always been jealous of webdevs for getting all the clout and money while churning out unusable garbage. Predictably, they start frothing with rage making tweets such as:

Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involved in the Web and, sort of, software more generally.https://t.co/eR4G9Sg8iK

β€” Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) April 27, 2021
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Running a browser to connect to the cloud to run a browser to connect to the cloud to retrieve the contents of a single 2D page to recompress and send back to the original browser is now "the future of computing". https://t.co/3DPs9tkQjF

β€” Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) April 27, 2021
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a truly terrifying thing to read in a recruitment pitch pic.twitter.com/KHsLOjnC8k

β€” Gabe K (@gabe_k) February 9, 2021

This caused the startup founder, as well as investors, to get defensive. Culminating with the founder writing a poem about the haters:

Writing a song with someone for all the haters this past month. Sneak peek:

you always got something to say
I think you like the attention
helps you to not feel small
you’re watching, you sit and wait
every time that I get a mention
you wanna see me fall

β€” Suhail (@Suhail) May 19, 2021

More dunking:

For the record, efficient 2D page display doesn't "appear simple" to me. It actually is simple, at least compared to other things we do. It only appears complicated to the web industry because it's the hardest graphics problem they've tried - and repeatedly failed - to solve. https://t.co/MrBfdV0Tie

β€” Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) April 27, 2021
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… but this is the most compact explanation I have seen.https://t.co/rlF0rrUGTl

β€” Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) September 2, 2022

The founder is still mad, passive aggressively replying with single emojis:

😘https://t.co/CIff407P9m

β€” Suhail (@Suhail) September 2, 2022
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😱https://t.co/71KzqMcaOS

β€” Suhail (@Suhail) September 2, 2022

If you actually care about this nerd stuff. Here's a talk:

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What :marseywtf2: an incredibly r-slurred :marseyautism: idea. Thank you for posting.


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It's not r-slurred, it's just :marseyblops2chadcel: implemented by r-slurs

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Explain how running a web browser :marseybraveglow: in the cloud :marseyrain: isn't the most r-slurred :marseyautismchonker: thing imaginable.


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It's much cheaper to rent a 3080 for $100/yr than it is to buy a new 3080 for $1000 (and the rest :marseytombstone: of the system) and sell it in 10 years for $50. Plus you don't need

https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-now-review

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This isn't cloud :marseyrain: computing, this is literally running chrome on someone else's computer :marseyfbicomputer: and streaming video :marseycapypunished: to yours.


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Its still cloud :marseyrain: computing if the outputs are video :marseysephiroth:

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What :marseygasp: kind of videos require a 3080 to watch? Even the tiny :marseytiny2: GPUs integrated on current laptop CPUs can handle 4k.

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You don't need a 3080 to play vidya :marseygamer: if you have nvidia now. That's the point.

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What :marseygasp: kind of videos require a 3080 to watch? Even the tiny :marseytiny3: GPUs integrated on current laptop CPUs can handle 4k.

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do you not understand that your local browser :marseybrave: still has to download all the data :marseychartbar: from your "cloud browser" and decompress them in order to display :marseyidio3: them?

>rent a 3080 for $100/yr

Current pricing for an rtx 3080 in the cloud :marseyrain: is $0.30/h. That's $2700 per year :marseychiobulove: at full 24/7 usage, $1000 per year :marseychiobulove: at average 5 hours per day.

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Yeah :marseyagree: streaming video :marseykatamarireddit: is ez pz compared to running a game. Even an iPad can do that.

Nvidia now isn't 2700/yr

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!blackjack100

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!blackjack200

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TIL 1000 is ~20% of 2700

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that's because of synergy effects

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>Everyone needs :marseyspecial: a 3080 to browse a webpage.

Oh god you're r-slurred :marseycarpautism: too.

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