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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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So can you explain to an r-slur :marseyspecial: how that would actually :marseyakshually: help? I can sort of see it on mobile, but for actual computers?

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The pitch is that you won't need to buy a new computer :marseyhacker2: every time :marseywait: google developers manage to make :marseyyarn: chrome so shitty your old one can't run it anymore.

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That's like...once every decade. :marseyconfused:

Who tf out there :marseycheerup: running their Windows :marseybsod: Vista machine :marseymini: still?

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here is an ad they made:

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I hate :marseygoodnight: people who have that many :marseymanysuchcases: tabs open.

And there's nothing that says "Trust us with you money, :marseyluckycat: we're not a bunch of kinds trying to run a business!" like the use of memes and out of date internet :marseysaladfingers: humor.


The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko

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What :marseypregunta: an ignorant comment. Do you even know :marseyshutitdown: how a computer :marseybsod: works? Having a lot of tabs open doesn't slow :marseywhirlyhat: anything down. And memes and internet :marseysaladfingers: humor :marseysting: are just :marseyblops2chadcel2: a way to connect with people. If you can't handle a little :marseyelliotrodger: bit of fun, then :marseytransflag: you can't handle anything.

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I don't give :marseysigh: a frick :marseyracistgrandpa: about the performance issues that open tabs cause, it's an aesthetic thing. It just :marseyblops2chadcel2: LOOKS wrong. But you're not capable of understanding that, and I sympathize.

Memes and emojii are great :marseyaward: for communication, yes, and we all love :marseychristmaslove: @Ed_ButteredToast, but I'd never :marseyitsover: invest :marseywallst: in any business of theirs!


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The only aesthetic that matters is results, and your insistence on sacrificing performance for an arbitrary visual standard is foolish and short-sighted. If you can't see the value in efficiency, then :marseytransflag: I pity your lack of vision. As for investing in businesses that favor style over :marseyitsover: substance, I have more faith in them than I do in you.

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I totally value efficiency over :marseyitsover: aesthetics, but like you said having multiple tabs open doesn't effect efficiency.

And if you have money :marseymerchantelf: to burn throwing :marseybreadcrumbing: it at our pasta connoisseur more power :marseyreactor: to you!


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I... :marseydespair: uhg :#marseybangfast: AAAAAAAAAA:#marseyschizotwitch:

Kill all normie r-slurs

Just use (a fork :marseyoutletsuicide: of) Firefox, just :marseyblops2chadcel: don't use Windows, just :marseyblops2chadcel: ANYTHING, there's so many :marseymanysuchcases: ways to get more juice :marje: out of old hardware without being a moronic hype-whore

:marseyretard3::marseyautismchonker::marseysmugretard::marseymocking::marseybrainlet: <<<< average tech :marseycodecellove: consoomer (deserves to die in a meat grinder, ruined tech :marseycodecellove: for everyone who had the slightest understanding it)

In KF lingo, yes I'm MATI

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Firefox won't save you when webdevs make the sites unusable. I have to use google Workspace for work and I want to kill myself everytime I have to open it because it's so fricking bloated.

Same for youtube, Invidious is faster for me even though it runs on shitty amateur hardware in some neets basements but by removing js it still comes out on top

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