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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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I don't even know :marseyhesright: what :marseypregunta: kind of r-slur :marseydunce: you'd have to be to somehow have your browser :marseybrave: be too slow. I've been using the web since 1995 and I only vaguely recall a few times around 20 years ago when this has happened to me.

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