My guess?

Former AI guy’s job is to figure out how to make AI make video games, and in the meantime, figure out how to cram AI data scraping into absolutely every possible element of … whatever Xbox Live is called now.

The first will almost certainly fail, the second is much easier and will make the division more profitable untill it gets axxed after the first thing totally fails.

EDIT:

Erp, its AI gal, not AI guy.

Asha Sharma.

But… her recent LinkedIn history outside of MSFT is:

Board Member of Home Depot (ongoing)

Board Member of Coupang (ongoing)

(A Fortune 200 tech platform and South Korea’s largest e commerce company)

COO of Instacart (2021-2024)

Headed up, among other things, data science.

She was also apparently a VP at Meta/Facebook, before that.

Oh hey, I’ve done data analytics, I’ve done data science!

I’ve even also done lower level grunt work at MSFT!

Yeah I am 100% certain of the second part of my guess now.

Less certain about the first part, as she has literally no background with game development, as far as I can tell.

IMO, she is absolutely going to be put in charge of squeezing every last possible drop out of Xbox, which MSFT will most likely just transition to being basically a publisher only/primarily, given how many big IPs they own…

…and they’ll probably switch over to a new person after there’s basically nothing left to squeeze, after they’ve essentially functionally randomly fired at least 50% of the people working for the studios they now own, and essentially randomly reorganized the remainder of those people into different or new studios, see Ubisoft.

“Best” case scenario, after the AI bubble pops, she manages to figure out some kind of partner ship with either Nvidia or some remaining firm that has a bunch of AI datacenter GPUs, and then we get Xbox’s attempt at Google Stadia.

Another day, another hitherto unimaginable cyber security crisis, brought to you by ‘AI’.

… maybe one day they’ll find the seahorse emoji.

Manueverability matters less when you can fire a missile that will hit your opponent before they even know you are in the airspace.

Like I’m not trying to say the F35 is perfect, its far from it…

… But dogfights almost never happen anymore.

Air to air combat is basically # of missiles, range of missiles, threat detection/target acquisition vs stealth cpabilities.

And as we are seeing in Ukraine with drones, its very likely to become … nearly Battle Star Galactica (Newer Reboot) style realtime cyberwarfare battles.

Like, if we ever get to the point of ‘Space Battles’, they’re gonna be as much remote hacking contests as they involve any kind of physical weaponry.

So basically, its enshittification.

… but with a multi role stealth aircraft.

Its very funny to me that all the people who make all the decisions and rules around how software should work… are finding out that when everything hss software in it, well, everything has software in it.

Personally I’m waiting for more custom ROMs or whatever for cars.

Oh yeah this car is unlocked, you just actually get all the features, no need to pay Ford or GM or BMW on an perpetual basis for your heated seats.

Well I mean such data does exist, or easily could, assuming its possible to just turn on an FPS counter in a game on a Mac, or overlay one, and I don’t really see any reason why it wouldn’t be possible to run at least basic benchmarking on the same game on Win/Lin/Mac.

Many games just do those things inside themselves in either a benchmarking mode, or have a console command that will display basic info like FPS.

I don’t have a Mac though, and Mac users broadly don’t appear to be interested in even basic benchmarking.

But also haha no I would not be surprised that using a KVM switch is generally a giant goddamned hassle and its generally easier to just have a few devices you move around, I have discovered that as well!

Hrm.

Ok.

FPS? No idea. I don’t play games for the visuals at all, and if you gifted me a high end gaming PC I still wouldn’t. It’s not a question of superiority or inferiority, it’s just down to taste.

So as I said, we would seem to agree that Mac Gamers do not have very high graphical standards, compared to PC/Linux/Console gamers.

Like uh, let me put it this way: Calling 40 FPS in Cyberpunk 77 ‘good’ at 1080p is an actual joke to me.

I can do better than that on my Steam Deck at its native resolution, and … thats a portable device.

‘Good’ to me would be over 60 fps at 2K / 1440p, like an average around 75 fps.

I’m not trying to say that games must have absurdly good graphics to be a good game, hell no, far from it.

But… when you’re actually just talking specifically about advanced graphics … it seems that you, a Mac Gamer, just don’t consider them much.

So your standards there are lower, because you just don’t value them as much.

Like how you could compare two cars for practical usefulness, and conclude car A is an overall better choice, but if you’re specifically talking about which car can go from 0-60 faster, well now car B is a the clear winner there.

… I don’t have BG3, and I tried to look up comparative numbers for BG3 on a Steam Deck, turns out Larian just actually released a Linux native version that’s significantly better than the Proton/Windows version, for Steam Deck users.

https://sportsrant.indiatimes.com/gaming/baldurs-gate-3-steam-deck-performance-guide-september-2025-update/articleshow/126670240.html

So if I had the game, what I would do, on a Deck, is up a few more of those settings from low to medium, get to a generally stable FPS just above 45, instead of aiming for 60, and then the Deck OLED at least will let you lock the frame rate at 45, but the refresh rate at 90, so in most games that are not quite fast paced, that’ll basically just ‘feel’ like 90 fps most of the time.

So you end up with a $550 portable machine that can, at least at its native settings, outperform your admittedly signifcantly older, but $1100 2017 iMac, by way of running basically mostly medium settings with a few at low.

Adjust for inflation thats like uh, Steam Deck for about $585, iMac for about $1450. And you put aftermarket (Or is it more like Bonus with Macs?) ram in it as well.

I dunno, I’m not trying to sound like an ass, I’m trying to do actual comparisons of some kind, but you don’t know the FPS, didn’t indicate a resolution…

Which again, makes sense in as much as: You don’t care that much about those things.

But its hard to do graphics comparison without such info.

I really would like an actual answer here… maybe there is some kind of way to run a graphically advanced/demanding game on Mac?

https://www.macworld.com/article/2852664/cyberpunk-2077-ultimate-edition-review.html

The game includes presets that adjust graphics settings for different Mac models, and there are some useful support pages for the Mac version at support.cdprojektred.com, which will help you to get the best performance from the game. I got a steady 40fps when running the game at 1,920 x1,200 resolution on my MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro chip, so you don’t need the latest, fastest Mac models to get good performance.

Apparently Mac Gamers do not have the highest graphical standards, if… 40 fps at basically 1080p x 1.1 counts as ‘good performance’.

I mean, Proton is also open source and… its basically a giant extension/revision of WINE.

So, my guess would be that MacOS (OSX?) is so significantly different than most Linux distros, that you’d pretty much have to develop it to work with Mac libraries, whereas its currently developed and tuned to work with Linux libraries.

Out of genuine curiosity:

What is the most graphically complex game you’ve got working on a Mac?

FPS?

Resolution?

Hardware?

No, you basically cannot use Proton on Mac to anywhere near the degree it currently supports games on Linux.

Long story short, they differ a lot.

Think of like… a bear, dog, and cat all have a single common ancestor if you go back far enough.

… But they are significantly different from each other in a wide variety of ways.

It seems that there are some semi-comparable ways to do more gaming on a Mac.

1. Dual Boot Asahi Linux, then use Proton from Asahi, running Windows games via Proton on Linux, on Mac hardware.

https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2025/02/07/proton-asahi-linux-mac-gaming-tutorial.html

Seems to technically work, but basically to me it sounds like where Proton on non-Mac baremetal Linux was around 4-5 years ago, ie, theres a lot of work to be done, but, some things work reasonably well.

2. Port the game to Mac yourself with the Mac game porting toolkit.

https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/

Somewhat hilariously to me, many Mac/Tech media sites have described this as ‘Basically Proton for Mac’, which uh, no, its not, not even close.

Proton takes Windows hooks and calls and translates them in realtime to execute in realtime on a Linux system. Only non instant thing is building up a shader cache, but I’m pretty sure you do that on Windows too.

This… is porting a game.

Granted, it is impressive that any kind of automated tool/system like this even exists at all, but uh, this is more like a guided recompiling of the entire game binary to something that will run natively on a Mac.

So that is… not any kind of a realtime translation layer.

As best I can tell, results for how well it actually works are roughly:

Most of the time it does produce a valid, working game binary, but performance is often terrible for more graphically complex games.

I guess if any Mac users have more info or corrections to this, I’m all ears.

I know much more about linux and windows than Mac, so I may be missing something or innacurate.

I didn’t expect to catch one in the wild, but evidently they just can’t help themselves.

Sure, yeah, there’s a test.

Papers please!

Mhm, I see, yes, voted for the child murdering rapist pedophile conman.

Ah.

Not a great look.

Anyway, you’e been expelled from the ‘Leftism Understander’ class due to being an obvious idiot troll, please collect your things or they will be equitably redistributed amongst the remaining students, according to their need.

Well its not like you’d have any understanding of what is or isn’t really leftist.

Here’s a hint:

Opposing massive government handouts to huge megacorporations.

Opposing biased legal standards and tax structures that massively favor the wealthy being able to accumulate more wealth, at the expense of the poor.

Opposing idiotic broad general tariffs that have historically and are currently exacerbating an ongoing Great Depression.

But, fascists love doing all those things, because they are economically illiterate and/or openly, brazenly corrupt.

And now, for more vocab, if you oppose these fascist policies, you are now anti-fascist, otherwise known as antifa.

But fascists cannot comprehend the idea that anyone could disagree with them, and also have the gall to continue being alive, so they label everyone who does as a terrorist, and have lately started executing such people in the street.

Ok.

I was talking about 2020.

The one before the one you are talking about.

Also, most ‘die hard leftists’ were disgusted by Kamala’s pro-Genocide stance… the Dems did basically everything they possibly could to obfuscate and deny and/or justify that, leftists were fucking furious about it.

And a pretty good deal of actual leftists were saying ‘all these economic numbers that politicians and the media are touting are bullshit, they’re incomplete, they are not reflective of reality’.

And well now we have all the job revisions and yep that was correct, I think the BLS has now ‘un addded’ something like 2-3 million jobs between 2022 and present.

You’re conflating liberals and leftists, which betrays that you have no idea what a leftist is.

Its liberals that fall in line with standard corporate Dem talking points.

Leftists tend to challenge and critique them.

I’ll admit, jailbait by definition does not fit in, so it was incorrect of me to use that word,

Thank you for seeing and saying that.

but I’ll stand by the idea that it does feel weird to me in a way that resembles liking young girls.

I mean… very broadly, yes, sure, I get that, but I feel like you have to ignore the details and context.

But I will also grant that the non actual OP image, that is of higher quality, makes it more clear that the woman is likely not a child or very young adult, than the blurrier OP image does.

Answer me this - is it perfectly fine/morally right of me to watch a porn of tall dude doing it with a very short one?

Well frankly that’s a complicated question, mostly because: What exactly do you mean by ‘very short one?’

Apologies if I am wrong but it seems like English may not be your first language, and that that might be the cause of a lot of the kerfuffle here.

If you mean an actual dwarf, someone with dwarfism, well then that, to me, becomes a discussion of basically… is it more the case that such a person basically has few other valid employment options by way of discrimination, or is it more the case that… they’re fully consenting adults, making their own choices, which they understand or are in control of?

If you mean a person who is not a dwarf, but is simply fairly short… I basically still have the same kind of answer, I guess, just with there likely being a good deal less discrimination against someone who is simply short, but not a dwarf?

Personally, as a matter of personal preference, I would not be interested in porn with dwarves, and yeah I probably would be weirded out a bit between an extreme height mismatch with non dwarves…

But ‘being weirded out’ and ‘morally endorsing or condoning something’ are not the same thing to me.

Lots of people do and enjoy things that I do not, that I find weird, but … I don’t think they’re de facto morally bad just because I find it weird.

Because I know that that all works in reverse as well: I’m into things many other people find weird or strange, but like, I’m not harming anyone.

Frankly, I just don’t like to watch any kind of porn where anyone is getting just utterly physically dominated by another person.

I don’t like porn where a guy will like, insult or or degrade or very physically forcefully slap any part of a woman, or that is styled as if its the gals boss or something… that turns me off.

But, some people are into both or either of those things.

Sorry if this is kind of a non answer, but I guess the short (lol) version would be:

Such things generally yes do make me some amount of uncomfortable, but me being uncomfortable is not the same thing as something being morally condemnable.

Are these things moral?

Basically, thats a pretty complicated question to me, and I’m honestly not totally sure how I feel about that.

EDIT: Also I did not watch that video, I’m making breakfast at the moment lol.

Yes.

https://www.visaverge.com/legal/crime-rates-lower-among-undocumented-immigrants-than-us-natives/

Evidence shows both undocumented and legal immigrants in the U.S. consistently have much lower crime and incarceration rates than natives across crime categories. This trend challenges popular beliefs and highlights the importance of accurate data for fair immigration and criminal justice policies, emphasizing immigrant contributions to safety.

So, its literally true that if you deported all native born citizens and left only immigrants, the crime rate would go down.

Thus, if you deport a subset of native born citizens, the same still applies.

So this also means that mass deporting all immigrants, regardless of their actual criminal record… well that would necessarily increase the crime rate overall.

The MAGA to Russia immigration pipeline was a thing for a while.

Maybe they’ll take them?

I am reasonably confident that you can explain Trump’s 2020 election loss by way of the disproportionate number of COVID casualties and deaths in Red areas vs Blue areas.

Basically, if Trump/MAGA had actually responded to COVID sensibly, as sensibly as Blue areas did, on average, accounting for population density…

Trump would have actually won.

But so many MAGA voters died or were disabled from voting, by COVID, that they instead lost, and then further went nuts, and didn’t believe it, and attempted an insurrection.

My point is you got the causation backwards.

Women generally have a stronger preference for taller men, than men have a preference for shorter women.

But you framed the entire scenario as being caused by men.

Why do men date women that’s like height of a children to them?

Its… also amazing that you yourself date someone 20cm shorter than you.

So, what, if you yourself were 5cm shorter than you are, and your partner was 5cm shorter than she is… would that be such a difference that the woman would now be ‘child sized’?

Short people do just exist, the image is an intentional joke making fun of height difference that is present in this consensual relationship.

You describe this as jailbait despite the woman looking like she’s in her upper 20s or lower 30s in age.

Like, not to be rude to the woman in the picture, but how many under 21 or under 18 girls… have forehead wrinkles, bags under their eyes?

… Women generally, statistically, indicate an ideal preference to date men who are ~21cm / ~8 inches taller than themself.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000020

Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner.

So a roughly average height 5’4" (~1.62m) woman, on average, would ideally pick a 6’ (~1.83m) tall man, all else held equal.

By the same kinds of math, on average, men prefer to be ~8cm / ~3 inches taller than their ideal height female partner.

So a roughly average height man of 5’10" (~1.78m) would ideally prefer their gal to be 5’7" (~1.70m)

So I don’t know, you tell me why generally speaking, women ideally prefer their men to be ~8 inches taller than themself, but men ideally prefer being only ~3 inches taller than their women.