Tag: Industry
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The "Warm Shell" Crisis: GenAI Burning the Planet for Porn, Slop and Theft
Tech Talk Dec 6, 2025Physics has finally hit the GenAI hype train. Microsoft has confirmed a "warm shell" shortage, leaving billions of dollars in chips gathering dust in warehouses. But the real cost isn't lost corporate profits; it is a "vampire grid" reviving coal plants, UK housing projects blocked by data centres, and drinking water wasted to cool deepfake generators. The digital bubble has hit a physical wall.
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Non-Crucial: Micron Kills Consumer Brand to Feed the GenAI Grift
Tech Talk Dec 4, 2025Micron is officially winding down the Crucial brand to chase the GenAI gold rush. Here is why this pivot is a manufacturing disaster for consumers, forcing us to pay an 'AI Tax' on hardware while the industry doubles down on a bursting bubble.
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Amazon and Yutaka: Censoring Honest Feedback
Tech Talk Dec 1, 2025Amazon scrubbed my detailed, honest reviews of Yutaka products the moment they gained traction. It turns out big vendors can abuse the reporting system to wipe valid 2-3 star feedback and manipulate their ratings.
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Zuck Cheats on Jensen: The Silicon Valley Herd Just Decided Nvidia is Optional
Tech Talk Nov 25, 2025The news that Meta is planning to buy Google’s AI chips is the signal that the NVIDIA infinite growth narrative is dead. Here is the breakdown of why the whales like OpenAI and Meta are ditching Nvidia for Google TPUs and custom silicon, and why the AI bubble is about to leave Larry Ellison holding the bag in 2026 - 2027.
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The Dangerous "Nvidia Made Record Q3, AI Bubble Fears Over" Narrative
Tech Talk Nov 20, 2025Nvidia's latest earnings report has sparked a dishonest new narrative: that the AI bubble fears were unfounded. This ignores the reality of how enterprise hardware buying actually works. We are looking at a receipt for panic-buying that happened in late 2024, not proof of sustainable demand today. The numbers are massive, but they are fueled by a closed loop of cloud credits and vendor financing, not organic profit.
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Halo: 'Four Years and Minimal Content' Infinite
Tech Talk Nov 13, 2025And another one's gone. Microsoft's grand "10-year plan" for the Halo Infinite live service has officially collapsed after just four. So much for a forever game.
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The absolute Brainrot-state of an average GenAI subreddit Part 2
Tech Talk Nov 8, 2025The OpenAI lawsuits are a beautiful thing to watch. A half-trillion-dollar company built on mass copyright theft is finally getting its day in court, and it's a complete clown show of deleted evidence and pathetic excuses. But if you want to see the real brain-rot, you have to venture into the digital asylum of the GenAI subreddits. It's here, amongst the true believers, that the defence of corporate piracy becomes a holy crusade, fueled by some of the most stunningly stupid logic known to man.
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Amazon's 14k mass layoff and New World MMO cease development
Tech Talk Oct 29, 2025Amazon's massive layoffs hit its gaming division, ending the failed MMO New World. Lets unpack the corporate genius of firing your team to 'focus on AI', starting with Jeff Bezos's hilariously aged victory tweet.
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Nadella's $96.5M Paycheck: A Reward for Layoffs, Price Hikes, and War Contracts
Tech Talk Oct 24, 2025The blueprint for securing a $96.5 million paycheck at Microsoft in 2025 seems simple enough. First, you hike prices on key services like Microsoft 365. Then, you fire over 15,000 employees in waves throughout the year. Finally, you take money from the Israeli military for AI contracts. Satya Nadella’s record compensation proves that this cynical playbook delivers exactly the results the board wants to see.
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RIP Tomonobu Itagaki, an Uncompromising Architech of Gaming
Tech Talk Oct 19, 2025A personal tribute to Tomonobu Itagaki, the uncompromising founder of Team Ninja. Remembering the man who created Ninja Gaiden, defined masocore, and made Western game reviewers lose their minds over Dead or Alive.
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The absolute Brainrot-state of an average GenAI subreddit
Tech Talk Oct 16, 2025The online discourse surrounding GenAI, copyright, and IP theft is a cesspit of flawed logic. A recent Reddit thread about Japan's request for OpenAI to stop training on its anime and manga provides a perfect case study. This post dismantles the most common braindead arguments, from the deliberate misreading of Japanese copyright law to the cowardly 'China will do it anyway' excuse, exposing the brainrot at the heart of the average GenAI defender's mindset.
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UK OSA: Already More Harm than Good
Tech Talk Oct 10, 2025The Online Safety Act's first victims are in. The recent Discord breach, leaking 70,000 government IDs collected for age verification, isn't a bug in the system...it's a feature. This predictable disaster is exactly what security experts warned about, and it's just the tip of the iceberg of harms this legislation is actively causing UK citizens, from geoblocking to the slow death of the free web.
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LLMs: The Digital Parasites & The Gluttons
Tech Talk Oct 5, 2025Ever wondered who the biggest parasite in the AI world is? It's not OpenAI. A new report exposes how Anthropic's parasitic behaviour is draining the web, while Meta's strip-mining tactics consume it. A look at the data and the grim future it predicts for online creators.
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From Layoffs to Price Hikes: Microsoft's Master Plan
Tech Talk Oct 2, 2025Microsoft's solution after firing thousands to 'cut costs'? Making you pay more. Let's take a look at the new Game Pass price hike, the blatant cash grab, and the transparently lazy justification behind it.
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The Problems with EA's $55 Billion Buyout
Tech Talk Sep 30, 2025So, Electronic Arts is being taken private in a record $55 billion deal, and I'll say it now: this is a catastrophe for players and developers. Forget the corporate PR; this leveraged buyout saddles EA with $20 billion in debt and puts it in the hands of owners who care about one thing: profit. This is a breakdown of every single thing wrong with this deal.
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Microsoft's Gaming Copilot
Tech Talk Sep 20, 2025Another unwanted Windows feature, another process to kill in Task Manager. Microsoft's latest attempt to shove AI where it doesn't belong is the Gaming Copilot. So, what is this "gaming sidekick" even for? Let's take a look at the solution to a problem that never existed.
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What's Going On with The Sims 4's New Expansion Monetisation?
Tech Talk Sep 13, 2025Confused by the constant stream of expensive Sims 4 DLC? So am I. EA is releasing another full-priced £35 expansion less than three months after the last one. Here's a quick look at their new, aggressive monetisation plan and why it's a worrying sign for the franchise.
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Capcom's President on MH:Wilds tanked sales
Tech Talk Sep 11, 2025After a record-breaking launch, Monster Hunter Wilds' player base collapsed. Now, Capcom's president is blaming... the PS5's price tag. Sound familiar?
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OpenAI's Paper on Hallucinations
Tech Talk Sep 8, 2025OpenAI's newest research paper on how and why LLMs hallucinates.
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Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement
Tech Talk Sep 7, 2025Anthropic, the 'ethical' B Corp, just settled a lawsuit for $1.5 billion after being caught pirating books to train its Claude LLM. So much for being the good guys.
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Money Hunter: Capcom's Wild Monetisation
Tech Talk Aug 23, 2025Capcom says they're "disappointed" with Monster Hunter Wilds' sales, despite selling 10 million copies. Their disappointment was never about the game sales...it's about their ridiculously aggressive microtransactions. Lets take a look at this insanity.
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FF14: A Decade of Underinvestment - Square Enix's latest Financial Report
Tech Talk Aug 21, 2025Lets dissect why FF14 has performed poorly in Square Enix's latest financial report Q1 26.
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MHWilds: Too little, too late
Tech Talk Aug 17, 2025Is the latest Monster Hunter Wilds update enough to save the game? The numbers from the Steam player count say no. Despite a new endgame grind and a 20% off sale in August 2025, Capcom's response to the disastrous PC performance and shallow gameplay is too little, too late.
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1 week of GPT5
Tech Talk Aug 14, 2025One week after its release, GPT-5 has sparked more backlash than excitement. Hyped as a leap forward, it instead delivered small coding and enterprise tweaks, recycled marketing claims, and the same core limitations.
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DOOM: The Dark Ages of Pricing
Tech Talk Aug 2, 2025Out of the pure goodness of their hearts, Microsoft has put their £70 blockbuster on sale after just two months. I checked the Steam stats to see how this "generous" QuakeCon celebration is going for Doom: The Dark Ages.
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Wow, Capcom is so generous with MHWilds!
Tech Talk Jul 31, 2025Ever wondered what it takes for a multi-billion dollar company like Capcom to finally notice their flagship game is a complete dumpster fire? It's not the abysmal PC performance, the "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam reviews, or even a biblical 98% drop in players for Monster Hunter Wilds. No, it took a quarterly sales report so catastrophic it couldn't be ignored. Now, after months of silence, they're suddenly rushing out an "early" update and pretending it's a generous gift for the fans. Don't buy the PR spin. Lets take a look into the hard data, the cynical marketing, and the blatant gaslighting behind Capcom's bungled response to the Monster Hunter Wilds backlash.
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The UK's race to the bottom
Tech Talk Jul 29, 2025The "loicense" meme is no longer a joke in the UK. Sold as a law to "protect the children," the Online Safety Act has become a nightmare of state-level censorship and surveillance. From needing an ID for gaming to threatening Wikipedia, this is how the UK's insane overreach is fundamentally breaking the internet for everyone.
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Microsoft backtracking on The Outer Worlds 2 pricing
Tech Talk Jul 26, 2025Microsoft tried to charge a ridiculous $80/£70 for The Outer Worlds 2, and with what transpired in recent months; not surprising they're backtracking.
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RIP Arkane Studios, I'll miss them...I guess?
Tech Talk Jul 16, 2025Everyone blames Redfall for the fall of Arkane Studios, but the truth is, the studio was dying long before. Lets take a look back at Arkane's entire history, from the breakout success of Dishonored to the commercial failures of Dishonored 2 and Prey.
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Final Fantasy XVI and its (Nonexistent) Cultural Impact
Tech Talk Jul 15, 2025An autopsy of Final Fantasy 16's nonexistent cultural impact. This isn't a review but a deep dive into why FF16 flopped commercially, vanished from memory, and how its entire philosophy was exposed as a failure by the success of Baldur's Gate 3.
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Fired by Microsoft? There's an AI for That
Tech Talk Jul 6, 2025Microsoft is firing thousands while Phil Spencer boasts about success. The truth? Game Pass growth has stalled, their '62% revenue growth' is a financial illusion built on the Activision deal, and the core Xbox business is stagnant. Lets take a look into this shitshow.
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Ohh, Ouch, Anthropic
Tech Talk Jun 8, 2025Anthropic got caught red-handed stealing data.
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Google 250 plan
Tech Talk May 21, 2025What? Someone has to pay for all those "free" subs.
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£200 plans
Tech Talk Apr 13, 2025Silly £200 plan from Anthropic.
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People Like Japanese Games Because They're... JAPANESE?!
Tech Talk Apr 2, 2025Truly shocked at this revelation!