Apple used to be so good at names, using actual words while the bottom of the industry scrabbled around with "PRO 2001 MX HD XP MV". It's a strange future.
That one predates vibe coding by quite a few years though: a lot of hard work went into Goat Simulator, and there were no doubt other more obvious choices for how the developers spent their time, but they still chose to make Goat Simulator.
Also it's a geninue game with goals to complete, mainly cribbing from games like the Tony Hawk's series.
Two separate categories: Meme games[*] don't have to be vibecoded, not all vibecoded things become meme games.
[*] A "meme game" being a game which is tries to be ridiculous and is predominantly popular because of social media exposure. I would include games like Goat Simulator, Horse Magnifier, Squirrel with a Gun, QWOP, Untitled Goose Game, Trollface Quest...
From what I remember it was a project for Coffee Stain (the studio) to train up/onboard new hires, having started as a modding team with Sanctum for UT3 and later a full standalone release. Then they ran with it for a while after it struck a chord with people willing to give them money.
I wonder if it's still the case that, if I buy expensive Apple AirPods to use with my expensive Apple computer, I'm denied the ability to add them to Find My unless I also buy an expensive Apple phone. And I also wonder whether the AirPods case is going to make an alarm noise whenever I move it, to punish me for having the audacity to think it would be a good idea to buy expensive Apple earbuds to use with my expensive Apple computer, while not owning an iPhone.
An iPhone is not sufficient. I had a perfectly working Find My with the AirPods Pro 1&2. I just bought the newest AirPods Pro 3 and they can’t be found with the iPhone unless I upgrade to the newest operating system. Fair enough they advertise a higher precision. But they don’t write that even for the previous low precision, you need now the newest operating system.
Ditto. I loved my Airpods Pro 2 but it was really clear Apple did not want me as a customer of their headphones. In a practical sense, the recent open source work would have mitigated most (all if it supports software updates) of my issues, but I still won't be buying any more Apple audio products out of principle.
I read the article. I read every word. Every sentence. Short little sentences. Some had three words. Some had four. But here's what I learned. Every sentence was dramatic. That rhythm! You're walking and talking with someone. They stop to emphasize a point. So you have to stop too. But here's what they do. They don't just do it once or twice. They do it every few steps. All the time. Forever. A pitter-patter of tiny mics being dropped. They don't even have to say "Let that sink in". It's not said. It's implied. It's implied after every sentence. Are you blown away? How about now? How about now? How about now?
They never do, because what was said is offensive.
I would like to know in many cases to form my own opinion of whether it was sufficiently offensive to justify the reaction and consequences so I also find it really annoying.
You can deduce its some form of sexual jokes though, most likely innuendo. What we do not know is how bad it was.
If we had this tag it might also stop the comments from turning into another Great AI Debate every... single... time...
It's lovely to see some Pratchett on HN, a nice chance to talk about our favourite Discworld books, but then the top comment is just some boring AI hater.
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