If this seems familiar, this seems to be largely republishing a Fediverse thread that was originally posted back in November.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240861">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240861</a>
I like the reference to Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.<p>For anyone interested, the story of how he was able to film by candle light[1] is a really interesting bit of engineering in the pursuit of art.<p>1. <a href="https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-famous-f0-7-lenses/" rel="nofollow">https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fa...</a>
Honestly looks great. Liked the short videos, the one that shows the orb in After Effects with the cut of what goes into deck screen was also very interesting.<p>Ages ago I saw a work that was (I think) a piece of art that reused many phones for their screens to show things in sync. I don't remember if they were early Android phones or if it was done before with screens of feature phones. But the work here reminded me of that.
You just wonder what the would would be like without Marketing.<p>Imagine we only had facts/specs of equipment in advertising, and all these people maliciously using your own psychology against you, had productive jobs where they contribute more resources/services to the world.<p>Steam is one of the good companies, but when I see this much effort go into marketing, it just makes me think of waste. There is poverty, environmental degradation, cancer... but hey: Look cool video to convince me to buy something.
Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the highest tier even though money is tight. I figured their commitment to opening the PC platform and quality hardware earned them my trust on that. Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to choose separately and go through the headache of replacing it myself? This is tripping at the finish line, especially since I waited a massive fraction of the time it took them to release this for the inferior version anyway. I get Valve prides themselves on being different than most other technology companies, but innovating on what delivering the best product you can for the money to your customer means is the wrong place to break the mold, especially for a company of Valve's profitability compared to overhead. On so many things, they could do much better at comparatively little dollar cost if they just thought wanting to was important. It's really disappointing how much this has correlated with their success.