Ideal time to add: “Until we meat again”

I prefer when they do it on the drop.

Also not AI, twas from the period just before it all started.

Was watching the Digital Foundry review of this tech. They seemed impressed, the people in the comments were scathing

Everyday I think things can’t get worse. That maybe this will be the breaking point. But no.

The main Resident Evil example is just awful. It’s like an Instagram filter.

It’s worse than that guy who has been going around photoshopping “Ugly” female game characters to make them look hotter.

I hate this reality.

Link to the pdf itself

Product list starts on page 37.

I had, but I hadn’t thought about him in a long while. Plus i forgot half the movies he’s worked on.

Just looking at his filmography, Dude has a serious list of films he’s produced:

Xanadu (1980) (co-producer)

48 Hrs. (1982)

Streets of Fire (1984)

Brewster’s Millions (1985)

Weird Science (1985)

Commando (1985)

Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Predator (1987)

Action Jackson (1988)

Die Hard (1988)

Road House (1989)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Die Hard 2 (1990)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Ricochet (1991)

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Demolition Man (1993)

Richie Rich (1994)

Assassins (1995)

Fair Game (1995)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) (TV documentary film)

Executive Decision (1996)

Fathers’ Day (1997)

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Double Tap (1997)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

The Matrix (1999)

Made Men (1999)

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Exit Wounds (2001)

Swordfish (2001)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Ghost Ship (2002)

Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Gothika (2003)

House of Wax (2005)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

V for Vendetta (2006)

The Reaping (2007)

The Invasion (2007)

The Brave One (2007)

Fred Claus (2007)

Speed Racer (2008)

RocknRolla (2008)

Orphan (2009)

Whiteout (2009)

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)

The Losers (2010)

Unknown (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Dragon Eyes (2012)

Stash House (2012)

The Apparition (2012)

The Factory (2012)

Getaway (2013)

Non-Stop (2014)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Collide (2016)

Superfly (2018)

Road House (2024)

Road House 2 (TBA)

Edit/note: I probably didn’t make my comment very clear. I’m aware it’s 1600 being laid off. More that I didn’t realise that Atlassian had 16k people in total. 16,000 people making their products progressively worse.

Even if their company only had 1600 ppl, I’d still say they were wasteful.

About 16k workers? How!?

What a waste of human effort, time and resources. All to make a few bad products, worse.

Indeed, that’s why I mentioned a PC monitor first

Well what about a PC monitor? You can get u to like 43" and beyond. Obviously they are great for gaming as well.

The other very impractical mention - after TVs starting adding ads, cameras and microphones, I switched to a 2nd hand projector. Most have no smart features.

All you need is a white or off- white wall to protect on to. And the ability to block some light coming into the room.

Downsides:

• They can be bulky and noisy. Particularly the 4k ones
• might need separate speakers
• Not as low latency as a tv but models do come with VRR
• bulbs do get darker from prolonged use (and aren’t always cheap to replace)
• you might need separate speakers
• and there are the trailing cables
• And you’ll never get the inky blacks of oleds. But for picture size and immersion for the cost, they are basically unbeatable.

Some can project from a coffee table.

For tv series and YouTube like content, I use a laptop. Then for big movies, I use the projector and 5.1 sound system (mostly 2nd hand as well.)

This is just one product/service that PwC has provided to the UK Government, there have been countless more. It’s a drop in the ocean of wasted money.

But the Government isn’t being hoodwinked. It’s by design. Ministers need big departments and big budgets to boost their profile. PwC massively overcharge, so ministers can have their big budgets.

It’s win win. Only people that lose, are the tax payers.

PwC almost always subcontract, who then subcontract again. The people who actually did this work probably got 45k.

Subcontractors like companies like PwC, because they have access to Governments and multinationals and win contracts that boost the subcontracters’ profile.

How do I know? I worked at a subcontracting consultancy.

It’s not just PwC. It’s all the big Accounting Firms. It’s Capita etc.