perryflynnby the way, who is maintaining IWDiscord? I get alot "edit" messages which are as far as I can see completely identical to the original message in IRC.
[artlung]Heh. Admittedly it's been a few years since I felt moved to carve out time on my schedule for a Google I/O (or Apple announcement event) live.
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rosipovI feel like big tech announcement events haven't been particularly engagement in a while, like we all know it'll be AI this AI that small improvement here small improvement there
[artlung]100%. Also, I can remember going _to physical stores_ for a software release. I can't remember the last time I did that. Maybe for a game or an OS update?
rosipovbut even the gaming events don't feel as engaging - and with the state of games being released half-finished, I put in extra effort to avoid the events/news until the game's finished a year after the release
rosipovidk if it's the nostalgia talking, but we've had so many false starts and botched releases - both across gaming and tech in general - that announcements are hard to take seriously