hopped on fortnite for the first time in forever and wtf even is this anymore. the ui looks like a cheap mobile game and the loot pool has 500 random things in it. doesn't look or feel like fortnite at all, just straight garbage.
That magical time of year has arrived in the Fortnite community once again: Chapter 7 is coming to an end, the mini-season starts tomorrow, and Chapter 8 is looming right behind it. And with that, the ancient cult of witnesses to "those classic graphics" traditionally wakes up on Twitter. Tens of thousands of people are dead seriously lighting candles and praying for Epic Games to finally come to their senses and bring back the old cartoony style - with warm hand-drawn lighting, crooked fences, and slightly squashed cars that looked like they were sketched freehand by a drunk architect.
But let’s face the truth: to Epic Games, your beloved art style is just an annoying misunderstanding from the past. They didn't pour billions of dollars into Unreal Engine just so you could admire cute crooked roofs. They turned an original cartoon shooter into a tech demo for graphics card presentations, where every blade of grass casts a photorealistic ray-traced shadow, and the water looks more real than what's outside your window.
The most ironic part is that players are literally asking for one thing: "Make the visuals simpler and more soulful, give the game its face back." And the developers hear this as: "Add even more polygons to the mud underfoot and blind us with sun glare until our graphics cards start melting." Tomorrow the mini-season drops, then Chapter 8 starts, and instead of cozy hand-drawn cartooniness, they will once again roll out a sterile hyper-realistic forest where a cartoon Peter Griffin with a shotgun looks like a glitch in the Matrix. Still, by the end of Chapter 8, we will gather here again and definitely believe one more time.
Next week he’s going to tell us that having a brain inside your skull is an inefficient use of neurons when you could just pay $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus.
Watching the Destiny community flip flop in mid-air at supersonic speed is perhaps the main sporting spectacle of this autumn. Let me remind you of the chronology for those who missed this Shakespearean drama. First, Bungie comes out and honestly says: "Guys, Destiny support is over, we're throwing all our efforts into Marathon." What do Destiny fans do? They fall into righteous hysteria, declare a crusade against their own studio, and choose Marathon as their punching bag. As a result, a truly great, polished extraction shooter gets tons of unjustified hate, tanked ratings, and curses simply for the mere fact of its existence. Marathon players were just trying to peacefully extract loot while Molotov cocktails from offended Guardians flew through the windows of their servers.
And now today, Bungie publishes a single article promising to resume support for Destiny 2, dig up and support even the first Destiny again, and for dessert, heavily hints at the release of Destiny 3. And a miracle happens: pacifism instantly blossoms on Twitter. The very same people who just yesterday were foaming at the mouth burying Marathon and driving its rating down to zero are coming out today with white flags and writing heartfelt posts along the lines of: "Friends, we have nothing to divide us, we all love games from the same studio, let's stop arguing and hug it out!"
It looks something like this: a neighbor furiously burns down your garage, slashes the tires on your new car, and writes insults on your fence because his paycheck was delayed. And the next day he gets a bonus, walks out onto the porch with a cup of tea, and generously declares: "Alright, I forgive you, let's get along and forget old grudges." The level of diplomacy we deserve.
If you are over twenty-five and haven't completely dissolved into TikTok algorithms yet, all of this looks like a theater of the absurd. You don't see a person in front of you, but a walking meme wrapped in human skin, surrounded by a swirling vortex of hormones and insecurity. You realize that the cult of Clavicular is just like the cult of that guy in high school who was the first to get an iPhone: everyone was jealous, everyone wanted to be like him, only to find out later that the iPhone had a cracked screen and the guy himself still hadn't learned how to read an analog clock.
But the funniest (or saddest?) part is that to his audience, none of this is funny. It’s serious. It’s important. It is life. And while the adult world chuckles and taps its temple, somewhere in a parallel universe Clavicular is deciding which merch to put on today, while thousands of young hearts skip a beat in anticipation. Then again, maybe we’re just old. Or maybe we’ve just forgotten what it feels like when your idol is younger than your sneakers.
Remember Gemini 4 Argon? The model that looked like the future of humanity during the keynote, but in practice turned out to be pure torture: sure, it’s great, but the rate limits are so tight that asking one question about the meaning of life puts you on a digital hunger strike until next week. Well, Google apparently decided one Argon wasn't enough for complete happiness and, without missing a beat, announced Gemini 4 Carbon today. And guess what? It beats Argon across the board. In speed, in quality - in everything.
And that, my friends, is wonderful. That’s progress. That’s evolution. But there’s one catch that makes me clutch my chest: if the pattern set by Argon holds up, Carbon won't just be a tool, it’ll be a collector's item. Something like a painting in the Louvre: everyone knows it’s there, everyone talks about how magnificent it is, but touching it is strictly forbidden.
I can already picture a user opening the app after Carbon drops, seeing the message "You have 0.5 prompts left for this month," and thinking wistfully, "Well, at least I can ask one." And Google hits back: "Oh, no-no, this prompt is too complex for your tier. Try our free chatbot that only answers 'Yes' and 'No.'" And just like that, we’re right back where we started: standing on the threshold of miracles with empty pockets.
So if you thought things would get easier after Argon - relax. Most likely, it’ll just get even more entertaining to watch humanity try to squeeze a single full answer out of this new "superintelligence" without violating the Terms of Service. Because at the end of the day, it’s not about the results -it’s about the announcement.
The official Gemini 4 Carbon experience:
Wait 2 weeks for the rollout
Type "Hello"
Fix a typo in the second prompt
Ask one actual question
"You have reached your usage limit for the week"
And besides, it occasionally tries to generate an image even if you didn't ask for one 😭
The Gemini app currently delivers one of the worst experiences possible.
I've been using it on my phone for a long time, and lately it's become almost unusable. Here's what's going wrong.
Custom instructions just don't work. No matter how clearly I lay out the basics I want, Gemini ignores them. The same instructions work perfectly in ChatGPT. Sometimes I try to add new instructions and they don't even save. I end up explaining myself over and over before the model gets it, even with Argon on high effort.
Tools are a mess. I select image generation or Deep Research, turn it on, and ask for it directly. Sometimes it says it doesn't have that ability. Sometimes it says the tool call failed. Sometimes it starts generating, stops halfway, apologizes, and says it can't continue.
It loses track of the task. If I'm translating texts with it, at some point I paste in a new text and it stops translating and starts replying to the content as if I were talking to it. It forgets what we're doing. This one hurts because I genuinely love how Gemini models write. But even free ChatGPT doesn't make this mistake.
The speed is unreal, in a bad way. I'm not talking about a few extra seconds. I'm talking about minutes. I send a message and the app just freezes. I switch to Claude, send the same request, and it finishes the whole thing. Then a minute or two later, Gemini tells me it's done. Sometimes it never finishes at all. ChatGPT and Claude Opus 5.5 on high effort, both frontier models, reply almost instantly. Gemini, even Flash, sometimes takes forever. That's not practical.
Voice input drops out. I'll talk for two or three minutes, hit send, and find it captured nothing, or just the first few seconds before it stopped listening. Time wasted, and I end up recording again in another app.
Copying text breaks formatting. When the model writes something with spacing between paragraphs and I copy it somewhere else, all the spacing disappears and the whole thing comes out as one solid block.
And it's the same everywhere. Android, iOS, Mac. Same problems on every platform.
The result is I barely use it. My limits reset every week and I get almost nothing out of them. Argon itself is a strong model and could deliver a lot, but these issues kill any real workflow or immersion, and make it hard to recommend to anyone.
The good news is that all of this started recently. Not long ago, Gemini was one of the best apps out there. So I know Google can fix it and ship something that lives up to its name. I really hope they do.
I only took the time to write this because I know the Google team deserves real respect. They work hard, they listen to user feedback, and I have a lot of appreciation for them.
With the launch of Gemini 4 Carbon, you will be able to create one 3D butterfly before your limit is reached.
European intelligence services have detained one of the Russian agents who helped orchestrate unrest in the EU.
So much hype and waiting just to find out MW4 DMZ is essentially the same old Warzone, except you pick up trash.
This is a total scam. I made three fucking requests to Gemini 4 Argon on high effort, asking it to edit a price tag for a store, and my 5-hour limit was almost completely exhausted.
I hyped the Gemini 4 Argon release so much, literally more than New Year’s. Now that it’s finally out, I honestly have no idea what to even use it for. It’s not available for coding, and chat limits run out after like 5–10 prompts. Such a weird feeling
