At launch the X and S were $500 and $300 respectively. A rather significant price difference, but I think MS could have possibly split the difference between the two and counted on higher volumes for a slightly better component cost and ended up with a $400-450 launch price for a single console.

I don’t know if Lemmy has the equivalent of r/blunderyears but I’m calling it right now… the next 10 to 15 years are going to be peak embarrassing photo time as zoomers start turning 35 or so and they post their photos when they were late teens or early 20s.

All the software developers will say “there’s GIMP” and then anyone who’s actually used GIMP will laugh in their face, amd now you see why so much of the open source community is such shit.

how is this so accurate?

Easy. All these people grew up on the internet looking at the same websites, reading the same meme, laughing at the same threads.