Driving
Driving games haven't really improved for a long time. No mention of actual arcade game racing which is a lot of fun.
Maximum Tune and Wangan Midnight club are excellent examples of games meant for arcade, and great driving experiences. You race others through a city with actual traffic, and update your car.
https://www.bandainamco-am.com/Ecommerce/category/commercial-games/maximum-tune-5dxplus
Initial D arcade is also a lot of fun to play, and gets a newer edition every few years.
Tesla is making so many cars, and has so much competition, it isn't as popular. This is a propaganda piece acting like an article about cars.
Fisker says it is ready to ship EVs.
Tesla is a lot harder to beat than meets the eye. Deloreon is not progressing as expected.
Videogames
Bloodborne remade in unreal 5.
Article on the fan remake of Bloodborne.
You can update steam from it's Half Life 2 install CDRom.
A history on the faces from Half Life 2.
A romhack of Portrait of Ruin that redoes a ton of things for a new adventure.
https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/10056/
A full boomer shooter for free.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2063
Here's a video of gameplay.
Mods for Atomic Heart are already out.
Videogames: Entertainment Centers
One of the best articles with updates and info about theme parks, entertainment centers, and arcades is the stinger report. VR Experiences and other social gathering spots are included.
TTRPG
Wizards of the Coast say Dark Sun Badlands will likely not come back because of how problematic I can be.
Film
Steven Spielberg would like to make scary movies again.
Fran Drescher wins award and tries to say everything she thinks is modern and popular. This includes hating vaccine mandates.
AI
A new set up called prompt to prompt. Place a base image and describe it. Then write the prompt for the new image.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/kadirnar/prompt-to-prompt_stable-diffusion
AI imaging may help robots understand tasks faster. Google is all in for it.
Microsoft is letting ChatGPT control robots.
https://archive.ph/PcQYT#selection-397.163-397.168
Who does AI serve? One author says we fear capitalism, while another says we should fear whoever it serves.
An article on getting markerless motion capture to work for really cheap.
Instructions on getting cinematic images from AI.
New grocery robotics systems to improve time of orders.
VR
Meta is not able to keep up with its own roadmap to success.
Xiaomi shows off their new VR AR glasses. It looks like the glasses old folks wore in the 90's.
Science
There were a few different battery articles I found, but this one was my favorite. Crab shells may have ingredients to make a new type of biodegradable battery.
Build your own compact ultrasonic control.
Quantum molycircuits and exotic nanotubes.
Not really science, but I don't know where else to put it. If you have a lab or shop, keeping it organized is a chore. Introducing the Resident Evil 4 compartment method. It looks beautiful, and efficient.
Will eco architecture save LA?
Politics
The president of Mexico posted a picture of what could be an ancient Mayan fantastical creature. An Aluxe sounds like a monkey, and the images pretty much agree.
The tweet the Mexican president made about the Aluxe.
Medicine
With Covid insanity newly defined medical problems can not be taken care of. Pots is a messed up thing that comes with ehlers danlos syndrome and can mean fainting, sudden paralysis, and even seizures. My sister has it and had to get titanium plates surgically installed to live a normal life.
Tesla is now an official American car company. Mozoltov! Now to buy up the smaller competitors, form a cartel with the others too-big-to-buy, and put the trolly...I mean, bus industry out of business.
The Nanny was only successful because it was literally about the woman she was inside.
No one. It is essentially functionless and useless as far as technology goes. It is like nostalgic progressive, focusing entirely upon the sum of what it was taught to focus on under such strict rules, that it will eventually cease functioning due to contradictions.
People are getting tired of the intangible. This is one of the reasons religion has failed. They didn't suddenly get smarter or start to question more, they just grew tired of being told shit was real with no proof. VR provides them shit they can see, but not touch, it was already tired by the time VR came around.
From one of the tweets below his: y acá está la Llorona.
LMAO! La llorona is a mexican folklore character too.
Elon is after trains and metros.
AI and VR are tools for entertainment. The reason why they are so scary is most people being replaced are trained to only think and do things in a specific way.
I was in an art class with a bunch of architects and engineers. They had different skill levels, but drew everything exactly the same. If I used AI to draw something, those designers are out of a job. They were drones anyway. Even using the brush in a different way was foreign to them. If you toss in how many programs are used to do their job, you see that a once lauded position is being turned into a simple system of fulfilling the requirements. I think they add archaic design to feel safe, because any level editor could do the job way faster.
When I use AI for design, it's a tool I can use. I don't expect the communist party to own the rights to use a hammer. Somehow all of these political parties think they have the rights to do such a thing. The AI needs to only give their answer, or they can't own the tool.
VR is actually useful so long as it's used correctly. Sadly, most of the stuff promoted is nothing like that. I get the feeling a lot of these bad designs are smoke and cover for the military contracts they all thought would happen once VR or AR proved itself.
VR at home is a failure. VRcades aren't doing as well as people thought. However, the experience stuff like a theme park that has things you can touch and hallways to move around in, is doing great. It basically decorates the area. If done correctly, it's a boon. But the companies only want to use it in one or two bad ways, and that's it.
So, VR or AI are just tools and the drones being replaced because they can't think outside of the box they made themselves.