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posted ago by AlfredicEnglishRules ago by AlfredicEnglishRules +13 / -1

Driving

Driving games haven't really improved for a long time. No mention of actual arcade game racing which is a lot of fun.

https://youtu.be/WVry84ACu0k

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.

https://initiald.sega.com/

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.

https://archive.ph/6i3FN

Fisker says it is ready to ship EVs.

https://archive.ph/W2omw

Tesla is a lot harder to beat than meets the eye. Deloreon is not progressing as expected.

https://archive.ph/9u5CR

Videogames

Bloodborne remade in unreal 5.

https://youtu.be/CJZ13-F26Co

Article on the fan remake of Bloodborne.

https://archive.ph/fsGaw

You can update steam from it's Half Life 2 install CDRom.

https://archive.ph/9kQl8

A history on the faces from Half Life 2.

https://archive.ph/zfxof

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.

https://youtu.be/eWRiDgWjTQk

Mods for Atomic Heart are already out.

https://archive.ph/LYrGu

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.

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Stinger-Report---FULL---27-2-2023.html?soid=1103295952658&aid=8pgsa1rRgM4

TTRPG

Wizards of the Coast say Dark Sun Badlands will likely not come back because of how problematic I can be.

https://archive.ph/Fi9aJ

Film

Steven Spielberg would like to make scary movies again.

https://archive.ph/L5Cwa

Fran Drescher wins award and tries to say everything she thinks is modern and popular. This includes hating vaccine mandates.

https://archive.ph/Q2W8i

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.

https://archive.ph/5VTIN

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.

https://archive.ph/yUB5t

An article on getting markerless motion capture to work for really cheap.

https://archive.ph/mH7Q2

Instructions on getting cinematic images from AI.

https://archive.ph/3wk6u

New grocery robotics systems to improve time of orders.

https://archive.ph/lkkGP

VR

Meta is not able to keep up with its own roadmap to success.

https://archive.ph/OUtso

Xiaomi shows off their new VR AR glasses. It looks like the glasses old folks wore in the 90's.

https://archive.ph/HpPDI

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.

https://archive.ph/2023.02.24-133702/https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/scientists-discover-lithium-replacement-that-may-revolutionize-ev-batteries-99-7-efficient-over-400-hours-of-use/ar-AA12LkSa

Build your own compact ultrasonic control.

https://archive.ph/HK4Kw

Quantum molycircuits and exotic nanotubes.

https://archive.ph/n4ZkY

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.

https://archive.ph/QAHCK

Will eco architecture save LA?

https://archive.ph/vjJVM

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.

https://archive.ph/cEHqV

The tweet the Mexican president made about the Aluxe.

https://archive.ph/xsxpI

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.

https://archive.ph/wD3Dr