Videogames
If you put a Like a Dragon: Ishin ad on your car, you get free games, swag, and perks from Sega.
Mortal Kombat in VR fan game.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUT0CNjS6Gw&feature=youtu.be
CRPG Baldurs Gate 3 looks nice.
Block storm is now free.
Final Fantasy and Castlevania creators discuss their games and legacy together. They also discuss being a designer in Japan and it's culture.
Pinball
A really cool looking pinball table.
VR AR
A new AR glasses are promoted as being able to see a big screen TV from 12 feet away!
PSVR2 has the chance to sell more than 5 million units. This will make it a success, and no you can't question it.
Tarkov Alpha release. It's a PvE style game with escape from Tarkov leanings.
TV and Film
HBO Max to become just Max.
When the Marvels fail, don't blame woke you jerks.
4 more Naruto episodes to be released.
Max Fleischer animations of Superman, the ones that made him fly, are being released on blueray.
SNL to be taken down by it's editors?
Adam Driver talks about his stint as a Marine, and how it helped him act as an action star. I think the interesting point he tries to make is most military personnel are human and deal with being human all the time.
Neither Disney nor Comcast want Hulu.
Comics
John Romita Jr comic strip compendium for spiderman.
Sports
Ivy League schools have price fixed things so athletes can't get scholarships.
Baseball games will be streamed for free, because the company that holds the contract is going bankrupt.
Propaganda
The Oscars were pretty dull. The movies expected to win won, and there was a ton of grandstanding and propaganda by witless wonders. For example, the editor award had a jab at Tucker Carlson because they all think the Jan 6th footage was edited to look peaceful.
Beware of violent protestors at Disneyland or Disney world. Fans of Splash Mountain are protesting why it's being taken down. Hint: not because it's old. Disney is saying the protests are violent, and all the websites are agreeing with them. The threat of losing access to Disney is that strong. In fact, the protestors are specifically not having a sit in at splash mountain for fear of that.
Trump is winning the GOP even though politico doesn't want him to. They're trying to make the tucker Carlson video release as some kind of win against Trump.
DEI director fired for questioning DEI.
Your statistics are false and not happening!!
Biden tries to drill oil in Alaska and save the environment.
This Twitter post was recommended to me by Twitter. It says Pence must be desperate because hes siding with lefties about Jan 6th. Then a lot of comments about how history will record them as right.
Hong Kong wants to use quarantine units for low income housing.
The religious right secrecy conspiracy to destroy trans rights. We have their emails now!
The Atlantic takes 4 articles and says this is why their opinions are right! Said articles are by the Atlantic as well.
Ok, this is a big one. Sextortion is a thing and has a lot of problems. I've had friends think they were sending sexy videos to their online boyfriends, only to find out the information is being posted online. This article is trying to downplay it and even say it's a conspiracy theory. Why? Because maybe the documentary might be sort of kind of wrong in one bit and it's all wrong therefore.
Propaganda: Russia
Xi and Putin meet, and plan to bring Ukraine in to negotiate peace. Yeah, you read that correctly.
Russian military complex unable to sell more weapons because they are in use.
Propaganda: Men
Instacart to ban men shoppers because a tik tok Karen didn't get her order right.
Dad's want to be part of their families again instead of work drones.
AI
There is a news source entirely run by ChatGPT. Get a voice and fake human, and you have regular news.
AI costs a lot of money to run and maintain.
AI created Fonts are made fun of by the people about to lose their jobs to it.
Audiobooks by AI are starting to win. Honestly, if I knew how, I would do this list with AI audio, and some random background. Then I would post it to YouTube and see what happens.
The next world power will control AI. So says a guy with nice credentials who just wrote a book about it.
Medical tech doesn't have as many images to recognize various diseases. Technicians just guess based on what they see. Because of that the AI needs to be steered by those who know. So, a semi controlled AI is being proposed for medical science. This won't backfire at all.
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TTRPG
A game ten years in the making has amazing art, and every political slant from the last ten years as well.
Tech
Using AI and deep learning to control drones better.
A multi card storage system for your computer or network can hold up to 168 Terabytes at 31 GBs a second.
Tech: Amazon
Rivian wants out of its exclusive EV contract with Amazon.
Amazon kills the magazine industry by not subscribing to them anymore.
Tech and Videogames
More realistic lighting and reflections coming soon. An add on for Cyberpunk will give it even more amazing graphics.
Pi powered microconsole that works like a Chromecast or Roku.
Tutorial
Unreal Engine photo realism in 10 minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgvO83CwAI
The new Lumen Reflection for Unreal Engine 5.3.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8IImj3Aqpvs
Software architecture documentation
This reads like a tutorial, but feels like it's telling you to give your personal information to ChatGPT for other reasons.
Ah, ok. That makes sense. Games like Ultima have been influential for decades, and it's sad how much they've been forgotten.