Social Media
Tik Tok blocks man who has a new diet. He orders McDonald's and cuts the order in half. He lost weight, and proved it could work.
Biden demands Tik Tok be sold or banned.
Social Media: Meta
Meta was collecting workers like Pokemon and not using them… like Pokemon.
More on meta and their pokemon.
Meta suddenly pro AI and not Metaverse.
Propaganda
Robinhood stops money coming to those who bet against banks.
Please is now rude.
Film and TV
Mandalorian season 3 has lower numbers than book of Boba Fett.
Babylon 5 remake is unknown because of all the rework at CW. Also, the actor for Sheridan is awesome.
There is a Power Rangers show coming for Netflix that stars some of the first members of the team. It's part of the 30th anniversary celebration.
Zach Snyder hints that his Snyderverse may not be over as hints of a film with Darkseid appear on his social network postings.
New Superman reboot announced. The story synopsis has also been released.
Willow has been canceled after one season.
Also could be in Propaganda…. Can Thailand Gay romance be the next K Drama?
Comics
Mignolaverse story of Pinocchio coming out.
TTRPG
Deadliest D&D characters.
Map making programs.
Videogames
Game archivists fear the ending of Wii U and 3DS network games. I've posted about a few of them.
Fortnite tricked younger players to spend Parent's money. The billion dollar game owes hundreds of millions.
A history of Looking Glass Studios
My Nintendo offering cool stuff for Metroid Prime Remaster
Epic marketplace had movements stolen from Dark Souls on sale.
Terminal Velocity, a game from the 90's, just got an update. It was a space flight over a planet style game on PC. I haven't played it, but now I want to.
Infernax is getting multiplayer.
Warhammer 40k boomer shooter game Boltgun is going to be released soon.
Loot in games has gotten annoying.
Toxic Avenger game has been announced.
Myst FPS is a good satire.
IO interactive to make original James Bond Game.
Criterion veterans create their own AAA studio. Hopefully we get a new Burnout.
AR VR
Mice playing VR is now a thing.
Theme Parks
Universal has a blog announcing the theme change to it's Theme Park name. It's an interesting read on where the company thinks the future will be.
Disney Stocks tank
Retail
Target tries a new store design.
Target is closing multiple locations.
AI
MidJourney has a print magazine now, with art from it's discord channel.
Using AI to render an FX scene can speed up times and help do complex things easier.
Inside AI rooms at Nvidia
A museum had an AI edition of Girl with a Pearl Necklace and the art world went nuts
Someone made a simple Doom clone using ChatGPT.
PowerPoint will make your slides for you with ChatGPT.
Tech
DreamWorks releases their rendering program for open source use.
Check out this robotic system filming a small convention in Seattle.
Science
New astronaut suits!
Gravitational waves might be from space time breaks.
The past is influenced by the future. Retrocausality is a big and weird study. Is it pseudo science? We won't know without proper testing.
Raising children
Nerf wars are still happening
Oh, I see.
Perception and reality tend to take a while for the two to meet. Most rich upperclass types still say the same about McDonalds. They want to prove their greatness more than deal with reality, and live in the bubble they created to do that.