AR VR
A small sample size (103 participants) proves that companies should hire people based on how they respond to a VR job simulator. Also, gamers tend to do better because they can organize and multitask better.
Film TV
Zach Snyder has shown more photos, and it really does look like the Snyderverse will continue somehow.
Ben Affleck started drinking because of Snyderverse and has no desire to go back.
Actor for Doctor Who, who played Rory Williams, says he may return to his role if the other two actors he worked with return.
Disney
Disney will be going through more job cuts and financial cut backs.
4,000 Disney employees to be fired in the next two weeks. Also their is a hiring freeze.
All Marvel shows and movies have been put on hold or given a release later release date.
Star Wars considered even woker as new series has intimacy coaches. Especially sad because it's going into the distant Star Wars past.
ToonTown at Disneyland reopens and is more inclusive.
Comics
Lord Drakkon gets his own Power Rangers in the comics.
Videogames
Doom Eternal as a Halo Mod looks awesome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-QM761c5c
Two classic but forgotten PC games are getting a remake.
Videogames: Classics fans
You can remove difficulties in Resident Evil 4 by leaving the room and coming back in.
Pokemon dominates 3DS and Wii U online sales before the end of the purchasing program ending.
Sweden has Pacman hidden in it's subway system.
Great Point and Click games to try out.
Videogames: Business
3D Realms has started to produce games, and grow in the last few years. They're even growing the amount of people working for them.
Atari acquires more classic arcade game IPs.
Microsoft has promised Call of Duty to everything that distributes videogames. Sony still not happy.
Videogames: Online Based
Star Citizen gets big update.
Suicide squad won't drop Live Service Elements
Videogames: Indie Game Making
A push for Godot.
A 3D pixel show off in Unity.
Check out these pictures and video of Layers of Fear.
Arcade
Bandai Namco to open large barcade with new games and cool design.
Driving
The first electric bike dirt circuit in England is opening soon. The area council didn't want petrol because of a noise ordinance.
Volkswagen shows off new cheaper electric car that was designed by Tesla.
Propaganda
The US continues using drones over the Ukraine and Baltic region. I'm waiting for all robot armies fighting each other.
US based air carriers want exclusive rights to transport people and things over Russia.
Propaganda: Donald Trump
Donald Trump posts on Facebook for the first time in years.
House Democrats still trying to nail Trump for something.
Propaganda: Sex Changes and Abortions
New Mexico governor signs bill to make abortions and sex changes a right.
Which states restrict sex change stuff? They missed Florida. What is Oregon doing there?
Propaganda: Housing
More Americans are buying houses in Europe because it's cheaper. Sure, 5 to 7 people show an increase, but it's hardly something to write a long article about. Especially since most of them will be moving back soon.
Housing in the US is so bad only two cities are considered affordable.
Finance Business
The 3 day in office rule is being disproven. Too many people in the company means each variant overwhelms a simple set of rules that a CEO or HR director wants.
Employees at SVB blame out of office workers for banks failure.
Super Commuters, or people who live several states away from work, and commute to work by plane.
Facebook has entered the for profit part of investing. They don't have growth investments and must now make money. So many laundering fronts did this, they would invest in a company, and then drop it into the real world. My favorite is Sierra was making a new FMV style Point and Click game and the creators were being told by their new owners how to stay profitable. The artists revolted and cried because they had no idea the previous games sales has been fake the entire time. We're seeing this now with social media. I also want to point out the writing for this article is sub GPT-4 ability. One paragraph was entirely to say 21,000 jobs had been lost.
Finance: Women
Women are realizing that saving for retirement is a lot more work than expected.
This is supposed to be about sports, but the interesting bit is the state ordered Financial Training. I know tons of women who haven't had any, and were told to get work and take over the world, but no training. Now courts are starting to order it.
Tech
Rick rolled by drones forming a QR code above a city? You deserve it.
Experts warn that brain interface with computers will cause singularity. What if it doesn't and we end up with humans playing pranks on each other's minds?
Check out this invisible turntable design.
Schools
LA is falling apart, and the schools are arguing over money.
LA parents are shocked to learn about teacher strike.
Libraries are barren because no one wants to go through the review process of the books. So, they got rid of everything. It's great promotion on how evil the opposition are, and deflects from their own laziness. This reminds me of the No Child Left Behind act, which was so badly implemented at schools people dropped it.
Antiwoke laws are blocked by court order in Florida.
AI
More on the basic Doom clone made by ChatGPT.
It's not every day that Microsoft is more robust and capable than another. AI in office suites vs Google is one of those moments.
Generative AI is doing a lot. There's quite a bit of fart sniffing in this article, especially for Google.
A new method with very little actual description, but access to the code.
DallE-2 can be used to scan brains.
Stability AI has a new truck with generative images. Just use an image and see what will be made.
Glaze, a program to stop AI from stealing work, is just as dumb and easily broken as you can imagine. The artist vs AI War continues. Did you know Brittanica has a website that is basically an online version of their encyclopedia?
Zero Shot text based video editing.
https://fate-zero-edit.github.io/
AI does not use human vision.
AI: MidJourney
The new update looks amazing. The fingers problem has been mostly fixed. Photorealism is a real thing now.
Midjourney v4 vs v5.
https://the-decoder.com/midjourney-v5-is-now-available-v4-comparison/
Even more v4 vs v5 pics.
Space Travel
A new probe is being sent to Titan in 2027. It will be based on the robots from Mars missions.
Spaceship for Mars is being tested for orbit soon. SpaceX is on plan to send martian colonies out.
Virgin Orbit to stop missions until further notice.
What if the person was non binary?
I don't think human computer connections will turn us into the Borg. I expect something more akin to UIs that take brain commands. The human can still move around as wanted. We will have a new type of junky that never gets off the internet, but otherwise we should be ok.
Not that kind of non-binary. Just means more than on/off or zero/one, which is what our current computers are based on.
It could turn us into Borg, or other non-evil Transhuman versions of a machine-man marriage. Could be good, could be evil. Tech itself is neutral. There are quite a few "evolutionary" paths we could take. "Regress to monkey/animals", stunted/fixed current human, machine-man marriage of individualistic or collectivist, bioengineering.
The non binary thing was a joke.
I think a lot of it is based on ideals. I'm watching old school Who right now, and every computer has the same voice and problems. None of that came to pass.