Do you have any idea how much time it takes to scroll from one area to another with random links? This is actually near the end of placing. I forgot GDC was happening this week. Comments and placements for Nvidia stuff seemed simple. Then I saw the rest. Doing this is fun, but I need to organize it better, and do less. I have an actual job, and hobbies you know.
Videogames
Resident Evil 4 kids anime presented by Capcom.
How a Disney Animator used 3DS programs to make fun cartoons.
Legend of Zelda book now downloadable on Nintendo website.
Spellcraft is a Real Time Battler that combines MOBA and tactical strategy games. The creators made Diablo and StarCraft sequels, so they have some experience.
Aliens: Dark Descent demo trailer
Tintin the game.
Lego Racing 2K. That speculative Lego Kart racer is real.
Finally, a competitor to The Sims.
Games to check out on steam.
Atlas Fallen is an open world game in a desert.
Silent Hill 2 remake is almost done, but Konami is holding off release
Halo Infinite update stops video cards with 4GB or less to not work.
Fans Speculate on the new Nintendo console that has to be revealed any minute now.
The Settlers is delayed until further notice.
Animal Crossing has an end date. It's 2060.
Videogames: Classics
A bad retelling of Ganbare Goemon. They miss a ton of games. There were multiple Super Nintendo games that never made it stateside. But the writer only played a few and thinks that's it. It lets me talk about a favorite series though.
Lori and Corey Cole on their long videogame history.
Jake Solomon probably won't make something like XCom again.
Getting videogames through cereal boxes.
An Indie darling and it's creator are making a return.
Videogames: Business
Consoles dropped 4.2% in sales last year, and raised 1.8% for gaming PCs.
Videogames: Mods and Fan Made
Someone made a mod for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion that has a memorial for his deceased mother.
Flying Shark remake for the Amiga.
Mass Effect from an isometric view.
A doom mod blows your modern mind. Especially if you read stuff like House of Leaves.
Samba De Amigo Japanese only released version gets English patch.
Epic
Epic had a big GDC presentation. This is the outline.
It turns out Epic owns a lot of game making stuff and websites for that stuff. So, they're making it into one place called FAB.
The Fortnight Unreal Engine has been released
More on the Editor.
Epic will share 40% of it's income to fortnight creators.
Epic: Unreal Engine 5 Demos and Games
MetaHuman
Driving through a rainforest. The car is real, and was being tested in the engine to see how it handled. There is a procedural design bit that even blew my wife's mind.
Infitisimals demo
King Arthur: Legends Rise
Sensua 2, live response animation.
Lords of the Fallen
Themed Experiences
What's become popular in the experience world.
Tron will have a fee to ride it. Disney is starting to charge for the more popular rides.
Comics
The oldest newspaper comic? There's some good ones in here, so it's worth a perusal.
Books
A new illustrated the Hobbit is coming out.
Propaganda
Justin Roiland's official tweet on the entire canceling of his character.
Biden vetoed the anti ESG bill. CNN says that republic cans are stopping retirement plans.
House prepares to overturn veto in vote on ESG requirements for savings. It likely won't win says the article.
White House strikes against 'disruptive Journalists' and now it's Dem who own it, the press agrees with the white house.
NAACP prepared to advise against living in Florida.
Friend sent me this. Apparently it was part of an official school email. The dangers of misinformation. Tons of bad info.
Fauci admits he was wrong, but you're evil for not following him anyway.
Is working from home working?
Return to the city! The planners promise to be nice… this time…
Reporter sues Fox news to prove she was coerced to say Dominion Voting was evil.
History is taught as if it was a progression of brilliant men in a vacuum. This is why it's so scandalous that Einstein knew people who were discussing the same stuff as him. There is a lot more back and forth than the narrative allows. This article takes it way past that and into the idea that Vietnam helped science by merely existing.
Remember how we were told the water was safe to drink with all the extra chemicals in it? President Biden just said there were problems, changed the laws about them, and is being praised.
Florida to outlaw fake digital currencies.
Remote jobs are working. More people are being productive and golfing.
Propaganda: Archive Sites Archive sites like the one I use are going to the supreme court. Publishing house Hatchet is the one suing them.
The internet archive proved they did not harm book sales.
In fact, the sites could help improve sales.
https://archive.ph/3BOBK Propaganda: China
China refills Russia's arsenal.
China may prefer TikTok be banned than taken over by US.
https://archive.ph/I1X4t Propaganda: Sex
A Drag and Donuts event was canceled at an Orlando highschool.
Disney will be having a big lgbtbbq soon.
Florida may ban talking about periods in elementary school!
Rolling Stone tried to cover up why a reporter was arrested
Propaganda: Donald Trump
Donald Trump just got the grand jury to back down. They're not saying this of course, but he walked away a free man.
The city had barricades put in for fear of protestors.
Fake AI images of Donald Trump going to jail have been spread online.
More on the slow backing off by the DA.
The crowds of protestors for his arrest were more than the protestors against it.
Propaganda: Finance
It looks like we fall, hit a bump for a moment, and then fall again. I've been seeing these types of articles for months. JP Morgan thinks we're doomed.
Speaking of JP Morgan, it seems their warehouse full of nickel was just bags of rocks.
Here's an average article I find that is constantly yelling Doom!
You know how Bob Iger returned to Disney? Amazon might do that with Bezos.
The Feds raised the rates, and then acknowledged they can't do much.
American Banks are missing a lot of money. Cue south park scene at bank.
Bed Bath and beyond are closing stores, but retail is doing way better.
Propaganda: Housing
Gen Z is buying houses earlier and living it up. They're not like millennials who had a housing crisis and recession to deal with.
Housing sales up as prices drop. Hopefully.
Pods for the homeless!!
Highrises aren't getting funded as people flee cities. The article doesn't say that last part.
Film TV
George Lucas only cared that things worked consistently in the story, not in real world science. The other articles are about droids.
How to make a cheap Top Gear like YouTube channel.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XrC2TfoYIBU
The Rock got what he wanted for Black Adam, and is now fired. This is some A level propaganda that makes me think WB sent the movie out to die.
Watch these films through your VR goggles. Such a weird little article.
All the new Live action versions of Disney stuff is for people of color!
Already mentioned in forum. Victoria Alonso left the company quickly after a 17 year career. She was in charge of a lot of post production work for Marvel. The first one to get the ax as the films fail.
MMPR Once and Always trailer
Redoing Carl has made the Simpsons better.
The big Snyderverse reveal is very disappointing and non existent.
Streaming companies still need to sell bluerays.
AR VR
Oculus Publishing comes out of the shadows. It's the publishing and service side of VR for Meta.
HTC has made a self tracker that is light and can be used for MR and VR systems. Indie games where you explore a house might actually let you explore an area that looks like a house through the goggles.
Some new AR glasses.
The omnidirectional VR set up is being released for home and family consumers.
The Metaverse won't let itself be cool.
Science
Battery powered and low weight satellite with $20 processor proves space can be done on the cheap.
There is a magnetic anomaly in South America and drifting slightly onto Africa that doesn't affect us and our day to day lives, but makes satellites in that spot go haywire.
Watch a satellite hit an asteroid.
James Webb picked up some cool stuff.
Soccer Playing Robot. Bipedal human sized one.
Hybernating in space travel is possible.
You can grown plants in Moon dirt.
A computer from mouse brain tissue.
AI
Coke gets in AI as promotion.
Microsoft now has DallE in its browser, web search, and chat.
Mocap with AI
The Stanford AI was pulled down, because of misinformation.
Hyper networks
How to use ControlNet.
The promethean moment of AI and how it will change us.
MidJourney fixed the finger problem. Now to fix the weird looking cars.
AI: Texture Creation
Creating textures with a new text to image program.
A different texture making method.
https://archive.ph/vDtu4 AI: Videogames
Unity with an official ChatGPT add on would change game design forever.
Using ChatGPT and AI image makers, someone created a flappy bird clone.
AI won't create videogames. Even though it has. It didn't publish and let you play it though. Look at the giant industry, and how small AI is. It couldn't possibly destroy that. That's what the article says anyway.
https://archive.ph/SNzmG AI: Stupid People
Wired is lying about AI.
This article is full of stupid people buzzwords. Enjoy.
https://archive.ph/csY2u AI: AI created videos
An AI version of Angry VideoGame Nerd
Everything in the video from voice, to what it says, the videos seen, and how they're placed together was from AI prompts. It's crap, but give it six months. Also, the future of memes is revealed.
Stable Diffusion creators have a program to do text to video, but aren't releasing it yet.
AI: Photoshop is in trouble
How to AI yourself into images. Remember Photoshop? Now do the same with AI and less annoyance.
Coloring black and white photos with AI.
Improving photos with AI.
Tech
Linux on the Dreamcast.
Gaming monitor sales are down.
How to use a Raspberry Pico to unbrick your Wii U.
3D printed SuperYacht
Cars
The history of the Chrysler Airflow
Ford did not do well with EVs this year.
Consoles have a lot of limited special editions. So do cars.
Crazy People A rich investor bought an Italian ghost village and fixed it up.
A man hopes to live underwater for 100 days. He also expects health improvements.
https://archive.ph/KN8Wa Nvidia
Nvidia is having a conference right now with tons of presentations and announcements. It's very obvious they want to move up the ladder, not destroy based on who was invited to speak. Here is the main talking points they have for the conference.
Here's an outline of things they are working on.
Here is a twin model of a BMW factory.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g78YHYXXils
Will Nvidia stay on top?
AT&T now uses Nvidia AI.
Nvidia: Languages
CV CUDA is now being used by several other AI imaging programs.
Interact with your interface using voice commands.
Nvidia: Hardware
The next GPU might have Quantum computing.
A new chip creation system makes it much easier, and has some really nice spe
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