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Videogames

The top publishers of last year. The archive was weird so here's the regular one.

https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/2023-game-publisher-rankings

Still getting updates on Kickstarter for Bloodstained. This one was about playing videogames with some of the investors.

https://archive.ph/3aLuI

A game based on the Last Ronin is being made. The comic was about the remaining Ninja Turtle trying to rebuild his clan.

https://archive.ph/2VdOH

Witchfire has a way more complex magic system. The creators made Painkiller, so combine magic with that and imagine the possibility.

https://archive.ph/fRx51

Gollum is releasing this year. It lets you play the movie character as he tries to get to the ring on his own. It's more of a Serkis event if you know what I'm Tolkien about.

https://archive.ph/F6ZZY

Lords of the Fallen sequel will have the exact same name.

https://archive.ph/rc0LU

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon collection in Physical format is coming out soon. I will be getting that.

https://archive.ph/YrHkt

Lancer Tactics is a videogame version of the TTRPG.

https://archive.ph/Kaa8R

Videogames: mods and Fan made

Star Fox with 15 new levels and co-op.

https://archive.ph/bzOo7

Grove Street has been recreated in… drum roll please… Fortnite.

https://archive.ph/Fm33D

Fans are archiving the digital versions of all the online games for 3DS and Wii U. Seeing as both allow for Sad cards, getting them to play on original equipment shouldn't be hard.

https://archive.ph/8JPDM

Videogames: Counter Strike 2

The game has just been announced.

https://archive.ph/wqjPn

Counter Strike 2 makes the best Molotov Cocktails.

https://archive.ph/kyrLF

Videogames: Business

GameStop is profitable again.

https://archive.ph/Gedfs

Atari Acquires Night Dive studio. This is cool to me, because Night Dive used to show off their games at indie events in Seattle and Portland.

https://archive.ph/WWdlN

Videogames: Microsoft Activision merger

UK regulator approves the Microsoft and Activision merger. Expect Clippy to appear in the next Call of Duty.

https://archive.ph/uSH9L

UK Watchdog now approves merger

https://archive.ph/nMiFt

Videogames: Creation

Tim Sweeney believes the Metaverse is real. He should, Roblox and Fortnite are the best versions of one.

https://archive.ph/IW6qv

USD command language being used to make Gran Turismo. It's a standard command script for movie editing.

https://archive.ph/ywujz

Unreal Engine Metahuman show reel.

https://youtu.be/48t6maRwFYc

Unity is introducing AI programs to help in the process of game making. I would need way more space on my computer to do this. Not a joke, I have Unreal Engine on a portable hard drive right now.

https://create.unity.com/ai-beta

Flight Simulator will soon get humans moving around. Why they haven't ported all this info to a driving simulator is beyond me.

https://archive.ph/t13ST

Adobe, Epic and Autodesk are partnering to make better game making programs.

https://archive.ph/5gaJz Videogames: MoCap

Film on a regular camera and get great results with the new Nvidia set up.

https://archive.ph/RbiTQ

More on the Nvidia set up.

https://archive.ph/aRLA4

Videogames: History

SEGA arcade games used defense contract rendering hardware and programs.

https://archive.ph/56DTw

Kirby Creators answer questions like, "Where do things go after Kirby eats them," and, "what do his insides look like".

https://archive.ph/JZ72T


TTRPG

Warhammer aims for non fans in next big edition. The article makes sure to mention Nazis.

https://archive.ph/aDiir


AR VR

Goggle sales are expected to be lower this year.

https://archive.ph/b08Wi

Metaverse Propaganda

https://archive.ph/nL5OJ

Metaverse is just VR says Meta.

https://archive.ph/rLv6Q

Better hand tracking let's you touch menus instead of using controllers.

https://archive.ph/IOytf

Work at Atari in the late 70's. Then fall into the games. Cool idea, but voice actor is bad.

https://youtu.be/tfwwPhoTPlU


AI

Can you run an AI Image creator through your web browser? Well yeah, of course.

https://archive.ph/RupfS

Professor figures out he can use AI to cover his lectures for him.

https://archive.ph/qNG0i

AI Chat programs compared.

https://archive.ph/2jpr9

A guy thinks Apple will win the AI Wars even though it hasn't been playing. Heck, it's still got AR goggles to release.

https://archive.ph/YpyzH

Ablation instead of training is a new attempt to copy another style.

https://archive.ph/6XeGK

Check out how this video was changed by AI filters. I really want to learn this, but haven't had the time or money yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/120l1nm/i_changed_style_of_the_video_using_stable/

An AI art exhibit. It looks like it's a promotional stunt for a documentary on the subject. Art as a money laundering scheme will not get weirder.

https://archive.ph/hXkCy

Canva says they're going full AI ahead to compete with Adobe.

https://archive.ph/gcHZm

We now have text to video creations. Try it out.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/damo-vilab/modelscope-text-to-video-synthesis

AI: Business There's a lot of money going into AI right now.

https://archive.ph/LU5Qg

Adobe and Yahoo have figured out the answer to 'stealing art'. It's in the EULA to use the art as wanted.

https://archive.ph/fSmO0

Amazon and Nvidia team up to make better hardware for AI.

https://archive.ph/sJuAu

AI: Chat GPT

ChatGPT has limited access to the internet.

https://archive.ph/JTNF1

Another limited internet article.

https://archive.ph/hL6RT

ChatGPT closed down because it was revealing personal info about other users.

https://archive.ph/x0HbQ

Android Chat now has Bard

https://archive.ph/J1bmr

Mozilla wants to make their own ChatGPT.

https://archive.ph/mftY1

AI: Bard

Google president says he expects Bard to make mistakes.

https://archive.ph/nK0nv


Tech

Carnegie Mellon University keeps doing amazing stuff with WiFi. It's a video, so I'm doing a direct link.

https://twitter.com/TheRundownAI/status/1639334310711787536?t=rSfBWv8yi9C9PAPlAr_2wA&s=09

Gordon Moore of Moore's Law fame has passed away.

https://archive.ph/EaV5o

The reason why you can't use a regular GPU to do multiple streams of video or render several AI images? The code for your card won't let you. It can do it, but Nvidia doesn't allow it.

https://archive.ph/D6A6c

Boeing can't seem to get it's commercial space tourism vessel up.

https://archive.ph/8gErX

Tech: Blender

Blender add on for SDF modeling. It means you can take stuff away with a shape.

https://archive.ph/8T4Uv

A blender add on creates a hand drawn outline of characters.

https://archive.ph/8BlP9


Film TV

Check out this illumination intro.

https://youtu.be/mH4BQfwBxrk

Cinema Stocks rise as streaming companies start releasing movies to theaters.

https://archive.ph/zOA6P


Themed Experiences and Parks*

Disney is getting rid of their parks dedicated to teaching about subjects and turning them into regular Theme Parks. More Avatar, more Pixar, and more stupidity. Why? Because they want to make more money and have reached that limit even though the parks are even fuller than ever.

https://archive.ph/UwfpR


Comics

WAND is a part of SHIELD. It's the magic department in fact. I doubt the writers know how to use it, but the set up seems great.

https://archive.ph/QHRnD


Propaganda

World Athletics Council bans Transgender athletes.

https://archive.ph/jJVzA

British Museum refuses to give back items in their collections. A long article on why this is evil continues.

https://archive.ph/PYffk

The Mary Sue compares the Harry Potter game to Elden Ring and says ER is way more popular. In fact, people have stopped playing the Harry Potter one. As if they all played it and finished around the same time…

https://archive.ph/ACUsa

What is woke? A writer asks another writer and doesn't get the answer she wants and then says woke is anti racism. This article is being spread by lefty friends.

https://archive.ph/e0z07

All that global climate change has ended California's drought.

https://archive.ph/fEpva

US sends airstrike into Syria because a US worker was killed.

https://archive.ph/6hu2u

Propaganda: Banks

JP Morgan are accused of stealing jewelry.

https://archive.ph/SZzqw

US Banks have $1.7 Trillion in unrealized losses

https://archive.ph/Q9iQb

Deutsch Banks drops 9% because it can't insure all it's debts.

https://archive.ph/lrlKB

Propaganda: Business

Companies are requiring fired workers not to complain about them in contracts.

https://archive.ph/8chIW

Accenture slashes 19,000 jobs.

https://archive.ph/Eai9j

NPR to fire 10% of their business and 3 podcasts!

https://archive.ph/CYSgM

An Amazon top brass rejected a letter to allow out of office workers, to appear to be tough.

https://archive.ph/hNM7w

California is passing a bill that punishes price gouging oil companies. Expect said companies to leave California or comply maliciously.

https://archive.ph/svr3b

Propaganda: China

China and US fight over deep sea internet cables.

https://archive.ph/olifn

CEO of TikTok hopes to stay in US.

https://archive.ph/yVAaB

Propaganda: LA Teacher Strike

LA parents don't know what to do during teacher strike. They completely forgot what they did during Covid.

https://archive.ph/qWTDs

The deal was found a day after the strike. This seems so silly now. The entire thing was planned, prepped and even treated like a yearly thing.

https://archive.ph/5n7Sq

Propaganda: Florida Schools

Race left out on story of Rosa Parks in a Florida School thing. Therefore Florida is racist evil. Teachers complying badly is not a question.

https://archive.ph/VqVxS

A principal in Florida was fired for not telling parents the 6th graders would be looking at the statue of David. The full frontal thing. Not even hard to fix this problem. This is the third principal in as many years.

https://archive.ph/NGovk

Bookshops are selling banned books as one night stands. People line up to buy these books. They feel like they are rebelling against the man. All of them are middle aged or older and have no clue what's in these books.

https://archive.ph/pOFS5

Clowns have a convention in Florida. No, that's not an Euphemism, it's actual clowns.

https://archive.ph/zvl3G

Propaganda: Russia Ukraine

Volunteers to the war front are full of themselves. One little note, a Marine Colonel brought US tech to use. He's facing a possible court martial, but I get the feeling he's a scapegoat.

https://archive.ph/9MhNJ

Russian Orthodox church shares blame for violence in Ukraine.

https://archive.ph/XquEP

Propaganda: Donald Trump

Donald Trump has soo many investigations you guys. He's going down for real this time.

https://archive.ph/Jp21L

DA who wants to prosecute Donald Trump says house GOP asking him what he is doing is impeding his investigation.

https://archive.ph/2d5Y1

More on the DA. The House GOP wanted him to testify on his investigation, and show the receipts.

https://archive.ph/DoXhJ

The same DA says they will not be arresting Donald Trump. It's False, he has no intention to… anymore.

https://archive.ph/FeAf0

Donald Trump took to Social Media to complain about the dumb investigations being done on him. The ones where every news channel can't wait to tell you how illegal and dangerous it is. That same media is abhorred that Trump calls them evil.

https://archive.ph/zQTeH

Propaganda: Canadian Immigration

Canada grew by a million people in one year from Immigration alone.

https://archive.ph/clFdz

The US catches people trying to sneak in through Canada and get a free ticket to immigration department in Texas.

https://archive.ph/g58C4

US and Canada reach deal to reject asylum seekers.

https://archive.ph/3IqmQ


Cars

Remember the awesome demo of a Rivian in the jungle on Unreal Engine 5? The real life version isn't as cool.

https://archive.ph/NSoza

Pagani show off their new SUV.

https://archive.ph/C2VbL


Weird

This Velociraptor has a very special message for you.

https://twitter.com/ButWitRaptors/status/1639377238117285890?t=V1u2mFIv3uzD6sSkJC95wQ&s=09

Dr Pepper Cake

https://archive.ph/I4wUA

English footballers vs Countdown

https://youtu.be/AstLBWlZxLU


Music

A rapper named Afroman was arrested by police. It was such a botched arrest, Afroman made music videos from the footage of the police at his doorstep. The police are now suing him for emotional distress.

https://archive.ph/CbuBI

Led Zeppelin's John Bonham has a son named Jason. Jason found tapes of something, but hasn't played them yet. It could be unreleased songs. Also, Jason talks about the Led Zeppelin reunion tour.

https://archive.ph/idjJS