Videogames
Bleak Faith looks like a Dark Souls style game, and that doesn't bother me.
Shadows of Doubt is an open world murder mystery game with procedurally created cities, murders, and characters.
RuneScape has kept a really bad item hidden for 20+ years.
Goblin Slayer strategy game news.
Multiversus to be shutdown and relaunched next year.
A long list of articles. Final Fantasy 16, Silent Hill 2, and others.
Essential GameCube Games
Kraino is a classic style 2D action side scroller.
Last weekend had a demo of Wargroove 2 out to play.
Videogames: Creation
MetaHuman display at GDC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaKyc3mQVk
Unreal Engine Procedural Creation
Roblox has AI assist in coding and art creation. Could also be in AI.
Multiplayer for anything… sort of.
Videogames: Classic
Ultima Online dev talks.
Videogames: Remakes and collections
A possible Skies of Arcadia remake is in the works.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is slowed by Denuvo on PC.
Klonoa Collection was for Switch only originally. Link to interview as well.
Dungeons and Dragons for the 3DS is a collection of the arcade games.
Videogames: Mods and Fan Made
Life By You has several modding parameters. The article mentions making everyone gay or bisexual.
Update to Fortnite Unreal Engine stops releases of Mario Kart Levels and others. It feels really good and ready for mods though.
Counter Strike 2 is basically an advertisement for modding on the Source 2 engine. I would love to see a full update for the Specialists again.
Arcade
Pierce Brosnan autographed a Goldeneye 007 pinball machine and it sold for $130,000 in auction.
TTRPG
Board games based on videogames.
Film and TV
The Tank looks like a fun horror film.
Hey, want some ragebait about Henry Cavill and the Witcher? Why yes it does have writers putting in their queer experience into the show.
The Aristocrats is being remade by Disney.
Comics
Cool looking covers for new comics.
AR VR
Car and Driver magazine loves Gran Turismo 7 on PSVR2. There is a lot of hyperbole about it.
New VR stories change every time you blink.
AR VR: Apple
Apple is showing off their new Mixed Reality Goggles. They will cost $3,000 and be super powered.
Apple goggles will likely be a flop.
AI
We need to watermark AI imagery so it doesn't change reality! Expect this to be used both ways a lot.
A good, if dated, outline of where we are in AI advancement.
Diffusion might have backdoors. This is a promotion for Business and AI integration seminar being given in July.
Jailbreakers who free AI.
NVIDIA talks up their new simulation systems.
Microsoft threatens to restrict information to competitors AI systems.
https://archive.ph/zhn3R AI: Jaron Lanier
A dreadlocked techie who is nicknamed the Dismal Optimist argues that Artificial Intelligence is not what it appears.
Another article about him.
AI: Papers
Another text to texture prompt
Text to video
Locally conditioned diffusion
Vector art in Midjourney
AI: Creations
A magic school bus that teaches as it moves around the city.
Photo evidence of an earthquake that never happened.
Runway offers some enticing video editing tricks.
https://research.runwayml.com/gen2
Tech
Tipping culture has changed since every indie shop has tipping now.
The ability to put clothes on a person in a mirror like experience seems like it should be here and old. But no, new tech is shown off, and disappears. This one looks great until it says NFTs.
Automatic road barriers
The end game high five line ended with a punch after a women's basketball game.
A rendering competition. They're all given the same animation and have to do it in their own style.
A new type of laptop frame and system. Everything can be replaced.
Jamming student cellphones won't last long. A talk on the tech and how it will be overcome.
Amazon has an internet service coming.
Tech: Robotic Valet
A robotic valet system. It will likely take out bad parking and other problems as well.
The website for the robotic valet. It's 3 years old by the way.
https://www.stanley-robotics.com/meet-our-robots/
Propaganda
Elon Musk says the US is losing its standing by forcing the Ukraine war to continue.
Disney will begin it's lay offs this week.
LA has started a mansion tax. So, the rich are moving away.
Italy doesn't have a post Covid plan the EU likes, so 19 Billion Euros is being withheld.
Colleges are starting to not give grades to first year students.
Propaganda: Israel
Spontaneous outburst had several posters and signs that would have taken several days prep time to make, organizers, and some money to happen erupts in Israel.
Biden gets involved with protests
Netanyahu pauses judicial reform due to protests.
Propaganda: Florida
Florida is about to get an abortion ban.
Orlando Sentinel goes nuts accusing Florida of not looking at reality and going after drag queens. They could be shooting gun owners and offering fast passes for abortions!
https://archive.ph/1fgmA Propaganda: Google
The president of google rushed the company AI and has fired 12,000 employees. This has made several people angry.
Google shows off cloud computing systems on offer to the masses. This could be in tech or AI.
Google employees and even the president have turned off internal chat, and attempted to delete any paper trail that can be followed. This is part of the many Fortnite lawsuits.
Propaganda: Social Media Twitter will begin to charge for the blue checkmark on April fool's day. Celebs and others prove they are fools.
Parts of Twitter were found on GitHub. The person responsible calls themselves a free speech advocate.
Twitter is worth about $20 Billion right now.
https://archive.ph/4OoM0 Propaganda: Donald Trump FBI ready for Trump violence if he is indicted.
Donald Trump is on the ropes and the GOP is leaderless. Cackles heard from writers room.
The only riots so far have been for the Joker Sequel. So, riots aren't happening, but they could, and the FBI is ready for them.
Propaganda: Russia
Russia put nuke in Belarus.
More on the nukes.
Russia having nukes in Belarus is just a distraction from the country losing.
The battle in Ukraine has let US study several foreign made weapons and systems.
Propaganda: Health
Marijuana can be worse to older patients.
Propaganda: Weird
How to escape the simulation.
Someone draws dumb online pictures, and puts them into art shows.
Smart Sportswear follows your health as you exercise.
Italian police looking for man who jumped off 3 story ledge, and into river. They call him an idiot.
I did enjoy that movie. But I want to see a realistic monster movie with 'Swamp People' going against the monster. Including selling the hides.