Videogames
Dwarf Fortress will get an adventure mode.
Lego 2K is Mario Kart meets Forza Horizon and Lego. Praises by Polygon, but I'm sure better sources like it as well.
A hex based defense against heroes game.
Videogames: Business
Nintendo extends the time to use 3DS and WiiU game codes.
Ubisoft won't be at E3. They will have a separate event. The people in charge of PAX, and the term ComicCon are now over E3. It is having a similar response. They're very corporate and the fun disappears.
Square Enix sells NFTs of Final Fantasy 7.
Kotaku is being paid by Microsoft. Bobby Kotick complains about working with Sony during the Microsoft merger very publicly.
Denuvo publishes a book against game emulation.
Videogames: Creation
Comparing Unreal Engine demo reels to games made by the same engine.
Procedural Generation in Unity. Could also be in AI.
Materials made in AI for Blender and other game creating programs.
Here's the website.
Free building builder for Blender.
The website
https://paveloliva.gumroad.com/l/buildify
Procedural content in Unreal Engine.
Videogames: Fan Made and mods
A fan made the entire theme park from Spirited Away in voxel.
Videogames: Classic
A look back at the creation of Command and Conquer.
Former Sims devs said men would lie about how much decorating they would do while playing.
Videogames: Classic Fan Made Excitebike 2 on Super Nintendo.
Doom on Commodore 64.
Dolphin will be released to Steam soon. The Wii and GameCube emulator would mean playing old games in 4K for those that want it. Yoho.
A fan tries to remake the pneumatic controls for the original Street Fighter.
Grove Street from GTA is remade in Unreal Engine Fortnite.
AR VR
Israeli company promotes eye tracking software to ease dizziness and nausea from VR use.
Apple will show off their new XR goggles on June 5th. They're making a big to do about it.
New $1,000 small goggles being showed off.
Themed Parks and Experiences
Disney has been making the news about their firings, but Universal has been slowly getting rid of their top shelf people with forced retirements.
Theme parks and Experiences: LARP
There have been a lot of LARP experiences, but this group seems to be making a living out of it. You pay to get in, play a character for a week and rack up various points in an experience.
They mention this hotel by Disney as competition. It's not doing well for several reasons, but the idea itself isn't bad.
LARP as a themed experience was started by a book by Larry Niven. It's one of my great inspirations.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Dream_Park.html?id=u7aQrw6Uo4oC#v=onepage&q&f=false
TV Film
Seth Rogen phoning in Donkey Kong.
Amy Jo Johnson explains why she wasn't on the big Netflix Power Rangers reunion show. She doesn't want to be 50 years old in spandex. However she then mentions Jason David Frank didn't want to do it either. He's usually up to it. So, the article has a sad twist.
In the mouth of madness is free on YouTube with ads.
Hidari looks awesome.
Comics
A review of a new Comic app. It goes into why Comixology sucks right now as well.
Batman gets a super power for the RWBY meet up. He doesn't like it.
Saitama is heavier than a city.
Books
Dragonlance is going to get a movie.
Cyberpunk is now mostly south east Asians telling stories with troons wanting to join in. Or so says this article.
Brandon Sanderson was called boring by a Wired author. There's even attacks on his religion. This was his response.
TTRPG
Dungeons and Dragons had a direct, and the next D&D will have Vecna.
The direct in question.
D&D coming to Minecraft.
From a different source.
AI Building an endless city with three AI methods. I love LinkedIn for it's techies. The butt kissing insanity is never fun.
Understanding MLOps. I work in multiple fields and each one uses Ops differently. It's annoying.
Hugging Face shows that Intel has an AI processor that can compete with Nvidia.
Using AI to upscale images.
A list of text to video AI you can use now. I tried Runway and felt it lacking.
AI: ChatGPT
An interactive game made by MidJourney and ChatGPT
Chat GPT can now read academic papers for you.
An academic used ChatGPT and other AI to promote a game he made.
ChatGpt in Blender.
Ways to get ChatGPT for free.
AI: Papers and Code
Nerf Fusion, it follows the movements of the camera to predict where things are placed. This creates a 3D image from a video. Said image can be exported to stuff like Blender or Unity.
https://jetd1.github.io/NeRFusion-Web/
Another NeRF paper.
Chat GPT on Unreal Engine with code.
https://github.com/TREE-Ind/UnrealGPT
The same with Blender.
https://github.com/TREE-Ind/Blender-GPT
NVidia uses AI to make full renders with light tracing. It can also be done in reverse.
Anti Cheating software for AI image creation.
Getting better angles in AI Images.
MIT introduces LiGo. The idea is to use smaller models that already know how to do specific things to create a large model.
AI: Propaganda
A letter by hundreds of tech leaders demand that AI be halted for 6 months.
Here is the Verge reporting the same thing.
The same by Wired.
The letter itself
The reason is AI has the potential to destroy the economy as we know it. So says Goldman Sachs.
And more organizations demand a pause in AI. Whoever ignores this, wins.
By coincidence Deep Mind and Google are teaming up to take on OpenAI. Guess who doesn't intend to pause?
Tech
More Internet of Things coming from Amazon. It's called Sidewalk.
Library app to be closed, because the creators made a different app.
Tech: Blender
Blender has just updated to 3.5. It has a new rendering and lighting tree and hair tools.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-5/
Here's an article on it.
And another
Propaganda
Kentucky overrides governors veto and outlaws transgender surgeries for children. The NYT rails at it like it's death itself having a party with friends.
Netanyahu bites back at Biden's comments. Biden complained about the judicial overhaul and Netanyahu said in a tweet that he would not be advised by outsiders even good friends.
Republicans are stopping college students from voting the way we want! It is evil!
Congress has removed war powers given to president during both Iraq wars.
Weapon systems people complain that TimTok is stealing their power.
You're not going to believe this one, but people put money into Swiss banks to not pay tax on them. Yeah, I'm shocked too.
The Pope rejects the papal bulls from the 15th century that said it was ok to take other people's lands.
The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet!
Propaganda: Russia
Russia arrests a reporter for spying.
The Fog of War is basically both sides are losing, and neither knows how much the other is losing. The winner is the one who lost the least. So, propaganda will be about how much the other side is losing.
Propaganda: Florida
Florida passes a bill that gives tax breaks for new buildings and housing while getting rid of rent control laws.
Florida Superintendent quits because she spent $100K on Elon Musk scheme and was caught.
Florida doesn't want kids to be 'Nice' anymore.
Propaganda: Disney
For a brief moment, Secret Invasion had a release date this week. Now it doesn't. All of Marvel has the Coming soon label right now. This would usually be in TV Film, but it fits with the rest.
It seems that Disney snuck in a land development clause that removed the rights of the county board. The newly created board is talking to lawyers now.
The layoffs at Disney have begun. First up, the guy who owned Marvel when it was bought. He wanted cheaper simpler stories that fit more to the comics. There have been a lot of bad articles about him over the years.
Here's another about Perlmutter.
Then we have Jeffrey Epstein who was a VP of communications for the company.
The entire Metaverse team is gone.
Disney has a backup plan that involves going into Asia.
Also the theme parks are looking a lot more family friendly suddenly.
https://archive.ph/PgTcW Propaganda: Donald Trump
Ivana Trump decades long investigation by the government is published. About 190 pages of it.
Chris Christie thinks he can take on Trump. The only thing he could win is an eating contest.
Propaganda: History
Swahili DNA tests show that the oral history of the people is more accurate than the way historians have viewed it. Muslim conquest wasn't as direct as believed. NYT uses Africa as a pet in the whole thing.
Business
Amazon begins flagging frequent item returners. This could be in tech or propaganda.
Cars
A white truck loses a wheel, and makes a Kia Flip. The truck driver tries to get away, but can't.
YouTube video of it happening
Science
Dementia will effect those with better education the same as anyone else. It's just harder to notice because the mind of a smart guy is already higher.
Using VR to study Autism
I don't care what anybody says this movie is going to be an embarrassment to everyone involved.
The more trailers are coming out with the voice work the more it looks like a steaming pile of garbage
Yes. Because whenever I see world famous vidya icon Donkey Kong, I always hear his world-famous catchphrase just as it distinctly blasted out of the arcade cabinets of the 80s, and the Super Nintendos (Nintendi?) of the 90s - HUHREHEHEHEH
The only donkey Kong I'll allow was from the cartoon, was super weird but also kinda fun.
To be fair, they did have an excuse - it was the first time anyone ever attempted to use motion capture to produce a weekly animated series - but still, I agree
< RPG about a group of freedom fighters banding together to fight a corporate behemoth from destroying the environment
< Said game spawns NFTs
Oh Square, you never cease to be a laugh riot in these desperate times
It's true.
If you ask me if Mormonism is real, I'm going to tell you it's the decaying husk of Joseph Smith's sex cult.
If you ask me if Mormons are better than the modern materialist atheists who hate them, though, I'm not going to hesitate to say "yes".
Dwarf fortress has had adventure mode for ages, this is about the launch of it on the steam version. There have been quite a lot of fun and cursed stories with adventure mode since you can control stuff a lot closer. I hope they actually bring the depth of the base game to it since it's like an afterthought for years now.
With a lefty bias no doubt :)
Chris chan simulator when? "dodge the pickle man, fight the evil transphobs, bang your own mom, go to prison and become jesus"
I have dwarf fortress, but can't say I've played it much.
The academic paper itself will have a lefty bias, so it won't be a shock.
The Steam version with an actual UI, mouse support, and graphics, is borderline playable.
I played (I think) 0.40 back in uni, and it took me a weekend (two twelve-hour days) to learn the UI well enough to play... poorly.
This could be applied to Academia and Dwarf Fortress.
TBF: The original IS playable but you gotta be a masochist.
It'll be to the VR genre to what a leap in storytelling and physics Half-Life made for the FPS genre. Hold on to your Sonichu necklace.
Pretty sure they already flag frequent item returners anyway, though the policy is fairly liberal. I remember an article about people complaining after buying a ton of clothes and using returns as a try-before-you-buy dressing room.
Yeah I posted about E3 and then it was dropped entirely.
I will accept the correction on Amazon.
I wonder how many people are buying stocks based off of ChatGPT recommendation?
Same idiots who buy stocks based on TV shows or newspaper articles.
How can ugly, unfuckable fat girls dance to text bubbles now?
I see nothing bad in either of these stories. He was a spy. All reporters are spies for their masters these days. And both sides need to lose.
Reasonable rent increases are tolerable, but what we've had in Florida is gouging. This needs to be addressed.
They train them to be destructive terrorists who adhere to their religion, but are angry when their training camps are shut down by people who are destructive. Can we bring back witch trials?
Housing is insane in Florida. There are houses with extra fees that triple the price of rent and people renting houses they don't own or have any rights to.
Ive played a lot of Sims. Decorating wasn’t a priority
I mean, a bit but mostly to get the authentic man cave or something. Doubt men decorate more than women in Sims. Women use it as a decoration program, men to fuck around I feel.
Then you design a nice square room around him with no doors. Very chic.
I know architects who got started with The Sims. It's interesting to see the Sims vs Minecraft designs.
There are some who wish the sims could be exported to an actual CAD design. These people are crazy.
Shouldn't have turned against the only real friend Israel has had, ya putz!
They aren't legal residents, they are only here temporarily, and that's mostly to trash our cities with their ignorance pollution. They should not be voting in our elections. If this was a foreign country, they'd be automatically barred, the same should apply.
A loud orange ape becoming popular again will pass this bill through the pipe like a whore sucking for a golfball.
Oh no, war profiteers can't increase death because a chinese firm needs to make their kids dumb. There really is no one to root for here.
That's fucking rich. What next? Land acknowledgements to the Latins and Etruscans whom the Romans stole not only their land, but their language and culture from?
I would love to see German and English Acknowledgment of land rights.
Weight is not an issue when it comes to fucking if your ability to close your eyes and pretend is strong enough.
REn Fairs tend to have the same amount of Cleavage as Miami on spring break. Just saying.
Ugh, yes. It all jiggles wrong, too.
Disney is full of rot. Even the fleas they shake off. They really need to die already.
Yeah, it's all happening at once while they're still trying dirty trucks to be in power. Yet the cultists still think it will win somehow and cheer.
It doesn't help that the soft approach that Tallahassee is taking with them is prolonging the inevitable.
Had it been one of the sad puppies it would have been less nice. True story, they know Sanderson and meet up at a scifi writers thing in Utah.