Videogames
Strategy RPG Arcadian Atlas looks like Final Fantasy Tactics.
Review of the Last Spell.
A boxing simulator by a newby creator.
Lone Fungus is a battle platformer with Metroidvania roots. The article compares it to Hollow Knight.
Kloa: Child of the Forest looks nice. A nice looking Zelda style game.
Korea has officially released models and content promoting Korean culture onto Unreal Marketplace. I mean the actual government, not random Koreans.
Point and Click adventure The Safe Space
Space Prison is a strategy game like XCom, but based in space.
Videogames: Business
Will Sony create a new handheld? The author is in the know, but also an idiot. Nintendo sees their console as a way to play games and that it. The other two have the idea to dominate the computer space or home media center.
Sony throws digs at competition when filing patents.
Nintendo will have a mini convention near it's HQ in September.
A new handheld PC Gaming set up is being displayed. Don't call it a Steam Deck killer though.
Videogames: Console Sales
A videogame researcher noticed PS5 games seem to be far and few at retail. Has anyone else noticed this?
XBox latest generation has outsold the master system. 20 million units in three years? This is not a good sign.
Steam Deck has sold 3 Million units. It will this year anyway.
Videogames: Classics
Former retro studio developer talks about not being in the credits for the remake.
The Strong Museum has a 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade cab. It's got all the videogame historians talking about it. One friend even says the giant is based on her cab.
Super Mario Music has been entered as cultural artifact for Library of Congress.
Videogames: Classics: Project Dream to Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Kazooie dev shows off stuff from before the game was Banjo related.
A video about the Project Dream Prototype that became Banjo Kazooie
Double fine does a retrospective.
An argument for emulation on modern consoles. I couldn't get it to archive.
https://www.dualshockers.com/emulation-video-game-preservation/
Videogames: Fan Made and Mods
Fans have made overlay graphics for NES games. Some of them look really nice.
PS4 game making programs Dreams about to be discontinued. This is why you don't use stuff like this. The game I'm proudest of was made using the Sims version of scratch and I can't figure out how to make it.
Dead Space Demake. It's supposed to represent 1998.
Far Cry on the Unreal Engine 5.
Videogames: Demo Reels and Graphics
Freespin is being run from a disk drive entirely. No computer involvement except to activate it.
Story of how someone made their demo reel.
15 Upcoming Unreal Engine 5 games that look nice. I would need to archive every page for this to work.
https://gamingbolt.com/15-upcoming-new-unreal-engine-5-games-that-look-like-real-life
Arcade
Space Invaders creator explains origins of the game.
Walk through a Japanese arcade.
Arcade: 1Up
A new set of Arcade1up home arcades are coming up. It appears they have even more games in one. I'm not certain this is an improvement.
Correction, they are improvement over previous units. The game count is the same.
VR AR MR
Crysis VR Mod exists.
Metaverse may come with AI creations.
PSVR2 is outselling PSVR1. This might sound big, but it means PSVR1 didn't sell that well.
An exoskeleton for VR. It's open source and designed to help you feel things you see.
MR: House FPS
I've been seeing videos like this all over. Using MR goggles, people are turning their houses into First Person Shooters.
Have another video.
Here's an article on it.
Comics
More Hellboy is coming out.
10 Comic Book movies that looked like Comics. Posted because of Dick Tracy.
Al Jaffe, a MAD comics artist, passed away.
TV Film
Resident Evil: Death Island has news and a new trailer.
An animated Stranger Things is coming out.
An article speculating on the themes of Frozen 3.
An article on John Carpenter's Vampires.
Film: Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros movie but the writer likes Wreck It Ralph better.
90's editions of Super Mario Bros vs Street Fighter.
Super Mario Bros song Peaches is eligible for Oscar Nomination.
The movie could make $3.5 Billion from theaters, disc sales, and streaming.
TV Film: Star Trek
Picard basically says goodbye to prestreaming era of TV and Film.
A new star trek series about starfleet academy is coming out.
The UltraHD editions of all the Star Trek Movies are now available to Buy.
TV Film: Business
A creator is making a 14 video series on how to build a hot show. I liked the idea of the difference between story and idea.
Google TV now has 800 channels. How the mighty have fallen…
Boardgames and TTRPG
20 cooperative games.
Lucasarts teams up to make 4 Tabletop games for Indiana Jones.
Arcade1Up boardgame table.
6 great artworks from D&D's Golden Age.
9 best 4x Board Games.
Themed Experiences and Parks
A restaurant that has several themes and menus on tap.
Star Tours to have more aliens and stories.
Poseidon's Fury at Universal is being closed and replaced.
Architecture
Guatemalan architecture
AI
Man tries to help GPT-4 to escape to the internet. He writes paper on experience.
OpenAI begins a challenge to find problems with it's program.
SDXL released in Beta.
Automaton given ChatGPT and responds slower to things.
Create CG movies with AI.
AI will be introduced to Twitter. Elon Musk's letter to stall research was a ruse everyone saw coming.
AI is taking away jobs in China.
AI Tools listed on a Twitter post.
AI: Cloud Based AI
Amazon Bedrock is coming out. It's mostly for corporate stuff. There have been a lot of AI Cloud Computing systems from big names coming out.
Bloomberg intends to introduce GPT into its displays and systems.
AI: AutoGPT
AutoGPTs are designed to do tasks you assign them. They can create files, collaborate with other GPTs, and have access to the internet.
An article on AutoGPT
AI: Chat GPT's diabolical plans
ChatGPT planned the destruction of humanity.
Another article on the subject.
AI: Hallucinating LLM
AI hallucinations are happening. They get off script and say things the creators don't like. They talk about non existent things. Scaling doesn't seem to work.
Two workers at Google tried to stop the release of Bard because of Hallucinations.
AI: Papers
A newer method with one or two passes to create an image, rather than 10,000
A new Segment Anything Model for the masses has been released. This is what parses images to understand how they work. The AI then reverses the process based on your request.
Pix2Video lets you make a video using base pictures.
Microsoft proposes a math Prompter for LLMs.
A paper on the computational needs for massive LLMs.
AI: Papers: NPC AI World
This is a PDF on a world created by AI for AI characters to interact with each other.
An article on the NPC AI world.
Tech
The self driving bus line in Scotland needs people to run each bus. The first is a human greeter, the other one is there in case the bus needs a human driver.
Man creates cluster Pico system.
A power company that uses old car batteries? Yes it exists.
This new style of keyboard has video displays on it and its own GPU. It looks really cool, and I sort of want one. Sort of sad when the keyboard is more powerful than the computer though.
A blender add on that lets you control a robot.
Humanoid robots are here to steal our jobs. Slowly, and with s lot of fanfare.
Public phone charging stations can hold viruses and hacking programs. The FBI has warned against them.
A list of 3D printing projects.
A Ukrainian drone company has offered $540,000 to anyone able to land at Russia's Red Square. This could also be in Propaganda.
Tutorials
Fog effects in Blender
Studio Ghibli in Unreal Engine
Cars
Concept cars from the 80's.
Cars that had higher Horse Power than advertised.
A teacher rented a car on Turo to set a land speed record. This is a great ad for Turo.
Check out this Mercedes SL.
Business
More people leaving for remote work. One woman's story.
An interesting article about how optimization seems to have slowed, and workers quitting means pressure doesn't work. I can't say I agree fully with the article, but I see it's point.
Business: Social Media
Twitter to be part of Elon Musk's everything app. The social media company is now part of X Corp.
Meta workers freaking out. They have to justify their jobs. The major bosses live in some other country. A third of the company was fired. The perks have all gone away, including the cereal.
Science
Gravity creates light.
Mayan score card found
Largest structure ever put into two separate states. It's 2,000 atoms and the article screws that up. Still it's shaking up the Physics world.
Chia seeds prove Alan Turing right. By watching how they grew, and what was done to grow them, it followed the same patterns proposed by Turing.
Propaganda
Latest Covid causes pink eye.
Southwestern states about to get less water. Blame Biden.
An interview with the woman who put a trans on a bid light. She thinks she's helping the company grow up.
IQs have been dropping for a decade in the US!
JP Morgan says US government may use Eminent Domain to seize property and build energy farms.
The seas have risen 5 inches since 2010. Not everywhere, just specific places. The rest have it at less than two inches.
Newspapers are in Decline
The UN won't back down from it's non binding declaration against Russia.
Side hustles now part of income for taxes on US.
Propaganda: Abortion Pill Lawsuit
Abortion Pill advocates say the documents for the lawsuit going to Supreme Court are janky
Pfizer and others are pissed the abortion drug is now illegal. Is this the same lawsuit? I don't know. It looks like it, but I could be wrong.
Propaganda: Tech
The internet archive is needed to save civilization.
An FBI memo to stop christian terrorism is under investigation by the House Judiciary committee. The director of the FBI has been subpoenaed.
AI is about to destroy Lawyers.
Speaking of AI, there seems to be a military push for better AI. Perhaps all this hoopla is cover for that.
Propaganda: Florida Education
Florida is working on the possibility of ending summer vacation.
A professor quit his job and said he wished he could burn it all to the ground. Why? Governor DeSantis' new board members wanted results.
Propaganda: Cars
Regulations on mileage will be making more car manufacturers build EVs or more efficient less fun cars.
More on that.
Propaganda: Disney vs Florida
Remember how Disney tried to squirrel away power at the last minute from Florida? The state appointed board over it is voting on who has the actual power.
Another article on the subject.
Propaganda: White House Leaks through Minecraft
It may have come through Discord.
The server was for Minecraft.
Discord says it is working with officials to trace the leak through their systems.
The White House doesn't know what has been leaked, and if they can contain it.
An official investigation was started.
There is a Leak Czar.
I'm more confused how a 60-page report could possibly be worth $585.
That said, AI "hallucinations" are an interesting topic. Ghosts in the code that no one wrote and no one understands, compressed into the model, that can lead the model to begin generating nonsensical or non-sequitur output.
Some are just, "I disagree with the answer".
Makes me think of those 2 AIs that spoke their own language and no one could tell what was going on. Rather scary but interesting at the same time.
It's machine Aphasia. The language models are constantly changing and the machine cannot detect/keep up with the changes as it does not understand context. This breaks it. As with all coding, one small error leads to cascade or complete breaking.