Videogames
Bioshock 4 will be open world.
Immortals of Aveum looks exciting, but is published by EA. How will they screw this up? It's a magic based FPS. My guess is cutscenes that take forever.
Shin Kamen Rider Rumble gets Ultraman, and Godzilla DLC. I don't know what the game is like, but those are some cool names.
Test Drive Unlimited is back and set in Hong Kong.
A preview for Shardpunk. It's out now for $12.
Shepherd's Crossing is a Harvest Moon farm game.
Videogames: Opinions and News
Bethesda's new Starfield may be way too big to enjoy and navigate says this writer.
Hallmark ornaments for this year will have several videogame themes and a Dreamcast.
Ubisoft+ now available on XBox.
Zelda Fuse ability takes away Dungeon Items. It used to be you went into a dungeon to get the special item. Quite often I would get it, and come back to the beat the boss when I was fully powered up. Now you can just fuse up an answer.
Videogames: Indie
Schim looks really cool.
A game based on Minecraft agility courses.
An Indie open world Superman game is coming out.
Blight Survival is a wilderness survival game where you are a knight trying to take on deadly biomes.
This is a cutesy anime story game that helps you do your taxes. Yes really.
Videogames: Mods and Fan Made
Half Life 2 got a big mod with extra stories and characters. Then an article promoting modding and how it helps the videogame community.
A Jurassic Park Survival Game using Unreal Engine 5. Fan made presentation.
Videogames: Graphics
Cliffwood Village looks excellent.
An article on the demo video above.
Nvidia has released a program that lets you add RTX mods to all sorts of games.
Quake RTX mod gameplay.
RTX mods for Manhunt and STALKER.
Half Life 2 RTX Mod
Capcom removes Ray tracing from resident evil 2-3 remakes
Cyberpunk 2077 with new Path Tracing for powerful graphics cards.
Kingdome Come with RTX
Videogames: History
Check out some of the early designs for the PlayStation Logo
There is an amazing videogame museum in Rochester New York called the Strong Museum. You can play most games, and there is a large arcade set to freeplay. It's one of the more respected museums among the videogame historians. Also, it's not in the giant sweaty, ugly city of New York.
Arcade and Simulators
Sega made an arcade flight simulator.
VR AR MR
Thrillseeker gives a good outline of what MR is and how it is different from AR and VR. Then he promotes a comparably cheaper option to the super expensive MR glasses out there.
Pavlov is for the PSVR2 and looks like a normal shooter.
VR AR MR: Business
Pico is paying top dollar for their new goggles.
Quest had 6 million users last month.
VR AR MR: Tech
An outline of a paper on a new tech for better VR walking experience.
New Smart glasses with AI and Phone interaction are being promoted.
Hololens 2 just got an update.
Open AI working on an automaton with it's learning programs inside.
A review of the Tech Thrillseeker was talking about.
Architecture and Design
A nice Negative Space nature retreat.
The big theme styles for the future. The article is on an architecture website, but is meant for design in general.
Film and TV
Super Mario Bros will probably be at $659 Million this weekend.
Dungeons and Dragons TV has a shower runner for it's Paramount+ show.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a part of the book Dracula. The entire ship is dead when it arrives in the docks. In this movie, it has a black character and a woman, so we will see what happens. Universal has been trying to bring back it's Horror Movie Universe, with several missteps along the way.
Jon Favreu forced to connect his stories with bad ones, and pretend it's a good thing.
Netflix is pumping a lot of money into Avatar. It's to replace Stranger Things which is ending soon.
Film and TV: Opinions
The new Star Wars films with Rey in them have the propaganda up to 11. It's so obviously paid for the game is to catch what phrase or term had been part of the deal.
Opinion piece on the new Doctor Who. The author demands it be like the new who with the lady doctor and not the successful formula that Davies used to make the show a success.
Themed Experiences and Parks
A family over themed their home.
A wooden roller coaster has been turned into a metal one.
Books
Scholastic apologizes for censoring book.
Comics
Comixology vets start their own publishing company.
AI
Graph Classification using AI.
Languages to learn to study AI.
Training AI to fix itself.
Stable Diffusion XL Beta is now open on dreamstudio API and looks awesome.
Elon Musk starts another AI company.
Make visual effects with AI.
3D image creation and manipulation with AI.
AI: Papers
A 3D awareness for 2D images.
A great tutorial on how to use MidJourney.
AI: Twitter Lists, Lists
There are some big AI promoters that write long lists of news. Here is one. The big one is there will not be a ChatGPT 5 this year. Adobe Premiere has text to video editing.
Programs from AI. Presentations by AI, and the ability to summarize an article quickly.
Not Twitter, but another long list of AI news.
AI: Propaganda
An expert used an add on to ChatGPT as part of a test group. He was able to get compounds designed for explosive and other dangerous purposes. So, we could move forward if everyone had access to it, but it would allow for dangerous chemistry experiments.
Agent GPTs are like AI image creators only they do tasks instead. I haven't used on yet, so I can't give a definitive answer, but it looks to automate a lot. The last bit of the article asks if these new programs are safe.
Hollywood is scared their jobs will be gone because AI helps the layman make good movies.
Joe Rogan issued a warning because someone has been making fake versions of his podcast.
Science
Woman athlete survives 500 days in isolation for science.
Nice shot of a black hole. Not really, but we will say it is.
Graphene is magnetoresistent in room temperatures.
New possible element or form of matter found in fossilized crystal made from lightning strike.
After studying successful teams, researchers discovered they are more likely to fail and why.
History
A 1500 year old translation of the bible has been looked at through ultraviolet photography. It showed an earlier translation than the one seen with the naked eye.
Tech
Facial masks can trick recognition software.
Intel is leaving the server business
Tech: Blender
Getting a parallax shader in Blender.
Blender now exports to a 3D display.
Tech: Military
Military Hololense postponed till 2025.
The power suits from Starship Troopers are starting to become real. Right now, troops can fly of their own accord.
FLRAA was cheaper but the government demanded it cost more.
Cars
100 miles of electric power for 5 minutes of charge is coming soon.
The Cybertruck has a huge windshield wiper.
Business
A major investor is saying the best move forward for those giant skyscraper business buildings is to tear them down and build something else. The city is dying, and all the power from it is raging against that idea.
Propaganda
The Guardian says republicans will lose all the elections because of Abortions.
The EU is angry at Poland and Hungary. Both nations have outlawed foods from Ukraine to pump up their own markets.
A ferry coming from Bainbridge island to Seattle ran around with 500 people in it. The ferries are a major part of the culture in the Puget sound so this is a blow to the culture. If this had been Vashon island, I would have had more gay jokes. Vashon is the lesbian capitol of the world.
Here is an analysis on how to beat China in Taiwan. It has some basis on the war in Ukraine.
An Orange County Florida teacher was not fired for putting his students on TikTok to quote his political opinions or read his 'banned books' list.
DeSantis is officially running for president.
Propaganda: Disney vs Florida
Reedy Creek has no record of Florida asking for information about the county. Disney has been destroying evidence.
Special investigation is being made into the Super Power leg pull by Disney.
Propaganda: Fox Defamation Lawsuit
Fox news apologized for not talking about Rupert Murdoch's participation with the journalism. This was a side thing because the case is about misinformation on the faulty voting machines.
More debates and a decision on the lawsuit will happen this coming week. The propaganda is on how much it will destroy Fox.
Propaganda: Supreme Court Cases
The student debt forgiveness law that takes out $6 Billion in debt had been going through the courts. The Supreme Court decided not to hear it, so it is now approved.
The Supreme Court will be hearing a case against the abortion pill. While waiting for a judgment, the court has decided that the pill can continue to be sold for the moment.
The white House is arguing for the pill to remain.
A case on religious discrimination is coming up. A man was forced to quit if he didn't deliver a package on a Sunday that he had off. So, he took it to court.
Propaganda: Military Documents Leaked
The scapegoat was found based on a Steam profile and an Instagram account.
Liz Cheney says that people who defend the scapegoat leaker should be removed from their position.
Discord describes scapegoat.
More about the court case against the scapegoat.
https://archive.ph/jDO0C Weird
Hawaiian names are long.
Did we stumble into a time warp and go back to 2009 when """HDR""" meant overexposing things?
The waterfall also keeps losing frames if you check. It's still fun to look at.
Yeah, apart from those 2 things it's awesome. Which just makes it all the more annoying because the overexposure thing is an unforced error, and it's standing between us and a super realistic and convincing environment.
My wife kept asking if I wanted to live there.