The interview with the former Google CEO and his opinions on how AI should be used. He wants to build cheap 3D printed drones with AI making targets to attack the enemy. He wants Canada to lend power to the AI industry. There's a lot in here, and it's broken up by commentary by the video creator.
The gab account of the shooter has been found.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/olFvA
Amazon had a shirt that said, “the only good Trump is a dead one”
FBI wants to question Trump on his bullet wound.
Trump talked immigration at RNC while wearing bandage.
Trump: Georgia Speech
Here is the speech. It's 90 minutes, and he plays the crowds a lot.
Newsweek shows that the Governor of Georgia now supports Kamala over Trump. He just declared himself for the uni party.
The Guardian says the speech proves Trump will lose.
Kamala Harris had a speech at the same place. Also, she had music and cool people. She's going to win says AP
The Washington Post asks if he even wants to win. Obviously he was evil and wrong in every way.
Prop: Crowdstrike
The Crowdstrike weirdness hits conspiracy theory
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/flMzZ
A deeper look at the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/D5Amb
The voting machines that were never controlled by the internet, have been screwed up by the Crowdstrike update
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0hG1K
Propaganda: Disney
Disney stock is crashing
Disney was hacked. News from Twitter
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/pDtwp
Disney was hacked and there is an information dump
This is a speculative article from a year ago talking about Disney being bought by investors
Bill Nye and Disney sever ties
Disney used to be a household name and kids grew up with it. Now kids don't and the rift for Disney is ruining their business
Another twitter article about it
Propaganda
Top memes this year for the right
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3xAEF
A long right leaning article by an author about what it will take to stop the left. Talk of hardness and not being nice.
What the Right gets wrong with art? Why have they failed to see its use?
John Carmack complained that the people calling the Trump Assassination attempt was fake we're getting punished. Commenters were not having it.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/T2cIV
Hawaii has a tourist problem. With all the money going on for tourism and very rich people buying up land, the people who were there originally are being told to be nice and accept all of it with Aloha. It's a real problem and the reason why I didn't stay in the state after 3 years there. A gallon of milk at $5 just isn't sustainable. However this article proposes more socialism and idiocy that has already been tried and failed. The big answer is having something other than tourism, shipping, and military as a job market.
It turns out Fluoride can lower your IQ
Cultural Capitol should run business. That's the new ‘Diversity’. Same idea, different name
Fifth Generation Warfare is upon us. It's a battle for the minds of the people using social media and popularity. The attackers may not be known and the response will not have the effect it wants. There are ways to counter big governments, and large corporations. This is a war where the people fighting don't even realize they are.
Gun icons have changed as the show mind rot kicked in. Elon Musk points this out.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dnwdR
The new narrative on the Nord Stream pipe destruction. Yes, there was a conspiracy, but Zelensky tried to call it off and random people did it.
Utah has a book ban at schools where if 2-4 school districts no longer offer the book, none of them do. There are specific cases like Pornographic. Margaret Atwood makes fun of them for ‘banning’ her book. What the heck did she write?
England will cut off websites to it's country if they don't give out The Message.
A list of where Asian hate is coming from
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/WmONz
Elon asks what the hell is wrong with UK. Points out they got rid of guns first.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/OoSuH
DEI is good, we're just using the wrong words
CNET erased articles to look better to Google and not be found out.
We aren't destroying cultures, we are just replacing them
ACLU has post about ‘censorship’
Dallas creates Can Doers as it's motto. The article is cringe
A supreme court decision says judges, not the federal government, decides if a company follows regulations or not
Japan and the Philippines sign defense pact against China
8 US States with population decline
Barcelona protesters attack tourists
NATO very concerned about USA stability says General Wesley Clark
Neil Gaiman turned into pariah
Prop: England
England doesn't have a first amendment or freedom of speech. This is shocking to Americans
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CH233
Elon Musk says that those proclaim that they support the rebels don't recognize the reality now.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/35FIW
Elon Musk is told to censor Trump and others on X. He responds with a Go F#_-# Yourself
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Zwd91
Another archive of the same response.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/AAafI
Prop: Climate
New Climate Math for land purchases
The Great Salt Lake is a polluter since it's drying up
Climate credits not being bought or passing any tests.
We're still cleaning up the damage Trump has done to the environment
Greenland had trees and lush grasses. This is proof it hasn't always been icy. So climate change is evil and we need to stop it.
Prop: San Francisco
Long timer realizes it's dead. He grew up in 3Rd world awfulness, and the city has reached that level.
A repost by the same guy
Prop: Weapons
NATO accuses China of supplying weapons to Russia. The war may expand.
Weapons in Space!
Prop: Tech
We would be in globalist utopia if countries and people didn't stop it. They hate technology
Prop: Social Media
The white house can pressure social media to take posts off
Elon Musk X Post: The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/O8hp1
Prop: Self Promotion
A pro Palestine girl gets kicked out of a pro Israel home.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/auhxb
Comes back to thousands of followers.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/IucgR
Prop: Science
The UN proposes a tax on gasoline to stop global warming
Small Nuclear Reactors are expensive and not the right idea
Creative people are evil. We should shun them. This is from a psychology magazine
This is from a social study and questionnaire system of finding out. Polarization has created teams so strong that even associating with opposing team members is bad. No one is allowed to have an open mind.
Tasmania is dying due to global warming.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/W0QgZ
Heart problems have been around a lot longer than expected. Ancient Egyptian mummies show this. Apparently bodies from around the world and all walks of life throughout history had them. Our heart crisis is not what we think.
Permaculture beats out agriculture
We need to stop drinking raw milk, unless you're a farmer or something.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/fanut
Propaganda: Florida
Sharks test positive for cocaine
Florida removes Climate Change from laws
Propaganda: Florida: Book Ban
Florida being sued for book ban. Why, they've banned Mark Twain and Judy Blume! No real mention of the smut that's actually being blocked.
BBC reports on how evil this is.
Florida: Lab Grown Meat
Lab Grown Meat cook out in Miami as it is outlawed in Florida
Lab grown meat ban law is now going to court
Cultivated meat is safer and better says this article
Education
An academic proposes putting the title of the study without the journal it was published in. The academic journal industry is ludicrous and needs to be stopped.
Where graduating students want to work for 2024
MIT had a history of technology symposium. That means looking at how old tech was used and evolved to predict modern times. One cool speech name.
Eye movement shows how learning is done, a study
Schools need to change everything so universities can have more diverse professors
“Talented” students kept from algebra. We should get rid of early advanced classes entirely
Ed: Uni of Florida
University of Florida strips privileges from faculty to save money
University of Florida President quits after two years in office.
AI: Papers
Long short term memory
Rag Me Up is a generic RAG and UI for crating your own RAG
TAG stands for Table Augmented Generation and it enhances natural language over database command sets
AI Scientist can write and review scholarly papers.
An audit of dataset licensing
Eagle is a new LLM by NVidia that can see 1024x1024 pixel images.
Agentic Data Generation
MIT has a new way to look at neurons of AI
HiRED creates efficient token drops
COVE method looks at hallucinations
Mesh2NeRF is a mesh controller for neRF
Dracarys is a new series of large and open LLMs
Deep Learning can build from limited data
Using Vision Transformer
XMainFrame is an AI to improve mainframes
Digital inbreeding with AI leads to problems
Transforming transformers
Falcon Mamba 7B has an alternative to transformers
LLMs have their own view of the world. Man in the cave described.
BRAG is a master RAG
Dynalang predicts what an AI will write next
Studying chaos patterns with machine learning
Dropout fixes over fitting
RankRAG trains LLM for two purposes
Enhancing with RAG
InternLM2.5-7BChat
Search4LLM
Implementing neural network's in tensor flow
Policy Learning with LLM
Google proposes a lossless system with no cool name
Noninvasive BCI by Carnegie Mellon
LLM Alignment: Reward vs reward free?
A controlled Diffusion model called Alchemist, because it can change the materials in the image.
Mixture of Millions of Experts queries mini AI for knowledge on specific tasks so that everything is spread better
LongWriter can write 10,000+ words per prompt
Papers: Imagination
The LLM has an imagination
AI will not learn new skills unless asked. So we never bring up evil ideas… wait…
How an LLM thinks. I like the Chinese Room analogy.
AI: Science
AI engineering DNA. So now we can make 6 fingered three armed people.
Machine learning showing patterns of evolution
People prefer AI to make decisions
Particle detection at large hadron collider
Machine Learning and finding similarities. CohortFinder
Accurate Prediction of Protein Structural Flexibility by Deep Learning Integrating Intricate Atomic Structures and Cryo-EM Density Information
AI and archeology
AI: 3D
3D Gaussian creations rendered on a normal computer and made from AI.
https://tobias-kirschstein.github.io/gghead/
Infinigen is a procedural interior architecture creation tool
3D Asset creation tutorial from a year ago.
Meta has release VFusion3D which is a terrible name and shows how behind they are.
SpaRP is a fast creator using limited photos
New Gaussian Splat editor on web browser
Hugging Face has an open Source splatting system now
Stability 4D has entered the room
SpotLessSplats filters out the extras in a splat
InstaSplat is now open with an Apache 2 license
Meta has a 3D Model Generator
Mocap gen AI now a thing
Autodesk has AI tools in their programs. It's to fill in frames between key frames and adjust movement
Using 360 footage to map out an area for construction and design
Meshy 4 is now out.
Vid: FlexiCubes
NVidia introduced FlexiCubes a year ago.
Another article on FlexiCubes
AI: Video
Luma AI has released a new video creation engine, and users have stalled the website by hours.
When Runway 2 was being promoted a year ago, there were threads like this.
TVG helps with transitions in videos
DynlBaR used a single video to create a scene from multiple angles
Kling is a new video creator
Meta has a segment anything video analyzer
Odyssey is the new contender
Self driving car guys start AI video company
Vid: Sora
Sora is still not ready yet.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vIAhO
A video by Sora
Vid: Google
Google Veo looks good
Google creates a video creator that should challenge Canva
Here is an article about it
It just released
AI: Sound
Camb takes on Eleven labs
New ethical music creator is terrible at it's job
ElevenLabs has famous voices
Tutorial for ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs has an app
AI: Propaganda
A long rant about how AI doesn't do what people think it does and that it's full of sheisters.
A year ago Copilot could be used to micro manage workers.
RedHat had a GenAI Linux night
This video was made using Sora. It is about reclaiming culture and experience. In other words, it looks like AI won and now articles about how good AI is are coming out.
A division of labor between AI and human within the law
AI has beaten the Doomers
If all this money is being thrown at AI, why don't they make socialism?
AI needs data not made by it to continue. We have a use!
JD Vance likes AI so suddenly it's evil
Wolfram wants philosophers to discuss AI
Women less likely to use AI in the workplace
AI has become a religion
The US wants to limit access to ChatGPT for China
A year ago Machio Kaku said Chat Bots were just glorified tape recorders. He wanted to promote Quantum Computing, and was asked about AI instead.
A year ago ChatGPT couldn't answer half of the questions asked about engineering
The arms race to detect AI Generated text
Metacognition or the understanding of understanding is the new thing for students. They don't need to write an essay, they need to understand how one is written and why. Atlantic article by Google
How does Historical research and AI mix? We already use it to recognize handwriting and differences in paintings. How do we write papers when AI can do it for us? The entire career of a historian is finding sources, sorting them, and then writing about what they found. AI can do that.
MIT says AI does not have the expected productivity gains.
With AI, we don't need to bash something together with Photoshop. This is bad.
A lot of companies take a good paying job, add new tech, and then have a much cheaper person do it. For example cashier's in the Phillipines zoom call to restaurants in New York. AI will just replace the Filipino.
A year ago the white house supported hackers trying to crack and destroy ChatGPT
Bill Gates talks about how AI is starting to be used by teachers in the classroom
Bridging the AI gap in Africa. Google paid the Atlantic for this article.
The Atlantic wrote about Foom Scrolling where we look forward to our AI overlords. Article is a year old.
Will AI be your servant or boss?
This hackathon used AI to find solutions to energy problems. Run by an energy company
How AI is beating custom code
AI for people with disabilities
How AI kills linear thinking
People are making friends with chat bots
Apple is doing AI like everyone else, this is bad.
Ken Griffin pauses big propaganda for AI
AI power User, the Atlantic
AI is even better now!
Gen Z has an AI gender gap
Propaganda: Apple and YouTube
Apple used YouTube videos without permission to make their AI
More on YouTube and apple
Propaganda: Lawsuit
The anti AI crowd has been crowing about the ability to sue AI companies. It's not a win, it just means they can go to court.
Another article on what's next for the lawsuit
Another lawsuit claims that hundreds of thousands of books were used to train ChatGPT
A year old article on a lawsuit
Propaganda: Singularity
The Singularity is coming soon! It's like Global Warming, any minute now it will happen. Any minute now…
AI will bring the Singularity
Propaganda: Gen AI Bubble
Hype for AI is ending, so work can actually be done with it
Is the Gen AI bubble bursting?
Using the term AI in advertising has meant less sales.
Propaganda: Conde Nast
Conde Nast has placed all of its websites onto OpenAI for a fee. This includes Ars Technica.
An article about what this means.
Prop: Education
Academic databases are working with AI companies. This includes the vast academic journal databases.
Adobe sponsored an article promoting AI for education as used by Adobe products
The next big investment for Andrej Karpathy is educational ai assistants
Academics don't want their papers used by AI because the journal industry is all they have above the plebes
A teacher band AI because it stops the ability to write an essay
AI is changing education
Prop: Goldman Sachs report
Goldman Sachs has a paper talking about the profitability of AI. They say it could be slowing down. Warning, this is a PDF
404 says it is a sign of the downfall of AI.
I found out about the paper because people were promoting a text thing about this article. The writer never liked AI and seems to be gloating.
Another article declaring AI to be going down.
AI has had virtually no impact on the economy so far.
Prop: World Wide Web
Google declares end of World Wide Web
Google uses AI more often
Prop: Voice
Voice actors sue AI company for stealing their voices. They recorded themselves talking, and were paid for it, but didn't understand that it was for voice cloning.
More on the suite
Prop: Responsible AI
What will it take to achieve responsible AI?
How open source ai creates responsible AI
Open letter to MidJourney that all AI should be government controlled
Rome Call to AI Ethics
Safety conscious creators at openAI are leaving
EU warns Microsoft that they have to be responsible
Prop: Global Warming
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
Google is causing global warming with AI
AI: Business
How to restructure for AI
Figma creates ai for design software. The article is terribly written, so it's hard to tell what they are saying.
Open AI has worked so assistant AIs are easier to train and seek files
NightCafe is still around, and is basically an online UI for other GenAI. There's a lot of history and talk about the company.
10 ways AI can make Business better
ChatGPT has 200 Million users
Interview with Omar at Hugging Face
Blackrock is running out of ways to make money
Amazon wants to simplify AI creation
A year ago AI could get someone a $900,000 job
The military is investing in smaller LLMs interacting with each other. This is some big money right here.
Phones are using AI to add stuff to actual photos. Turn your neighborhood into a zombie movie.
A big researcher for OpenAI starts his own company
Four Business uses for AI
Procreate promises no AI in its programs. Of course it will change the definition of AI a bit…
People are talking to AI but not getting financial advice. At least this article says this
OpenAI heading to a $5 Billion loss. They've gone through nearly $10 Billion to get where they are now.
AI in business has been used to find drugs, figure out business design, secretarial work, marketing research and design, and other stuff.
Amazon has new AI for its Just Walk Out payment system for random stores.
Enterprise AI called Sodium
Create personalized AI assistants
Etsy allows AI created images
Anthropic thinks the future is Bespoke AI
Iconic AI raised millions using these bloated 10 slides. Each slide is worth 4-6 slides.
Morgan Stanley AI is more about business analysis
NVidia rules all
Qualcomm and others lean on AI to keep desktop computing going. I do most AI work from my phone.
Companies are creating their own internal LLMs so company info isn't released.
A 3D tool alternative to Substance 3D has made big waves by declaring they won't do what Adobe is doing with AI.
Data bricks and Shutterstock are trying to stay relevant in the AI world by being image suppliers. They try to sound moral and strong in this article.
Google Deep mind has an opening for an AI ethics director
Problems with implementing AI in business
Bus: China
China has a powerful GPU for AI
9 Chinese AIs
Bus: Canva
Canva is making AI easier to view and use.
Canva CEO wants to challenge Adobe
Another interview with Canva CEO talking about Adobe
Canva says use Affinity to design and Canva for layout
Canva bought Leonardo
Bus: OpenAI Board
OpenAI gets a major Apple employee on its board. He has no voting power though.
Microsoft and Apple quit OpenAI board because of government scrutiny
Microsoft says it will no longer observe OpenAI
Bus: OpenAI Watermarks
Open AI might leave text watermarks so teachers can find fakers
Correction, they have the ability to do it, but no one knows if it will last long.
AI: Jobs
Software developer
1,500 people lost their jobs to AI at Microsoft
Email marketing
Writer finds that ChatGPT can do his articles for him and is scared.
Gen AI is coming for remote workers first! Companies don't. Need you and will replace you with AI.
Most lower level IT guys will be replaced by AI
AI will make creating better, not take jobs
AI can do a lot of the jobs at big AAA videogame companies.
Jobs women regularly hold. Also women are less interested in using AI
How to become a machine learning engineer
How to view skills and jobs in the age of AI. A really fascinating article
Manufacturing
Healthcare bureaucrats.
AI is going to kill some jobs says OpenAI CTO
Call Centers
Freelance writer
AI takes jobs and makes new ones
Jobs: Radiologists
Radiology will soon have AI. Will this replace radiologists?
No no, radiologists will just be better at their jobs
AI: Microsoft Recall
The program follows everything you do, and keeps it in memory. This can be accessed at any time by you. It has tons of security problems.
A cyber security expert turns every post on Twitter into a rant against Recall.
AI: Adobe
Adobe says they own your creations in their agreement
This article says no they don't, they paid us to make sure you knew this.
Photoshop users are angry
How Adobe can win back users
Creatives are right to hate what Adobe and others are doing
Illustrator has AI now
AI: Meta
Meta plans to steal our info for AI
Meta has changed it's labels for the AI program because photographers got angry
Brazil bans Meta’s AI privacy act
Meta's 3D creator steals from others including Blender
AI is making more money because of advertising for Meta
AI: MidJourney
They don't need venture Capital to be the best and expand.
MidJourney: Physical
MidJourney starts into physical hardware. Likely XR related
Another article on the XR set up
MidJourney: New Editing UI
New image editing skills in MidJourney
The website is now open to anyone
AI
A real photo won an AI competition. It was disqualified
You can have 100 users with 12.88 tokens a second each going using a 3090 RTX.
Google has custom LLMs
ChatGPT is watching you. This article is a year old
Vector Databases for AI
What we learned from a year of building LLMs
ChatGPT 4o has cloned users voices for some unknown reason
Math answers to AI by wired
Grok 2 is out on X right now. It requires a paid edition of X, but has very few restrictions. Kamala Harris bearing Donald Trump's baby has already been made.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hYvtc
Google DeepMind can solve difficult math problems now
OpenAI has a new SearchGPT that will become a search engine for you
An old google search trick might help with hallucinations
Grow has a new overpowered LLM
Games used to train AI
Uncensor any LLM with Abliteration
Claude 3.5 vs ChatGPT-4o
AI Beauty contest
Generative AI imaging done on a Commodore 64
Raspberry Pi AI edition
New super computer hoped to be used to reach AGI. Could be in computing as well.
AI: Image 3
Imagen 3 is now open
It's on Google Deep mind and is doing fairly well. I haven't tested it.
AI: Flux
Flux has entered the image creation market
Another article on Flux
AI: Stability AI
New things to do with Stability
Stable Diffusion 3 released
The company went through a rough spot in May
SAI: Agreements
Stability AI has a new license
Stability AI has a much nicer user agreement program
AI: Google
Google has a new LLM… again …
Google Gemini will help create. An interview with a promoter of the program
Google shows off what it intends to do with AI and it's other services. I asked it how many links there are in this file, and it said it couldn't do that.
These English PhDs helped create the newest Gemini. They couldn't make tenure with that either.
Ethics in AI chat with Google tech leaders
You can open Gemini in a mini window
Gemini has Imagen 3
AI: ChatGPT-4o
Voice stuff for ChatGPT-4o will be released soon
Open Source LLMs that can beat ChatGPT-4o
It has a face!
How good is it at programming
AI: Agents
Agentic AI will soon take over for the AI we have now.
How Agents work
AI Agents may be the future
How Agents are taking over
Agent engineering
AI: Creations
A user tried to create a videogame character that has visual and logical stimuli as if it was actually in the game. It was Lara Croft. This article is a year old.
Gaussian captured forest with Millennium Falcon placed and animated in Unity. Video is cool, but not archived.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/mGH71
AI: Lists
News update on July 3rd. Elevent Labs has famous voices now. Runaway has an updated video maker. Other stuff.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/OUip9
LLMs being used in the real world
Introduction to Language Models
From a year ago. This is a list of words to control MidJourney views to make things more cinematic
Various tutorials to learn AI
Flex vs MidJourney
Lists of lessons on LLM education
AI: Tutorials
Using AI to create 3D printable objects.
Isometric videogame scene. This is a year old, and look at everything that got archived.
Interpreting Weight Distribution
How to train AI without breaking the bank
Simulated Data in Python
How to install Flux to ComfyUI
Creating graphics and coding for a videogame with AI
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/AdlAr
How to test Machine Learning systems
Character consistency in MidJourney a year ago
How to turn your AI into a scalable reality
How to become a deep learning specialist
An exhaustive introduction to BERT or baking into LLMs
Creating a music video
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Y52jn
Building a virtual world. It's also an interview.
Using a Small Language Model on the Edge Mini Computer
Make an animated movie by making quick still arts, add AI to create the actual image, then another AI to animate.
AI: Sref
MidJourney has a new system where you can source reference an art style you like. This Twitter thread talks about how it has changed things. Nick st Pierre would know.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0PwGZ
How srefs have changed MidJourney
A list of srefs
Top 10 srefs from my favorite stef guy. He also has prompts to control the image a bit as well. So there is some really nice stuff.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KCmOt
Groovy Sref
Old photo Sref
AI: Videogames
Tiny Glade creators discuss procedural generation in game design
Procedural generation tutorial for unreal engine 5
Procedural Green Fence maker
Actors for videogames are striking and Amazon says AI needs to step in to replace them.
Former GTA Dev says games should use gravity and AI to create animations
Odyssey is a Minecraft AI program
DeepGame is an AI based text game
Procedurally Generated cities
AI videogames and how they show the way we think
Nintendo thinks Gen AI is cool, but they don't need it because of their skills
Doom made by AI in real time without a game engine at 20 Frames Per Second. Google calls it the GameNGen.
Tech
New laser enabled screen printer
A battery as thin as a hair
A list of new tech that has been revealed. Shoes, holograms and more
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hn4XC
Samsung to have a big presentation
Magnetic levitation to replace cars and engines
Reasons to use TinkerCAD
States are starting to make laws on mind reading tech
Tech Crunch will have a big tech show
Cool tech for 2024
You will soon be able to carry your passport in a google app
Gabe Newell owns a Neuro implant company. Also, he lost weight
Interview with CEO of company that builds real life Mecha
A phone that can be taken apart piece by piece and upgraded or changed as needed is $199 at start.
Medieval Techno creator
Tech: Health
A health tech investor is going under
OpenAI and Ariana Huffington start health tech investment firm
Tech: 3D Printer
New 3D printer method with more control
Prusa intends to rule the 3D print world
Simulating 3D airflow and printing a device for it
Bambu Labs sued for copyright
Meshmixer can be used to create 3D printable assets
Metals using a decaying photon can build fast and accurately. Paper
3D printing D&D stuff, a tutorial
3D printed loom
Things you probably shouldn't print… or should you?
Tech: Web
Website that lets you edit videos, and make motion animations for free.
Chrome to block adblockers
Anandtech shuts down
Bots posting on Twitter
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zXDYP
Most searches on Google do not end with a click on a website
Web: uBlock
Google blocks the uBlock add on. YOU WILL GET ADS
Here are browsers that still allow it.
Tech: Robots
Multi purpose robots by MIT
China's first humanoid robot released.
A magnetic robot made of slime. It looks like living poop.
A list of robotic news including a robot doing pushups, air taxis, and air taxis for the air force.
Year old article about Tesla promotional video with humanoid terminators- I mean robots
40 foot tall humanoid robot for fixing trains is now a thing in Japan
NVidia looking to take AI to robots
First humanoid robot at a factory. Nio Huawei! Ya wei man
The robots that will replace humans
Fastest brick laying robot now in America
Tesla showed off their robot at an AI conference
Restaurants like Chipotle are starting to use robots to replace workers. I did a study a while back, and as far as I could tell, an entire restaurant could be one competent person. When that happens, there will be a crash.
Tech: Military
Autonomous taxi bought out to service military needs
Military Bipedal robots tested out with guns attached
Tech: Screens
Screens with elasticity and bending let you feel the buttons
New OLED is not breaking down as much
Quantum Rods can be used to make screens even sharper. Article is a year old
Screens: XR
Meta Surfaces create contact lenses with holographic HUD.
New meta surfaces as screens
10,000 nit OLED for XR
Screen: 3D
A 3D screen that will display differently based on where you and others are
Kirameki is a TV screen that lets multiple users see an object from their actual angle
Meta holograms have been created
Another new hologram screen
Screen: Projectors
Finding a good portable projector. They can reach 4K now
Panasonic to sell it's projector business
Computers
Imagine Blender on an old Nokia. Someone has done this and more.
Man rebuilds very old computer to wish his father a happy birthday
A motherboard with quick release devices for the parts
Playing Snake with a computer made of Legos.
Running DOS on a modern computer for retro gaming
Base 3 could improve computing
Playing Pong on electrogel
Is testing programs for errors broken?
NVidia has new additions to the openUSD system for digital twins. This could be in AI and 3D as well.
PC Gamer has a sponsored article on a new gaming laptop
Google has had access to the dark web this entire time, and is now letting you see it.
Time reversal in photons. This will be used for Computing
Using other assemblers to create C64 Assembler
Nanometer sized transistors are “grown”
Man made brain in a jar can control robots
Com: Papers
New possibilities for reservoir computing with topological magnetic and ferroelectric systems
Fully nonlinear neuromorphic computing with linear wave scattering
Integrated photonic neuromorphic computing: opportunities and challenges
Storing information on Sound waves
2D magnetic devices
Com: Internet
Spooky computing at a distance
New fastest internet found
Science
Photosynthesis can now be altered
Do Prime numbers have a pattern?
Atomic level view of mitochondria
Did MIT discover super conductivity?
A cloning company wants to make a wooly mammoth
Science: Brain
The Brain records a memory in three different spaces in different ways
Anendophasia: Scientists uncover the weird cognitive impact of life without an inner voice
The ebb and flow of learning
Ultrasound Brain stimulation makes you more relaxed
Science: Light
New photon shapes helps with new lenses
Nanoscale engineering brings light twisting even further
A year ago the Metalens was talked about
Optical conveyor belt for quasi particles
Multi modal tomography
Science: Atomic
Dark Oxygen
Quantum state mimics gravitational waves
Evidence of electron interaction with an unidentified bosonic mode in superconductor CsCa2Fe4As4F2
Recreation of the electroweak connection
Science: Living
Ants perform surgery
Scientists name spider after creature from Monster Hunter
Sea Creatures living in sunken WW II ships
Science: Space
India has a space rocket
First commercial space station by DARPA has been designed and accepted
The Hubble Tension isn't real. Neener
Scientists emerge from NASA Mars simulator after one year in it
Sci: Spa: Bus
Space Mining company hopes to launch in 2025
Another space company makes $12.25 million
Space Cargo company
History
San Michele et St Michael's
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JwHTY
Mexico information
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/avzA1
Hopewell culture was not destroyed by a comet
Amazing train routes
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xewn2
Business
This fluff piece says you don't need a ton of money to sell well. Innovation, and hiring us, will move you forward!
Adobe seems to be coasting on its successes and charging a premium for it
3D Printing King Form Labs fires 40 people
The company that owns dating sites like Tinder say Hinge is beating it
Google has military contracts and some workers don't like this. They will be fired soon.
Starbucks new CEO will fly 1,000 miles to work and then back every day.
The story of a guy who bartered his way from a paperclip to a house. The idea of bartering making a comeback is intriguing.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/gx4hG
How to interview as a designer to an HR slug.
A bank created fake accounts, took out loans for fake houses, and then sent the bill to the real person.
Google told to open up its app store by judge.
Architects are becoming real estate developers. Could be in architecture.
Gen Z doesn't want to work up the corporate ladder anymore
Several websites become Fast Company Design
Clean Energy Tax breaks are mostly scams says IRS
Air travel is doing better but profits for it are not
X will change the way you like and reshare things. The headline says they're gone for good
No place is a new social media making the rounds for Gen Z
Walmart and others raise their prices to everyone's chagrin
Proton has it's own google doc's
Google sells it's automated farming department
Patagonia is still doing well even though they let workers do what they want, and now it's overstaffed. Also, it has nothing to do with Argentina.
NEETs or people who choose not to be employed
Bus: Good News
The US dollar is winning
Start ups are doing better
Bus: 7/11
7/11 is trying to change itself to be more like the Japanese or Hawaiian 7/11. Wawa says hello.
7/11 gets a pumpkin spice slurped
Bus: Japan
Japan to build conveyor belt to replace trucks.
You can buy a nice house in Japan for way cheaper
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C66gHoMpsdl/
An article describing all the cheap housing in Japan
So many houses. Why don't they let anyone we demand move in!?
Bus: Remote Work
Cities where remote workers can live well on very little
Some businesses demanded people come back into the office so they would quit.
The regular 9-5 job is going extinct
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dtJN4
Nothing says back to work. The company is named Nothing.
We Work has gotten out of bankruptcy by a new owner
People are making more from remote work gigs, but the economy is up thanks to Bidenomics, so they should stop
In person meetings are better and this is why.
Survey says, they don't want to go back
Scientists say remote work is good. Could be in propaganda as well.
Ways to boost remote work collaboration
Portugal suddenly wants digital nomads
Who really benefits from remote work? An article from the Atlantic
Companies should hire fractional or freelance for projects. Fractional means they hold positions in multiple companies.
Why are companies firing remote workers in 2024?
WeWork is restructuring and redesigning open office spaces after it's bankruptcy
RW: AI
Former Google CEO talks about why Google didn't see AI coming, and blames remote work
Former Google CEO takes back his complaints about remote work, but doesn't explain why.
A former employee says the company has grown so big it can't actually maneuver. There is too much bureaucracy to actually make a product
Bus: Regular Office
Return to office mandates are running out of steam.
People would rather live in nice suburban area and commute long hours than live in a city
Bus: Housing
NYC got rid of most of its BNBs, and is still unable to lower rent and housing needs.
Why don't they make more houses? The big names want the prices to go up to keep profits, but seem to be running out of steam.
Costco gets into the housing market with modular homes, and buying land.
California to build 1,200 tiny homes for the homeless. They are spending $80 Million to do it. There are millions of homeless.
Cities are proposing changing their shopping areas into housing. This reminds me of the buildings in East Germany that held an entire city.
Guggenheim intends to invest in more housing
Cars
IRacing goes off road
A family sedan with 621 BHP and launch control. It costs $200,000
Hyundai N Vision 74 is in production
Toyota is making a 2 liter 600 HP engine.
New games on the Tesla
Ideas on the car that will replace the SUV. Mostly electric weird boxes. It's by the Wall Street Journal so you should set expectations to that.
Interview with Nilu27 head and former ultra car designer for big names. He says technology has not improved the experience.
Tuthill makes the GT One a 90’s style racer
Pagani Utopia Roadster
A guy built a two stroke engine with parts found from a store.
A F355 with all sorts of changes
New Toyota Corolla
Electric Mono wheel
New Ford Capri and some guy
New AMG reviewed
Automatic Toyota Corolla coming out
New photos of the Dodge Charger
New faster WRX called Project Midnight
Cars: Corvette
The new Corvette has 1,064 HP
More on the new corvette
Even more
Cars: Celica
There are rumours the Celica will get a new edition
More rumours of the Celica coming out again.
Another fake Celica video. I fall for it every time.
Cars: Electric
Electric car company Fisker is barely out of bankruptcy
Electric Cars won all the awards
Dodge Charger will be an EV with 670 HP
New 9 minute charge 600 miles battery pack from Tesla
Cars: Robotaxis
Amazon robotaxi service almost ready
A short article and several comments about the automated cars and Robotaxis
Autonomous Trucking network in Dubai
Waymo gets $5 Billion from Google
Cars: Old
Emulating old cars on electric vehicles
Which Pikes Peak legend deserves a remake?
Corvette museum has display on sinkhole
Cars: Lists
Best Concept Cars of the ‘80s
Best Sports cars from Japan
Things from the 90’s that should come back
Best Chevy Concept Cars
Best Cheap reliable cars
Best cars at the New York auto show
10 fast cars you can buy for $40,000
A really nice article by various authors on what cars have been their all time favorites. Jerry Seinfeld and Mario Andretti make appearances.
Turbo Powered Cars
Bertone’s designs in 10 cars
Books and Comics
Books that are difficult to adapt to film or tv.
This latest book is about a woman who leaves home to have affairs. So many women want to do this. It's so popular!
Unmasking reversal in the Scooby Doo meets Batman comics
Impossible Creatures gets a NYT article
Top genres in publishing
Alien Green Lanterns
Ananzi Boys the comic is out now.
Comics: Videogames
Team Fortress 2 gets a comic
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver gets a prequel comic
TTRPG
Verge talks about it's favorite table top games and videogames
Check out the BattleTech Sentinel
Brandon Sanderson had a very successful Kickstarter for a TTRPG about his Cosmere universe.
A look at Critical Role and why it's famous
Best Legacy TTG in 2024
New Middle Earth miniatures
A Warhammer player is making his own grim dark battle game using dinosaurs with frickin lasers
TTRPG: Woke or Not List
Have an archive of the list. Made by fans about the various companies in the tabletop and miniature world.
While looking up some stuff, I found Grimdark future.
https://www.onepagerules.com/games/grimdark-future
You can download the PDFs and 3D print the characters. So it's fairly easy to dive into without spending a lot.
Post Mortem games had a booklet on diversity. I haven't read it, but the description feels dweeby.
https://post-mort.com/collections/story-games
Gary Gygax was sexist!
TTRPG: IP
Phantasy Star is getting a ttrpg
Mandalorian has a ttrpg
TTG: Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic Battles
The trailer
TTRPG: WarHammer
Games Workshop has a mentor training system to join the miniature designers.
New Inquisition models
Mechanicus 2 teaches how to play the game
A painting and builder comp for Warhammer figures has banned all AI
Kill Team Promo video. It could be a board game, or Videogame
More Stores dedicated to Warhammer to open up in the USA
Model conversions
Toys
New TMNT toys bask in nostalgia
D&D Legos
Gremlins and the Goonies Legos
All of the Nintendo Lego sets
A fan asks for a Castlevania Lego set
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JQ9em
Lots and lots of Legos coming out of 2024
Super Mario Kart coming soon
Eiji Aonuma is thrilled about the new Lego Zelda
Art
This architectural display was purposely flooded
Design awards for students announced
Henry Orlick has an art show. I haven't heard of him either.
Chicago in another world
An inflatable space that feels like some weird futuristic space station
Artist for Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure has art display
Interview with Giulia Cenci
A giant hanging timeline
A glowy bamboo see through maze.
Some nice photos from around the world
An urban photographer who was also a nanny
A great horror picture
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/nU6yd
Contest winners on redesigning everyday things
Art Nouveau display
A walk through a garden with new sculptures
Immersive art combines architecture, theme parks, and now AI
Sculptures in an artsy garden, La Forêt Monumentale
Drones creating van Gogh
A rock sculpture artists legacy is displayed at one of his homes
Giant floating baby
Physical squiggly lines kids can play on that spell Love from certain angles
Stacked steel becomes mini auditorium for park
Walk inside bubbles for the Osaka art show
Ukiyoe is a personal favorite art form. Here is an article on Hiroshige
Art: NYCxDesign
Adobe had an AI presentation with all of the fluff terms designers and artists wanted to hear.
I've seen more articles about meetings and parties than actual displays at this show.
Art: Basel
Official pictures of the cool interactive art on display
Article about it
Music
KISS sells band and brand for $300 Million. They made the best Scooby Doo movie.
Music artists are canceling stadium concerts. Why did they do this in the first place?
Medieval Techno mixer
The Mo Pop Museum in Seattle has a dedication to Kurt Cobain. At the display it says he unalived himself.
How a kid produced and created his own album
Banjo Metal mix
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDARgbT9VwKCI&playnext=1&si=38WcRtqvuMbmBXoq
Music: Castlevania
If Back wrote for videogames, it would be Castlevania. An article.
The video the article was based on.
Music: Covers
Tavern version of Take on Me
GWAR covers I'm just Ken
If Rammstein did Sandman. Bad German and everything
Rock Orchestra covers Chop Suey
Music: Zombie
I saw this rock Orchestra version of the song, and it struck a chord. The song is about the troubles in Ireland and how they never felt like they were ending.
Here's the Cranberries singing it at a concert explaining what it meant. They were hopeful that it was soon over.
Here's an anti war in Iraq version done by Bad Wolves. The singer from the Cranberries was supposed to sing with them, but she died a few days beforehand.
I've always enjoyed the song, but seeing the troubles in Ireland are having a sequel, it all has a new meaning.
Music: Cultural
Taiwan Folk Metal
Germanic Tribal chants Rock
Music: Nightwish
One of my favorite bands is Nightwish. They have been changing a lot recently.
Part of it is because Marko Hietala has been doing a lot of side things.
In fact, he left the band.
Apparently he went through a divorce and realized he just didn't want to be in the band anymore.
https://youtube.com/shorts/8Up4zERzYDw
Food
Lollipop has a weird film. This is still a commercial for it.
Attack on Titan and KFC
Root Beer Ice Cream
Food: Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is number two!
A video about Pepsi losing power to the great Dr Pepper
Pickles in Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper and Krispy Kreme
New Dr Pepper flavor is dark berry. I want coconut back.
Food:🍫 Dr. Pepper Brownies 🍫
These Dr. Pepper Brownies are rich, fudgy, and have a unique twist with the addition of Dr. Pepper soda. Perfect for any chocolate lover looking for something a little different!
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter 2 cups granulated sugar 4 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup Dr. Pepper soda 1 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt For the Dr. Pepper Glaze:
1/4 cup Dr. Pepper soda 1/4 cup unsalted butter 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Instructions: Preheat the Oven:
Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan or line it with parchment paper. Prepare the Brownie Batter:
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Remove from heat and stir in the granulated sugar until well combined. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and vanilla extract. Gradually add the butter and sugar mixture, whisking constantly until smooth. Stir in the Dr. Pepper soda. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until just combined. Bake the Brownies:
Pour the brownie batter into the prepared baking pan and spread it evenly. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with only a few moist crumbs attached. Remove from the oven and let the brownies cool in the pan. Prepare the Dr. Pepper Glaze:
In a small saucepan, combine the Dr. Pepper soda, butter, and cocoa powder. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and whisk in the powdered sugar and vanilla extract until smooth and well combined. Glaze the Brownies:
Pour the Dr. Pepper glaze over the cooled brownies, spreading it evenly with a spatula. Allow the glaze to set for about 15-20 minutes before slicing. Serve:
Cut the brownies into squares and serve. Enjoy these rich and fudgy Dr. Pepper Brownies as a unique and delicious treat!
Backrooms
The backrooms is a big thing to teens right now. The imagery is something they all love referencing. Someone actually found where the original images came from
Here is the twitter post that found it
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/69rVQ
The front of the building looks ordinary
Arch: Tiny and Modular homes
Tiny Home built in 11 minutes
Container homes
Two homes connected to make one big one
There's a tiny home design competition
A home delivered and then clicked together.
TH: Housing
How modular homes might save the housing market in Canada
New use for a tiny home in the backyard? The Granny Flat
Toronto intends to use very small homes to take care of homeless.
TH: Luxury
A very artsy tiny home
Two story luxury tiny home
A luxury tiny home that lets you move the bed out on rails to see the stars.
Full wiring and plumbing for $16.5K
Two story modular home
There is a Frank Lloyd Wright kit house
A luxury cabin tiny home with two bedrooms
$40,000 tiny home seats 3 with nice open windows on one side.
TH: Villages
Tiny Home village is now full
Ottawa students can use Micro Homes
Ann Arbor tiny home village told to leave
New Jersey Mid Century Beach Houses
Bud house tiny home village. That sounds like a Google search
A small town has all the modern architecture
TPM: Websites
An interview with owner of a Prefab modular website
Modular homes company has several options
Arch: Winners
Winners of a rendered architecture competition
Winners of a design contest
The 20 A' Design Award winners
Under the Bridge winners
Arch: Impractical Artsy Homes
Open designed house with 7 courtyards
A house that looks at white vs black
Brazilian House that sticks everything out to extend the house.
I like the library placement in this one, but the idea that a farm can be made on a home in the city is very impractical
This curvy brick home
Underground courtyard with circle passageways
Hien house is basically stairs for every room
Walking in circles house
Minimalist apartment in an attic
The layout is cool but dumb on this one.
Outdoor office
Open Boxy home with a roof in a forest
This giant house has a single roof
Vast shuttered walls and boxy look and feel
A semi three story house that makes you take the stairs, and then take the stairs. The outside is weird and dark.
Rounded facade for an apartment complex. The concept artist designed it.
A giant cement circle with odd shapes as windows. Nothing inside. Very artsy
Polly Pocket BNB
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-bGLM_SSl9/?igsh=bXA2eGV1cjlmaTcy
An hourglass shaped glass museum
An entire interview and look at a guy who design horrible artsy homes. They use the word Interdisciplinary
CHCW House. I like the open eating area, but it doesn't look like a home at all.
Wedge shaped house
White Japanese building with low ceilings
A bunch of buildings that were never built
This is a very weird looking artsy house
Rounded rising house. Impractical to live in, but cool looking.
Architecture in style like Brutalism, Argentine, Japanese, boxy, and glass with random walls. There's also propaganda on what Architecture should be like. Also, and article on the new architect being a freelancer instead of a giant company.
Architecture
A new artsy street is being displayed.
A pizza with white brick circles
This building has 3 separate curvy buildings connected to a courtyard covering a playground. It's a kindergarten.
A jewelry store that looks more like a coastal estate home.
A newer faster payment program for construction has been released
A storybook house is up for sale
Star Wars like mansion
Designing architecture for animals
A woven cave of wood
A display will be made talking about difficult build sites in England over the last century
Volcanic rock for a stadium
TenCent HQ nearing completion. It's UFOs flying near each other
A curvy multi towered building
This architecture was designed by AI
This house has three floors. One of the floors is in the garden. It also just out for a patio.
Urban Pollination structure
Another nice house in the middle of nowhere
3D printed three story weird looking homes
A giant football stadium will be surrounded by gardens and covered by a tent canopy.
A browser based BIM tool. Sadly it costs $200 a month to use. Also, Revit is still needed for parts.
Housing clumps on small islands.
Is the future of architectural design freelance work?
A way to keep old Greek designs in modern buildings
The outside is closed and the inside circles around a garden. The house has a faceted roof. A really cool idea.
A building as a battery
A place based design for hotels and resorts
Large curvy office buildings
Tanzanian village has dirt and a 3D printer for its buildings
An open garden area with small buildings around it.
How 3D printing is changing the design of urban planning
A simple set of buildings to bird watch from
This looks like a modern Chinese mansion. It's a hospital
A park with purposely built amoebic walking paths and open areas
A curved apartment complex. It looks like the grand idea used in England that failed.
Wetlands house
I assumed at first this was redbrick, but it's semi opaque
Seoul Audio Museum looks like an insane instrument
A floating house
Fotografska Shanghai
Forest retreat house
An events center in a rural town looks like it was carved out of stone
A timber lantern that is the size of a shed and has open slats so it glows at night.
NeuroScience and Architecture
Beautiful wheelchair access designs
First net neutral building created
Concept art for a museum in Belgium
A house called Dragonfly because it's open and on stilts
A nice open design and large walls. And death stairs. It's cool but generic, so it's hard to describe
Why is modern architecture so boxy?
The future of tech offices is in Asia
An office that rolls away from the house.
Brick modernistic college
Artsy simple Latin American architecture
Detroit’s Central Station has been restored
A rounded underground house that looks like a controller from top down
Arch: Argentina
Curved Hobbit home in Argentina
Rustic Brutalism with changeable wooden shades
Wood and black steel open house in Argentina
Arch: Boxy
Open designed house with look of multiple boxes stacked on each other
Another boxy house called the Village
Another house that looks like multiple houses in one
Surf inspired house
Arch: Facade
A facade takes out a part of a building to match up with a church window nearby. It's called the Scoop.
A large circular balloon above an architectural site
Wooden Slats on a nice traditional house
A curved facade around a house. The patios and walkway have curved openings to see beyond the walls
Hanging walls and concrete eaves
Semi translucent glowing white building
Red iron grid waves
Rain catching sculptures at a museum
Cement shell with pillars surround a rather boring building
Red Facade with glowing white interior
An embroidered look for a brick building
Black brick and angular on the outside, curvy and smooth on the inside.
Curvy brick building is all a facade
A facade with windows that are all different sizes
A glass diamond facade for a jewelry store
Arch: Wineries
Wineries and their facades
Another winery, this one in Sardinia
Arch: Glass Houses
An empty building that is nothing but windows
Glass house in the woods
Glass House bottom, black wood top
A glass retail space on a dock
Guesthouse with floating roof
Arch: Interior
Modular furniture for interior architecture
Fabric partitions
A remodeled old creation lighthouse
Elliptical ceilings in white and wood area
The interior of a hotel for the Olympics.
White museum with red accents
An office space, kitchen, 70’s kitsch area in white
Benches that can be turned into desks or bookshelves
What the office could look like from various artists. This could be in Business or Art
The spirals in the design won me over
Nice step down floors in white wood
Children's museum in the Bronx
A nice office space with open and closed office areas. The design studio looks nice as well.
WhimsGoth
The tile on this ceiling is 3D printed.
Arch: Zaha Hadid
The latest building by Zaha Hadid is finishing up.
A year old article about a hotel designed by Zaha Hadid
Arch: Japan
A Brazilian Japanese mix in design
A Japanese joined tent like building
A Japanese house with modernistic tricks
Freebird house has hints of Japanese design in it.
An outside in space for offices
Hints of Japanese on this one
Furukawa Manufacturing office and plant
A mix of Californian, Japanese, and Brazilian architecture
Japandi style house.
Arch: Brutalism
A museum on the Brutalism in Washington DC
How to save Brutalism
Buenos Aires Brutal Necropolis
Arch: Renders
This AI program adds 3D parts to an already 3D image. It's for architectural stuff
New architectural rendering program Gendo
Arch: Lists
Amphibious Architecture
An architect created designs using every day objects. I suspect AI was involved
Curves in architecture
Homes designed by the architects living in them
The great Architects of recent times. In the architecture they are called black cloaks
Beautiful abandoned cities
Hidden Gems of Mid Century Architecture
Amazing architecture
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Fx98N
Homes with the Hawaiian vibe
Lists: Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Michigan
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings you can tour
Arch: Rounded Community Center
A curvy building with very few straight lines
An artsy community center that looks like circles stacked on top of each other.
Sherborne in Dorset is the least round of this group, but it has a cool roof.
Snøetta community center is a round museum and art display building.
This building is designed to look like an orchestra conductor's baton movements
An open looking area with solid curved curtain rooms. It's called Veil City
A stretched building with nice curves. All of it is just renders.
Arch: Canopy
Cement canopy in nature
A multi colored glass canopy while you sip wine and try to sound snooty
A inward wedge shaped pavilion
A grass canopy for an open air pavilion
Arch: Propaganda
Ethics in design. They used as much of the previous building as they could.
Critiquing facadism using AI
This red brick public toilet will look terrible soon.
An article promoting Gay Architecture. The set up is perfect here.
Abandoned buildings in Africa create inspiration to some architects.
Pharrell Williams wants Architecture competitions for 2028 Olympics
Theme Parks are in a bad spot. Guests coming to the parks is down, and big parks that were delayed from Covid aren't finished and need extra funds. However, there is still cool stuff like Halloween Horror Nights.
The arcade scene doesn't have any big announcements and seems to be getting by in its own way.
Theme Parks and Experiences
Automotive Theme Park with giant drag strip
The Ghibli Theme Park is awesome
Neal Stephenson and WETA Workshop are making an experience together
Muppet Vision 3D may be on the chopping block
Coraline has an artsy experience created near Laika studios
Universal UK Theme Park approved by majority
The first Netflix house will be in Dallas
Dragon Ball Theme Park announced. Mostly AI concept shots
A waterfall in China turned out to be fake. A hiker found a pipe pumping out water.
Immersive experiences in Las Vegas
Oregon has a theme park in the woods. I had no idea
A theme park called Fun Spot now requires anyone under 21 to have an adult with them when visiting. It's found in Orlando, and can be seen from Universal. I worked there when I first moved to Orlando. It's big by normal standards, but is dwarfed by Universal and Disney. It also has a policy to not stop any fight that breaks out in the park, so the employee doesn't get stabbed.
The Living Computer Museum in Seattle is closed for good. I loved this place, even though the GPS took me on a wild ride the first time I went there.
Blue Man group as a permanent performance feature is coming back to Orlando. It used to be a replacement for Nickelodeon studios, and is now heading to Icon Park
TPE: Halloween Horror Nights 33
Universal to have theme nights just like Halloween Horror Nights, for Geeks. Star Trek, D&D, Back to the Future are the ones talked about
All of the haunted houses and zones for Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando
The map for Halloween Horror Nights 2024
A tour of the tribute store for Halloween Horror Nights
A quiet place haunted house has sound and touch triggers so you have to walk carefully or be extra scared. I went with ASL folks, so it was especially weird.
Fast and the Furious is down, and big long rambly article follows. It's for a haunted house for HHN
TPE: Star Wars Hotel
How the Star Wars Hotel failed
The woman in charge of the failed Star Wars hotel has a new job away from Disney.
TPE: Attendance Down
Theme parks are down 10% from last year. Meanwhile expenses for theme parks have increased.
Attendance is down at Disney, which means they can't use it to prop up streaming.
It's down at Universal as well
Another article about attendance at Universal
Disney can't seem to grow anymore than it has already.
TPE: Evermore
The big evermore announcement of it's closure.
Evermore will change, and hints are laid out for fans to figure it out.
TPE: Disney d23 Announcements
Lots of stuff like new rides and a full Villain World
There's a lot of hype for it, but most fans I know think it's a bit of smoke and mirrors. They're announcing it, and even saying money is for it, but not actually going through.
Another article on the presentation
TPE: Universal Orlando
Lots of stuff at Universal. I went there the other day and enjoyed all the new stuff.
Themed audio at Universal Parking lot has been changed
Universal has a new day parade. It's a very nostalgic look at classic films.
TPE: Epic
The story of the design and building the new Epic Universal Park preview model
Orlando had less visitors while Japan had more
The new ride is shown off at Epic Celestial Park
The latest drone photos make it look like a ttrpg board.
Epic: Hotel
The new hotel has a lazy river and a lot of theming. If it's like Cabana Bay, then it's good.
It's called Helios and it's being integrated the same way Cabana Bay was with Volcano Bay. This is a good sign. The art Nouveau style is also cool.
It has fairly basic rooms, with a lot of add ons like an arcade.
Have the trailer
This changes how hotels are categorized at Universal
Epic: Harry Potter
The new Harry Potter world has been announced
It's at Epic and will be about the Ministry of Magic
Possible downsides to Epic
The announcement was made July 31st
News about one of the rides is now out.
TPE: Videogames
Resident Evil the experience will be at Universal Japan. It will not allow kids
The failed pokemon event in the Phillipines
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/EIgyk
VG: Super Mario World
Super Mario World has a new motion tracking game
More on the interactive wall
An article on the reveal
TPE: Kid Cities
A nice documentary on kid cities
Kidzania, a kid city, has a Nintendo game designer area
Arcade FEC Social Gaming
If you ever watch TV, movies, or photo shoots and see arcade games in the background, there is a specialized operator who supplies them. This is one of them. I know the one in Vancouver BC. He is a reseller with tons of connections.
Seattle got rid of its arcade license fee a year ago.
Giant screen will play sports and cultural events for audience. IE imagine watching the big game like it's almost in the stadium.
Arcade: Classics
Best Retro home based arcade cabinets this year
Jet rocket is an old Sega game that doesn't have a monitor or computer
Bellevue Washington gets a giant social interactive center by Mirra
A tour of SNK USA in 1995
Arcade run’n’Guns
A review of the Namco ND-1 arcade board
Arcade: Classic Fans
I don't really know where to put this one. A school in Hawaii has an arcade run by the students to teach them business and work ethics. They learn to Maintain machines, run a shop, and attract customers while some learn to make their own games. Seriously an awesome thing. A couple friends of mine are part of this, and they love it.
A teacher created an arcade to get his students more active. I'm sure that was his excuse.
A fan built the unreleased Lemmings arcade game
The message is destroying so much. Cartoon Network is gone, Disney+ seems almost not worth it to Disney, but we will get an anime Scooby Doo. Several companies are gone, and Paramount was sold as a side project. There are now talks about bringing back Gravity Falls and anything that actually made money. Once again, anime Scooby Doo.
Film TV
A Fistful of Dollars, the Clint Eastwood classic, is getting a remake.
Blockbuster gave all of its employees the day off.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/iszJj
Review of Premiere Pro 2024
Disney invested too much for Disney+ and is now suffering for it says Bob Iger. If those shoes had been good…
Chris Pine says that there's too much spent and not enough made to make another Star Trek. Also, they catered to non star trek fans and did not get wanted results
Agatha All Along will be horror. It's a follow up to the marvel show which was semi satire and horror.
8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown was put on hold
Tim Burton doesn't want to direct another superhero movie. He's already made two of the greatest, so who cares.
Warner Bros will start a studio in Las Vegas
Borderlands is so bad the puppeteers for claptrap aren't int eh credits.
A new Lord of the Rings Movie starting Gollum
Marvel may have given up on the Message days the Critical Drinker.
Taskmaster host Greg Davies tells the story that Alex Horne was told he couldn't be the host. The truth is Horne wanted Davies to be the host the entire time.
Another HellBoy reboot. This one has the Crooked Man
The friendship between the three at Grand Tour/ Top Gear
Kids with anime names have begun.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ivO1I
Why Coraline had a yellow raincoat
FTV: Alex Proyas
The director of the original Crow speaks out against the remake
Alex Proyas returns to Sci Fi. RUR will be about robots. He directed Dark City
FTV: Hulu, Disney+ and Max
Hulu, Max, and Disney+ for one price. I got it because I already had Hulu and Disney+
Another article
TVF: Critical Drinker
Marvel is getting rid of the message
Lucasarts is not
TVF: Yakuza like a Dragon
Yakuza Like a Dragon gets a TV show
It's going to be very Japanese
FTV: Buyouts
Larry Ellison buys Paramount for his son
Disney May pay another $5 Billion for Hulu.
FTV: Warhammer 40k
The deal for the show isn't finished
They need to come to an agreement soon, or it won't happen. Henry Cavill will become dark Superman if they do.
Warhammer 40k characters that deserve their own show
The rumor is they kicked Cavill out so they could properly ruin the show. Fans not so happy.
FTV: Animation
Animated story of Junji Ito's Uzumaki is coming out for Adult Swim. I'm sure it will spiral out of control
A year ago they had previews for the animated Tomb Raider show
New Transformers Anime
Interview with Laika. They made Coraline and Kubo
Cypress Hill to perform with an orchestra as a cultural event. The Simpsons made fun of the idea decades ago.
Studio Ghibli movie posters now for sale
Batman Ninja Sequel gets Justice League
The ride of the Rohirim will have a headstrong princess.
Crunchyroll removes comment section
TV: Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network may be gone
The website now goes to Max
Another article about CN website
TV: Doctor Who
The Celestial Toy Maker from Doctor Who has been animated and released on Blue Ray and Streaming
Disney And Doctor Who deal might be ending quickly.
SDCC panel on upcoming Doctor Who stuff
David Tennant hopes to work with Matt Smith for another special
There's a campaign to have a Doctor Who and Star Trek episode.
Doctor Who spinoff for Disney+
FTV: A Look At
A look at the architecture that inspired the movie Akira. Some good editing with this one.
A look at Tetsuo: Iron Man a 1980’s dark sci Fi from Japan
A look at Nosferatu films and Dracula films.
FTV: Bad Times
Inside Out 2 team was mostly fired before the movie came out. So it made a profit at the cost of the company.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bq1tH
All of the online clips from south park and other productions owned by Paramount on their websites have been taken down.
Boring TV is winning says New York Times
FTV: RedBox
Owner of Redbox Rental services declares bankruptcy
Machines stop working, and boxes won't give our disks or recognize accounts
The app has been turned off so any full purchase has no meaning
FTV: Reuniting
There may be a Gravity Falls revival. The creators of the show and Disney are in talks.
Neil Gaiman and Henry Seluck to make an adaptation to Ocean at the end of the Lane
FTV: WB Animation
A new anime version of Scooby Doo
More on Scooby Doo
Apparently WB, Cartoon Network, and Hanna Barbera are making a lot
It's difficult to properly place the Stinger Report. There's XR, FEC, Arcade, theme park, and bar news in it. Generally it's how the hang out industry is doing.
Stinger Report
The entire XR scene is not doing well. Arcades are suffering, and anything videogames as well. Latest Stinger Report talks about it
Another Stinger Report. The at home market for VR is dying, while the commercial arcade and LBE market is doing better.
How IP is being used for more experiences
An Asian amusement convention to show off the latest tech coming from the big names there.
A big theme park and innovation convention happened in Saudi Arabia. Kevin Williams has a bunch about it
The XR world is going through a bit of a down time and Meta seems to be taking it the worst. Also, there are cool new things but no one uses the term the same.
VR AR MR XR
VR games showcase coming next month
Meta Quest 3 has a layout app that checks the size and dimensions of things in the real world for you.
Gundam VR movie
China uses XR to improve tourism.
Quest 2 can follow your controllers and hands at the same time.
Quest 3 vs Pico 4
Google Earth VR sounds like a great way to find the many places I have lived.
$1.6 Million to make a VR game called Fractured. Where do I get investors like this?
Stanford has new holographic see through lenses. Will they make head sets better?
New VR Games
Sandbox VR is making games for public groups
The Burst is another action shooter.
New Omni walking system has games that work with it
Alien stealth game. Hide from the xenomorphs in Alien Rogue Incursion
Bounce Arcade is basically Racquetball in VR
These VR game creators started as fans and built up
Treadmill shoes for VR
AR glasses connected to ChatGPT-4o and has a camera for $249
XR: Shared Reality
Shared Reality is a new term in VR. People are using it for giant screen experiences
https://youtu.be/fto0K9E8rhI?si=FdGe4geN9NAo769i
In fact, when I searched it on google, that's all I found.
Just a giant screen experience. This is completely missing out on what could be done.
There is also the idea of someone with VR goggles working in one way and someone one with AR goggles can see what they're doing.
This is all from one guy experimenting several years ago. Here's his blog.
Here's another article on the subject for the same experiment.
XR: Fan Made MechWarrior Simulator
Fan made Full Motion Simulator for Mech Warrior 5
A video about his progress
XR: Business
Sony has built an adapter for PSVR2 to work on PC. They won't let the cool stuff happen, but you can use it on a steam account.
Ultra leap is selling it's hand tracking business.
Third verse gets a new CEO
Magic Leap got rid of any department that makes goggles. It is dead and just another part of Microsoft.
Meta shut down a VR developer
VR for the tourist industry
Two guys who made the high level VR AR goggles for Varjo have their own company. It projects 3D imagery on a car windscreen
Bus: Bad News
XR sales are down by 60%
No one seems to be buying the Apple XR HeadSet
More on how the market isn't being reached. 7 reasons why people aren't using the headset goggles
Vision Pro app releases are less and less
Bus: Good News
How Andretti FEC has used VR to be successful when most haven't. Their answer is proper staff placement.
Zero Latency is actually making money
XR: Samsung
Samsung and Google making goggle set
Samsung promises a Virtual Pro rival this year
AR: Laptops
AR glasses as a laptop screen tried out
AR glasses as a laptop screen company goes under
XR: Meta
Reality Labs is going through a hard time. They switch out leadership every few months, never make enough money, and XR is not the at home business expected
Meta is competing against its own Monopoly. This article sparks a lot of problems with the VR/AR goggles scene.
Meta shuts down it's 3rd Party AR program. The add ons will disappear on the first of 2025
A year old article asking if the Quest is a flop
Ready at Dawn is also gone
It's been an unmitigated disaster
There is no direct way to play Fortnite on Meta Goggles. You can play it off XBox cloud services, but it won't be in VR
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return
Zuckerberg considers 6 screen layout for meta quest business mode
Meta has AR glasses coming out. CTO says it will be great.
Quest 3s information
Meta: Quest Pro 2 Cancelled
Quest Pro 2 is cancelled and this article says it's a good thing.
An article talking about the cancelled Quest Pro 2
John Carmack tried to kill Quest Pro and said it was sent out to die
Meta: GTA San Andreas
Meta was making a GTA San Andreas VR edition
GTA San Andreas for Meta has been canceled
VG: Graphics
Voxel displacement. I think I've posted this before
Post Process video imperfections for Unreal
An interview with creators of PathTrace ReShade from a year ago
Making the look of Hi Fi Rush
Smoke Simulation on Unreal a year ago
Most videogames were designed for the RGB set up of the arcade screen, not your CRT at home.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UvJvY
Assassin's Creed Valhalla gets a fan graphics upgrade
How to make a 2D underwater area. Oceal
A bunch of games being made using the Unreal Engine. The first one is a Toy Story RPG that looks like the movies
Realistic reflections being done on Duke Nukem 3D
Realistic vs Matches Vibe
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2scEb
The unreal engine is too clunky to run games at 4K
A new graphical benchmark test
New particle system for Unreal Engine
Upscale mode gets Simpsons game looking really nice
Wolfenstein 3D graphics when 3D wasn't possible.
A neural network for ray traced beauty
PS1 vertex jittering in a modern system
Metal Gear Delta has a feature that lets you see the game like it's on the PS2
3D
Volumetric lighting in Blender 4.2
Data moshing
Picking out the right 3D software. Is it artistic or for building something?
Modeling with Unreal Engine
The renderer for Kung Fu Panda 4 is now available for free
A cloth simulator for Blender. Article is a year old
Stop motion dinosaur used for motion capture in the first Jurassic Park. Why we don't do this with human animations is beyond me.
A new tool set for Blender
Animal Crossing character creator
500 animations for free on Unreal Engine
Realistic Clouds
View Painters
A real time compositer for Blender
Best free 3D modelers
Flower Moon animation
Realtime Foam rendering
Anime eye physics in blender
Epic Games has a 3D scan app that works with Unreal Engine.
An update to Modo renderer is out.
3D: Scenes
A gateway
Japanese train station
English village
Several scenes put together for a demo reel
A cinematic for a car chase scene
3D: Scene: Fantasy
Fantasy Ruins
A magical glen
Slime monster
3D: Scenes: VG
Resident Evil Inspired Scene
Tomb Raider inspired ruins
Halo
VG: Classic Indies
Sequel to Beyond the Ice Palace for the Commodore 64 is announced
A Doom Engine for the GBA
MekkaBlood is for modern stuff, but designed to look and feel like a Doom Clone in a mech
Interview with creators of Transylvania Adventure of Simons Quest
Cyber mission is a Shmup for the Mega Drive
Jaleco collection
Glover gets a physical release for Switch
Star Runner is an action puzzler for the Sega Master system
Unearthed for the GameBoy Advanced is a strategy puzzle game with sci Fi and Mecha
A new game design engine for SNES is coming out. The creators also have one for the NES. I supported their first Kickstarter.
A version of Minecraft for the GameCube has been made to promote a new classic indie engine.
Ninja Kids getting a compilation on PS4 and Switch
Games coming out for Sega Consoles
Sigma Star returning to GBA
Riven remade in Unreal Engine
Tengen is back and releasing homebrew
Kien was announced for the GBA in 2002. It's about to be released for that console.
Howard Scott Warsaw making Yar’s Revenge sequel
Rescue Force for the NES is a Metal Gear like game. It also has a revamped version of Custer's Revenge
Zephyr's Pass is for the Game Boy Color and has a Zelda vibe to it.
PlayStation style kart racer based on Bloodborne is out now
A company that makes new EGA adventure games
Interview with creators of SPF a Shmup for the mega drive
The Symphony of the Night Genesis port has made progress
VG: CI: Evercade
Games for the evercade
Evercade continues to release great niche classics like Legacy of Kain
VG: CI: Physical
Palmer Lucky is making awesome new versions of the Game Boy. He started Oculus but has been GM modder for a while. His new console is for sale
A game with CD quality sound for the Genesis. It has a special chip and only works on mk1 and MK2 consoles.
Ram Cart for Master System
VG: CI: SegaFPGA
SegaFPGA is a console that plays old Sega games, including Dreamcast
More about the SegaFPGA it's a bit late and oblique in parts of its description
VG: CI: Doom 4K
Doom is getting a 4K remaster
Lots of cool extras and new levels as well.
VG: CI: Lists
Top 10 new NES games
Top new SNES games
CI: Mod Retro
The Mod Retro is a modernized Gameboy with Tetris as a release title.
Here's an interview with the president of the company
CI: Parking Garage Rally Circuit
Parking Garage Rally Circuit is based on Saturn racers and may get a Saturn Port
Interview with parking garage rally circuit
CI: Fallout London
A full conversion of Fallout 4 called Fallout London has been sent to GoG. If accepted, it will be for sale.
The version will be from an older Fallout 4
There are bugs being worked on.
The team that made it are becoming an indie team because of how successful the mod has been.
CI: World of Warcraft Remake
World of Warcraft on Unreal Engine is getting a server and release date
More on the fan made remakes
VG: CI: Resident Evil
GOG has the original Resident Evil 1-3
It turns out they're using a bad version of RE 2
Another article on the version being released
VG: CI: Sega Neptune in Brazil
Brazil gets the Sega Neptune.
An article on the Neptune release. It was never released by Sega, so it being released 20 years ago means Brazil is weird.
VG: CI: Classic Ports
Final fight for the Amiga
Super Castlevania IV on the Master System
Castlevania Rondo of Blood on the Master System
Catacombs 3D is getting a release. This was an inspiration for Wolfenstein 3D and Doom
VG: Tech
How to record video off your steam deck
Valve released the best game recording software. It flags cool and boring parts for easy editing.
New Game Engine shown off. Bevy was designed in Rust
VG: Mods and Fan Made
Fan recreation of original Fallout 3 proposal is now downloadable and open source
3D Keith Apicary on the Sega Dreamcast
Decompilation of Banjo Kazooie is finished
Bethesda took down a mod where you killed Margaret Thatcher
LED Pong
A list of fan translations for Goemon games
A new mod for Super Mario Sunshine
There's a Doom reference in Cyberpunk 2077
Translation for the Sega made Hamataro and anime character dance game for the PS1 is now available
Fans are making an old online RPG for Saturn playable.
Fan made Super Mario Bros. Get it while you can.
A guy in Seattle likes to harass people to give up their really expensive games for ‘charity’. He then sells the game and keeps the money. Now he's promoting his dead sister as a way to keep at charity.
Sega Genesis with Super Nintendo transparency
Fans remaking the Nintendo Satelview games and service.
Mod of Europa Universalis 4 takes the game to 600 AD
Explore WuHu Island in the Wii Game that should have been made.
ASMR walking through Witcher 3 with thunderstorm
Fans make Wii the size of a keychain
Mario in Castlevania
Okami style Kirby
Bulbasaur stained glass art
A fan is updating Outrun 2: Coast to Coast long after it was sold
A programmer shows off his game for the ZX1. It's a Bomberman style game and took him 9 hours to program
Modding enthusiasts for the XBox try to save the PSX DVR
Videogame player honored as first millennial Saint in catholicism
Fan Mod of Pokemon Revolutions can use announcer effectively
Turning the GameBoy Camera into a webcam
Fan arcade dedicated to Virtual On in Japan.
FM: Mario 64
Doom Eternal just opened mods and someone put in Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 with Doom levels
Super Mario 64 with new extra playable characters and 16 player Co-op
Are we ready for a 3D Super Mario Maker?
FM: Remakes
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom cut scenes redone in Game Boy graphics
Streets of Rage Plus
A slow fan made upgrade to Bloodborne for PC is getting close to release.
Resident Evil 1 with Unreal Engine
Stardew Valley on Unreal Engine
Final Fantasy upscaled. More of a mod, but it's all the things a remake would have.
Far Cry 2 in the Far Cry 5 Engine
Fallout in unreal engine
A fan made a final fantasy 7 remake using Little Big Planet. Now he wants a reference to it in the actual remake.
If Mega Man was in 3D
Xenogears has a fan remake
Contra reforged is a 3D platformer based on the classic NES game
Zelda Wind Waker fan remake in Unreal Engine
Crusade of Senty is getting a fan remake.
GTA San Andreas
Castlevania 3 for the Mega drive demo
Remakes: Most Wanted
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Announced a year ago
Fan: Ports
Doom 2 on the SNES
Zelda 2 on SNES
Simpsons Hit and Run on the PS Vita and Switch. They used the source code somehow.
PS1 Wipeout on a browser
Doom on a Sex Toy
Shine Megami spinoff gets translation and port to modern pc
Recomps of Nintendo 64 games for the android phone
Castlevania Bloodlines on the SNES
GTA 3 on Dreamcast
Doom on your Dreamcast has released and looks good.
FM: Mario 64 on GBA
It's been updated with a video
This article describes the updates. Arms and legs move along with various moveset like ground pound. Also, transitions and stars appear.
The Verge has a small article about it.
FM: Zelda Remake
Zelda fan remake
An article on the Zelda remake
Another article
VG: Science
Videogames change the way to brain works. Star Craft II proves it.
VG: Emulation
Dolphin has achievements for GameCube games
Dolphin emulator has a new edition and explanation of how they made it
A PS4 emulator can play Bloodborne
Fans have remade Tiny Toon games because it was changed to be harder in the US
Apparently the XBox One is running an XBox 360 Emulator to run games. Not just 360 games, all of them.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/lfR3P
ROMHacking is no longer a ROM modding site with things like better visuals, gameplay tweaks and translations. I stead it will be a news site. All downloadable are on the Internet archive.
VG: Classics
Long lost Atari game Tarzan found and preserved
How GTA 3 was released on Japan
A near finished prototype of Our of the Vortex has been found and released. It was made by David Cage before he was David Cage
Memorabilia for classic PC games like Fallout and Baldurs Gate found
The word retro is getting overused and classic doesn't describe all the retro games. How do we share our history that changes so quickly?
First female game designer passed away
A year old article about Sword Dancer, a JRPG Fighting Game built for the PC-98
Post Mortem of Psychonauts
Big Trouble in Little China by the guys who made Duke Nukem 3D nearly happened
A documentary on Eternal Champions
Museum dedicated to Midway will be opening soon.
The computer used to make the original Civilization is being preserved.
How designers got around the PS1 limitations
Ganbare Goemon on Nintendo 64 articles and interviews tell a story.
Deadpool the game did not cost $100 Million
One person's rundown of the console wars between Sega and Nintendo. Strong Sega slant here.
Hideo Kojima had to be called to fix problems with an RPG of Snatcher, so Metal Gear 2 could release. This was the late 80’s.
The Virtual Boy is still selling badly in the used market
Super Smash original storyboard presented
It turns out Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness had its own Konami Code to open stuff up
Sim City 2000 has an essay by Neil Gaiman about cities
Farnation was an MMO for the Dreamcast that never released. Videos of it have surfaced.
Sweden wants to make videogames a part of their recognized arts
Playing the first Tetris on a Soviet computer
Gamers today couldn't handle games like Morrowind
Wii Us are dying because they need to be charged all the time.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/B6IRA
There was side dialog created for The Last Express, a ‘97 adventure game with rotoscoping
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/MkOmg
Original Fallout was supposed to have 1,000 vaults
A documentary on advice given by old school game designers. If you recognize the name Eugene Jarvis, this is for you.
A love letter to Marvel vs Capcom and it's 90’s feel
Simpsons Hit and Run 2 sounds like it would have been awesome
Mark Hammil starred in Wing Commander the Cinematic space simulator
A nice history of StarCraft
PS2 and Dreamcast Cross play
The Virtual Racing port for the Mega Drive nearly cost the same as the console
The rise and fall of Sega
Changes throughout the design of the legend of Zelda Link to the Past
Silent Hill 3 was based on actual neglected buildings, and a mascot handing out balloons
Bloodstained turned 5 years old.
Class: Porting Arcade to Console
Robert Hickman gave a speech on the process of porting
Here is an article on the speech that outlines what he said.
Class: Nintendo Museum
A special Nintendo Direct for its new museum
Another article on the subject
Some pictures of the museum
It will have sections about products before videogames. Will love hotels make an appearance?
Sakurai had a sneak preview
Wired article about the museum
The video
https://www.youtube.com/live/JApUMBscKOc
Class: Symphony of the Night
A look at Castlevania Symphony of the Night
How to get the best stuff in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Class: GameBoy
GameBoy is 35
NPR covers Gameboy being 35
Class: Mother
Mother turns 35
More on Mother
Class: Lists
Open World Games by Sega
6 RPGs for the Sega Saturn
Turn based RPGs on PS1
Turn based JRPG handheld games
Powerful Castlevania characters
Disney Games on Mega Drive
Top games on DOSbox
Games to download onto your XB360
Rarest versions of consoles for sale. The Nintendo PlayStation and the PS1 10 million are listed
Class: Nintendo Commercials
Nintendo's first US commercial has been archived.
A promotional VHS for the Nintendo Satelview has been restored.
Class: Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong's lawsuit with Universal has tons of papers to be seen. Someone scanned some of it and there are cool things to be found.
Donkey Kong Country original art
Class: Books
Soul Reaver gets a comic book series
Awesome but forgotten Videogame Magazines
Kim Justice has a book on 80’s arcade games
Unofficial Club Nintendo Anthology
A big Dreamcast book is getting another release
A two volume book series on how to program the classic games from Pong to Eggy. Written by raspberry pi founder
Class: Soul Calibur
The director of Tekken explains why it failed and will not be coming back on Twitter.
An article about the post
VG: Design
Tekken director is tired of giving free advice or long instructions on game design
Game Engines are used for non game stuff just as much as the actual purpose of the engine.
A documentary on the making of the Ghostbusters game
Vampire Survivors has a real indie design story.
Tweets about the design of the game Voidborn
Part 2 of a five part series on game design. This one has soft skills like Be Kind
Unity 6 review
Quest design for CD Project Red
Splinter Cell followed the lead made by Metal Gear Solid
A promotional article for Microsoft MakeCode Arcade
A single indie dev made a game that looks like a modern Sega Rally. It may become official. This is an interview with him. It turns out he's a VFX artist.
Code a Doom like game with this tutorial
How to make the Crazy Taxi MMO not suck. Live service is mentioned a few times.
Discussing story for MechWarrior Clans
Music composer releases tracks he made while designing music for games
Sakaguchi doesn't want to return to Final Fantasy. He likes just playing games for fun.
Idea vs reality in a Twitter post
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/GgS41
Des: Nightdive Studios
Nightdive Studio happily talks about porting the Thing to modern consoles.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aQgil
Another interview
I realized I forgot to post Summer Games Fest stuff yesterday. Also, the Propaganda stuff says you're racist for liking games.
VG: Summer Games Fest
Geoff Keighly says it will be mostly games coming out this year.
Yahtzee reviews SGF
Doom the Dark Ages
SGF: Presentations
Sony had a State of Play. Mostly games coming out next year, or not exclusive. Also, a tranny presenter.
Overview of the Bandai Namco presentation. Lots of anime.
SGF: Silent Hill 2
Konami did Silent Hill. It mostly covered the SH2 Remake and Movie
https://www.youtube.com/live/D1jGEOxDBpo
Silent Hill 2 remake team had to stop old designers from changing game too much
Debate on the changes for characters in SH2
SGF: Capcom
Capcom had Monster Hunter and a sword vs demon in Japan game. They got Resident Evil 7 to work on the iPhone.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5f6GUvnBu8A
An article about the games displayed
Another article
Kunitso Gami is the game that caught my attention. During the day you bless people and take away curses, while preparing for night. At night you battle Japanese demons.
Cap: Dead Rising
The remake will have the original sound track
VG: Propaganda
Simulations and VR help teach about the world. This was before videogames, and yet, it is.
3rd party translators are fed up with no recognition for games they worked on.
The console wars is dead. Nintendo won, while Sony and Microsoft can't afford to compete.
Videogames are changing the way we see things
There is an academic book about how Videogames are run by evil right leaning racists. They said no, and are now verboten. The ad for this appeared on my Facebook feed.
Like Castlevania? You should play V!
Final Fantasy 7 remake and anti revisionism
Sim City is racist because you can design things and see how they grow!
PC Gaming is getting more and more popular.
Why do games torture women in games gratuitously as a show of feminism?
Propaganda: Dustborn
It turns out to be paid for by the US Government
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/cs4Au
Stuttering Craig talks about it
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yIWiV
Prop: Yasuke
The new Assassin's Creed game let's you play as Yasuke, a mythological black samurai. He never existed, but Ubisoft is putting him in for propaganda.
The narrative of him existing is unraveling fast
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/7C18m
You just hate black people!
The government of Japan are sending letters asking about the promotion of Yasuke.
This isnt even the Classic Indies or design sections yet. I'll do that tomorrow.
VG: Business
Phil Spencer thinks there should be an XBox Handheld.
Stardew Valley version 1.6 is taking a long time for consoles. The creator hasn't touched his other game Haunted Chocolatier in a while.
Hideaki Itsuno leaves Capcom to make his own game.
Games Done Quick is under new ownership.
Lemon Sky Studio looks more like the set of a sitcom than an actual design studio
More games can be called Albion because Microsoft can't patent a real place.
Warframe CEO says most live service games companies pull out too soon.
ESport Olympics to take place in Saudi Arabia
Sony expands global game initiative
Can Hytale the engine run Hytale the game?
Most game designers think micro transactions are for the lesser games
Indie team shows off their cancelled game
The actor strike on videogames could be bigger than the one in Hollywood
Riot Games was making a Super Smash style game but let it go
Valve basically rules PC gaming and is only 360 people
Japanese studios are doing better than others
Infinite Realities buys creators of Roblox
Metal Gear Rising Revengence released on GoG but not to Japan
Makers of Gothic are shutdown by publishing company
The CEO of Rockstar says GTA6 will be for a more modern society
Adobe tried to make videogames on their own. The first game was never released.
How Pokemon Go will change for Brazil in 2024
Eve Online is now open source to keep it going after the creators have shuttered their company
The creators of Among Us help other Indie Devs keep afloat
Ubisoft still trying to do NFTs
Jesse Schell hasn't fired a game maker in 22 years. An interview
Cloud saves on Gog over 200 MB will be deleted soon
Indie studios are taking over a lot
American McGee talks about losing the Alice series on Twitter
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4jzVM
Nintendo warned pirate site to quit before suing.
Interview with the head of videogames at Netflix
Indie platformer dev accidentally sends Valve hamster-themed system requirements, including a graphics card powered by 2000 hamster brains: "I hope it works”
XDefiant had 11 Million players
Jason Schreier confirms Final Fantasy Tactics remake is still being done, with a reddit comment.
Creators of Bloodborne want to make a PC port, but aren't allowed to even mention this desire publicly.
Unity fired it's greedy CEO, and is trying to undo his damage. Said CEO used to run Activision.
Life by You is canceled
The videogame business is dying and these are the numbers showing it. This is a loong article on X showing it.
The creator of Final Fantasy is working with Square Enix again after 20 years.
Major Nelson joins Unity
Ubisoft adds another company to making Prince of Persia
VG: Bus: Toys for Bob Crash Bandicoot
Toys for Bob was managed to die by Activision
A crash bandicoot sequel was cancelled when the game company was closed
VG: Bus: X vs Consoles
X Integration has been dropped by all console manufacturers
Another article about it
VG: Bus: Helldivers 2
Sony tried to push everyone playing Helldivers 2 onto PSN accounts, even on PC. It failed.
They went on a positive review spree for steam and bragged about it working
VG: Bus: Capcom
Capcom has internal SJW quota
Fans not happy
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/EdJpd
VG:Bus: Hi Fi Rush and Prey
Hi Fi Rush was a success, but the company didn't make enough for Microsoft to keep it around. So, the publisher for PUBG has helped them out
Being successful is not a way to stay in business for creators of prey and hi Fi Rush
Developers praise Dishonored which was made by the same folks as Prey
From software is Praised for not dying during a time of last offs and closing successfull companies
VG: Bus: Man Lords opinions
Manor Lords creator defends single player games
Manor Lords creators say producers contracracts are badly made
VG: Bus: Game Informer Caput
GameStop has closed the entirety of the magazine.
The website now goes to GameStop's statement on AI
The Twitter account said goodbye, so GameStop closed it completely
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Cciy2
A tour of the offices before they closed. A very large game collection.
VG: Bus: Humble Bundle Indie Publisher
Humble Games fires entire Indie Dev staff
Newly released game Bo was published by them and is trying to figure out where to go from here.
VG: Bus: Pal world
Pal world CEO says they did not use AI to make their creatures
Makers of Pal world and Sony team up to make new company
VG: Castlevania Revamped
A Metroidvania fan edition of the first game
Here's a video of it being played
https://youtu.be/iWJxQAQaAGQ?si=5kvw7qveZnligFYv
Another article
VG: Nintendo and Investors
Miyamoto has admitted he's not involved in game design as much as he was. He's 72, and basically retired, but works on projects for fun.
Miyamoto says they want 30 Million+ style game every few years as a goal.
Furukawa says they are making as many Switch 2s as they can so there are no scalpers.
Takahashi says many games will take longer to make. He also points out Nintendo continues to experiment until they find something they like.
A translation of the investors meeting from business speak
VG: Nintendo Direct
The video was 40 minutes long and fairly uneventful.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kX3BkD5PVUM
Dragon Quest 3 is getting a 2DHD remake, and 1 and 2 are getting released next year in the same format
Warhammer Boltgun has new DLC. I have to beat the game first before I get this.
Metroid Prime 4 looks great, but I don't know if I like it yet.
ND: Zelda
The big promotion is that this is the last batch of games for the Switch
The new Zelda is very different from previous games.
That's because it stars Zelda and is full of magic puzzles
ND: Stray
Stray is being released to the Switch with a graphical downgrade. My wife doesn't care.
Another article on Stray
ND: Marvel vs Capcom Collection
Marvel vs Capcom collection announced
Big Hype for MVC collection
VG: Nintendo Indie Direct
Watch it here
https://www.youtube.com/live/Bh7o96_yIWw?si=OeKKF_1-UIIbAS30
An outline of what was shown
A ton of stuff released the same day.
Star Overdrive has you racing and fighting with a flying surfboard
Metal slug tactics
VG: NID: Collections
Five Nights at Freddy's collection
Tetris collection.
Marvel vs Capcom
VG: NID: Castlevania
Castlevania collection 3, the DS Games! Also a remake of Haunted Castle! No Symphony of the Night though.
An article on the Haunted Castle remake
Another article about the collection
Article by IGN about it
There are still a lot of games that aren't on modern PC or the Switch that could do with a rerelease. I own most of them in physical, including the skateboarding game.
Fans are already talking about the next Castlevania Collection. Symphony of the Night would be awesome. Remastered 3D games would be great.
Another article about how cool this is!! This is going to sound weird, but this is the last link I posted for this source list. It's done. I am finished. Woot.
Review of Haunted Castle Remake
Review of the full compilation
Another article, but this one mentions a Capcom fighting collection with Power Stone
VG: NID: Capcom Fighting Collection
I had to check, yeah, the Capcom Fighting Collection has a ton of my favorite fighting games. This includes Power Stone 1 and 2.
Another article on the collection
A list of changes to these games.
VG: Rumours
The switch 2 will have a better in dock mode
It won't come out till 2025 at least
VG: Difficult Controls
PVKK is a space invaders sim where you have to control a turret likes it's the real thing, and set in a dystopic society. Also, the real name is very German.
Armored Shell NightJar is an overly complex mech game where you pilot a machine that is breaking down during your mission.
VG: Horror
Conscript is a Horror game in World War I
We Harvest Shadows is an anti cozy game
VG: Kingdome Come 2
Kingdome Come II looks good. Will it play well?
A preview of the game that gets a bit rambly
VG: Might and Magic
There will be a new Might and Magic
An article on the new MandM
Another article. Sadly it's probably doomed.
VG: Stones of Madness
The Stone of Madness is about inmates trying to escape a monetary that is slowly going insane.
Made by the same guys as Blasphemous. It's a stealth strategy game.
VG: Deadlock
Valve has a new game called Deadlock
Yeah… they weren't supposed to talk about that…
Now they can
Deadlock seems to be a lot of games in one
It has 90,000 players at the end of August
Early footage has left for dead weapons fighting half life 2 monsters
VG: Vampire Survivors
Vampire Survivors is getting a PlayStation release
The latest update has mini characters
VG: Metroidvania
Magical Delicacy is a semi Metroidvania where you create and deliver food to people in a city
Dahlman is made by the creator of Street Fighter 2. It's a fighting and cooking Metroidvania.
A review of Animal Well
Crypt Custodian is top down like Zelda, but built like a Metroidvania. Also, you play a dead cat cleaning up the underworld
Bo is a Metroidvania with Chinese legends and great hand drawn aesthetics.
Guns of Fury is a Contra meets Castlevania style game
The next game made by Bloodstained crew has been hinted at.
Necrowave is a gory cartoonish game.
VG: Beat'em Ups
A new Double Dragon in 3D is in the works
Karate Kid gets a side scroller beatem up
VG: Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight is getting a 2v8 set up
Dead by Daylight is getting a Castlevania edition
Casting of Frank Stone gets a demo
VG: Driving
Rennsport is a racing sim that has taken a long time to make things.
#Drive is a rally racing game coming out for switch
Victory Heat Rally is an old school arcade racer
Asseto Corsa EVO looks very nice.
Another Sega Arcade Style racers
VG: Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi reboot will be an MMO set in the west coast
It's actually an online competitive mode.
VG: Transformers
A new transformer game that lets you race and shoot things
Have the trailer
VG: Once Human
Once Human will wipe servers every few months and you can only have one character
Once Human has a character creator
You may need to show your government ID to play
Once Human PvE and PvP explained
VG: Tactical Breach Wizards
Tactical Breach Wizards is a turn based strategy game with Wizards in modern times using sniper rifles. A demo just released.
Tactical Breach Wizards was designed by an XCom fan who wanted to fix problems
Even the Guardian likes it. I suspect money laundering popularity tricks.
I have been working on this list so long the reviews have started to come in. PC Gamer says it's nice at 88
AV club wants you to go play this game
VG: Strategy
25 strategy games for steam sale
Strategy Empire Builders
Shadow of the Road is a turn based strategy game in Medieval Japan
Menace is a turn based squad tactics game
Napoleon Bonaparte with Mecha in Bonaparte
Classified France ‘44 is a turn based strategy game.
Grand Strategy game Renaissance Wars starts in 1510
Band of Crusaders is a dark strategy game
Strategy games with good stories
City Builder and turn based strategy game with Kaiju and Giant robots called Arc Seed
Strategy games
Grit and Valor is a turn based strategy game with Mecha in world war II
SOVL is a turn based strategy game that looks like a classic battle strategy board game from the 80’s. WarHammer is mentioned.
Turn Based games released last month
Norse is a historical Viking XCom game. I don't know what they mean when they say XCom btw. It's turn based, and has a recruiting system.
Build a secret robot army in this 4x strategy game called Heart of the Machine.
VG: Bloodstained Ritual of the Night Classic 2
Here is the trailer.
And heres a review of the game. It's a classic style version of Bloodstained. Will they ever make a full sequel?
This is just new games that don't fit into a common category.
Videogames
Coldridge is about a prospector exploring an area for a mysterious guild
Alzara is a throwback to old 3D RPGs
Expedition 33 is an indie RPG with beautiful graphics
Croc gets a remaster
Floatopia is like animal crossing on a cute flying island
A compilation of Rocket Knight Adventures was released in June
Sonic Rumble is a Fall Guys style game with Sega characters for mobile
Max Payne 1-2 and Control 2 are making progress.
Savage Planet sequel has a story from the company being still around just as much as the game.
The Epic Mickey remake is looking good. Hopefully they fix the camera
Bloomtown is a demon pokemon cozy style game.
Dying Light 2 will have a stand alone story added to it soon.
The new Mafia game will have Sicilian audio with English subtitles as an option.
A stealth game where you play a limber dog in Barkour
Halloween is getting a game, and John Carpenter is involved
Scarlet Deer Inn is animated by knitted art. It will get a demo soon.
Natsumon has a demo out
Design an MMO as a game in Lets Build Dungeon
Tempest Rising is trying to mimic Command and Conquer
Abathor is a classic looking jump and slash arcade style game.
Planet Crafter is about making a single planet hospitable and then moving onto the next one.
The first Berserker has the first 15 minutes of gameplay released for people to see.
Branching Sickness is a Halo meets Horror game.
Gothic 1 Remake looks good
XOut Resurface is a remake of the original..
Metropolis 1998 is a throwback to the original Sim City. It's barely a game right now, but fun.
SNK vs Capcom is average
Aether Singularity is based in Parasite Eve 2. Even the combat is similar
Aero the acrobat gets a rerelease
The Eternal Life of Goldman is a hand drawn side scroller based on various mythologies
Longplay of a Subnautica Horror game
The new Star Wars open Galaxy game by Ubisoft supposedly had tons of planets to explore. Most of them can be crossed within 4-5 minutes
The new Warhammer Boltgun DLC is awesome. The survive the swarm parts still suck though.
Supercharged: Unboxed still going great
Souls like Cthulhu style games
Konami’s new spaceship shooter
Be the janitor of a dungeon in Mops and Mobs
Lifeless Moon launch trailer. Explore planets and rebuild them
A long list of news about handhelds
Mika and the Witches Mountain is about whizzing about on a broomstick in colorful and ghibli esque ways.
These games inspired the Rogue Like genre
Car parking simulator with money and design like sim City
Cyberpunk side scroller Sky Dust
Still Wakes the Deep is a horror walking simulator
Pixel RPG is a Disney Pixel game for mobile
New game engine looks like Minecraft 2
Nocturnal 2 is an enemy juggling platformer where the sword is also the only illumination
Polly pocket style city builder called Tiny Gardens
Cyber Knights has had 100 updates and is looking good.
Bounty Stars mixes a lot of genres
Starlair is about designing sci Fi style levels
Mystery horror game being published by Nintendo. The director is the Metroid boss and it's a sequel to the famicom mystery series
New Lords of the Fallen to come out
Bakeru is coming to the US! The same people that made Goemon made a spiritual successor and are releasing it here. Wooooooott
BAKERU – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T2DBz7HV7w
New games for the Switch.