Auster

A bit of an exercise on futurology, but from what I skimmed on the promotional materials, this remake seems to be inspired in the recent open world Zelda games. If that’s the case indeed, I’d presume that the controls would work as well.

From experience with older games with the function, computer autoplaying becomes boring fast.

Besides, MMOs 99% of the time can’t be self-hosted, meaning it’d be a fleeting experiment, your character not really being yours.

On a quick conversion, 200 USD is half what people ask in my country for a new, marginally decent laptop. If quality of the laptop you’re considering getting is on par, I doubt it’ll run anything big from after 2006. At most I can see it being used as a machine for emulation, playing simpler indie games, and playing older Windows games.

Also, with such a laptop, I’d be considering already either some very light Linux system, or Windows XP or Vista.

LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it’s the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn’t make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.

NY Times

Nuff said

Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can’t help but to think, did some government commission the article?

Also about Moltbook, paraphrasing an older comment of mine, social medias run by AIs are like Computer vs Computer battles in PS2 games - it’s fun to watch only for first one or two battles.

Had forgotten Moltbook was a thing. Or maybe it was something else with the proposal of “social media for AIs; humans optional”.

Reminds me of some news about Meta pushing LLMs in the comments of Facebook, and also about the zombie profiles where those from dead people would keep posting through LLM mimicry as if the person was alive. I wonder if Meta is hellbent on making the dead internet theory real.

Glad I take notes, I guess. Could never remember so much stuff without.

Also wonder if I should count Crystal Castles twice, since the arcade and Atari 2026 feel pretty different from each other.

it’s just the tip

Portugal’s current government is pretty unstable in these past few years from what I check every now and then, so I wonder if they’re trying to make it amid the confusion of political shift, “as the lights are turning off” as a local saying goes, so no one notices as dust settles.

For those that use WordPress, maybe people can (politely) poke the site owner to enable ActivityPub integration? Might help with traffic at least.

The cryptids and end-of-world scenarios there must be out of control, so they must be going with the nuclear option:
https://media.thebrainbin.org/74/62/7462bbd431d41e3d0ebbcea86713ccfec7d12bc6c4e9f9ce3c4d316a8be5130f.png

Jokes aside, it’s a draft, so I wonder if they’re proposing the absolute worse option so bad options sound acceptable. Wouldn’t be the first time I see this sort of thing, specially with alarmist, sensationalistic and discreetly ill-intented news media aplenty as samples.

Going by the headline alone, fearmongering at best.

If people don’t trust it either, there’s also an alternative, reading the package for the expected spoiling date.

RSS, Grayjay and watching embedded were also still working.

Cheers for options. 🍻

You probably can’t trust anything if it’s compromised

Dunno if NBC is repositioning, pushing a tendency, or both, but glad to see the indication that parents are taking the role that should never stopped being theirs.

Headline implies Meta is being dystopian. Text suggests they’re hoarding the patent so others can’t use. While sure, Facebook the company deserves all distrust in the world, that’s quite the disonance between the title and the rest of the article. Gotta love such manipulative news, specially as people usually read just the headline.

There’s that legal jargon that comes to mind, fishing expedition

I wonder how much of that could be mitigated if the ebooks were made officially DRM-free, or if people would be willing to buy but resort to illegal means because they don’t want people owning stuff…