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  • Haven't they also found beer recipes in Egyptian tombs?

  • Strange and Rare Road Signs of the World
  • It's the short legs. Give kids stilts and they're natural cross-country sprinters.

  • Steam announces game recording beta.
  • I want them to launch a Deck v2, Controller v2, and a new take on the Steam Machine simultaneously with a goal of knocking Xbox out of the market and replacing them as the third console. A new Steam Machine right now would play all of Xbox's exclusives on day one and some of Sony's.

  • This baby has so few fuses
  • More or less. The power for everything is run through the electro-plasma system, terminating in EPS conduits at every terminal. Plasma IRL is fucking hot.

  • This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel
  • So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.

  • What's your biggest gamer achievement?
  • I beat Halo 2 on legendary. I also refuse to attempt that again and haven't bothered playing legendary at all on any Halo in over a decade. Pretty sure my thumbs will not do that anymore.

  • What's your biggest gamer achievement?
  • Getting a gem was also the only way to save. Crash Bandicoot may be the only game series where each new game is easier than the one before it, and Crash 3 was still one of the most challenging games on the system.

  • What's your biggest gamer achievement?
  • The motion controls made the Wii version seem harder. Plug in a Gamecube controller and play with that and you'll smoke the AI and any wiimote players online.

  • Definitely not a hoax. Trust us on that.
  • Like an evil Indiana Jones.

  • TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it
  • People punish because we’re fucking animals, we feel jealousy and rage and bloodlust. An AI would not. It would do the cold calculations and see no potential benefit to harming anyone on that scale, at least not for those reasons.

    That's a hell of a lot of assumptions about the thought processes of a being that doesn't exist. For all we know, emotions could arise as emergent behavior from simple directives, similar to how our own emotions are byproducts of base instincts. Even if we design it to be emotionless, which seems unlikely given that we've been aiming for human-like AIs for a while now, we don't know that it would stay that way.

  • Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games.
  • Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you're often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it's mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

  • What games did you have a good time with that you just never finished?
  • Save corruption was what did it for me. Every single attempt at playing New Vegas resulted in save corruption before I could beat it.

  • A cool guide of commonly believed myths
  • The real question is which pre-human dinosaur would be best with stuffing and gravy.

  • Up is an illusion in space
  • Unless they decide to orrient with the disc vertically aligned. Of if they base it on their home system.

  • The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
  • "I bring you these fifteen-" *smash* "Ten! Ten commandments!"

  • Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
  • Nowadays I mostly think of it in regards to how much control you have over the hardware. If you can Ship of Theseus your way to a completely different machine with completely different specs, that's a PC to me. If you're stuck with what you paid for, then it's something else. A Mac Mini is not a PC in my book, but a Hackintosh is even though it's the same OS and general hardware architecture.

    But that's just how I use the term.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • I hear they even allow hand holding in public.

  • Ouch
  • I think the mystical properties of the banyan tree help there, but, yeah.

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer
  • Devs tend to go with simplified or cartoony graphics for legibility on the small integrated screen, but that's just an art style choice. Doesn't look too far off from Xenoblade 3, especially given polygons will be saved by not having to render a mile out. Or consider that Doom 2016 runs decently on the Switch.

  • Akira Inspired Poster, Revised Again

    After having printed the previous version of my poster and discovering that the overall darkness made it difficult to see when framed (light reflects off the glass or plastic and the glare kills it) I have done a bunch of post processing in the hopes that it will turn out better.

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