"You think some fancy autocomplete can emulate this style?" Hold my beer!

Woo, boy. This one is going to get weird. And kinda personal, I guess.

So, I closed out a recent post with "And, no, AI was not used to create any part of this post. Pfft! You think some fancy autocomplete can emulate this style? Not on my budget!" 

Fast forward to a smoke break some days later and I thought, "Ya know, I haven't actually tried it in the past few years. LLMs have gotten a great deal better since then. Maybe we give it another go?" 

Because, yeah, I did give this a go around 2023. To say it didn't work would be an understatement. But this is 2026 (for better and worse)! I just vibe coded an entire line of recipe apps (pre-order Sauce Hero and Sausage Hero now!)  and I know a TON more about how Chatty McGPT works. What if... Hmm...

We need a Soul. 

Vibe Coding a Recipe App or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot

Vibe coding. Programming via natural speech using AI. Everyone's buzzing about it. You see it all over social media. But how much is real and how much is content creator swill or bot blogging? 

Let's find out!

We're going with Cursor on this one.  It's an AI 'assisted' programming IDE based on Visual Studio Code (Didn't realize VS Code was open source!). Forget about assistance, we're 100% putting R2D2 to work on this!

We'll be running on the Free tier, of course, and using default setup. Free apparently gets you "...for evaluation and light usage. You can perform up to 2,000 code completions and 50 premium model requests per month, with monthly resets."

How much is this, exactly? Pfft! Beats me. Cursor also supports bringing your own API keys, so maybe we can plug it into OpenRouter/Free if the pond dries up. We'll see.

 Anyways, let's rock!

Pro Tip: Make the AI RTFM

 As y'all know, I love experimenting with whatever new tech that happens to be floating around on the 'net for free. This means a ton of web searching and, nowadays, chatting with bots to learn lingo, limitations, and liabilities. This takes a ton of time and typing before I finally get going on whatever toy I'm trying to play with. Chatbots sometimes help and sometimes hinder, especially on new or rapidly evolving software, just like search queries. Have you seen how much todos about Photoshop have changed over the years?! The problem with the bots is, eventually, they just kinda go crazy. 

So, to get better bot interactions, we need to do two things: We need to get it to Read The F%$*ing Manual ('cause, let's face it, you won't). Then, we need to make sure to wipe it's brain between tasks.

Wishing Everyone Jolly Jinggling!

 Hiya! Been a while. Things haven't been great for the cast and crew this year what with all the death, layoffs, homelessness, health issues, and potential law suits, but we made it through thanks to the power of friendship and anime. Kinda ;)

But what about our pals out on Chiron Beta Prime? Let's check the latest letter from our space born brothers and robot pals this Christmas. I'm sure things are swell!

Boldly Blogging | October 30, 2023

  Back with a two week recap after some much needed R&R. Happy Halloween!

 News 

• For whom the bell tolls:( Cryptic Studios and Zen Studios appear to be latest studios affected by Embracer Group’s restructuring | Game World Observer (Cryptic denying layoffs) (Right now over 1/6th of Cryptic Employees are "Open to offers" on LinkedIn, with many of them being senior team members from STO/NW.) (https://twitter.com/Tumerboy/status/1714371221717127454?t=WZv4Q657XlPA8gnVSil12Q&s=33)
• Another one of the greats has fallen: Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announces layoffs 'following a period of disappointing financial performance'
• And that’s the game, GG Twitter: X is starting to charge new users $1 per year to send tweets
• PSA: it's time to update WinRAR due to a big security vulnerability - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/18/23922075/winrar-security-vulnerability-exploit-patch-update
• IT’S BEEN 84 YEARS BUT WE SURVIVED DESANTIS KILLING THE ELDERLY FOR THIS: Tesla begins Cybertruck deliveries on November 30
• ChatGPT live web browsing exits beta, DALL-E 3 enters beta
• IRS will start piloting its free TurboTax alternative in 2024
• Just sell the unfinished PoS anyway: Cities: Skylines 2 Dev Admits Performance Issues, Will Launch the Game Anyway - IGN
• Study shows AI program could verify Wikipedia citations, improving reliability
• Meta Quest 3 appears to have ample supply.
• Amazon’s Fallout series finally has a release date
• THE AI GOT TOO SMART: California DMV suspends Cruise’s driverless permits
• And I thought Apple was bad with their part DRM: PS5 Slim's Optional Disc Drive Needs to Connect to the Internet to Pair It to a Console

Media

• The Analogue 3D is a Nintendo 64 for modern times
• Bring back my childhood, one nostalgia trap at a time: Disney is making a live-action Gargoyles show with James Wan
• HOME AUTOMATION will CONSUME your LIFE (in a good way)
• Asus breaks the overclocking world record with 9.044GHz Intel 14900KF CPU
• Before you judge me for drooling over these gorgeous 3D CT scans of USB cables I implore you to check them out yourself
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 is using AI art : r/gaming Planetside 3 confirmed! lol
• Game install sizes are getting out of hand
• Madness or genius? The Best Caramelized Onyo | Chef Jean-Pierre(Also, delightful boomer PBS throwback style chef) (I watched his newest video. He might very well be insane)
• Happy Day! DFHack puts search and filters across most Dwarf Fortress windows!
• The 2000’s called, they want their slap bracelet back: Motorola is back with another slap bracelet phone concept
• Telltale’s The Expanse: Good interactive movie; licenced music and voice actors; Good graphics and writing; Great performances; Short; Drummer’s prequel

Odds and Ends

• FFS. iCloud photos now downloading in .HEC format
• Egg Foo Young is one item, not two, Thanks Google Assistant…
• Guess who else Google is looking to replace with AI? YouTube creators!
• AI sigh of the week (Unedited. Literally sideXside on Bing):
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• 3 out of 3 AI chatbots answered this question wrong: How many times does the letter "e" appear in the spelling of California?
• Google is looking to use AI to rewrite your reviews.
• "From Now On... No One Dies." - Spider-CUBE (Review)
• With all the advancements in video games, why are working mirrors still so rare?

 

We love you! Thanks for reading! Enjoy the spookies!

Boldly Blogging | October 16, 2023

 

 News 

• Russia seeks to stop access to unfiltered information by attempting to ban VPNs
• HUH? iPhone’s introduction to USB-C is a kneecap at 2.0 Speeds of 480 Mbps??????
• Hehe he pissed off the nerds…Unity CEO John Riccitiello stepping down, effective immediately https://venturebeat.com/games/john-riccitiello-steps-down-as-ceo-of-unity-after-pricing-battle/
• Loki Season 2 Ends Marvel's Dry Spell On OTT; Garners 11 Million Views in 3 Days - Movie Talkies
• CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months | Eurogamer.net
• As I foretold on my 2023 Bingo Card: Sony's smaller PS5 with a detachable disc drive lands in November
• Shockingly, Netflix picked up Star Trek Prodigy https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-netflix-1235752032/
• California’s new law makes it easier for consumers to request the deletion of their data
• The “Death” of Physical Media was also on my 2023 Bingo Card, now we just need Betty White to come pick up Henry Kissinger to finish the square
• Oh right, not like the US Government gets hacked right? The EPA won't force water utilities to inspect their cyber defenses
• Oh and Microsoft won, Activision is theirs. We don’t need to say anything else

Media

• How hackers are using Bluetooth to track police activity
• For when you actually give a f–k https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6234016
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China has quite an info page about American democracy: The State of Democracy in the United States
• Games Workshop is reprinting the original version of Warhammer 40,000
• Star Trek Resurgence ship available for free from STO (Just a Miranda skin) Claim the USS Resolute from Star Trek: Resurgence!
• Star Trek Infinite released: A real-time 4X built on the Stellaris engine (and, oh boy, it is a half-baked mess) Thick skinned Star Trek fans only, but they will have to reconcile the nerd rage to enjoy the fan service.

 

Odds and Ends

• Spider-Man PS5 Setup / Showcase (THIS THING IS LIGHTER THAN A PS4) WHAT?! IT CAN READ PS4 DISKS????????
• Jeffree Star’s gender pronoun gave me a headache at work.
• Threaded view for Discord? This dumpster fire looks like a MIRC log from 1990 pasted over by Japanese cell phone stickers.
• Ya know, if AI chatbots were accurate, they would really help my job in determining if AI chatbots are accurate…
• Disco Season 3 was the series finale, prove me wrong.
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage Final Thoughts - “I don’t like sand, it’s too coarse” - Anakin Skywalker

 

We love you! Thanks for reading!

Boldly Blogging | October 9, 2023

 

 News 

• STO Gameprint service ending 10/31
• Windows 11's RGB control features are finally available to the public
• Oops, Microsoft's AI chatbot is offering up malvertisements in responses https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware
• Google Assistant with Bard will use generative AI for personalized answers
• Everything Google announced at its Pixel event: Pixel 8, Pixel Watch, Android 14 - The AI Edition
• Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10
• There’s a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 show or movie on the way
• Unreal Engine will get more expensive, but not for game devs
• Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
• ChatGPT was used to write Gollum game apology

Media

• Give your old PC the boot with Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC
• Colin Furze launches tunnel digging pr0n channel: https://www.youtube.com/@2MuchColinFurze
• A pedestrian was pinned under a Cruise robotaxi after another car’s hit-and-run
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide class overhaul patch is live, and it sure seems like the massive update everyone was waiting for
• Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: 'categorically no, of course not'
• 2023 will be remembered as a great year for game releases and a terrible year for game developers - Telltale Games layoffs
• This company will build you a 15-foot mech for a trifling $3 million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkcyHUHfrLA
• Ghostwire: Tokyo is free for Amazon Prime subscribers
• STO Halloween event rewarding Crusher’s horny ghost summoning candle
• Man, they sure weren’t kidding about Cyberpunk 2077 getting a 2.0 overhaul
• Users create a radio network for Starfield http://www.starfieldradio.com/

Odds and Ends

• Fun with Frontier Part 6 - The Finale?
• Going from Verizon to Frontier was like going to sleep with a Toyota and waking up with a GM. It’s like, “Yeah, these are basically the same parts, but it was put together by idiots.”
• Time to return to roots: Assassin’s Creed Mirage Preview
• It took 2 chatbots and 4 emails to change my ChatGPT password

 

 

Break the rules of cake decorating! Thanks for reading!

Boldly Blogging | October 2, 2023

 

 News

• Guess I’m going back to iTunes. Google now shutting down Google Podcasts too: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/236590252
• The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules
• Ransomware group claims to have hacked 'all of Sony systems,' Sony is investigating
• The WGA has kicked AI in the virtual balls and said “01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110”
• ChatGPT can now browse the internet and is no longer limited to data before September 2021
• Meta Quest 3 hands-on: A proper successor to the most popular VR headset
• Introducing the new Silverblock-Pi: Welcome to Raspberry Pi 5
• Epic Games finally learned what money is: Epic Games Is Cutting About 16% of Staff - killed Fall Guys in the process
• Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in March 2024

Media

• EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football
• Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'
• Babylon 5: The Road Home - Wikipedia
• Some Starfield players are trying to solve a mysterious puzzle that might not actually be a mysterious puzzle
• Starfield DLSS3 mod creator threatens Patreon pirates with 'hidden mines' in monologue: 'They will never know if they have found all of them'
• Google will let publishers hide their content from its insatiable AI
• Restricted military info is being posted on the War Thunder forums so much these days, nobody really cares anymore (except War Thunder moderators)

Odds and Ends

•  Just a lot of video game talk (both products and business), but nothing that made it to the outline ahead of time.

 

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Boldly Blogging | September 26, 2023

 After a few weeks of emotional burnout and technical difficulties (Not including the re-registration of this site, which went MUCH smoother than last year), we're back! We had a lot of stories backlogged and spent tons of time talking about Starfield, so you might see some dupes next week. I'll try to catch 'em all!

 News 

• One of the biggest Xbox leaks in history has occurred, thanks to the FTC v. Microsoft case
• Three men arrested for stealing thousands of dollars by hacking into ATMs with a Raspberry Pi device
• Baldur's Gate 3 is reviewing even better on PS5 than it did on PC | GamesRadar+
• Scientists may have a solution to the International Space Station's fungus problem
• Ukrainian official claims Elon Musk cost lives by refusing Starlink access during a drone operation
• FAA grounds Starship until SpaceX takes 63 'corrective actions'
• The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is 'not eligible' for a Grammy
• Caffeinated RGB gamer noodles now exist, and I'm getting indigestion just thinking about them
• E3 somehow gets even deader as event organiser departs by 'mutual consent', ESA says no no it's still alive we promise
• Toyota factories grind to a halt after its servers run out of disk space
• Forget cash back: Microsoft's Xbox Mastercard exclusively earns game discounts
• And the Band Plays On: Embracer may sell Borderlands creator Gearbox amid financial woes
• Microsoft Paint is getting updated with one of Photoshop's most commonly used tools
• Rumor: Embracer is trying to sell Gearbox – and therefore Cryptic and its MMORPGs | Massively Overpowered
• Steam 20th Anniversary: Let’s look back in games and culture
• “Good morning, and welcome to Apple Park. Today, I like to show how we live under the oppression of the European Empire, and we have some products I think you are gonna eye roll to, let’s take a look” - Apple Product Launch
• The “free engine” has now been Elon Musked: Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed
• STO: RIP Borg tactical cube
• Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill

Media

• Starfield: Rushed and weird but dull beginning; Good transversal; Jump packs are always cool; Great vistas; NASApunk, but just for show; Large maps broken up with forced loadscreens; Excellent environmental art and engine sound; Scanner is cool except it has no compass; Plays more like Fallout 4 than expected; No one acts like a human (I hate my companions); PLEASE take Dora the Explorer off my ship; Bad game writing-Too wordy; No coherent tone; UI could use a dark mode; Everything feels like it takes 1-2 clicks more than it should; Hold v Press buttons could use some tweaking; Stealth barely working; Quests too on-rails; Some quests unsolvable without Security skill?; Everyone always talks at the same time!; End of humanity is a side quest?! - Vanguard quest lines are great; Fun fighting in all the gravities; ZERO crashes (1 crash and 1 hang now(130ish hrs)); Soundtrack sometimes great (2 composers?); Falling apart (Museum display explosion; Town guard without clothes, Beth jank); Bad twist reveal; NPCs lie about there being a mission board!; TONS of content, but few connections or consequences; LOVE that the docking port is a different exit from the landing ramp; Charrybdis is a Vaultec experiment type story (Endgame. Easy to miss); kzzt-16-16-16; The best ending is the one you walk away from. 7/10 as a BGS game, 8/10 otherwise. Patience with load times required. Kinda blah with occasional moments of awe.
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• Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it
• Butt-ugly Starfield ship defeats the enemy AI's perfect aim
• This Xbox 360 building set is a nostalgic, Halo-infused thrill LEGO
• The 'world's smallest VR headset' is finally shipping out pre-orders in the US
• Sony Japan is launching a 'foster care program' for its Aibo robot dogs
• In Starfield, the sun literally doesn't shine on AMD GPU users
• STO’s latest guest star is an interesting choice: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Erin_Macdonald

Odds and Ends

• MS Game Pass put Starfield on the app’s main menu (And skinned the app!)
• MS Game Pass works offline (if you set it up).
• Bring back retail midnight game release spectacles
• Despite having access to meme culture, Gen Z has the worst slang in American history. Bussin on Z fr fr !!
• Managers too stupid...Give me 2 hours and I become God

 

I lied. I'm probably not going to remember to check for dupes next week. Thanks for reading! Play Starfield if you like BGS games. Plenty to do and an easy, mildly entertaining ride. Even a dull BGS game is still a BGS game.

Boldly Blogging | September 9, 2023

 

News 

• iFixit is trying to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines in fight for right-to-repair as the machine’s production company copyrighted the error codes
• The first Mercedes-Benz EV fast-charging stations will open this fall
• RIP Volition Studios…another victim of the great purge
• Salt water flooding making EVs burst into flames https://news.yahoo.com/electric-cars-soaked-saltwater-hurricane-205349787.html
• Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concerns
• Lenovo Legion Go hands-on: A more Switch-like handheld gaming PC
• Cortana PC app finally depreciated.
• Get yer pitchforks! It’s MS Paint all over again. MS to remove WordPad https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows-after-nearly-30-years/ar-AA1gaDWb?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Media

• NYC subway security flaw makes it possible to track riders’ journeys *now disabled 8-31*
• Google Assistant gets new triggers and actions for Routines.
  
• Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory
• Nuclear pulse drives: Spaceflight By Nuking Yourself | The Orion Drive EXPLAINED
• 3500 people had a massive firefight in EVE Online out of 'boredom' (and because they had dreadnoughts)
• Starfield's name-remembering robot buddy can't do 'Glenn' or 'Greg,' but it will call you 'Captain Assface'

Odds and Ends

• STO: Drop party bomb on people using the Voth mech. They can dance!
• More Baldur’s Gate 3 thoughts: Act 2’s finale in bigger and better than most game’s endings; Act 3 framerate problems are not an exaggeration; In love with the tactical combat; Amazing audio not getting enough credit; Got turned into cheese; UI skill bars are fully customizable (With the caveat that you can’t go back); Smack talking a god hard cuts to Game Over; MOO CHEESE
• Starfield - IGN says 7 but everyone else was payed off by Todd Howard (Including The Unpaid Red Shirt, apparently :P)
  
• Meet Worf Binks, Janitor First Class - Starfield
• Wanna get past malware pages to a multi-rar link? Bypass.city
• It has arrived, but I don’t wanna open it till it’s game time - Spiderman PS5 look amazing
• I turned on DLSS and went from 45FPS to 60! (Yeah, and now your game looks like blurry crap)
• Google search AI results are WAY too large!
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