We're Talking About That | March 27, 2023

Really big shooooo...

PAX East 2023 Highlights

• Oh, I guess I am flying through the new Terminal A; what a long walk from the train station
• Amazing how Apple Transit maps makes navigating a different metropolitan city easy
• Hotel TVs are different now in the updated age of smartphones
• PC IS THE MASTER RACE
• Renewed commitment to buy a steam deck after first use experience
• Lots of Indie Game demos
• I’m still a beast at MSFS without touching it for nearly a year
• Be a 30 year old DnD player in your mom’s basement…but in VR!
• SANDVICH - TF2 VA Panel was hysterical 
  

News 

• MS Bing adding AI image generator
• Ferrari held to ransom as client database hacked
• Followup: Life By You graphically looks like Sims 3 Alpha with RTX MAX; Gameplay is unique in a good way
• Emperor God Musk upset more Boomers; New Jersey congressman fights to keep AM radio in electric vehicles
• All charges of Justin Rolland dropped, will he be uncancelled?
• Linus Tech Tips hacked!! All their YT channels were banned - My Channel Was Deleted Last Night + trolling by their sponsor
• Boomer Congressmen: the best stupid questions from TikTok’s committee hearing
• Valve's slow burn trolling of Counter-Strike fans continues with reveal of 'CS2' trademark. Counter Strike 2 coming Summer 2023
• SSI’s legendary D&D games finally license rescued and coming to GOG!

 

Media

• Crazy No Mans Sky mosaic made from 1200 spaceships https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/11xjct4/image_made_from_my_12000_logged_ships/
• Acer is making an e-bike
• How deep was Deus Ex's simulation? A literal piece of paper could set off a laser trap
• https://twitter.com/StickmanSham/status/1637134458594656256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1637134458594656256%7Ctwgr%5E7ca997156133ac5eaf734e52547a856468180a0c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcgamer.com%2Fhow-deep-was-deus-exs-simulation-a-literal-piece-of-paper-could-set-off-a-laser-trap%2F
• Smuggler tries to scoot 84 SSDs into China, gets busted

 

Odds and Ends

• 
  My mother officially married by Fat Elvis
• There’s an ad block in the blog sidebar? From where? (Fixed! AdBlock was preventing the layout editor from showing the old ad block on the template…)
• I switched from real ginger to ginger paste for a month. Thanks, I hate it…
• I totally forgot I was an Amazon developer until I got an email about Fire Tablets getting auto backup this week…
• Your Star Trek Online start date: Journal/Logs/Captain’s Log/Welcome to Star Trek Online! (last entry)
• I was forced to listen to a presentation on how if I don’t put a hazmat sticker on a laptop box I’m gonna recreate Pan-Am Flight 103.
• STO reports 1 million “check ins” in the past week. DilEx backlog returns (400k). 2+2=Bot farmers are back.

 

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We're Talking About That | March 20, 2023

 Now with less "sensitive content"...

 News

• It ain’t dead: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beats its all-time player record for the second time in a month
• Source 2 Migration is almost here
• No Man’s Sky PSVR2 changes begin to show on PC https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1193bdv/pc_vr_changesimprovements_ive_found_so_far/
• Amazon’s satellite internet antennas can double as picnic tables for dolls
• Total Warhammer 3 now allows access to Immortal Empires game mode without owning previous games
• Blizzard fans are freaking out about the only current way to access the long-awaited Diablo 4 beta other than preordering: ordering KFC.
• Former Sims studio head is now making a competing game called Life By You
• Finally, a 3D printer that prints chocolate
• Microsoft and Intel follow Nvidia with their own streaming video upscaling tools
• Epic lets developers self-publish on the Games Store

Media

• RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 track takes longer to complete than the universe will exist
• https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1636301408575057921?s=12&t=xBa0vwDwiooStJevnygp4g
• Warhammer Gladius free on Epic
• Next-Gen Witcher 3: Up Is Just A State Of Mind - cool vid but a shame he only tried about 20% of the game
• Belated recommendation: The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is still the best RPG you can play and Blood and Wine is the best DLC ever produced. Yes, this many years later.
• In the year of our lord 2023, Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks to make the animatronic mouse dance https://www.tiktok.com/@showbizpizzaman/video/7186009974852586795 (I just now got the pun for this being filed under ‘Notable Media’. Because floppy disks… Because media…)
• Bing's secret mode lets you talk to AI Keanu Reeves and other celebrities (Not anymore)

Odds and Ends

• Week 5 Star Trek Picard rant - Countdown till Finale (4 weeks)
• You can have porn on Steam store pages now?! (Operation Lovecraft)
• No one ever mentions one of the best VR accessories: The straw!
• Marvel: Midnight Sons left to die? PC edition mismanagement.
• Spontaneous NYC trip to see Mario’s BIG feet + being converted to a Scientologist + being a random white man in an Asian whole in the wall restaurant
• Old GUO post flagged for “sensitive content” :(Cannot link to it because then this post gets flagged! It was about an anti-malware product that seems reputable and still in business today.) From 2011. Because Google doesn’t want you to use virus scanners?
• Time for my semi-annual return to No Man’s Sky

 

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We're Talking About That | March 13, 2023

 

 News 

• Too little too late but SSDs shot into space to help with ISS computing
• Reddit getting a video feed mode https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/7/23628130/reddits-video-watch-read-feeds-update-tiktok
• “It just works, little lies, stunning shows, people buy, money flows” - Starfield announces release date (again)
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-bing-hits-100-million-active-users-in-bid-to-grab-share-from-google/ar-AA18pfIF
• Epic lets developers self-publish on the Games Store

 

Media

• Kerbal Space Program 2 - divided opinions
• Hogwart’s Legacy
• Infinite Seinfeld generator https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ai-generating-endless-seinfeld-episode-172100002.html

 

Odds and Ends

 

• I started using Bing chatbot for researching chatbot tasks at work…
• My necromancer Dwarf Fortress designed to kickstart the apocalypse of my world file, lovingly crafted over hundreds of hours, has met with a few snags…
• RaterLabs increased max hours. For as much crap as they’ve (deservedly) gotten lately, it is nice they are caving to the threat of unionization, unlike Amazon.
• There are SO many AI chatbot prompts to create D&D content. - best video for this (an RPG but whatever) I used an AI to build a live RPG adventure for my viewers & South Park episode was written by ChatGPT

 

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We're Talking About That | March 6, 2023

  Sorry, running late today.

 News 

• A stop-motion Pokémon show is coming to Netflix
• OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
• 'The Wolf Among Us 2' is being pushed back to 2024
• Space organizations want the moon to have its own time zone
• Bing chatbot arrives on mobile via Bing app, Edge browser, and… Skype?
• ST: Discovery - The Final Season, Coming soon (2024)
• FDA reportedly denied Neuralink's request to begin human trials of its brain implant
• Welp we were wrong; Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard purchase will reportedly be approved by the EU
• Google workers in Japan have joined a labor union in response to planned layoffs

Media

• This hack lets you use YouTube as infinite cloud storage YouTube as a form of hard drive (Read description)
• Wait a minute, you can still update a disk-based version of Steam from 2004 to the current release
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/11dfc4h/the_steam_release_was_a_blessing_and_a_curse_at/

Odds and Ends

• Week 3 Star Trek Picard rant - Countdown till Finale (7 weeks)
• 
  My CEO wanted to make sure I knew I was not appreciated and underpaid so she sent an armada of SnowDucks™ to cut my brakes after a snow storm.
• We’re now getting more Bard tasks than ChatGPT
• Grogu is a genocidal maniac again (Mandalorian Season 3 premier)
• The New Bing has entered chat. Like, literally added to Skype chat.
• STO DilEx update: down to around 2.5 million and offers converting in a few days
• Making snow ducks with a 3D printed mold
  

 

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