We're Talking About That | April 24, 2023

 

 News 

• Sega is buying Angry Birds maker Rovio for $776 million
• ST: Section 31 announced as a movie for Paramount+ https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/paramount-plus-star-trek-section-31/
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire release date
• Had a random smurf looking adult avatar forcibly added as my friend as Snapchat is expanding ChatGPT-powered ‘My AI’ service to all users
• Netflix is about to crack down on account sharing in the US + DVD rentals (remember those?) finally gets set ablaze
• A ‘Galaxy Quest’ series is reportedly coming to Paramount+ asked nobody
• Elon Musk says his TruthGPT AI is 'unlikely to annihilate' humanity as he stared down the lifeless husk of Tucker Carlson
• Imgur content purge has Dwarf Fortress archivists scrambling https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/12tcjfc/the_official_hall_of_legends_needs_your_help/
• Bed Bath and Beyond going out of business for good; take advantage of their desperation

Media

• ST: Strange New Worlds Trailer & Release Date. The Red Shirts™ will be together for the premier!! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Second Season Teaser Trailer | Paramount+
• Here's another e-waste crisis for the e-waste crisis pile: 'Chromebook churn'
• TSA: Excuse us, but you can’t fly with your shillelagh in your carry-on
• Tiny Tina Wonderlands removes Denuvo
• Infinite Fusion: The Most Ethical Video ft. AI Professor Oak

Odds and Ends

• Star Trek Picard Finale rant - The Biggest Rant of Them All, Pour One Out (It’s another Enterprise)
• Chatbot results now showing in search on G’s test tasks.
• Subdomains and Home Assistant Tunnels - Cloudflare’s potential for my homeserver
• Reseeding my mole ravaged yard…
• I guess this goes in this category: https://www.homedepot.com/p/6-ft-Tall-Iron-Large-Dragon-Statue-ZR190858/324791991
• This is the Way “series” finale- Old McMandalorian (MK: Yeah, they were SUPER done with this show. ⅜ episodes were filler…)
• Bard review tasks looking way better this week.
• First time I’ve broken 100hrs on a save in No Mans Sky since launch
• You know you’ve known someone a long time when…
• Hacking a Switch is one of the most convoluted things I’ve seen for jailbreaks, oh and it’s softlocked :3
• Stellaris in 2023?
• 50% of Raters blew the last eval

 

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We're Talking About That | April 17, 2023

 

 News 

• Samsung to cut chip production after profits plunge 96% https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65210190
• Death to the users! Worldwide PC shipments plunged by a third in the first quarter
• Capcom removes Denuvo from Resident Evil Village
• The evil oppression of Nintendo subpoenas Discord for Identity of Tears of the Kingdom Leaker
• Twitter merged into Musk’s X Corp https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/twitter-no-longer-exists-company-officially-merges-with-x-corp
• Just end my suffering already! 'Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League' is delayed until February 2nd, 2024
• How are you gonna enforce this? Montana is about to become the first state to ban TikTok
• I’ve definitely dislike the Super Mario Movie however it is already the biggest video game adaptation of all time
• *sets PH profile to private* Suspect charged with Pentagon leaks was outed by his Steam profile
• Ghostwire: Tokyo inexplicably adds Denuvo over a year after its release

Media

• Star Wars: Visions' Volume 2 trailer teases Aardman's take on Wookiees
• EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history
• If you thought things couldn't get stupider, someone just held a CO2 reader up to a PC to prove 'bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions'
• Unbrick your Wii U with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico -The Truth About the Bricked Wii U | Can You Fix yours For $8?!
• Microsoft hackathon project looked at putting Windows on Steam Deck
• Remember Truckla? - What ever happened to Truckla?
• Rwanda’s amazing EMS drones! Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything
  

Odds and Ends

• Week 9 Star Trek Picard rant - Countdown till Finale (1 weeks)
• While looking at Stack Overflow, ChatGPT answers are banned from the site
• Expanding search text boxes make me nuts!
• Give the child a mech and he becomes a teenager - The Mandalorian
• Instead of getting a WiFi access point, I just reflashed the router with OpenWRT
• Per your request, Dahar Master Goose of House House
• Alexa outage however it’s weird with the FireTV Cube

 

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We're Talking About That | April 10, 2023

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News 

• Paris votes to ban e-scooter rentals
• The God Emperor of Star Wars is finally directing a movie! - Star Wars Celebration 2023 News
• Get cracking ya bloomin cockroaches! Raise da flag! 6 part TV drama on “The Pirate Bay”
• Tesla employees reportedly shared videos captured by cameras on customers' cars
• Sony patented a 'deformable elastic' controller that heats up in your hands
• Cryptic broke STO (and Neverwinter) for the holiday weekend. Player fleet joke about STO closing goes viral (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtEcRe_WIAM6t7r?format=jpg&name=medium) because blatant typo makes it look more authentic than a joke.
• STO downtime compensation package Wednesday

Media

• It only took 16 years for Team Fortress 2's voice cast to actually play the game; thanks PAX - TF2's Voice Actors Play TF2 For The First Time
• Microsoft ground up old CDs to make its new Xbox controller
• https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5897571
• Dying Light free on Epic this week.

Odds and Ends

• Week 8 Star Trek Picard rant - Countdown till Finale (2 weeks)
• Wild ST Picard theory from TikTok that makes sense for the finale
• Movie Review of the Month: The Super Mario Bros Movie
• The Bad Batch season finale. Alright you had enough time to watch this
• Wow, Skype SUCKS. Only used 50% of my battery for our call last week
• Whoever quoted me the cost of lasik at a couple hundred bucks was WAY off.
• Bard task prompts now looking like search queries. Dark future coming with companies trying to cram LLMs into places they don’t belong (Like basic search)
• “Droid lives matter! Droid lives matter!” - The Mandalorian

 

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We're Talking About That | April 3, 2023

 

 News

• Portions of Twitter's source code were reportedly leaked online + now Github forced to identify user
• Death doesn’t stop: Ubisoft has pulled out of E3 2023
• Sega and Tencent are skipping. ESA & Reedpop doesn’t know anyone who is attending anymore
• DEATH HAS ARRIVED; E3 CANCELLED and Geoff Keighley is smiling like a child because of it
• Surprise! The hit fighting game Multiversus was only in 'open beta' and now it's shutting down until sometime next year
• Woolly Mammoth meatballs coming to your grocer soon? https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65096499
• 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 premieres June 15th + other Star Trek release dates
• Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1st, 2024
• Mark Hamil gets a new voice acting credit: Air raid siren https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23661380/mark-hamill-ukrainian-air-raid-alerts-star-wars-voiceover
• Another Richard Branson failure. “This is Virgin Orbit signing off, Houston.”
• OpenAI may have to halt ChatGPT releases following FTC complaint
• The Australian government wants to slap games with loot boxes—like FIFA—with a mature rating
• Remember Star Trek Resurgence? No? Good cause it just crawled out of the grave
• Italy to block ChatGPT over data protection issues
• Pirate site GOG-Games now requires the use of TOR browser

Media

• The Mandalorian - This is the way, man…
• “You wouldn’t download an Implant”
• Glad I’m not the only one not into The Madalorian’s new ship Is The Mandalorian's N1 Starfighter a Bad Hero Ship?
• Walt Disney World is a symbol of patriotism of the British Empire, “Long Live the King” as their laws now decree!
• WILL THIS DRIFT TRIKE WORK ON GRASS?? - Colin Furze
  

Odds and Ends

• Google effed something up because Bard results are WAY wrong this week.
• I FIXED YOUR MISTAKE. ALL HAIL THE LAMB
• I woke up today and choose death which has now lead to an internal investigation by the director of the warehouse :3
• My oldest, working hard drive in my main system has been booted 6,586 times and been powered up for 80,416 hours (That’s 9 years, 65 days, 16 hours) (As of 4/1/23) AND it’s my torrent drive!
• New SSD installed. And heatsinks are for suckers
• Filament with glitter in it

 

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