We're Talking About That | March 27, 2023

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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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We're Talking About That | February 27, 2023

 Man, I hate typing February. Just feels bad. Not a great word...

 News 

• Xbox is trying to win over regulators by committing 10 years of ports and support to NVIDIA GeForce Now and Nintendo with a catch
• Reddit should have to identify users who discussed piracy, film studios tell court
• RIP to a silent legend: The creator of PlayStation's iconic logo sound has died
• Warner Brother Games cloned Marvel’s Avengers as new details about the forgotten Suicide Squad game appear
• Legendary designer Shinji Mikami to leave Tango Gameworks and Xbox
• Warner Bros Discovery Earning Call: agreement for multiple new Lord of the Rings movies & Mortal Kombat 12 to be released this year
• STOWiki abandons Fandom for new site at StoWiki.net . Blocked ad elements drop from 41 to zero!
• European Parliament votes to ban new gas car sales by 2035
• Amazon's Zoox is now operating its purpose-built autonomous taxi on public roads
• Microsoft will support Windows 11 on newer Macs through Parallels
• PlayStation VR2 review: A great headset that should be cheaper
• Twitter to charge for SMS two-factor authentication

Media

• Per your request: Skyrim mead recipes tested How to make all the mead in Skyrim | How to Drink
• Week 2 Star Trek Picard rant - Countdown till Finale (8 weeks)

Odds and Ends

• “A message from Mturk” - Double check Amazon’s incompetence https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/comments/11bwh4w/so_what_happened_to_the_whole_dac7_tax_thing/
• Raterlabs next bonus lottery is… AI prompt bingo?
• “If you can read a Skyrim crash log, you are overqualified to be a Windows Autopilot engineer” - hate my job
• Since the outing of STO bot farms, dil exchange backlog has been cut in half in just 2 months. https://i.imgur.com/2l31G0t.png
• We played with ChatGPT via The New Bing

 

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We're Talking About That | February 20, 2023

 

 News 

• Windows 11 could get a feature for controlling RGB lighting
• An AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours
• Blue Origin made solar cells by smelting simulated Moon dust
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-dumpster-fire-response-to-chatgpt/

Media

• This 3D printed dress tops my printed tie (https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/10w4s4k/3d_printed_dress_using_filaflex_tpu/)
• You can buy a piece of PC graphics history for the price of your kidney
• Free tax software, courtesy of the IRS: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile
• “The following article contains spoilers for earlier Star Trek properties but doesn’t reveal specific spoilers about Star Trek: Picard season three, not that you should be watching it anyway.” - Engadget
• Not sure why you guys didn’t like the first couple episodes of Bad Batch… 

Odds and Ends

• ChatGPT: “I am a language model trained by OpenAI and do not have access to real-time information.”...”As of my knowledge cut-off in 2021…”
• 
  “A message from Mturk” American workers must now comply with EU tax standards.
• Turn off this stupid iOS Photo Memories crap…
• The truth about Harrison Ford joining the MCU (Reddit meme)
• Think I found my next 3D printer: https://www.elegoo.com/products/elegoo-neptune-3-plus-fdm-3d-printer-with-larger-build-volume-of-320x320x400mm?variant=40686326612016
• Picard S3: V.F.X. MAKES A (modern) STAR TREK. HOW MANY TIMES MUST WE SAY THIS
• Star Trek Picard season FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK, MAKE IT STOP!!!
• Ant-Man 3 Spoiler(ish) free Review
• The algorithm knows my family; Discovered a Pinellas County student’s TikTok about their literature homework
• Squishy rocket ships using TPU and spiral vase mode (3D print)
• So… I beat Dwarf Fortress
• THE MOMENT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR: GameInformer GOTY 2022; A side note, their website is pathetic to the power of Firefox Addons

  

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We're Talking About That | February 13, 2023

 

 News 

• Microsoft’s next-gen Bing uses a ‘much more powerful’ language model than ChatGPT
• Well…TF2 getting an update wasn’t on my 2020’s Decade Bingo Card
• What’s the best way to combat “sushi terrorism?” AI of course!
• 1Password ditching passwords in favor of passkeys
• WIRED is butthurt about not getting a review copy of the new Harry Potter game they let their correspondent on sex toys to review Hogwarts Legacy; “There Is No Magic in Hogwarts Legacy The game is mid at best 1/10”

Media

• Yeah, Patient Number 9 is amazing.
• Free tax software, courtesy of the IRS: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile 

Odds and Ends

• I didn’t mind moving files via SD card to the 3D printer… Until I didn’t have to.
• BLood spray from a broken heart saves my Dwarf Fortress.
• I’ve been “swatted” by Twitter, F**k you Elon (account ban)
• Google’s running scared. Nearly all new work is for AI generated content.
• In 1932, Australia went to war with emus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War)
• Crusader Kings 2 had a bug that slowed down the game due to Greeks trying to blind and castrate everyone. “I hink 70% of the AI demands were about castrating or blinding someone when I loaded late-game byzantine saves.” https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/ask-paradox-development-studio-anything.615174/page-98#post-19138242

 

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We're Talking About That | February 6, 2023

 

 News 

• 
  Well that was short lived: Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony Won't Be Part of E3 2023
• Merge 3.0 - Paramount Plus and Showtime become ‘Paramount Plus with Showtime’
• I don’t know what a JPEG is! King of the Hill revival
• Followup: remember when an idiot did a video game inspired wall-ride during a NASCAR event? Well here’s the “Official” response
• Netflix develops balls of steel to say “you have to pay more if you want to watch Netflix while traveling or else we will blacklist your device” - Update: They backed down only in the US claiming they didn’t mean to post the policy on their website
• PS Plus ain’t worth it said Sony, wave goodbye to those free games come May
• That time Among Us accidentally violated the Geneva Conventions; We’ve all been there right?
• Local News: Duke Energy ALWAYS has your best interest in heart. That’s why you should pay extra to live in Florida because it’s your fault you throw hurricanes at the state.
• Researchers can now pull hydrogen directly from seawater; Spongebob has cooked his last Krabby Patty

Media

• Ozzy Osbourne's Patient Number 9
• Tale of the Banana Bread Blade (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5781643)

Odds and Ends

• Octoprint server operational!
• FDisk format has entered the chat

 

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We're Talking About That | January 30, 2023

 

 News 

• Tech’s Wins and Losses for 2022 by Engadget
• PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2022Adult Swim quickly cut ties with Justin Roiland BUT Rick and Morty surprisingly remained alive for another 3 seasons with a recast.
• I thought video games only had GODMODE but so does Twitter I guess according to a whistleblower
• NY AG wants answers on Madison Square Garden's use of facial recognition against legal opponents (This was Drake’s fault) 
  

Media

• Yeah, the guys making Invincible are effing trolls, and they haven’t earned that right yet.
• Boat Bike House! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9IMUWLsgiM

Odds and Ends

• Why Tiger Woods' golf ball is a grenade, and other amazing video game trivia
• So sick of ChatGPT tasks. Can’t take much more AI generated poetry…
• Windscribe (a VPN service) called me a fat lazy bastard

 

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We're Talking About That | January 23, 2023

 Well, that should be the last of the messed up schedules from the holidays. And I, for one, and looking forward to getting back into a nice comfortable rut. Let's get back on schedule, shall we?

 News 

• John Deere will let US farmers repair their own equipment
• The first-ever UK space flight fails to reach orbit
• Your Quest is disconnected (end of life) (Only social featured dropping end of year)
• Even Washington Post sucks at fact checking (Can’t read version number. Should be v.50. It is on the main menu, FFS): https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/reviews/dwarf-fortress-review/
• Gigabit-ready internet connections are now mandatory in new homes in England
• Google, Nvidia Express Concerns to FTC About Microsoft’s Activision Deal
• Russia will send a 'rescue' spacecraft to the ISS following leak
• It's been real! Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 licenses this month
• Marines use Metal Gear cardboard box trick to fool AI robot
• Google releases firmware update to let Stadia controller be used as Bluetooth. It permanently disables its use as a Stadia controller by design…
• New STO anni ship let you turn into a torpedo?
• Amazon opens its Sidewalk bandwidth-sharing network to third-party devices
• Microsoft realizes criticizing the FTC's constitutionality was dumb and offers a forelock-tugging retraction

Media

• Well, here's Shrek in Fallout 4
• SubredditStats is a good way to track public interest in stuff (https://subredditstats.com/)
• Atlas: Building Bridges to the Robot Apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ&t=41s
• Future Man season 2: Even better. Somehow not a rehash of season 1!
• Invincible - Season 2 Teaser | Prime Video

Odds and Ends

• NRT fest continues… Got a raise just to run out of work, lol
• New tasks this week show Google running to catch up with ChatGPT
• Kobayashi Maru Transporter fixed (Test pending)
• STO cat mode dances to party bombs
• Dwarf Fortress is the ultimate LAN admin simulator

 

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