Jeffool @ Jeffool @lemmy.world

Hobbyist gamedev, moderator of /c/GameDev, TV news producer/journalist by t

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Yeah really. It's been years since I saw a 90m movie.

Everyone's talking about money, but I'd try to eliminate costs. First day I make some food and a couple of (full) power banks. Next few days I make some food and solar panels.

I know you say no cars, but I have family I'd trust to put one together. (I'd trust them to take mine apart to work on it.) The only odd part would be body panels? Similarly I'd try to figure out some small housing a cubic meter at a time, but that's probably also a work in progress.

I'd mix in a few personal items over the coming days of course. A new PC, new clothes, and food variety. I don't know how to get rid of Internet and land costs. I wonder if the resulting economic crash might lead to that being figured out for everyone, but I somehow doubt that.

Imagine investing in another company being led by Elon Musk these days.

When I get another job lined up that's my goal. A job and these bills. And that car loan. And maybe a house... Man. Maybe two jobs.

I understand what you're saying about Game Informer, but it's hilarious you name Nintendo Power and PSM as alternatives, considering that.

Tetris in a walkway. Any format, really. It's just great.

Not "lost" as in "misplaced", but "lost" as in "missed the opportunity to bring it in, in the future".

Wild to think they've spent $100B on VR and for tons of people it's probably still a "Beat Saber" machine. I mean, respect to Beat Saber.

If I'm not mistaken it was in 2020-2021, when Tesla stock prices when going gangbusters, Musk was saying it was overvalued. Given constant Cybertruck updates/recalls, general Tesla safety concerns, Ford and Rivian apparently doing well in trucks, and Mercedes apparently having the best self driving, all happening since then, I'm not sure why it should be valued exceptionally high. They had a good name in EV cars, now they have scary stories.

And that's not even getting into politics and dropping sales, so, I'm not surprised the stock is trending down

Maybe! But here's a 45m video that looks at who he was before, and it ain't all roses. https://youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM

I know I'm old. I see things like this and always think of leaving Digg because they didn't want us to share a way to pirate Blu Rays and HD-DVDs, which none of us would ever use.

Story-wise I'm not sure there's much more that needs to be said for GlaDOS, but I think tech-wise they could advance it some. Currently players can build testing chambers. It'd be cool if you could build entire complexes consisting of several chambers, with your own (optionally voiced) personality core running the tests. Then the base game could pick up between facilities and whisk you away to new testing places. Basically, make it easier for players to make their own full mods. Especially if you allowed custom hooks for your ins and outs between facilities.

I don't know the value of echolocation in this case, as I'm generally ignorant here, but it's straight wild to me that they went purely on visuals.

This would be hilarious if it weren't for shitty cars causing deaths.

That said, I always wondered why we don't find a system like RFID that could penetrate concrete and asphalt, and plant passive receivers in roads? We re-pave roads so damn often in this country (the U.S.) it seems like we could've knocked it out in the past couple of decades, minus our most rural areas.

I know RFID itself isn't strong enough, but I imagine that would've been an easier problem than figuring our complete self driving. Not to mention making GPS a secondary system for U.S. road travel in most cases.

Maybe it's just a dumb shower thought?

The game has a built-in hint system. If you're ever stuck or confused hit the button and the next place to go will glow red. They did a lot of things right with this.

It has some combat, but yes, mostly it's about finding a path from Point A to Point B without dying. That includes running, jumping, climbing, and parkour. It's pretty great.

The combat was kinda required to be shoved into it, despite developers wishes, as I recall. So it's not great. It's not horrible either, it's just clunky in a way that someone who doesn't want to fight might do a poor job of it.

The gist is that you're a courier for illicit things (like information,) and suddenly the government is cracking down.

If you're remotely curious, and you see it on sale, I strongly urge you to give it a shot. Maybe the tutorial level and one or two more. And if you hate it you can always refund it on Steam.

I have used voice commands. "Hey Google, show me the way to X," on the way to my car, or "Hey Google, call X" when I have to call a place I don't know the number to. But I rarely do anymore, as Gemini takes longer to execute than it previously did. And the idea that a five second series of "speak command, register, and execute" will go even further and replace a tap to start an app or something, is hilariously bad. It's like they never used the AI they were shoving into everything.

I don't know about "out of left field", but I've seen many people use it to justify being retaliatory. "They treated me this way and did a horrible thing, so this is the way they want to be treated! I'm going to do it right back to them!" That's literally against what the rule says. That's just you giving them permission to continue.

In fact, I think that's depressingly common.

Boost isn't marking spoilers correctly and I'm confused... So be warned to anyone curious about watching it. (I recommend it )

I watched it back then, and enjoyed it, but I get why some people were disappointed. We were told it would be explained, and the explanations got kinda hand-wavey. We were told they weren't dead, and they weren't in purgatory... And while that was true, they did all die and end up in "purgatory" for the resolution to happen. (And if the flash-sideways weren't exactly "purgatory" five, but it was equally as unfulfilling and unexplained.) And all this happened when we weren't investing days and weeks into it, but years.

That said, it was still one of the best "first seasons" of TV ever. And back then the prevailing logic was that flashbacks were tantamount to narration; just not to be done in GOOD media. But Lost did it great. It often showed us motivations (and even the reason decisions were made) in the modern day, without informing other characters the reasoning behind those choices. Sure, sometimes they just felt like plot, but not usually.

Also, if you enjoyed Lost, go watch From. It's been renewed for a 4th season. Oddly, also featuring Harold Perrineau.

Which, in the immediate future, makes me wonder less about the things that are going to be done in code, and more about the creation of new, free, visual and audio resources that make this work. That seems like quite a noble pursuit.