I scrubbed the video for the better part of 40 minutes. Here’s the vibe. These points bounce off each other.

1. AI everything. This is aimed at investors who don’t know shit about games other than it has labor cost. Nothing novel was shown or discussed other than broad strokes of concepts which we already know about.

2. Sponsors and Ads everywhere. To remind us it’s EA

3. Creating is bad business. EA wants:

• to use AI, not artists
• fleeting interactions, not deep experiences
• sell platforms, not content
• engage algorithmically

They aspire to do to games what TikTok/Reels/Yt shorts did for video. Make it as easy to make a “game” (AI slop) as shooting a phone video. Let the algorithm bubble up addictive crap and get eyeballs on screens. Ads everywhere. Pay extra to make Iron Man a character in your 2-minute “game”

This is a nightmare and I hope they fail

This is a really useful writeup because it outlines a simpler installation. It seems like most people post when they have a very special or unique situation.

With added firmware/drivers for better hardware compatibility

I hadn’t thought of this in yeeears. I think I still have it memorized.

This is an advertisement packaged as “news”

I wish I had enough time and knowledge to combine mumble and revolt… That would be the perfect discord replacement.

Actually, I just want 1) gaming voice chat with 2) a shared music bot which 3) my non-tech friends would want to use

I just stumbled across this Incredible dissection of the VFX in Attack of the Clones

OMG perfect

Working from home also had, from my observation, a massive and materially beneficial impact on females specifically working mothers, who bare a disproportionate share of domestic work.

Ew

1. that sounds like a fire hazard
2. flu season was probably a nightmare
3. fuck that

This is extremely typical for Amazon corporate.

They have the data because they ask (corporate) employees about their working experience constantly. I’m sure employees love the option to WFH. But they don’t like the data (typical) because they spent billions building cheap, crowded, loud office space around the world.

So what do they do? They pull out the mantra, “Disagree and Commit”, which is Amazon manager speak for “shut up and do what I say.” Ironically, Disagree and Commit is actually “Have Backbone, Disagree and Commit” and is about finding alternative solutions or data when you think the company is doing the wrong things rather than keeping quiet.

Amazon, like most American corporations is an oligarchy and it’s run terribly at the top with dire consequences for their employees, customers, and the world.

I love N++ and have been an advocate for it since discovering it in 2010 while looking for solutions to help less-technical users edit config files.

I have installed VMs on Linux and Mac boxes just to use this because I have not found anything close to this good and pray for the day this is ported. I am just not that good at vim

Based

A lot of Airbus’s landing gear has the unique “feature” of being gravity-lowered. So they work without hydraulics.