Right, what you said, but I’d remove the part where it increases productivity.

Yes, good point, I should have specified I was thinking of the Spielberg version.

At this point Minority Report’s mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.

Nope, we’re getting Biff Tannen’s Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.

I like Jaguar but you have to bring a lot of patience since games usually take a lot of time to get into, emulation hasn’t really been perfected, and the unique controller is a barrier to the full experience in some of its better games.

Tempest 2000 (9/10) remains super fun. But there are also versions to play on other systems that are arguably better.

Aliens vs. Predator (8/10 but very subjective) is a truly unique and fun game but has a HIGH barrier to entry with pacing and framerate issues. Like the best retro games, they really did plan around the framerate to turn it into an advantage - literally turning around to check if you’re being followed while playing in a dark room is terrifying because of the slideshow reveal - but a gamer in 2025 probably can’t connect with that and will just see “bad framerate.” You need to commit a few hours to get into that zone if you want to try it. The numpad overlays customized to each human/alien/predator style help a lot.

Super Burnout (6/10) was a fun racer but could have been done on SNES.

Rayman (9/10) of course is great, if you want to play the first release originally on Jaguar, but naturally the game has been released everywhere.

Raiden (8/10) is very good, but also not exclusive.

Fight For Life (1/10) if you want to experience the biggest Jaguar disappointment, after it being hyped up as from a guy who was on the Virtua Fighter team.

Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek (both 5/10) if you want to see how Atari hoped to stay relevant against Mortal Kombat.

Cybermorph (6/10) to see what the pack-in game was like. But it’s mostly empty exploration and was more meant to demonstrate Jaguar can do 3D art a time it was trying to hype itself as a “64-bit” system.

Iron Soldier (7/10) only if you can play with a real controller and have the numpad overlay.

I’m pretty sure agreeing to the cameo feature was explicitly to find reasons to write a variation on this article. At that point, hey, she paid the price, can’t fault her for putting out the article which legitimately raise awareness how your identity will be misused.

Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?

Right, they have the key, and the lock, but the key isn’t in the lock, so it’s utterly impossible for them to access it.

The GOP has been looking for a truly empty vessel without standards to run their caucuses for decades, and each time they get a little closer. They may have succeeded at the worst possible moment with Johnson.

Honestly, this refinement seems like it’s gaming the metric a bit. I have no doubt there’s innovation here, don’t get me wrong, but the first two examples are not just retaining the character, they seem like overfitting.

The model in many of the images reproduces the exact same armor angle, shield angle, head/helmet angle, etc, without any modification - i.e., it isn’t learning how to reproduce a persistent character in multiple angles, scenes, etc, just the exact illustration fed into it, while changing the setting and positioning.

Really interesting article - one of the more insightful theories I’ve seen for truly understanding why people are attracted to the right’s outright lying and bad faith posturing.

You might be right, but I think the question is, “does my commitment to the cult outweigh my commitment to self and empirical reality?”

I think like in any other cult that fleeces its members, the answer for many is, “yes.”

“… And it’s not weird! Collectible avatars, it’s a good idear.”

Thank you!

You haven’t seen a lot of Sora 2 videos. Identifiable traits require a pretty careful eye in many videos to spot.

You absolutely can’t even rely on the watermark, since removing that watermark is trivial to the nation-states running disinfo campaigns, and even for end users removal is trivial compared to creating typical public AI video models.

He’s been a right-wing asshole for a long time, unfortunately.

Laughing at that last row: “Chief executives.”

What percentage of chief executives will push an AI replacement agenda, and then coincidentally decide that their executive roles are so strategic and complicated they can’t possibly be replaced?

I don’t know why it was so easy for you, but the last four Windows 11 machines I set up over the last two years definitely required increasingly complicated hacks just to not create an online account.

At this point I think the only thing that may save Google is Larry and Sergey firing Sundar and hitting the reset. Google has been consistently doing the wrong thing for a long time.

Random!? You just don’t speak computer!

https://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png

This is a helpful. This sounds like a way, even if I’m still in the “hmmm, yes, I recognize some of those words” stage. Maybe I’ll look for a detailed guide.

I admit, though, the details of how to do this are pretty hard to imagine for me - networking and tunneling seems very technical. Before I can jump off the Plex enshittification train, I just want a way to share my media with tech-illiterate family without complex setup on their end.