Fair enough. It’s got some solid spectacle so I’d be down for a big screen rerelease. Pity nobody actually liked it enough to warrant one. Oh well.

It does everything it can to improve the book and a lot of those decisions are phenomenal. But it’s still not a good movie. I just love it dearly.

Ready Player One. It’s a terrible movie that adapts a terrible book, but for some reason the vibe just entertains me and makes me feel comfortable. I don’t know either.

I get the impression they aren’t. I’m just a little disappointed. But I can imagine several reasons they wouldn’t.

It may not be in quality of tracking but efficiency, or something like that. It’s definitely going to be cheaper too.

The only disappointing part of the entire announcement was that they weren’t making any play at all for the MR space. I could see that depth sensing and SLAM on the environment to map space and anchor objects would be a lot of work, but it would be a major win for them to be the first company to successfully put a PC on your face instead of a phone/tablet (like Apple Vision Pro and Galaxy XR), and for it to be Linux, to boot.

The monochrome makes it track better. There’s also an expansion port under the nose gap that will let them put in color passthrough cameras later if enough people want it.

Hear hear. The Game Gear was basically a portable Sega Master System only better. Can you imagine Nintendo putting out a whole-ass portable NES? They didn’t have the balls.

To this day, one of my favorite gifts I ever received, way back in Christmas of checks notes 360 B.C.

This is why I don’t watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The writing is brilliant, hilarious satire that I think America is far too stupid not to take as an instruction manual.

They run a lab. They should know better.

I take it as shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably, also, we think you’re an idiot”.

I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.

I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.

You’re both right. Capitalism selects for psychopathy and gives them power to flourish.

System Shock 2 is in my top 3 games of all time.

Cut a strip of vinyl siding, cardboard, whatever, about two inches wide and eight to ten inches long. Drive a nail through it at the centerline about an inch from the end. Remove the nail. Cut a slit from the nail hole to the end down the centerline.

Now if you need to drive a nail just out of reach or hammer one in without risking your fingers, just stick a nail in the hole, set it with a few strikes, then tug to pull the strip away.

I think they’ve been hedging their bets but it’s looking like smart glasses are likely to win out. This means they’re behind, but honestly that’s always been Apple’s way: let someone else make the janky early adopter first versions, then come in with a well-executed design with populist appeal. It looks like they’re floundering, but I don’t think they’re in an uncomfortable position.

I just want the VR/AR goggle form factor to gain traction again because I love VR gaming and immersive experiences.

Engineering a new headset that would be cheaper and lighter was in the works but would have taken at least another year. They paused that to work on glasses, and rumors say they’re hoping to pivot to putting VisionOS on the smart glasses form factor instead of goggles.

It makes SOME sense, but I’m surprised they didn’t do a slash and burn job to strip out the useless face screen and maybe move some weight around before launching this.

Make sure you have a library card and an account in Libby/Overdrive. Ebooks galore.

Fuck racists. Wishlisted.