I watched the Third Man next which was fascinating. Lots of similar shadow use.

Dear Microsoft - Stop trying to make Copilot happen!

Some day, kids using social media will be child abuse…

Sorry, Bungie. You fucked up Destiny 2, no more money for you.

“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”

In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)

https://youtu.be/zRjYSAwJ_Kw

I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.

“No! This serious horror movie!”

(snort)

If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.

As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.

Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.

🤯

Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.

Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.

Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.

I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.

Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):

“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”

The English translation:

“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

Google translate:

“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

Can’t tell if 4/1 gag or not! Brilliant!

Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.

Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.

As a rule, we don’t handle the unexpected well. When my grandfather died from lung cancer, it was a long, protracted ordeal involving hospice care. Everyone was prepared, nobody was surprised.

When my dad died from a massive heart attack in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, a month after retiring, it was a shock, nobody saw it coming. He didn’t make it long enough for the life flight helicopter to get there. Reportedly his last words were “Oh no.”

It’s one thing to plan for a death, it’s another to be slapped in the head with one.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

FM transmitter and play it through a radio?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_transmitter_(personal_device)

There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.

There wasn’t much thought behind it other than “is it fun” or “is it new”.

There was huge word of mouth whenever a new machine dropped and kids would ride their bikes from store to store to see the new ones.

This was before arcades started collecting them. Arcade machines were just at the local bars, Pizza shops, 7-11s, and grocery stores.

Bars would set them up in non-age restricted areas so kids could play.

Not in Europe, so I can’t help you there.

But I’d like to add, it’s not JUST about disabling games.

Bungie released Destiny 2 in 2017, in 2020 they started “vaulting” content, locking it away from people who had paid for it.

This included ALL of the story missions, essentially rendering the game plot-less.

Half of the original planet locations in the base $60 game, and the entirety of the first two paid expansions.

It’s literally impossible to play the game as launched even though, technically, it was never disabled and is still online.

The content has never been restored and cannot be accessed, even for a court case, Bungie had to rely on YouTube recordings of the removed content:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/bungies-lawyers-have-to-use-fan-videos-of-old-destiny-2-content-in-court-because-well-it-doesnt-exist-in-game-anymore/

One of my favorite bits teaching Hex Ed was writing it on the board and saying it out loud:

0 - Zero
1 - One
2 - Two
3 - Three
4 - Four
5 - Five
6 - Six
7 - Seven
8 - Eight
9 - Nine
A - Ten
B - Eleven
C - Twelve
D - Thirteen
E - Fourteen
F - Fifteen

It is so hard writing the letter and saying the number.

I find it the other way around. I can’t play Vampire Survivors because of Robotron/Smash TV/Geometry Wars.