“Buying the book means you get the book.”

“What, the author’s notes? Publishing rights? I’m confused because video games are different somehow!”

A decade ago this would have been exciting news for mobile computing.

Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh.

It’s the Vimes doctrine: if they can do it for a good reason, they can do it for a bad reason.

Unfortunately, that’s not sufficient to keep that bullshit out of big-budget single-player games. Publishers can force it upon developers - and will. Once a few games get away with it, the cult of executives will figure they’re losing money if they don’t fuck you as hard as possible.

Ralph: “Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking.”

Ruby Ranger seems to be trying.

The development of Doom and Quake is a tragedy with no villains. Daikatana has several.

Stop using the chatbot as an oracle.

Having watched one (1) video about this game, I’d guess the best fix would be making the combat unhinged. Don’t polish it. Crack it. Make it fit the batshit nonsense story, by being interesting, instead of sensible.

No Man’s Sky did it first.

There’s a thin line between “that looks kind of silly” and “it worked in Kerbal Space Program.”

It’s real goofy-lookin’.

I can’t imagine it’s a lift-versus-speed thing. Like how human-powered aircraft have the longest and skinniest wings possible.

Was it shaped that way just to do the quadcopter thing, which they’ve apparently not used here? I feel like you could just extend the nose so the wings are in the middle, and have a plane that’s still plane-shaped.

Nothing in a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

“Asking.”

how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device’s signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There’s a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.

How cell phones work is ridiculously complicated. Going from analog, to time-domain shenanigans, to binary wizard math, is why you can watch 720p video and whine that it’s not 1080p.

Not aided by how many instances fall for the cult of civility.

Saying “fuck off, Nazi” needs more protection than being a fucking Nazi.

Would it always be in response to Nazis? Nope. But sometimes it is, and the reason we have human beings as moderators is so they can tell.

Yeah sometimes that neuron hasn’t fired in a while.

There’s an Ahoy video about tracker music, and when it played the first three notes of “Foregone Destruction,” that fucker released aaall the good chemicals.

Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua’a’a’a Island.

We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as “Sudy Nim.”

Dark Heart might’ve been a bisexual awakening.

Because turning books into a language model is transformative. No LLM is a substitute for the original works.