I don’t think people are yearning for a dystopian future.

I think all of those applications will, or already have, develop independently of something like Facebook metaverse. If anything meta is taking those useful applications and trying to turn it into a household product that nobody needs.

A Dark Quiet Death from Mythic Quest.

Nearly totally removed from the rest of the show, it’s about relationships, sacrifice, integrity, compromise. For a comedy show about video games, this episode hit hard and made me reflect on past relationships and really broke me down. A reminder to take responsibility of your actions when you feel like the blame is external.

Then there’s a very brief end scene that puts it in context with the regular cast.

This episode should have won an award.

I’m not kidding, one time I saw that and the first result was back to that thread where the only answer was to Google it.

The quote is misquoting the analogy. It is an infinite number of monkeys.

The point of the analogy is about randomness and infinity. Any page of gibberish is equally as likely as a word perfect page of Shakespeare given equal weighting to the entry if characters. There are factors introduced with the behaviours of monkeys and placement of keys, but I don’t think that is the point of the analogy.

Live forever or die trying

I don’t think Doom teleported the player to simulate a second floor. I think it was closer to asset swapping what got drawn on screen in the same location.

If you turn the Minimap on you can see where you are in the level. The Minimap was almost a depiction of how the game was really programmed, and the 3D POV was a programming trick to display it for the customer.

Sounds like utter bullshit to be honest with you.

At the bottom of that article you linked:
“Research data for this article Data not available / No data was used for the research described in the article”

Why wasn’t RSS as popular as the original Twitter?

I’m not sure what the answer is, but I suspect it’s the same answer.

I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.

Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.

But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.

Because touch screens are cheap and put the onus of design onto the programmers of apps.

New tab tools.

You can even do a trick to make it your home tab

I plan to live forever or die trying

Do you have a link to a track ball mouse as an example of what you mean? What do you think are the pros and cons of using one?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See

The ones that pay are the ones running the ads. If the content creators have to pay, they will be the ones doing ads. This is how AV content has worked since the dawn of broadcast radio.

So, just like FFXIV?

You are conflating copyright and patents. Copyright is protection for the expression of an idea, like the art design. This is a patent issue, which is a protection of how something works.

If somehow I patent a vague mechanic like “a method of selecting weapons with the directions of an analogue stick or mouse, presented as an 8 direction on screen circle.” Then I could sue Red Dead Redemption and Batman Arkham, despite there being no copyright infringement with whatever game I made with that feature.

The production values are good, and it’s generally entertaining, but I just can’t cope with the gaps in logic and the seemingly deliberate attempts to make it conflict with the Alien films.

I’d rather re-watch the Red Letter Media review than the film itself.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?