For a while, if you were broke, you got as much internet as you wanted as long as you left the registration screen open and the modem connected…

Why are they standing in front of a Land Raider from the Friends universe?

Because people aren’t already sick of intrusive AI on every-fucking-thing. Go smoke yourself a meat, Mark. You earned it.

Maybe we don’t need 30 remedial IQ points from a magic hallucination box?

It’s better than nothing. It’s nothing with a massive power and water footprint.

If I wanted to ask for the same things nine times and spend the rest of the day reading code that sort of works, I’ll DM my staff engineer.

“Hey Grok, undress Elon”

Grok, probably:

Because he’s 84 and not dead yet.

Here’s a weird one: Pac-Man World. 3Dish platformer with a lot of neat tricks and surprises. It’s not groundbreaking, but it made me genuinely happy when I played it.

Also, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. There’s so much stuff to do in this game, and if you do it right the

and there’s even more stuff to do.

When you’re rich you can buy all kinds of weird shit.

Imagine being a high-ranking NYT exec, watching a computer hellbrain churn for a few minutes and spit out a five letter word.

“See? We can help!”

As a survivor of homeschooling, this is the one thing I wish more people understood: school is not about cramming enough data into a kid until they magically evolve into an adult. School is supposed to teach you how to think.

Not in an Orwellian sense, but in a “here’s how to approach a problem, here’s how to get the data you need, here’s how to keep track of it all, here’s how to articulate your thoughts, here’s how to ask useful questions…” sense. More broadly, it should also teach you how to handle failure and remind you that you’ll never know everything.

Abstracting that away, either by giving kids AI crutches or – in my case – the teacher’s textbook and telling them to figure it out, causes a lot of damage once they’re out of the school bubble and have to solve big, knotty problems.

Have you played the second one? I begged my parents for weeks to rent it. Then I got it and… I can’t even describe it. At one point there’s a platformer puzzle room based on the Three Bears. I played it for a whole weekend because I couldn’t believe how awful it was.

Lawyers all dragging screenshots of excitebike into court and counting the wheels.

100%

Yeah I’d argue that creativity starts after the idea, when you roll your sleeves up and see it through to completion. Ideas are easy. Everyone has them. Doing the work by using your skills and tools is the actual creative process. Everything else is mindless ideation.

Or to put it another way, imagine a high-level executive telling the art department to come up with something cool for the next product line. He fires an email off, waits for the result, maybe sends a couple notes back. When he unveils the product, he says “look how creative and artistic I am.” Is he? I’d argue he isn’t. He just had the idea. Other people executed that idea. The best you can say about him is he guided the process along, but nobody in the art department needs him to be there.

He’s real good.

Shout-out to software engineers having the lowest use outside of work. I have a coding chatbot that work wants me to use. Even when I have it set up right with only the correct tabs open in my IDE it just hallucinates stuff that looks ok but doesn’t actually work.

I mostly just ask it if it poops. One time I got it to admit that its garbage collection routine could be roughly compared to the act of pooping and it was the best day ever.

I don’t think introducing the computer science equivalent of Muzak is going to do any favors for the games industry.

Ugh.