Javier Arevalo

You should have seen what Blade: Edge of Darkness looked like in 1996. Truly amazing stuff - but making the actual game was a whole another matter...

This time, I read my calendar carefully: Forbidden Planet premiered 70 years ago today! 😁

Ok at least I was there for the 0:00 server crash.

Oh, WoW's Midnight expansion launches in 25 minutes.... at midnight of course why didn't I realize it.

I shouldn't indulge since I work tomorrow, but I might.

A black-and-white political cartoon by Ron Cobb features a large bomb mushroom cloud rising over a city skyline with the ironic text, "LET YOUR FAITH LIGHT THE WORLD...".

A black-and-white political cartoon by Ron Cobb features a small child in a bed nestled among the rounded tops of massive nuclear missiles marked with American and Soviet flags.

In a black-and-white editorial cartoon by Ron Cobb, a disheveled man stands in a vast wasteland of debris, looking bewildered as he holds a broken portable television set and an unplugged power cord.

In a black-and-white editorial cartoon by Ron Cobb, a man in a suit stands atop rubble shaking his fist at a distant mushroom cloud, exclaiming that bombing only strengthens their will to resist while a second man lies defeated in the debris below.

Before becoming the fantastic designer we know, Ron Cobb (Alien, Total Recall, The Last Starfighter, Aliens, Back to the Future, The Abyss, Rocketeer, Space Truckers, Firefly...) was a cartoonist in the late 1960s.

With the same talent.

"quick and dirty implementation" he says 😂

I am reliably informed that #C64 #Uridium was released on this day 40 years agp. My, oh my,

Well said. I remember liking Steamboy (manga) a lot but it's been a long time

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

This time I got an addon for the quest cleanup! Reckless Abandon sounded just right.

Bags tho, I swear I still have Legion stuff there.

a graphic of "WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES - PREDATOR - THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

it's all very weird, right?

"Hey let's see what's up on Twitter"

...3 minutes of watching in disbelief how a bunch of very well respected people are throwing or having to wade through shit...

"Ok let's not see any more"

I know it's trendy to dunk on Twitter from bsky, but damn, it's just true and I still wish it wasn't.

Hah gogogo you guys! <3

What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.

Some people really have a way with words. Me not have way here Dean with. gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

Savage

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

lol this made me sick to my stomach

SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser SuperCollider's powerful scsynth audio synthesis engine running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. Zero installation.

Since announcing SuperSonic a few months ago I've made more than 50 releases and almost 700 commits.

SuperSonic is no longer experimental, it's a robust well engineered & tested web synth.

I'm going to build such cool stuff with it & I hope you do too!

sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

NOPE Not like this :(

For what is worth, most people I know in Spain (I imagine this is common) use 24h format for writing *but not* when talking. "5 de la tarde" not 17. Midnight is "12 de la noche" and Midday is "12 de la mañana". 01-07 = madrugada, 08-12 = mañana, 13-20 = (1-8) tarde, 21-00 = (9-12) noche. Works ok.

YouTube video by Cameo 90's Deep Impact (1998) | Final Goodbye

I'm not crying.

I tried with a game script written in the 90s. This is what I got. I tried with other more recent script and got again wrong results all around including gptzero, so don't think any of these "ai detectors" work.

I propose LeapYear = 8 and of course shift everything down by 1.

All this hype for a short-term "nice" 8% is done largely at the expense of ignoring and downplaying the long-term hard and important things. Not just the ones in our future, but the ones in our past that allow us to be effective today (with or without AI). So we're likely poisoning the well.

"Nice" is nice but that's all it is. The bigger traps of AI are still very real. The more I let Claude do the details for me, the more I will forget the ideas that let me give it precise instructions. And even in these "nice" cases, it's still saving 80% of the 10% of time that code writing takes.

That script is easy but the time it would have taken me to write it is time I am happy to not spend. It's a quick tool, it's basically a collection of trivialities, but I write python maybe once a month then I keep the ideas and forget all the APIs. Claude does trivial APIs very well. It's nice.

My experience so far: it makes easy things easier for people who don't know them, or faster for people who know. But it makes hard things harder the more you rely on it. I 100% appreciate it one-shotting this 200-line python script while I'm in a meeting. Those 200 lines are easy but would take time

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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Meanwhile, Blizzard: "here's a class for Diablo 2, for just $25"

Anyway, many games never recover costs, it sounds to me like wishful thinking that a significant reduction in prize will increase sales so much more that the game goes in the black.

Games on on sale quickly, $70 is just day-0