Yes. Taking an existing thing and improving upon it is the literal definition of innovation.

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Glad you enjoyed it. It really just came out of nowhere for me. I found it on some YouTube list iirc

Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

“We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.

The Artifice Girl.

Movie from 2023 that seems to have slipped under the radar.

It’s about a man who develops an AI to target online predators played out through 3 short 30 minute acts.

I don’t know where they found the lead child actress but she blew me away. Movie absolutely floored me with how good it was.

Good for them. I bought this years ago in beta and have no regrets. Amazingly complex rogue like. I hope it gets a bit of recognition

“Capitulating to the right isn’t working, we better capitulate to the right more.”

I keep telling my friends this. It was incredibly simple to do. And you can start with only a couple smaller 1 or 4 TB drives and still end up starting a decent collection

This is a larger problem in our society at large: the financial class basically strangling creativity in search of ever increasing secure profit.

It sucks because the talent is all there to make these games and be creative but big money doesn’t want to take a chance.

So they shit out games that just reprise other things, remake old games, etc. for that more certain dollar. It’s no longer about making the best game of Z genre. It’s about ticking the most boxes to please the most people so the game will sell everywhere enough to fill greedy men’s pockets with money.

PS2 was definitely a huge jump to me, too

The biggest detail for me being that characters blinked outside of cut scenes in higher resolution (for the time) games like The Bouncer.

It stopped feeling like leaps after that. And even that, for me, felt more like polish.

But I love the discussion and I like seeing where and how people draw the lines!

I have friends my age who won’t play games in anything below 1440p, 120Hz and I’m like… You are denying yourself a whole world of awesome games and experiences…

It’s hard to really describe to younger generations just what it was like.

I’m an elder millennial (1984) and the changes to games within my lifetime has been breath taking and staggering.

The first game I remember playing is River Raid on my brother’s Atari. I was a vaguely plane shaped black block.

A couple years later, I find myself playing Super Mario Bros. A few more and it’s SMB3 and I’m holding a gameboy in my hands on the road trips to Florida to see my grandparents.

Then the jump to SNES and Genesis. Seeing that depth and life seep into the characters… The music gaining in complexity…

I even had a Sega CD and I remember how mind blowing it was when Sonic turned and ran towards the back to go through a loop instead of just side to side.

Then for it was PS1 with Final Fantasy 7… Graphical cut scenes like moving works of art.

After this point, yes there was still obvious and sometimes bigger jumps… But this is where it all was SO different each generation. Not just seeing extra small details and polishes. Large, discrete jumps forward

I wish I could give my wonder to anyone who never got to experience it. It was an amazing time to live.

https://searx.space/

My current favorite search engine. Just pick one that’s running out of your country or close to it. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me.

I always find it interesting how they largely just seem to have switched dogmatic stances from some religion to atheism.

The real logical stance is “I do not know if this is true or not because it is unprovable”.

They look down on true believers while being true believers in atheism themselves.