https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

Enshittification. Once you learn it, you see it everywhere. It’s depressing.

Right. They’re planning to release a new version of the game with microtransactions and likely some crypto who knows what because they were able to snipe the trademark.

Upvoting despite the Xitter link because people need to know about the scummy shit going down with Flappy Bird.

Welcome to dystopia. Jesus Christ this is bleak shit.

Are anyone else’s comments showing up twice?

Are anyone else’s comments showing up twice?

Look, I think it’s important to state here that while you can often offer prompts to strangers with no ill effect, 7% of strangers are DEATHLY ALLERGIC to prompts. I know it’s fun to give your strangers prompts sometimes, but I urge you all NOT to give prompts to strangers or you run the very real risk of harming them seriously.

Signed, A strangerologist

Nope, just tipsy.

Downvoted article, upvoted you.

Voting with my… uh, votes.

93/100 is a fraction. This is meaningless.

Edit: to be clear, the HEADLINE is meaningless. The actual cost from the article is £390.

Alien Isolation. Resident Evil 7. If you can do either/both in VR, DO IT.

It’s one of the most underrated movies of all time in my opinion. It’s just a gem and it’s incredible fun for all ages.

Honestly I only saw it once. Might watch it again as a guilty pleasure though.

I’ve heard of that too, that the original film decayed in a vault or something. Pity. I’m not a torture porn fan or total gorehound myself, but I’d pay to see that footage just out of curiosity.

The extreme horror of Event Horizon limits its appeal but I think it’s brilliant.

Guilty:

• Ready Player One
• Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
• Godzilla vs Kong
• Resident Evil
• Transformers (first Michael Bay one)
• Ghostbusters Afterlife
• Dune 1984
• Armageddon
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Equilibrium

Not That Guilty:

• Ghostbusters 2016
• Pacific Rim
• Bumblebee
• Tron: Legacy
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• Bill & Ted Face the Music
• Robocop
• Alien Romulus
• The Terminator
• Terminator Dark Fate
• Star Trek 2009
• Star Wars Rogue One
• Solo: a Star Wars Story
• Minority Report
• Upgrade
• Short Circuit
• V for Vendetta
• Dredd
• Hot Tub Time Machine

I Will Defend These To My Grave As Masterpieces

• Interstellar
• Independence Day
• Tron
• Back to the Future trilogy
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Matrix
• The Fifth Element
• Terminator 2
• The Abyss
• Arrival
• Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
• Ghostbusters OG
• Inception
• The Martian
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Dune 2021
• Alien and Aliens
• Star Wars original trilogy
• Total Recall
• Event Horizon
• Wall-E
• The Rocketeer

Let me know if you try it! I’m pretty excited. I’m setting Retropie to boot straight into a selection of arcade games on MAME so you’ll just plug in power, plug in HDMI to whatever TV, press the button, and after ~2 minutes of boot, you can fire up Golden Axe or Darkstalkers.

In case I forget, I can give you the gist (all the extension cords are internal just to get the jacks exposed outside the case):

Main hardware:

• HORI Fighting Stick Alpha (Xbox version)
• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with RetroPie pre-built image on a 32 GB microSD
• custom 3D printed port bracket (printing a test of this right now)
• I might need to print some internal structures too, but for now I’m just going to jam it all in there.

Power:

• Raspberry Pi PiSwitch for power on/off (USB C version for modernness’ sake)
• Micro USB male to USB C female adapter
• USB C extension cord

Video:

• mini HDMI male to HDMI female right-angle adapter
• HDMI extension cord

Control (waiting for these to arrive):

• USB OTG micro male->USB A female right-angle adapter
• Plugable USB splitter cable (for the joystick to plug into internally plus to run an extra jack to the outside for player 2)
• USB extension cord

Basically that particular fight stick opens very neatly and includes a decent amount of open space where the Pi Zero can fit along with a big (~7x120mm) slot out the front that the cable goes out. Once I get all the right cables run, it should be easy peasy. The 3D printed part is mostly to keep it from just having three little cable jacks hanging loose out the front, but if you’re not a neat freak, you can get it done with 2-3 online orders and an afternoon.

This right here. I’m getting more and more disillusioned with my consoles, more into indies, and way into retro. I’m currently working on a self-contained arcade stick with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in it that will have USB and HDMI on the outside so I can teach my 12-year-old stepson what it’s like to get his ass beaten in Street Fighter II.

I also got us a Retron 3 HD and I regularly scour the local retro shops for good NES/SNES/Genesis games. He’s currently obsessed with Dragon Warrior 1.

Absurd. Comcast would never dare offer upload speeds as high as 40 millibits per second.