I feel like “Hey, also GameShark is back” is a story on its own.

Well Gameshark was never about accessing in-game cheats, it was about reading and modifying memory addresses directly. You can theoretically edit the RAM of any game or any software to change it in real time. So you can isolate player health or ammunition or money or whatever and lock it for any game you want.

I’m more surprised that GameShark is coming back instead of a leaked Switch 2 date. But if they didn’t know Nintendo’s plans why mention Switch 2 at all?

I hope your music is better than your dev analysis.

Then there’s something wrong with the AP style guide. Nobody writes “Meta, formerly called Facebook,” because it’s stupid to write it like that.

You’ve got this perception wrong. I know you’re reasonable so I want to assure you of the valid and useful ways AI can be used (without plagiarism; without a SINGLE other person’s content, even in training data).

This. It’s like fire, it can be useful or destructive depending on how it’s utilized. It’s not inherently “good” or “bad”.

My point was mostly that it gives you working scripts in a fraction of the time it requires a programmer to make them.

Me, last Friday: “I need a Python code that takes a WAV file and splits it into multiple MP3 songs so that I can have all the songs we recorded in yesterday’s rehearsal separated and ready to send as email attachments”

The argument has always ostensibly been the “Crypto” angle.

I know it’s like a meme to just make stuff up on the internet nowadays, but did anyone even watch the video?

Yeah I have to agree with that, except for the bitcoin thing (there’s really no need for an unstable, unregulated currency). AI as it exists is janky and not exceptionally useful. But it will get better over time. The original Model T sucked compared to cars that were released 10 years later. Computers that used punch…

I miss the blockchain and NFTs. Not because I liked them, but because it was endlessly amusing watching people INSIST that it was super special magical technology that would change the world, and then never be able to give an actual use case for them. I think the closest they ever got were for recording transactions…

MS hasn’t had the best record of managing the studios they acquire, not to mention the fact that Nintendo has no reason to sell themselves to MS.

Do you have a point other than just splitting hairs? The controller shaking things up is still the system shaking things up. The controller is an aspect of the system.

Not how hacking works at all but OK lmao. All hackers do is exploit known vulnerabilities in software or Social engineer poorly trained employees. This guy isn’t some super villain he’s a guy exploiting people and poor security. Does it deserve punishment, Absolutely. Does it deserve life in prison, even a hospital…

Lines goes up, world gets better; what’d I miss? We’re literally living in the best time to be the average human being in all of human history.

Yes, making goods and services cheaper is good, actually. People find other, more productive uses for their lives, instead of spending all day grinding corn or hand-assembling cars. 

AI is just a tool. Might as well have posted this screed about the steam engine coming for all those good horse-related jobs.

I had no trouble buying stuff this year. I mean, yeah, inflation sucks but I was able to find and successfully buy whatever I needed/wanted without issue.