soupfordummies's comments

On: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

[soupfordummies]

The irony of Meta trying to stop her from promoting the book is that it's... promoting her book. Any press is good press etc.

This book prob wouldn't have even blipped my radar were it not for all of these stories about how they're trying to stop it.

On: Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

[soupfordummies]

But also... there's been a whooole lot of smoke from his "benefit of the doubt" card burning up for a looong time now.

On: Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

[soupfordummies]

Looks like a good spot to practice my moves...

If you google "Shenmue locations in real life" there's a lot of cool stuff. They really did do a great job on that and the ERA as well.

On: Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

[soupfordummies]

Well that's ANOTHER oddball, semi-forgotten, great game!

[toast0 → soupfordummies]

Nintendo and Rare (as "Xbox Game Studios") figured out how to work together, and as of Feb 2024, you can play Blast Corps on the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack (along with a bunch of other Rare games)

[goosedragons → toast0]

It's also on Xbox via Rare Replay. And you get to keep it.

On: Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

[soupfordummies]

An all-timer for me as well! So much strange magic in there. No game before or sense has quite that vibe. Maybe a product of it coming out at just the right time.

"Do you remember... that day?"

"The day it snowed?"

NO! The day I got it right as it came out. A Friday after school and I played for like 4 hours straight. Yes! I remember THAT day!

[WXLCKNO → soupfordummies]

There was something very special about it, I agree that no game has made me feel that way since.

Half Life 2 did but in a different way.

Maybe when a game just leapfrogs what's been thought of as cutting edge and you're so amazed that you forget that you're playing a game.

I'm not sure if my fascination for Japan started with Shenmue but it certainly grew from there. I was so happy to visit for the first time last year.

[soupfordummies → WXLCKNO]

>I'm not sure if my fascination for Japan started with Shenmue but it certainly grew from there. I was so happy to visit for the first time last year.

Just saw this reply, but I agree with this statement 100%! Next time I'd like to take a trip out to Yokosuka and check out the real-life areas.

So much of the game was still there IRL though, from the gacha machines to the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall arcades

[mywittyname → soupfordummies]

I traded a bunch of PSX games for a Dreamcast just so I could play Shenmue. My parents were pissed, but what a great game (and great console).

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Shout out for stilling calling it PSX

On: Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away

[soupfordummies]

It’s also wild that I didn’t realize at first if “giant escalating crisis” was referring to the Trump administration or climate change.

It does remind me of the strategy five years ago of “can’t have any cases if you don’t test!”

On: What ketamine does to the human brain

[soupfordummies]

Wild ride of an article reminding me why I read the comments more than TFAs.

Oh and nice username lol

On: McDonald's gives its restaurants an AI makeover

[soupfordummies]

Then you wake up and find out the ice cream machine "is down."

Let me know when AI fixes THAT problem...

[7speter → soupfordummies]

Well the article talks about this. Ai monitors the machinery in the restaurant and warns when something is about to fail.

The first thing I thought of was the ai minimizing mcflurry machine downtime.

On: USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug 'resistant to everything we have'

[soupfordummies]

Is five years enough to forget how quickly diseases travel around the world?

It's the equivalent of standing in front of a pool of vomit with an armful of mops while saying "hmmm, why do I gotta be the one to clean this up?"

[lazyeye → soupfordummies]

More like 1000 people standing around a pool of vomit wondering when the other guy is gonna come and clean it up....

[mindslight → soupfordummies]

No, but five years is long enough to have purged the institutions that "sabotaged" Trump's first term by acknowledging reality. All hail our new reactionary Lysenkoism.

[dredmorbius → mindslight]

Rather less than five years. More like 50 days.

On: Microsoft's Relationship with OpenAI Is Not Looking Good

[soupfordummies]

Except ChatGPT dot com somehow gives much better results--even without signing into an account!-- than does Copilot. I thought it was pretty much the same model under the hood but the results speak for themselves.

[protocolture → soupfordummies]

I agree completely. I was remarking only on the data protection.