Slideshow of some shit you don’t want.

Slideshow of some shit you don’t want.

Slideshow of some shit you don’t want.

What a thrill…

Castle Master

The awful Genesis platformer?

Total Eclipse

Wait what the fuck? The Freescape games?!

“Are you pleased, Ogdor?!”

Never learn anything from anyone.

As opposed to deflation, where corporate lenders also get more value? I don’t trust a prediction where either direction is bad for the same reason.

The inflation caused by giving most people a shitload of money is never going to cancel out how you’re giving most people a shitload of money. Not when it’s raising minimum wage from far-too-little to barely-enough. Not when you’re deciding everyone gets paid like a lawyer. Not when everyone wins the lottery simultaneously.

Even outright hyperinflation would simply flatten the curve, so long as the firehose of devalued currency is spraying across the whole population.

How.

“And the computer’s not bad, either.”

It should be said: that part’s not new. This is why soap operas are soap operas. They’re junk-food television for people who aren’t looking to be hooked or challenged. Famously, it’s what killed Police Squad: ‘the problem is that you have to watch it.’ Moving the series to theaters as The Naked Gun let all the visual gags land.

… and?

You still put stuff out there. It’s not a secret being revealed against your will. There is nothing illegal about sluicing it all through eighteen gigabytes of linear algebra. It’s not even a copyright issue - that process is transformative.

PS2 graphics are just PS1 graphics if they worked right.

The most surprising part of this is that there were only forty people on death row for federal charges.

As with all things the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Bigotry, not-bigotry… samesies, right? Both sides.

Assholes are never just wrong.

… and then Yuji Naka killed one of their biggest Saturn projects by throwing a hissy fit that a Sonic game was using the NiGHTS engine.

Frankly it’s a miracle the Dreamcast worked so well and had such great games. Sega was a fucking mess throughout the 90s.

I was fooled by the rear view mirror making the driver’s-side headrest look round.

Even the dishonest scoffing like ‘why not make it $500 per hour?!’ would function. All of the people doing work would be better-off. Whatever inflation is attributable to paying more people more money - it’s the opposite of printing money for the schmucks who already have all of the money. The new money goes to the masses. If that devalues each individual dollar, that’s offset by having more of them.

If you straight-up gave every person one million dollars, it would pull everyone toward a certain economic level. You’re only worse-off if you were above that level. 99% of Americans are not above that level.

It’s simple.

“But how does this affect me, the protagonist of reality?”

“The enormous costs” were optional, and driven by greed. This latest neural-network revolution happened thanks to consumer video game hardware. Then the big boys got involved and pushed unreasonably large models, partially because they figured that’s where the magic would happen… but partially to justify all the data they’d need to scoop up indiscriminately… and partially because going big limited competition.

Google themselves proved this was not necessary. Remember the AI that could beat any human at Go? Well, they built a smaller model as a blank slate, and just had it play games, and it quickly got better than the big news-worthy AI. Then they built an even smaller model, and made it do a bunch of games instead of just Go, and it still got better than either previous AI, at Go.

We already mechanized laundry and dishes. They used to be endless drudgework. Now you put dirty stuff in a box and it comes out clean.

Hey look, a business model that should be illegal.

I look forward to slapping random assholes who insist it’s somehow better than selling a product or service in exchange for money.