Yeah that's definitely annoying... Maybe it will be a delayed release?

It probably doesn't help that there's so many simultaneous Rumiko shows going on lately. It feels like we went from 5mph to 100mph in terms of output of her stuff lately.

Ah I've been noticing some weird youtube behavior lately. This probably explains it.

Crazy something like this passes a company as large as Google's eyes.

I was thinking this as well. You would have thought they took the "Jeeves" as an agent name.

Good that they've clarified what level of involvement they expect / want from Anthropic and that it isn't against their core values.

Was shocked to see that, despite valve giving them money, they don't seem to support the deck / steamos.

This feels like it would be a great game for the platform, but no support means it likely doesn't work.

Late to reply, and I haven't played rebirth yet myself (waiting for part 3 to play all parts, but watched remake) and I will definitely agree that the script writing is less strong than the original. I think this was evident in the very first "revelation" that the protagonists "didn't really bomb" the mako reactor, but that it was all a setup by shinra. I think this could be theorized in the original game based on the events of the later mako reactor, but it actually kind of removes the depth of the opening by basically making the characters "true good" instead of "chaotic good", if that makes sense. (I prefer the idea that Barret, Cloud and Tifa all have different coping mechanisms for the actions they've taken, which feels a bit hamstrung to the player if it's spelled out right away that they've got no real agency over their actions... if that makes sense.)

My biggest complaint is that they made the first game end with Sephiroth's fight, which felt shoe horned, and lost-the-plot that the first game should really be about shinra and the president being the villain. I would have preferred a rework of the tank fight into a bigger set-piece as a false ending for people who never played the original game, with sephiroth only showing up again in an after credits scene to illustrate what the next game would effectively be about. I would make the argument that fighting sephiroth in full one-winged-angel coated music and all that kind of hurt the sales value of Rebirth, as some people who've only heard of FF7 probably thought that would be the end of the game effectively (and you can't really "beat sephiroth" this early in the plot, frankly.)

Anyway, IDK, I agree with you on most of the points. I just hope that whatever changes they have planned beyond remake (again, I haven't played Rebirth yet) are made with some broader idea of what the meta-narrative should be. It feels like they're doing the Rebuild of Evangelion style of retelling, but they're failing to see that there's a meta-story behind rebuild that is effectively posing the question of what it means to remake something in the first place.

I had always heard "binary blob" said when it came to opaque code, but I see that blob is what is used to describe unexplained binary data as a whole in database lingo, so I'm willing to say your usage of it is probably more correct than mine here, assuming the binary data isn't an actual program (afaik there's no elf-file like characteristics but who knows.). 😇

More cases of "rules for thee and not for me", of course. You won't see the DOJ arresting anyone in the Trump family making the same kind of bets.

If this guy's lawyer is smart about this, they should ask for discovery on specific instances of insider trading that we know about like the Iran bombing bets made on Kalshi or similar platforms. It would probably be a quick way to get the case dismissed or at least settled out.

The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

I wish Europe would just embrace the fediverse. The techno oligarchs are not your friends and most of them are invested in the US.

Electron is the only cross platform gui toolkit...

If you ignore QT, GTK and everything else.

I'm so glad that Microsoft makes an awesome cross platfor--- wait, no, but they contribute code to--- hmmm ... Hey, what does Microsoft do to make apps more portable again?

The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.