Definitely looking cool.

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That's kind of how I feel too. Plus I feel like I sort of missed my chance, it's almost too late . . . I will never get the chance to experience the cryptic text-based pseudographics and mythic hard core lore of the earlier game . . .

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@ToddL The problem with that is, AI can't really do much work. I mean, it can make lousy videos and slop articles on the internet, so that does replace some jobs. But the whole "agent" thing just doesn't work. It's probably a lot less good at most actual work than the old non-AI "expert systems" approach . . . which wasn't very good either. Any CEO that jumps on the "I'll just replace workers with AI!" bandwagon is simply going to find that the stuff that needs to get done to keep the lights on at the company . . . isn't getting done.

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What makes it more bizarre is apparently nobody except NVidia is actually making any money off the stuff--everyone's actually losing money hand over fist, the big outfits in the tens of billions. Seems like the tech companies and the tech investors were just desperate for a Next Big Thing and AI was the only one on offer, so . . . but it's a bubble. The crash is gonna be brutal.

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They really want to get everyone in the world on Amazon Prime, don't they?

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There's definitely something amusing about the contrast between the concept of powerful dramatic superheroes and the reality of these wobbly floppy guys.

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Kind of ironic that the Linux community's efforts to get around that lockin have been so successful that people in the community are now talking unironically about tools to bypass the lockin of DirectX as ways to preserve Linux games . . .

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I presume it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition:
https://opensource.org/osd [External Link]

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I guess it happens to work, for programs that are also Windows programs, but it's kind of a sad statement about the position of Linux that this should be considered a reasonable solution. Compared to designing a whole imitation of Windows to . . . preserve Linux programs, except the ones that are only Linux programs . . . shouldn't it be comparatively easy to just make some older-Linux snapshots in something like Flatpaks? I mean, Linux development was all done in public and archived like crazy, all the old stuff is available. And as a preservation tool for Linux programs, it would have the advantage that it would work for Linux programs.

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Huh. Is there a reason they didn't make these things run Xbox stuff? How hard would that have been? I mean, if they're going to brand them all Xbox . . .

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