Japan World Cup 3 is a gambling horse racing game that’s had numerous versions over the years. This one is completely a video game, but it comes from a long history of old horse betting games – some that even had tiny physical horses that raced around a track.
Silent Breath is a photo-realistic footage game set in a spooky forest with people disappearing and a crumbling grip on sanity.
The game randomizes jump scares and the missing people at the core of the story. The photorealistic environment has multiple supernatural creatures who roam between the trees. Silent Breath uses the microphone and detects your reaction to what’s happening in-game. If you don’t stay silent while playing, the creatures will detect you and pounce.
It seems like this kind of technique that over-arches the generation from one topic to the next might be very useful in maintaining continuity relating to temporal stability.
The TV show Reboot was the first full-length, fully CGI-animated TV series. It had its debut in 1994 and spanned four seasons. It ended up spanning 48 original episodes, a toy line, a video game, a 2018 live action/CGI hybrid Netflix revival. ReBoot brought technology and imaginative storytelling to the masses. It also built a lasting legacy among fans.
Jacob Weldon and Raquel Lin are currently producing ‘ReBoot Rewind’ documentary for the series. As part of their research, the team was allowed to search for the original master tapes and in doing so, found them. It was feared that the original tapes had been lost over the decades. They’re now locating suitable playback equipment to the tapes.
It’ll be interesting to see what they find and their documentary when completed.
Now enter Syntilay, the world’s first entirely AI-designed and 3D-printed thermoplastic polyurethane shoe. Syntilay used Midjourney AI to create the image, then the image was run back through Vizcom to generate the 3D model data. Generative AI was used one more time to apply some patterns to the final design to add some character. They’re then shipped to the printer for each order.
You can own your own for $149.99 a pair.
The 89 year old Joe Foster, who co-founded Reebok 60 years ago, is so interested in the idea that he is now helping to launch Syntilay.
It’s long been a dirty secret in Portland that the non-profits have board members and CEO’s making $100,000’s a year – and they often serve on multiple boards. Worse, many of their well-meaning employees find themselves serving in dangerous conditions working with dangerously sick or mentally ill homeless with little training or protection. Sadly, in too many cases, many barely even make the equivalent of minimum wage.
How do you find this all out? Well – tax records are public. ProPublica has an amazing website that has copies of their W-2’s and breaks down their costs.
For example: Urban League of Portland made $24.7 million last year. The CEO of this nonprofit? He made $400,000. A good non-profit should use 90% or more of their income for programs and actually helping people. Urban League? Only around 70%
I highly recommend everyone check out the non-profits they give to and see if they’re actually using the money wisely – or just to make their CEO’s and board members rich.
AI may have trouble with accuracy of information (AI is the know-it-all neighbor) it is a great way to brainstorm a variety of different ideas quickly. Getting them to generate images that have correctly spelled words can be hard.
Julian Horsey and Metricsmule give you prompts that demonstrate how to use ChatGPT combined with DallE 3 to generate logos for your company – that include correctly spelled words.
The annual Portland Winter Light Festival is hitting it’s 10th year and runs from Feb 7-15th. Definitely go check it out – it was a lot of fun last year.
Cathode Ray Dude did a great rundown on the IBM 5140 Convertible. It was the first PC computer my dad got after the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III and the first one that had a floppy drive. We even had the serial/parallel port and the thermal printer.
But probably the most amazing thing is that this 8088 XT, floppy based computer actually had a method to sleep and wake right where you left off. As far as we know, it was the very first instance of the technology.