the answer to "why are these companies going so rawdog into the AI fad despite it having very, very limited applicability to the average person's day-to-day life" is that these are tech businesses approaching the border of becoming irrelevant through the march of time due to having no new creative ideas beyond copying what the leader is doing and hoping it doesn't die on the vine before it hits the market

the biggest tech companies are typically run by people who might have some engineering acumen or MBA majors, but are otherwise complete dullards who are easily hoodwinked by any grifter armed with a circus-load of smoke and mirrors. they're desperate to be at the forefront of burgeoning tech fads because investors are sheep who need some kind of stimuli or else they start getting jumpy at the first sign of danger (aka the number not going up as fast)

they've spent healthcare systems worth of money on this thing in one simultaneous bid to be king of a sandcastle on a beach in high tide. this might rival the 2008 recession as far as big moneyed interests putting all their eggs in one flimsy basket and then begging the government to bail them out again

a sandwich maker at the deli or a janitor at a public school bring more societal value than all of these speculator fuckwits combined. total parasite class playing shell games with a staggering chunk of the country's finances

darrian bloodaxe rebel moon if youre out there i hope you know that i love you and i am kissing you so sweetly. im holding you in my arms tenderly

Rebel Moon is the greatest film franchise ever like in just 2 movies its given some of the most epic tales, moving characters, breathtaking visuals, and unique worldbuilding ever seen in cinema and science fiction storytelling

So last night i played Quake past midnight, checked socials and found.... fans are recreating the snes satallaview broadcast service.

So the Super Nintendo had something called BS-X which was only available in japan was the next project after the original cd addon idea flopped (and inadvertently created the playstation console along with causing the cd-i nintendo games to exist but thats another story). The idea behind it was that periodically subscribers can download limited time games exclusive to the BS-X. Of course it was eventual that the service would discontinue and a lot of those games would be lost until game preservationists manage to recover them for the world to see.

Well, now some folks are recreating that broadcast service and with a snes emulator, you can download any of those BS-X games that are available atm. If you're interested, the git hub page is linked now for y'all to check out

Now onto Quake which i'll be talking about the remaster thats available on consoles and pc. Quake was certainly notable enough to be remembered, just not as much as say Doom was. Doom was a trendsetter that lit up the gaming scene, Quake was just "its doom again but brown and lovecrafty". Honestly the Quake series certainly had issues with consistency which may have hurt its longevity. The first game was dark elder god vibes with the second being sci-fi world war 2 and then 3 was a just a multiplayer shooter and 4 was back to sci-fi again. Its probably part of the reason why Doom has had a resurgence with 2016 and eternal and also the upcoming dark age, while Quake only has Quake Champions. Doom is the older brother that everyone likes and is familiar with while Quake is the little brother, still likeable and has fans but certanly exists in its bigger brothers shadow. Doom is the Mario to Quakes Luigi. At least thats what i think.

I have a personal story where i was young and had a old pc from my uncles family that had Quake and Duke Nukem on it. Of course i then told my parents that i was getting nightmares from playing them and they promptly uninstalled them. Now, heres the thing, im fairly certain I made the whole nightmare thing up? I dont know why i lied about it or if infact i did had nightmares but i have that feeling that it wasnt true. Again, i have no clue, kid me was an asshole.

So the Quake remaster is neat, it has some nice Qol features such as the radial menu with slowdown, makes frantically swapping weapons during combat more doable on a controller. The ogres plain suck to fight on hard mode atleast, those grenades are a pain to dodge at times, they are essentially my least favourite enemy in Quake, the leaper gremlin, the lightning monster are perferable compared to those pricks. Atleast i can get revenge by bouncing grenades off a wall to hit enemies around corners or above and below alcoves. One thing i dont get is that the Quake remaster has a similar addon feature like the recent Doom and Doom 2 ports, where you can download some of the community mappacks and mods that were made. Pointless on pc since you can download them yourself but wonderful on console, you can even download the Nintendo 64 version of Quake to play. Yet heres the thing, the Quake 2 remaster doesnt have that feature. Theres some of the expansions, a new one by the remaster devs and the 64 version of quake 2 but theres no addon feature, no community mods to download on the remaster. Does Quake 2 not have as much a mod following like Quake 1 or did bethesda/zenimax didnt want to bother.

Well thats it for now. See you tomorrow. Feel free to leave some feedback, anons are on atm.

I suppose relevant info to add here is the the ahoy video covering the game and its development more then i can so here