Prey (2017)

There were so many moments where I got lost in the environmental details. One of the more memorable ones was finding an office environment where almost everybody is emailing each other about how much they hate a guy because he’s too hardworking and overzealous.

When you actually find that guy’s desk, it’s obvious that he’s been given no resources to do his job… and that he’s only trying to contribute any way he can. Even worse, he’s got a whiteboard that if you flip it around, you find that it’s got mathematical equations on it, hinting that he might have been a lot smarter than people gave him credit for.

EDIT:spelling

I swear this happens to me every single year, and I honestly don’t know if Facebook is intercepting my messages because I don’t know where the confusion comes from (aside my old brain not remembering the name of Facebook products):

“I’ll send you a text message with the address”

“I don’t see anything in messenger”

“What? what’s messenger? I’m sending you a text message on the phone. Look at your phone”

“I’m looking at the phone I still don’t see anything in messenger”

“What’s messenger???”

“I use it for all my messages”

“…and this is from Samsung?”

“No it’s Facebook”

Microsoft:

Funny how on Android, that button is now the enable AI features

alright boys, we have a mission to take out SirSamuel’s sister so we can use “anywho” again.

uhhhhh…

AI slop has affected all those things to some people.

Have you had your insurance claim get denied by AI yet? Have you started rationing your remaining medication? Did you lose sleep over it? Did you stress out so hard that you developed a twitch? Pushing away family and friends so they wouldn’t see you at your worst? Have you tried searching for where to get your medicine only to find… slop?

Have you had AI increase the shelf price on a food item because you looked like you could afford it? Did you skip a meal because you know you can’t qualify for SNAP, but also don’t have income because you are one of the 101,000+ laid off due to AI? Have you tried searching for sales and coupons only to find that they are all slop?

How demoralizing do you think it is, having all that happen, yet spending hours daily on job applications, only for them to be dumped in the trash by AI before a hiring manager even sees your qualifications? or even better: the job you found online was never real to begin with.

Do you know what it feels like to have a countdown to homelessness? Unable to find any helpful resources online because every. single. website. is. slop.

Do you know what happens to a person who recognizes their deteriorating mental health, goes to a therapist, and is forced to first converse with an AI?

Thankfully I’m nowhere near that deep in the hole, but there are people out there that are. I’ve got coworkers who fell hard. It’s not pretty.

I value my privacy too much to elaborate on how AI slop has fully impacted me, but I am confident you would agree I am not living a good life at the moment.

The destruction of the internet was merely the cherry on top that everybody can relate to.

One of my coworkers was once tasked with taking an encrypted database over to a hospital via sneakernet. He posted a selfie to twitter while on the subway with the handcuffed device, saying he was doing James Bond missions or something to that affect. He got a call SO FAST by our irate director asking him WTF he thought he was doing.

I don’t know if this is a hot take but-

In my mind, Aero is peak UI. It had contrast, depth, high information density in all the applications. Well… high-ish. That’s also when they started putting Ribbon in everything. I’m not a fan of Ribbon menus.

I honestly cannot believe how bad the new UI feels. It’s like they just flattened all elements and reduce information density by increasing whitespace, followed by a shrug and no additional thought into what was lost and what should be added. Which… now that I think about it, is Windows 8. hmm.

I don’t know about you, but AI slop has made my quality of life considerably worse. I can’t find anything online. It’s all slop sites.

I still keep a WRT54Gv3 around with DD-WRT because of devices that require WEP. (cough cough)

It’s really nice having it set up as a subnet with a ton of restrictions. Something it would be incapable of stock.

I have no idea what this means. They don’t make hardware. Maybe they can keep an CD press still running for their own published games, but what about when the PS6 and Nextbox don’t include optical drives? Do they start shipping read-only flash media?

Or is it all posturing to get praised?

the slight difference is that now it doesn’t affect profits

1. Fat PS3 60GB

2. OG Xbox

3. PSP

I chose the original model PS3 because of the HDMI output for PS1/PS2 titles. Three generations of titles. We’ll never see another library like that.

The OG Xbox because of it’s superior ports of PS2 games, and Duke controller (I’ve got big hands). It was the last dying breath of mainstream console games that shipped complete. No cut content shipped as DLC. No Day 1 patches.

Lastly PSP because of it’s weird inbetween spot of PS1/PS2 graphics on the go. It let developers do some really cool almost-console like 3D games while still having a decent battery life. Amazing library of interesting titles to boot. A shame about the single analog stick. I still have nightmares about using the claw.

The CEO’s response:

I can’t find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.

It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.

You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It’s called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.

Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.

Is this a different incident than the one mentioned by GamersNexus on Youtube?