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> Want evidence?

Yes. I do. Very much.

Do you have any?

Yeah I totally get that. I should've probably added that I'm squarely now a "patient gamer" and haven't played anything newer than CP2077; and I just bought that during the summer sale.

> I'm absolutely bewildered that this is the top comment.

OP is 16 hours old yet in four hours this one sprung to the top.

My bet is on bot farms.

:-\

> - pricing - for some kids some games are just too expensive, and they still want to play, and don't want to be left out;

This was me for a long, long time. I pirated games until I was into my late 20s simply because I couldn't afford to buy them. Now, with Steam, the idea of pirating a game is something I never think about.

I'm pretty sure all the NS* calls and references in MacOS are from NextSTEP.

I think they're joking.

I know this is the easy take, but there really are people who are passionate about preservation beyond just acquiring things for their own use.

I'm not one of those people. :D But I do know one; he's a professional librarian.

When you have masked ICE agents abducting people on the streets and making them disappear, dignity is long, long gone.

Google's web crawlers are automated and that's part of their business practice.

The attack here is neither of those things.

> I have actually tried giving Claude binary files of games and it was able to reverse engineer to GoDot!

Oh wow...I hadn't even thought of trying something like this. There are soooo many games from that era that I'd love to play again without the hackery of emulation.

Sorta, except the video has many examples where folks tried to improve, but they ended up with more shortcomings than solutions.

Ultimately standard notation is still the best we have.

I think they were joking...

Thank you for having an ethical standard and the will to adhere to it.

> We are not going back, period.

I didn't get this at all from the parent. They're simply stating that LLMs aren't entirely trustworthy, and that the responsibility is ultimately ours, not the LLM's.

This article is from Feb 2023.

Pretty neat, but not something new.

I'm not going to show you but I'll tell you, because I'm hoping you're asking in good faith and not just being snarky.

With AI, I now have tools to analyze recorded demos from quake 3 and pull metadata from them, match them against recorded match statistics, and most importantly, split a large multi-match demo file into multiple separate matches/files which are all self-contained.

Doing this required the LLM to review the source for q3 to determine how to re-create gamestate and correct various aspects that were non-trivial due to huffman encoding.

I also patched the server to be able to stream demos to attached clients, so multiple people can watch a demo simultaneously. It can now seamlessly switch between demo-playing and game-serving. I've had multiple PRs to the main repo merged for this.

All these are far, far beyond my ability to do by myself, and none of these features/functions were really available in 2026. There are some long-abandoned demo tools out there, but they either don't work, don't compile, or otherwise are windows-only. My demo tools are python, and of course the q3 server code is c++.

These aren't great new things. They're not ground-breaking. They're merely new things I made for me and my friends. And I think it's great.

Doesn’t the saying go something like “all politics are local” ?

> This is really what a lot of people need, a return to learning about something 2-3 weeks after it happens and more details are known.

I agree. Aside from emergencies or other truly circumstance-changing news, I am not sure there's really any value in being immediately informed vs. days or perhaps even weeks later. I just hadn't thought in these terms before.

I can't help but imagine how much healthier our society would be...

To me, being able to do something I could not, is unequivocally better.

> The pro argument is always quantity based, yet we never get to see the actual gain in quality. It's always "I'm doing SO MUCH more". Never "I'm doing better, with less effort."

For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."

I am not a developer - I am a hack with some experience in a smattering of languages who hits very real obstacles very quickly. AI has allowed me to overcome those obstacles and build things that literally I could not do before.

Yesterday I could not differentiate quake 3 matches within a single demo file.

Today I can split them into separate files and have the server stream them to me so I can watch them on demand.

I’m not sure at all why you’re pointing at a rule established in 2024 and promptly rescinded in 2025 as a way to point out govt. waste.

This is a profoundly dismissive and even circular take...or at least an intentional misrepresentation of what I said.

When I say personnel constraints, I mean there are almost not enough people to do the work that needs to be done.

When I say budget constraints, I mean the budgets and projects are funded so lean, that they're always having to cut sections out of projects to get what they can done with the budget they're given.

I have no idea where you've gotten this idea that the waste in government is from employing too many people, but in the areas I am familiar with, it's nowhere close to an accurate read.

My spouse works in the DOI and while there maybe some inefficiencies, particularly in process, it isn't the people themselves which are the problem. Her group operates on razor-thin budgets and personnel constraints. They suffer the frustrations because they believe in the work.

We had a significant reduction in government workforce during the Clinton administration.

The stark difference is that THAT effort was handled with careful planning and through the proper channels. The way any mature, thoughtful, and responsible person would approach something like this.

One thing has been made very clear with Trump's terms - if there is no detailed plan on how they intend to do something, it's going to be a disaster. You can't just wing things and expect everything to work out.

Unless you just want to disrupt, punish, hurt, etc., in which case this is working as planned...which some may claim was the actual plan all along.

I’m not sure it would be legal for them to remove something they actually advertise as a feature to sell the car.

Also I’m sure they’d be hit with a class-action lawsuit immediately if they tried it. Manufacturers sell a lot of cars which would lead to a lot of pissed off owners.

Auto manufacturers aren’t likely to provide updates over the long term.

Imagine if your ten year old car hasn’t seen an infotainment update in four+ years. Or if you want to buy used.

Personally I’d much prefer my phone. It’s baked into Apple/Google ‘s business model to keep it up to date.

Also I only need my phone’s subscription, not an additional one with the auto manufacturer.

I haven't used superpowers yet, but it seems a major focus of this release was to reduce clocktime as well as token spend.

From TFA (well, blog):

> The long and the short of it it is that across about 36 hours of work and what would have been $650 of unsubsidized token spend, our Anthropic eval benchmarks were looking like we'd reduced wall-clock runtime for Superpowers builds by 50% and token spend by 60%.

The switch emulators Yuzu or Ryujinx perhaps?

> The kind of polish they put into absolutely everything, including these announcements, is incredible.

100%. They're easily the gold standard for emulation and open-source gaming...and possibly open-source projects in general.

The effort they put into the announcements is frankly amazing and shows what a labor of love this project is.

Probably. But it would be at least somewhat thought-out and apply to all the AI providers. Not just the one currently disfavored by Captain Dipshit and the Sycophants.

I really don't know why business cozies up to Trump so much, given how unbelievably unreliable and mercurial he is about...everything.