Wishing Everyone Jolly Jinggling!

 Hiya! Been a while. Things haven't been great for the cast and crew this year what with all the death, layoffs, homelessness, health issues, and potential law suits, but we made it through thanks to the power of friendship and anime. Kinda ;)

But what about our pals out on Chiron Beta Prime? Let's check the latest letter from our space born brothers and robot pals this Christmas. I'm sure things are swell!


Boldly Blogging | October 30, 2023

  Back with a two week recap after some much needed R&R. Happy Halloween!

 News 

Media

Odds and Ends

  • FFS. iCloud photos now downloading in .HEC format
  • Egg Foo Young is one item, not two, Thanks Google Assistant…
  • Guess who else Google is looking to replace with AI? YouTube creators!
  • AI sigh of the week (Unedited. Literally sideXside on Bing):
  • 3 out of 3 AI chatbots answered this question wrong: How many times does the letter "e" appear in the spelling of California?
  • Google is looking to use AI to rewrite your reviews.
  • "From Now On... No One Dies." - Spider-CUBE (Review)
  • With all the advancements in video games, why are working mirrors still so rare?

 

We love you! Thanks for reading! Enjoy the spookies!



Boldly Blogging | October 16, 2023

 

 News 

Media

  • How hackers are using Bluetooth to track police activity
  • For when you actually give a f–k https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6234016
  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China has quite an info page about American democracy: The State of Democracy in the United States
  • Games Workshop is reprinting the original version of Warhammer 40,000
  • Star Trek Resurgence ship available for free from STO (Just a Miranda skin) Claim the USS Resolute from Star Trek: Resurgence!
  • Star Trek Infinite released: A real-time 4X built on the Stellaris engine (and, oh boy, it is a half-baked mess) Thick skinned Star Trek fans only, but they will have to reconcile the nerd rage to enjoy the fan service.

 

Odds and Ends

  • Spider-Man PS5 Setup / Showcase (THIS THING IS LIGHTER THAN A PS4) WHAT?! IT CAN READ PS4 DISKS????????
  • Jeffree Star’s gender pronoun gave me a headache at work.
  • Threaded view for Discord? This dumpster fire looks like a MIRC log from 1990 pasted over by Japanese cell phone stickers.
  • Ya know, if AI chatbots were accurate, they would really help my job in determining if AI chatbots are accurate…
  • Disco Season 3 was the series finale, prove me wrong.
  • Assassin’s Creed Mirage Final Thoughts - “I don’t like sand, it’s too coarse” - Anakin Skywalker

 

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Boldly Blogging | October 9, 2023

 

 News 

  • STO Gameprint service ending 10/31
  • Windows 11's RGB control features are finally available to the public
  • Oops, Microsoft's AI chatbot is offering up malvertisements in responses https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware
  • Google Assistant with Bard will use generative AI for personalized answers
  • Everything Google announced at its Pixel event: Pixel 8, Pixel Watch, Android 14 - The AI Edition
  • Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10
  • There’s a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 show or movie on the way
  • Unreal Engine will get more expensive, but not for game devs
  • Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
  • ChatGPT was used to write Gollum game apology

Media

  • Give your old PC the boot with Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC
  • Colin Furze launches tunnel digging pr0n channel: https://www.youtube.com/@2MuchColinFurze
  • A pedestrian was pinned under a Cruise robotaxi after another car’s hit-and-run
  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide class overhaul patch is live, and it sure seems like the massive update everyone was waiting for
  • Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: 'categorically no, of course not'
  • 2023 will be remembered as a great year for game releases and a terrible year for game developers - Telltale Games layoffs
  • This company will build you a 15-foot mech for a trifling $3 million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkcyHUHfrLA
  • Ghostwire: Tokyo is free for Amazon Prime subscribers
  • STO Halloween event rewarding Crusher’s horny ghost summoning candle
  • Man, they sure weren’t kidding about Cyberpunk 2077 getting a 2.0 overhaul
  • Users create a radio network for Starfield http://www.starfieldradio.com/

Odds and Ends

  • Fun with Frontier Part 6 - The Finale?
  • Going from Verizon to Frontier was like going to sleep with a Toyota and waking up with a GM. It’s like, “Yeah, these are basically the same parts, but it was put together by idiots.”
  • Time to return to roots: Assassin’s Creed Mirage Preview
  • It took 2 chatbots and 4 emails to change my ChatGPT password

 

 

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Boldly Blogging | October 2, 2023

 

 News

  • Guess I’m going back to iTunes. Google now shutting down Google Podcasts too: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/236590252
  • The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules
  • Ransomware group claims to have hacked 'all of Sony systems,' Sony is investigating
  • The WGA has kicked AI in the virtual balls and said “01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101111 01100110 01100110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110”
  • ChatGPT can now browse the internet and is no longer limited to data before September 2021
  • Meta Quest 3 hands-on: A proper successor to the most popular VR headset
  • Introducing the new Silverblock-Pi: Welcome to Raspberry Pi 5
  • Epic Games finally learned what money is: Epic Games Is Cutting About 16% of Staff - killed Fall Guys in the process
  • Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan is retiring in March 2024

Media

  • EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football
  • Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'
  • Babylon 5: The Road Home - Wikipedia
  • Some Starfield players are trying to solve a mysterious puzzle that might not actually be a mysterious puzzle
  • Starfield DLSS3 mod creator threatens Patreon pirates with 'hidden mines' in monologue: 'They will never know if they have found all of them'
  • Google will let publishers hide their content from its insatiable AI
  • Restricted military info is being posted on the War Thunder forums so much these days, nobody really cares anymore (except War Thunder moderators)

Odds and Ends

  •  Just a lot of video game talk (both products and business), but nothing that made it to the outline ahead of time.

 

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Boldly Blogging | September 26, 2023

 After a few weeks of emotional burnout and technical difficulties (Not including the re-registration of this site, which went MUCH smoother than last year), we're back! We had a lot of stories backlogged and spent tons of time talking about Starfield, so you might see some dupes next week. I'll try to catch 'em all!

 News 

  • One of the biggest Xbox leaks in history has occurred, thanks to the FTC v. Microsoft case
  • Three men arrested for stealing thousands of dollars by hacking into ATMs with a Raspberry Pi device
  • Baldur's Gate 3 is reviewing even better on PS5 than it did on PC | GamesRadar+
  • Scientists may have a solution to the International Space Station's fungus problem
  • Ukrainian official claims Elon Musk cost lives by refusing Starlink access during a drone operation
  • FAA grounds Starship until SpaceX takes 63 'corrective actions'
  • The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is 'not eligible' for a Grammy
  • Caffeinated RGB gamer noodles now exist, and I'm getting indigestion just thinking about them
  • E3 somehow gets even deader as event organiser departs by 'mutual consent', ESA says no no it's still alive we promise
  • Toyota factories grind to a halt after its servers run out of disk space
  • Forget cash back: Microsoft's Xbox Mastercard exclusively earns game discounts
  • And the Band Plays On: Embracer may sell Borderlands creator Gearbox amid financial woes
  • Microsoft Paint is getting updated with one of Photoshop's most commonly used tools
  • Rumor: Embracer is trying to sell Gearbox – and therefore Cryptic and its MMORPGs | Massively Overpowered
  • Steam 20th Anniversary: Let’s look back in games and culture
  • “Good morning, and welcome to Apple Park. Today, I like to show how we live under the oppression of the European Empire, and we have some products I think you are gonna eye roll to, let’s take a look” - Apple Product Launch
  • The “free engine” has now been Elon Musked: Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed
  • STO: RIP Borg tactical cube
  • Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill

Media

  • Starfield: Rushed and weird but dull beginning; Good transversal; Jump packs are always cool; Great vistas; NASApunk, but just for show; Large maps broken up with forced loadscreens; Excellent environmental art and engine sound; Scanner is cool except it has no compass; Plays more like Fallout 4 than expected; No one acts like a human (I hate my companions); PLEASE take Dora the Explorer off my ship; Bad game writing-Too wordy; No coherent tone; UI could use a dark mode; Everything feels like it takes 1-2 clicks more than it should; Hold v Press buttons could use some tweaking; Stealth barely working; Quests too on-rails; Some quests unsolvable without Security skill?; Everyone always talks at the same time!; End of humanity is a side quest?! - Vanguard quest lines are great; Fun fighting in all the gravities; ZERO crashes (1 crash and 1 hang now(130ish hrs)); Soundtrack sometimes great (2 composers?); Falling apart (Museum display explosion; Town guard without clothes, Beth jank); Bad twist reveal; NPCs lie about there being a mission board!; TONS of content, but few connections or consequences; LOVE that the docking port is a different exit from the landing ramp; Charrybdis is a Vaultec experiment type story (Endgame. Easy to miss); kzzt-16-16-16; The best ending is the one you walk away from. 7/10 as a BGS game, 8/10 otherwise. Patience with load times required. Kinda blah with occasional moments of awe.
  • Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it
  • Butt-ugly Starfield ship defeats the enemy AI's perfect aim
  • This Xbox 360 building set is a nostalgic, Halo-infused thrill LEGO
  • The 'world's smallest VR headset' is finally shipping out pre-orders in the US
  • Sony Japan is launching a 'foster care program' for its Aibo robot dogs
  • In Starfield, the sun literally doesn't shine on AMD GPU users
  • STO’s latest guest star is an interesting choice: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Erin_Macdonald

Odds and Ends

  • MS Game Pass put Starfield on the app’s main menu (And skinned the app!)
  • MS Game Pass works offline (if you set it up).
  • Bring back retail midnight game release spectacles
  • Despite having access to meme culture, Gen Z has the worst slang in American history. Bussin on Z fr fr !!
  • Managers too stupid...Give me 2 hours and I become God

 

I lied. I'm probably not going to remember to check for dupes next week. Thanks for reading! Play Starfield if you like BGS games. Plenty to do and an easy, mildly entertaining ride. Even a dull BGS game is still a BGS game.

Boldly Blogging | September 9, 2023

 

News 

Media

  • NYC subway security flaw makes it possible to track riders’ journeys *now disabled 8-31*
  • Google Assistant gets new triggers and actions for Routines.
  • Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory
  • Nuclear pulse drives: Spaceflight By Nuking Yourself | The Orion Drive EXPLAINED
  • 3500 people had a massive firefight in EVE Online out of 'boredom' (and because they had dreadnoughts)
  • Starfield's name-remembering robot buddy can't do 'Glenn' or 'Greg,' but it will call you 'Captain Assface'

Odds and Ends

  • STO: Drop party bomb on people using the Voth mech. They can dance!
  • More Baldur’s Gate 3 thoughts: Act 2’s finale in bigger and better than most game’s endings; Act 3 framerate problems are not an exaggeration; In love with the tactical combat; Amazing audio not getting enough credit; Got turned into cheese; UI skill bars are fully customizable (With the caveat that you can’t go back); Smack talking a god hard cuts to Game Over; MOO CHEESE
  • Starfield - IGN says 7 but everyone else was payed off by Todd Howard (Including The Unpaid Red Shirt, apparently :P)
  • Meet Worf Binks, Janitor First Class - Starfield
  • Wanna get past malware pages to a multi-rar link? Bypass.city
  • It has arrived, but I don’t wanna open it till it’s game time - Spiderman PS5 look amazing
  • I turned on DLSS and went from 45FPS to 60! (Yeah, and now your game looks like blurry crap)
  • Google search AI results are WAY too large!

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Boldly Blogging | August 28. 2023

 Been a couple weeks, but we're back! Funny coming just after the name change, but everyone's going through some tough times right now. Fell behind an extra day due to the hurricane. On the upside, here's a big ol' recap of the stuff we were talking about the few weeks!

 News 

Media

  • NVME mounting on the back of the motherboard?!
  • GOG version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is 106GB download and 120GB installed ?!
  • Baldur’s Gate 3: VERY cinematic; Starts like a 90s edgelord’s wet dream; clubbed a hellboar to death with the body of an intellect devourer; Plays like a different game depending on gamepad or M&K; Not BG3 but D:OS3 staring D&D; Do ANYTHING!; Horny; atheist; D&D rules still suck for video games; Female narrator;I wish it came with a manual; Old school learning curve; Overrated: Game is 8.5 (prob. 9 after patching) and too ‘hardcore’ to recommend to people not already into this genre.
  • The long-rumored 'Quake II' remaster is out now on PC and consoles
  • Huge respect to the creator of the EVO 2023 fightstick so unwieldy they had to carry it around on their back
  • “using a singular game to set expectations for everyone developing titles in a genre isn't useful and is instead foolhardy” because gamedev is hard QQ Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic
  • Fast.com is a minimal internet speed test powered by Netflix
  • Marvel: Secret Invasion finale rates 7% on Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/secret_invasion/s01/e06
  • Google search page AI results are live and HUGE! Hope you like scrolling!
  • Free and Released! Fan made remake for the 1999 classic… LEGO Rock Raiders? Manic Miners
  • That moment in Dwarf Fortress when you figure out what happened: Something horrible has happened to the departing caravan... : r/dwarffortress
  • Jarred garlic sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgES_Oj6-tQ

Odds and Ends

  • Finally free! My last 2 games are being delisted from Google Play
  • I’m not the only one who forgets that there’s still new Star Trek coming out…
  • Dump sh*t Dwarf Fortress makes you say: “We’ve had quite the outbreak of wererhinocerouses lately.”
  • GOD HELP ME IF ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURS AND I GET CUCKED ON SUNDAY (teehee)
  • DUCKYOU -Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6137509

 


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Boldly Blogging | August 7, 2023

 New name for the feature formerly known as We're Talking About That. Not bad. Thin news week, so going in with a whimper!

 News 

  • NASA mistakenly nudged Voyager 2 spacecraft's antenna causing the mother of all network connectivity issues [updated]
  • Google could be taking the Chrome out of ChromeOS
  • Researchers reveal Tesla jailbreak that could unlock Full Self-Driving for free
  • New Nintendo hardware rumors (All agreed it rumors lacked credibility)

Media

  • Water-soluble circuit boards could cut carbon footprints by 60 percent
  • Microsoft starts selling replacement parts for Xbox gamepads
  • It only takes 32 AMD GPUs and 33 hours to run a 40 billion cell simulation of the Concorde supersonic plane
  • Lenovo reportedly reviving plans for a handheld PC after ditching the Android-based Legion Play
  • This completely submersible RTX 4090 PC is slightly silly but totally awesome - Building a Submersible PC
  • Alienware's new Aurora R16 desktop PC is a deeply disappointing square box

Odds and Ends


  • Ya know, Subspace Rhapsody was better than I thought
  • Super excited because new toilet has a button!
  • Wedding Photos 2.0 - Revenge of the Cringe
  • Milk crates are sooo perfectly sized!
  • The Roast Conspiracy
  • My new Dwarf Fortress is a green glass tower on the sea!

 

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We're Still Talking About Changing the Name of This | July 31, 2023

 

 News 

  • Kingdom Hearts has taken over Twitter, Welcome to X (Organization 13) https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1683572604206981127?s=20
  • Twitter begins its transition to 'X' after changing its iconic bird logo
  • teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand
  • Kingdom Hearts Fans Changing Twitter Bios En Masse to Organization XIII Members After 'X' Rebrand
  • MIT's 'PhotoGuard' protects your images from malicious AI edits
  • The ESRB wants to start using facial recognition to check people's ages
  • Local News: TPA jets ahead in ‘advanced air mobility’ race, identifies sites for electric airplanes
  • NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build the nuclear rocket that’ll take us to Mars
  • Xbox home screen revamp provides quicker access to games & buy games using Venmo.
  • Major automakers team up to create new North American EV charging network
  • New STO patrol escort breaks you account on trait unlock
  • 'Final Fantasy XIV' comes to Xbox next spring
  • NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform

Media

  • What “really” happened to Dolphin on Steam
  • “It’s pizza time” - Microsoft's latest Xbox marketing stunt is a pizza-scented controller
  • Ubisoft clarifies it does not delete inactive accounts that have purchased games after its policy came under question
  • https://youtu.be/jaWptXzfETo - The most iconically awful E3 presentation has been uploaded in HD for the first time ever
  • Reddit is still a mess with r/place begging users to 'never forget what was stolen from us'
  • r/Place 2023, F*ck Spez https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/1599ftg/best_collab_ever/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
  • JK Simmons will reprise his role as Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1, and Robert Kirkman could not be more pumped
  • Lower Decks Season 4 September 7th - Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 4 Official Trailer (SDCC 2023) | Paramount+
  • The Expanse proves that Telltale is back, baby, and recapturing some of that Walking Dead magic - releases July 27th
  • Asus' cable-free GPUs are coming this year and I'm living for the look
  • LULZ Skyrim Analysis | A Quick Retrospective - Act 1
  • Apple Windows game porting toolkit released https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752164/apple-mac-gaming-game-porting-toolkit-windows-games-macos
  • Twisted Metal TV show out - averaging 8/10
  • R&C: Rift Apart: Gorgeous; All the graphics tweaks; Mirror universe fun; Feels like they ported an unpatched, launch version. 

Odds and Ends

  • Man building an array takes a LONG time
  • Did you know: IMAX theaters run off of an Palm OS emulator
  • You went where now?
  • People complained that Bard’s responses were too dry. They make it use more flowery language. Now it’s twisting facts due to the expanded vocabulary…
  • For the poor people here: Amazon Prime members can now get pre-approved for new Boost Infinite plans
  • Based on reviews, need to take another look at Jagged Alliance 3…

 

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