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A racist who went all-in on AI. That's probably responsible for a lot of the investments - you can get Silicon Valley idiots to invest in anything right now so long as it has those two magic letters in front of it.

For most people in the pocket computer market, their needs would be more economically served by a high end phone and a mid tablet, or a high end tablet and mid phone

Which makes it frustrating that the tablet market is so tiny compared to the phone one. And many of them have worse specs than even entry-level smartphones (Samsung is still selling the S6 Lite, which has a paltry 4GB of RAM and can barely handle running a single heavy app without crashing).

Relevant video, though half of it is just bashing on the terrible series everyone immediately forgot about.

Link to the most famous example for the curious.

Though I prefer the Zombine (infected Combine soldier) sounds. It's a mix of failing hardware and them desperately trying to alert the others that they're infected. It's also 90% made up of edited voice lines from the basic Combine soldier, which is some brilliant asset reuse that makes them feel even more unnaturally robotic.

Edit: and for completeness, the infected HEV suit from Black Mesa.

And DuckDuckGo results are 90% AI slop.

Alternate Reality Game, sort of a meta-game outside of the actual game. Usually they involve vague hints, cryptographically encoded hidden clues, URLs linking to random sites with more hints hidden in the page's HTML or images, and a bunch of steps all leading into each other to solve the full riddle. They normally need a large number of people working together to solve and are popular as a form of viral marketing.

And how much of that budget will go towards hiring famous actors because Hideo Kojima has a lifelong obsession with Western cinema?

I'm still salty about him kicking David Hayter off of Metal Gear Solid after nearly twenty years of him providing one of the most iconic voices in gaming (and reportedly Kojima had wanted to do so much earlier), only to replace him with Keifer Sutherland who provided the blandest, most generic voiceover imaginable.

I wonder if one of the reasons Silent Hills was canceled was because he chose to cast Norman Reedus at the height of his popularity. That can't have been cheap.

I'm a huge Kojima fan, but he's terrible at managing a studio. He needs someone on the team who's able to tell him 'no'.

Hopefully, but we're not a very forward-thinking species. More likely we'd only give haulers just enough fuel to make gravity-assisted trips (which are only possible when orbits match up optimally) because it's cheaper that way, making on-demand interception unlikely.

Destruction doesn't always work either. If it's struck close to Earth most of the fragments will still hit, and even if they're too small to survive reentry they will still dump tons of heat energy into the atmosphere.

Physics is a harsh mistress.

"We only need to win once. You need to win every time."

Another reason privatization would be a disaster: there's very little difference between hauling an asteroid back to Earth's orbit and hauling one to collide with the planet. The latter is actually much easier due to not needing to slow down at the end.

I wonder how many decades or centuries it'll take before the first megalomaniac demands a ransom to not drop a giant rock on Earth or another colony.

Once intrasolar travel becomes common, kinetic kill vehicles will be an omnipresent threat. Asteroid mining operations will need to have the kind of strict licensing and mandated observation that nuclear weapon decommissioning sites have today.

Was that common? Off the top of my head I can only recall the Metal Gear Solid games doing that.

And now I miss old DVD menus with their hidden Easter eggs.

"Why do I hear chewing noises? Are you cheating on me?!"