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Worth trying without spoilers. I asked Fable: "I want you to create a graphically beautiful game that is about zooming out... make surprising reveals the game zooms out" I gave no other directions and the results are engaging & strange (if uneven). Play:

Thoughts on the GTA VI Netflix Gameplay footage: The game definitely looks technically excellent. Beautiful graphically, detailed, everything. The problem is the locations themselves are just...ugly. Everything is kind of grey and boggy. We get it's Miami, but it's not really pleasant to look at. It looks like they built a whole Forza game into GTA which is super interesting, they're clearly positioning GTA as a sandbox game for people to make their own games within. It felt like all the characters looked ugly? Did anyone else feel this? Both the male and female characters, even the ones that were suppose to specifically be "hot", still looked ugly. Is this a Sweet Baby Inc game? Also everyone seemed chubby. If you watch the trailer again you'll notice it, all the body proportions are sort of flabby and unflattering. Not sure why they did this. Probably for "realism" but...sometimes realism isn't fun. The biggest problem though was that the game felt like it was a "JOURNALISM MODE" game. It semed like it was all scripted cinematic events. If you notice even when it's the *actual* gameplay, the shooting reciptical auto-locks on to the enemies and guides you to a headshot every single time. It snaps to the right place. That compeltely defeats the purpose of the game. The game feels like it's being played on rails. Not like an actual game. Like a long interactive movie with a "Press R2 to smoke" or "press O to lift" type mechanic. Journalism mode. It looks like THANK GOD there may still be some good humor. The guy in the window humping the air with the VR headset was hilarious, and the influencer doing the "trunk challenge" was also hilarious, so glad some of the humor could still be in the game. It also seems like they took a monster effort to try to make dialogue seem as realistic as possible, the voice acting and dialogue seemed real and natural, especially with that celebrity drug guy in the car with Lucia and Jason. Overall impressions will be that the game is sort of a "Sony" style game, meaning it's going to be a journalism mode easy game, super cinematic, and less of a "gamer game" and more of a "fast and furious" family is everything themed game, with an obvious inevitable betrayal portion (speculating but come on) between Jason and Lucia, etc., until they end up working together again or some sort of classic hollywood slop. TLDR: It's visually incredible, dialogue super realistic, locations spot on, all of the TECHNICAL stuff great...but it is sort of intentionally aesthetically ugly, and seems like it will probably be a 8/10 game, not a 10/10 game, but will definitely be the best selling game of all time undoubtedly. What are your impressions? This is hot off the watch.

PC gamers are now reporting that they’ve actually finished PS5 games through emulators, not just managed to boot them. Astro Bot runs around 60 FPS most of the time on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D + RX 9070 XT, although water sections still have major graphical bugs, with broken clouds and some shader stutter. Astro’s Playroom has also been completed on an RTX 3050 at around 25–30 FPS, while Demon’s Souls has been finished through KytyPS5.

$AAPL is the best company in the world. They let others fight to see what actually works. Then they copy it and make it better. They are NEVER first. This is how they always win. - Personal computers (1977) - IBM to Apple II - Graphical computers (1984) - Xerox to Macintosh - MP3 players (2001) - Diamond Rio to iPod - Digital music stores (2003) - Napster to iTunes - Smartphones (2007) - Blackberry, Nokia to iPhone - App marketplaces (2008) - various mobile stores to App Store - Tablets (2010) - Microsoft Tablet to iPad - Video calling (2010) - Skype to FaceTime - Voice (2011) - GPS to Siri - Cloud storage (2011) - Dropbox to iCloud - Fingerprint (2013) - Motorola Atrix to TouchID - Smartwatches (2015) - Samsung Galaxy Gear to Apple Watch - Mobile payments (2014) - PayPal to Apple Pay - Wireless earbuds (2016) - bluetooth earbuds existed for years to AirPods - Smart speakers (2018) - Amazon Alexa to HomePod - Item trackers (2021) - Tile to AirTags - High-end ARM computers (2020) - ARM chips to Apple Silicon Macs - Buy-now-pay-later (2023) - Affirm to Apple Pay Later - Mixed reality VR (2024) - Oculus Meta to Apple Vision Pro - Generative Intelligence (2024) - OpenAI to Apple Intelligence

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