Tu Youyou: still the hardest person to sing happy birthday to.

"Good news, you're about to have a disease named after you!"

A lot of them do seem to do that. The credits for most games are ludicrously long and thank dozens of subcontracted companies.

I honestly don't think your average AAA studio could even tell you how much AI slop is in their final product. It's not none, and hasn't been for years.

It's odd because I've found the official steam stuff to be great on my Quest 2/3, but was actually unusable for streaming regular flat screen games to a TV...

In my day we used to just have a wank and be done with it

Google said to already be in the process of renaming Google Earth to Google Trump.

He completely saves that movie. Charlie and Kiefer are coked off their tits. Oliver is drunk. Chris is about ready to spend his entire career in a rubbish crime procedural show.

But Tim is in a pantomime, he's going to enjoy it, and so are you.

Up there with Raul Julia in Street Fighter and Alan Rickman in Robin Hood. RIP to all those magnificent bastards.

I think we're approaching a point where games are going to be made like movies.

Teams assembled for one project, everyone does their bit, and are then discarded when they're no longer needed.

Big publishers will probably have a pool of people they can push between projects depending on what's needed. Ubisoft appear to do that, when you look at the credits in their games, there's like 10 subsidiary studios involved. For smaller studios, you'll probably be let go between games until you're needed again. Maybe they'll keep your information and rehire you because you did a good job of hard surface rigging or whatever last time. Maybe they hire an excited school-leaver to sloperate a clanker. Who knows.

Firefox users right now:

I think it was Cory Doctorow that described it as a feedback loop, so the people who aren't "all in" on AI get pushed out of the C-suite, in favour of those that are until the whole show is being run by people who want AI to do everything but absolutely no idea how to achieve that. It's bluster all the way up, driven by a psychotic devotion to shareholders. Sack everyone, raise prices, the line must go up.

And because it's all fuelled by picosecond trading algorithms, a company who's line goes up 2% more than another company's line ends up valued to a hundred times as much.

It's no longer about being a healthy trading company, you have to show you're doing everything possible to make everyone's lives a fucking misery...

Me at 46: I want to dismantle the machinery that makes trillionaires.