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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

I think anyone that works in software/tech has been in multiple meetings where they were basically told they will be replaced in the not...

I love how he just pinballs through high level industry jobs doing either unremarkable or actively damaging work and then blows himself...

Yeah I think that was a comparison that I've been holding on to based on faulty assumptions; like I always assumed at least the early...

I really don't think it is. I've played Traveller and had my issues with it. But one thing is clear, it's a system with a very wide...

Yeah I can see how that would happen - I've definitely made pretty big assumptions about the gameplay of a series before only to be...

Currently, yes. He is wrong. AI can do many things, but it's not creative. Any creativity it has is based upon it being trained...

I just remembered that there was another Black Mirror episode ("San Junipero") that, on the whole, had a much more positive attitude...

They've started using decanted people (like in that Black Mirror episode, where people about to die get uploaded) to do order parsing...

Like Max I'd also say it was pretty good actually, which is not something I say easily for a Marvel show! He's quite right that it...

Heh. That's the joke we made about Every Breath You Take....right after it came out! But you're right. I noticed this the other day...

It's the same for a lot of old media, of any type. Try listening to a love song by The Monkees, these days, and you'll wonder why the...

I worked at McDonalds as a teen, so that I won't eat there if I don't have to.

Speaking of not aging well... I was just rewatching Airwolf. I loved that show as a kid. It's what helped make me love military...