I feel like the AI nailed the description on this one in sentiment, if not grammar. That is indeed a floofy fluffy roundfoxxo.
tal
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I mean, I'm sure something happened. But The Sun is not what I'd go to for a calm, objective look at something.
checks Kagi and Google News
Nobody else is covering it as of this writing. Now, maybe there's a really big story here. But given the information I currently have available, I'm kind of inclined to doubt it.
If there's something really outrageous, I imagine that other media will also cover it.
I'm also interested to know whether you think Paradox should make another Sims-style life sim, after nuking Life By You
I'd personally like a "The Sims"-like game.
But while I like the sandbox aspect of that series, I was never that into the actual gameplay.
Being able to make your own structures and interact with them is neat. I like games like that a lot. Dwarf Fortress. Rimworld. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
But the actual gameplay in The Sims in that sandbox world doesn't really excite me all that much. There's not a lot of strategy or planning or mechanics to explore the interactions of. Watching your Sims do their thing is neat, and I'd enjoy having that go on while I play a game.
I can imagine a world where I have a lot of control over structures, with NPCs that are sophisticated to an unprecedented degree.
But I don't have specific ideas as to how to gamify it well. I just know that The Sims hasn't gotten there.
If what one wants is Sim Dollhouse, I guess it's okay. I know one woman who really liked one entry in the series, bought a computer just to play it. I guess it's a neat tool for letting people sorta role-play a life. There may be a solid market for that. But for myself, I'd like to have more mechanics to analyze and play around with. Think Kerbal Space Program or something.
I did like Sim City a fair bit.
Honestly, cigarettes were on the decline by then. More of a 1980s thing.
kagis
Yeah.
http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/20385.jpeg
And that's absolute numbers falling, not percentage of the population -- the population was growing while absolute numbers were falling.
EDIT: In the US. But, well, I'm assuming that this is in the context of the US, as I expect that 1990s art motifs in, say, North Korea, are gonna be wildly different; it's a culturally-dependent question.
So what have they said yet about the actual cause?
kagis
Sounds like nothing, but this is interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Manawanui_(2019)
The sinking will be investigated by a naval Court of Inquiry.[46] “[Chief of Navy, rear admiral Garin] Golding said some parts of the inquiry would likely be public but others - for example where commercially sensitive information was involved - would remain confidential.”[47]
I mean, "security sensitive" would be surprising but at least something I'd maybe expect for a military ship, but "commercially-sensitive"? For a navy ship?
Only thing I can think of is that the New Zealand state was looking for oil or something.
looks more
She had previously served as the civilian survey vessel MV Edda Fonn in the Norwegian oil and gas industry.
Ah. Well, maybe that is a possibility, then.
I mean, that's a kinda-lovable looking Darth Vader.
Here's a Danish Nazi poster that has America as a four-armed giant. Two of the arms are black, and one is carrying a noose. There's a Klu Klux Klan hood on his head. One hand is wielding a record via which America spreads culture. Another a bag of money with a Jewish guy hanging on the back. The upper torso is a cage with two black people dancing the jitterbug in it. One arm, in a prison sleeve and with a dangling manacle, is carrying a Thompson submachine gun single-handed. One arm is playing a drum, which makes up the lower torso. There's a beauty pagent leg, and the other is a big industrial tube dropping a bomb, presumably representing American industrial munitions output. Despite pre-dating NCD by about seventy years, it's got aircraft wings and two scantily-clad women, one blowing a trumpet and the other waving an American flag, resting on the shoulders. And a Jewish crotch-flap.
Italy had a propaganda poster with a kilometer-high skeletal Statue of Liberty.
It's got one star. Doubtless one of Liberia:
Chile
...or Texas.
The Wayback Machine’s site has been breached, but its founder says the data is still there.
One concern I do have that's maybe worth considering is that The Wayback Machine is often used as an authoritative source of what a website was like at some point. Like, if you're citing information, it's considered appropriate to link to The Wayback Machine.
There are entities who would potentially be interested in being able to modify that authoritative history.
I don't think that that's likely an issue here -- someone who wanted to secretly modify the history probably wouldn't have also modified the site to indicate that it was compromised -- but the ability to modify such a representation might have a lot of potential room for abuse.
It might be worthwhile, if the infrastructure permits for it, to do some sort of storage mechanism that makes it hard to spoof old data.
If you're familiar with blockchains, they leverage a chain of hashes, so that there's a piece of data dependent on all prior entries. That sort of dependency didn't originate with blockchain -- the CBC cipher mode does the same thing, off the top of my head -- and I don't think that a fully-distributed mode of operation is required here.
However, it might be interesting to use some sort of verifiable storage format where hashes of checkpoints are distributed elsewhere, so that if someone does manage to get into The Internet Archive, they can't go fiddle with past things without it becoming visible.
Git repositories take advantage of this with their signed commits and hash trees.
If someone gets into The Internet Archive, they could potentially compromise a copy before it gets hashed (though if they supported the submitter signing commits, a la git, that'd avoid that for information that originated from somewhere other than The Internet Archive). This can't protect against that. But it can protect the integrity of information archived prior to the compromise, which could be rather important.
No problem. When sites go down, I just rely on the fact that there's a mirror at the...Internet Archive. Darn.
The 38th episode of Battlefield. It dates to 2002, is from a series on the history of World War II. It covers the Scandinavian portion of the conflict. I've watched it before, but felt like a re-watch.
Synthwave was the result of taking futurist stuff from the 1980s, and then decades in the future creating a nostalgic 1980s retrofuturism-themed theme combining various things like Tron and Outrun.
So I guess that the closest analog would be looking for aesthetics from movies that were aiming for a futuristic vibe in the 1990s, then combining those.
https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1bauod1/in_retrospect_1990s_scifi_film_had_a_very/
In retrospect, 1990s sci-fi (film) had a very distinct style.
At the time you couldn't really tell, but looking back at the body of work that came out during that time, there was a very distinct style...and that style was apparently rust, lots of tubes connecting everything and up close shots with a fish eye lens.
Spaceship? Make it as rusty and dark as possible.
Medical scene? Connect her to 75 tubes to nowhere.
Getting chased down a corridor? Fish eye, baby.
I swear this is like every other sci fi film from 94 until 2000. A lot of it is almost reminiscent of horror.
70's sci fi was still the era of tin foil and white jumpsuits. (Logans Run, Zardoz, etc. Star Wars was the exception, not the rule.) 80's sci fi was darker and grittier and more serious looking drama, heavily influenced by Star Wars and Alien at the end of the 70's. (TWOK, Blade Runner, Aliens, etc.) A lot of that mid-late 90's stuff was leaning into horror, and kind of continuing a trend of the 80's darker sci fi popularity. Then by like 2009, you had the Apple Store aesthetic in the Star Trek reboot where the style was "the future's so bright you gotta wear shades." It was all lens flares for a few minutes.
So I guess maybe it'd have more of a horror vibe than synthwave?
I think that Mexico doesn't presently have the death penalty.
kagis
Yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Mexico