I suppose because he can at a moment’s notice gut the SEC and presumably now that X is incorporated in Texas and I have to assume xAI is as well(?) there’s no federal or state fraud investigation likely.

Feels quaint that Trump in 2017 even went to the trouble of filling a table with blank papers to give the appearance of being concerned about conflicts of interest, and this outright self-dealing corruption is happening daily while nobody in power even talks about it.

They’re a witch speaking in tongues! Burn them!

I remember it was not really a surprising set of metrics: gameplay, graphics, and fun.

It was about having an experience you couldn’t have at home (or anywhere else) because the games were always noticeably ahead of the curve.

Graphics were what was most attention-grabbing. It’s hard to communicate how impressive it was since we’re in the diminishing returns era for graphics. But a jump from Pac-Man to Rush 'n Attack or Contra, and from that to Street Fighter II, and from that to Ridge Racer, and that to Daytona USA, and so on… Every step was so imagination-bending.

What would it feel like now? Maybe like if you could play an actual Pixar movie as a game? Something like that, but there’s nothing that really expresses it, photorealism isn’t even that impressive anymore.

People post things as therapy, I know I do.

Posting insane things and hearing it recognized as such is a way to remind ourselves that we’re still sane.

Emulators with rewind and save states mean regular humans can finally enjoy this game.