'We' did build a massive battery factory costing billions of dollar. Paid for by retirement funds and overyly optimistic investors. Problems was the team running the show never managed to make the actual production work. Some suggest giga fraud and some suggest incompetence. I lean toward incompetence. Obviously they were super competent in raising money and befriend investors but lacked the ability to make the gritty tech function. Billions of $ lost. Anyway that wouldn't have solved all problems but sure would have been helpful to have a huge battery production.

Anyway. WADDB helps the mood.

Happy Tuesday GameBoomers!

18. thi a mine

I too miss the boxes and all the feelies, as well as the suprise that came with playing something different and new.
For me that was in the 90s, when I first got into adventures in a concerted way. Riven, GK2, Sanitarium, Bad Mojo, Faust, Grim Fandango, TLJ, Realms of the Haunting, Twinsens Odyssey - all were different and cemented my love for the genre.
I agree many elements are present in current games, and is the reason I keep playing new games. But they don't tend to surprise me anymore. Early Telltale games (The Wolf Among Us stands out) and some of Inkle's games (eg Overboard and TR-49) come close.
Midnight Walk is probably the best surprise I have had in the last few years. Its reason enough for me to keep playing new games.
I accept that having now played so many games, surprise is a relative concept. But I would love to be surprised more often

Oh yeah ... Radar Love!

Thanks for your list Tim.

9. Mozambique

The Kuang novel sounds good to me LadyKestrel.

The new Catch is a TM that can be found here.

Good morning Michele OldBroad manXman and OrleansBelle ... most excellent finish

SQF and Marian

Thanks Marian!

Thank you …. even IF I got it rather late in the day 🤗

Interesting topic. There was a thread on AG Hotspot on this very same topic. Basic gist was the lack of credit and/or compensation for the use of copyrighted material used for training by AI should make the use of that training either unusable or illegal. Same holds true for image/likeness/voice stipulated in the collective bargaining agreements negotiated by the Screen Actors Guild. And to a different set of agreements negotiated by the Screen Writers Guild as part of their agreement to end the strike. This will all end up in court someday. (Some of it already has.) And it will take years, if not decades of appeals and counter suits before it is resolved.

I have no trouble with a company training AI on its own data in order to better predict the outcome of corporate decisions. I do have a problem though, in AI being trained on data that is not in the public domain in order to replicate any artistic endeavor. Of course that is my opinion.