It's more like Trading Cards, which have been around a long time. American Baseball Trading Cards, for example, had many cards that could command a fortune. I heard a lot about them growing up, but not so much these days, so I guess Pokemon is this generation's Baseball to a lot of people.

I talked with someone who had a firm principal at work: If the meeting didn't have a clear agenda explaining its purpose and what it would be covering (usually emailed around beforehand), he wouldn't go to it. If the organisers didn't put in the work to clearly communicate what the meeting intended to achieve, then the meeting was not worth the time he'd spend attending it.

Eliza was 60s program that acted like a therpaist. Apparently, despite being incredibly rudimentary (only responding to the last thing you said and usually turning it into a question), a lot of people got weirdly attached, and the creator of the program was shocked at how easily people trusted the computer with moral issues that the program hadn't a hope of understanding. He wrote all this in his book Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) if you want an old fashioned take of a very modern issue.

Grew up watching Round the Twist which was great and a deranged kids show in just the right way. Soaps like Neighbours and Home and Away were mainstays. My niece grew up watching mermaid show H2O. Also been some good Australian films. Also, more of a sketch comedy group that got a season on Netflix, but can't forget the awesome Auntie Donna. Australia really does have some good talent and I hope this encourages more of it. Living in Ireland, I'm not sure what the situation is but I hope there's more investment in the arts here too (there is Bodkin I suppose).

If you read the article, donations were 40k + 40k + 50k = 130k

No. At best it'll be an underground niche game. The only way it could take off is if the fans do some *REALLY* impressive modifications to it, which is possible, but if the game wasn't successful with the backing of one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, it's unlikely a fan revival project will do anything more than keep it alive for some enthusiasts and maybe bring in a few new fans (That's assuming the stakeholders don't claim copyright infringement as they've already done with the video).

I was confused for a second because you used "Swift" instead of "SWIFT". The name is captialised.

It means a lot to anyone in holding Bitcoin. I'm guessing it means nothing to you because you don't have any.

Damn! I heard a similar story where some teen was able to crack someone's USB bitcoin vault after the guy lost the password. From there, I think the USB vault was an older version with an known exploit so he used that. I don't know whether you'll be able to crack yours but I wish you the best.

How many times does this make Microsoft receiving legal action for unfairly promoting its browser? It happened back in the Netscape days. And then there was one (10-15 years ago?) that made a pop up of 5 browsers appear (order randomised) so the users had full knowledge that they could be using different web browsers.

I heard about her first when Filmento (Movie Critique YouTuber) was mentioning how every company that made a Terminator movie went bankrupt, with the exception of one that was saved by a bailout by the owner's billionaire father.

This wasn't an accident. In the 2010s Boeing went to war with International Association of Machinists, showing a complete lack of appreciation for the skilled people that make its business possible. Since the McDonnell Douglas merger in 1997, Boeing has been taken over by bean counters who do not have the skills or appreciation for how their own business works. This is part of the reason for the Max failures. Boeing isn't a fast food outlet where you can quickly train up a bunch of retail workers, it's a business that relies on many skilled people with years of experience. If you piss them off, they'll go away, and you won't be able to quickly replace them.

Maybe all the strikes?

They wouldn't have gotten headline if they'd resigned. The whole point of a protests is that you're meant to be disruptive. Disruptive to the point you get attention and goad people into taking actions that gets the issue even more attention. The protestors have clearly succeeded in both aims.

Sucks when people get laid off but this was always a logical direction to go in. Previous CEO wanted to get Unity into Visual Effects like Unreal was being used to. The problem was, he did this buy going on an acquisition spree and not having a thought out strategy for how Unity would become a must have for VFX when graphics were never its strong point. Through all this, the actual game engine was getting worse and worse. Current CEO clearly understands all this and is most likely (hopefully) refocusing the development efforts on the engine itself, firing people from needless acquisitions and giving up on the VFX dream for now.