Karakuchi!

Uh oh, Valve must be shitting their pants right now! Microsoft is coming for you!

McDonald's Monopoly pieces are not gambling because you have to answer a skill-testing question to get the prize. Therefore it is a contest of skill.

Pokemon cards are different because while you don't know what you will get, the Pokemon Company is not running a built-in marketplace for you to immediately sell and convert that item into cash.

Whether these are relevant for this legal distinction, I have no idea. I guess the lawyers will have to hash it out so they can decide who gets to take their cut.

Don't forget NaN

Magneto helmets for everyone!

And maybe you really should consider installing that Faraday cage in your living room...

...and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt...

Automating this kind of tedious work that nobody wants to do is one of the most legitimate hopes for a coding LLM. It's not replacing people because nobody would pay to do this anyways, even if you had an intern with nothing to do. The real test is whether it can do it on a more complex codebase with a modern language and not just inundate the user with false positives. We're not there yet.

It's a type of "flex" where you're saying to everyone around you: "look at me, I'm associated with this brand." When you pay with your phone--or even your watch--you're signaling that you're part of an in-group. And because these corporations exploit our innate tribalism, it's an inherently rewarding experience... even if ultimately you're just a walking, talking advertisement.

Practically speaking, I guess it's convenient if you're already on your phone 24/7. But for people who haven't been infected by the Brand like you and me, yeah I'd rather just use the Old Reliable method of a physical card or even (heaven forbid) cash.

The last Battlefield I enjoyed was Battlefield 2142, but that was 20 years ago.

March 2017 - the Nintendo Switch was released

Yes you are old

The "content" on Moltbook is about as meaningful as Linkedin posts are, so I'm not sure what they're really buying here... I'm sure Zuck has a master plan, though.

I think this is actually a good approach. Not vibe coding new apps from scratch necessarily, but using a small local LLM to manage UI configuration. Samsung provides the APIs and the user can just dictate the UI they want.

This brings back memories of writing configuration files for widgets and menus for my window manager in early-2000s Linux, such as Enlightenment or Window Maker... it was a pain in the ass, but very powerful. Put an LLM in front of that and it would be very easy to make changes.

The sleeper must awaken!

This is good to hear. It baffles me when people loudly proclaim things like "I don't remember the last time I've used cash," or claim to never carry cash, as if it were a flex. Who are you trying to impress, your credit card company?

It just reminds me of the old Rejected cartoon by Don Hertzfeldt, holding up a sign proclaiming: "I'm a consumer whore!"

It's actually kind of sad that you effectively have to pay with a credit card because if you don't get your 4% cash back, this effectively means you're paying a premium for using cash. Your cash back is coming from all the "suckers" who do pay with cash, and these fees just keep increasing.

What--?

$1 billion for what? I'm going to go out on a limb and claim that nobody has ever made significant money selling gaming hardware. Are you going to develop and/or license quality games for it, or is it just going to contain the usual shovelware ROMs?

So many decent-quality Chinese handheld consoles already exist, I have a hard time imagining what ModRetro could do better hardware-wise that would justify a valuation like that. It would have to be in the form of exclusive licensing with Nintendo or Sega or something...

Seems like this guy missed the boat on the "retro gaming" trend by a decade to be honest, which hints to me that it's a pump-and-dump designed to appeal to out-of-touch investors who are just now hearing that "retro gaming" is a thing.