Microsoft is offering a 6-figure buy out, but it's in Windows Store credit.

They are desperate. They had multiple massively valuable IPs, including their own, and they ran them into the ground by putting out woke slop. To compensate, they are trying everything except making good movies.

They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.

> One of those s[c]ents that everyone is programed instinctively to move away from.

If that were true Antifa riots wouldn't be a thing.

How many supervillain plots in comics, TV or movies started with the villain's corporation introducing some kind of tech like this, only to later use it to manipulate people?

> well above stuff like Star Trek.

In 2026, "Blue's Clues" would be above Star Trek in terms of science.

I have a lot of criticisms of the movie, but it was fun. It was funny. It was entertaining. And because of that, I can give it a pass.

As someone who's been using Samsung phones for about 15 years, I had no idea there was a thing called "Samsung Messages". I tend to tune out all the shovelware that phones come with (and take steps to remove or disable them).

I really like Samsung phones, but their software ecosystem is abysmal. Everything they provide is inferior to other options.

Half the world runs on VBA for Office applications (or used to, it's probably less now), and VBA for Office has never been officially supported by Microsoft. You're on your own if you choose to use it.

> It was possible to run the entire Windows XP system plus user applications on 128MB of RAM... 256MB was a luxury.

I did an experiment once. Windows NT 3.5 could boot with 12MB of RAM. You really couldn't do anything with it, but it did boot up. As I recall, the whole OS only took up about 40MB of disk space.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

> "Our vehicles are giant paperweights right now through no fault of ours," one wrote on Reddit.

No fault? None at all? That seems... counter-intuitive.

I get it that the technology failed spectacularly, and that this is a serious problem for which people need to be held to account, but my car is working just fine.

After a few months of Windows 95, I switched to NT 3.5. Much better.

Unintended consequences are the most common consequences. Once you take that into account, the world makes a lot more sense. I totally get what you're talking about, though. I felt the same way when I first read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", and thought "whuffie" could be a really interesting idea if actually implemented. Eventually, I really I realized it's just as bad as stuff like Polymarket is turning out to be. Pure democracy has a way of always spiraling out of control.

What are you talking about? It does that kind of thing _now_.