natarey

joined 1 year ago
[–] natarey@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been a Kagi user since launch, and it has completely replaced everything for me except image searches. It’s the best $10 I spend each month.

[–] natarey@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The AR stuff is what I've wanted since the first Oculus dropped -- being able to remove all the obvious parts of technology from my physical spaces (the multiple monitors, the computer tower, all the cables and whatnot) in favor of a thing I put on my head and do real work? Yes please. Fuck gaming -- I want my life back, and to have work shoved off into a weird phantom realm where I don't have to think about or look at it when I'm off the clock.

[–] natarey@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Well, the tomato sauce is a guarantee, since tomatoes are a New World plant.

[–] natarey@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Great list. I would also say most RPGs, if they're any good, will give you the choice -- Mass Effect, Skyrim, Pillars of Eternity, the Divinity games, etc.

Lots of adventure games as well -- The Longest Journey/Dreamfall games, Life is Strange, Whispers of a Machine, etc.

Honestly, the number of games where you're trapped playing a lantern-jawed, grunty doofus is way, way less overwhelming than it used to be, which I really appreciate.

[–] natarey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good point -- it hadn't occurred to me that "people who sell a lot of music/are getting a lot of play" might not be a category of fame in the near future. Being able to generate films/books/etc. end-to-end at will would do the same thing to a lot of other categories of media celebrity -- close that off as a path to fame.

Which... huh. What the heck are people going to be famous for?

[–] natarey@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm increasingly convinced that the pop music of the future will consist entirely of mediocre or terrible songs written by real people -- that the flaws and fuck-ups of lousy artists will suddenly seem like magic when compared to an endless stream of algorithmically generated, pristine computer bullshit.