Broken Girl News

Things you might want to know, for Feb 23, 2023:

• This fan remake of a Star Trek text game from 1978 is way better than it has any right to be — One of my first “serious” programming efforts was rewriting the UI for Super Star Trek on the Commodore 64. By default, the game’s interface looked as you see above. I turned it into a first-person view of a Starfleet ship’s bridge, with a working view screen that displayed blocky versions of Klingon BoPs, sensor readouts, and the current red alert status. I had way, way too much fun with that game.
• Retsuko got her shit together — now it’s her loser boyfriend’s turn — Aggretsuko is a delightful little show about a sweet, unassuming red panda who spends all day being abused as a Japanese office girl, only to vent her rage via heavy metal screaming fits at a karaoke bar every night. It’s mundane and thus relatable, and the characters are all cute as a button.
• It’s not a darning tool, it’s a very naughty toy: Roman dildo found — When it comes to any sculpture, weapon, or household object discovered by an archaeologist, it’s safe to assume the Romans at one point tried to fuck someone with it.
• Florence Welch’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Musical to Premiere Next Year — I don’t give a shit about Gatsby, but I’ll watch anyway, given a chance.
• Warren Beatty Appears in Bizarre Dick Tracy TCM Special in Apparent Film-Rights Ploy (VIDEO) — I was wondering why he was doing this dumb schtick… he just wants to retain the —now largely worthless— Dick Tracy film rights.
• Gran Turismo 7 VR hands-on: it might make you a PSVR 2 believer
• ‘No Man’s Sky’ Fractal update overhauls VR gameplay in time for its PS VR2 release — No Man’s Sky was one of the first games I tried in VR, and it kinda summed up the experience: “Wow, holy shit, this is amazing. Wait, what? This is awkward. Seriously, I have to what? Okay, whatever.” But it looks like this latest patch will dramatically improve matters.
• You Can Buy Everything Everywhere’s Real Raccacoonie and More
• The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images — It’s nice to see the Copyright Office reach a fairly nuanced and reasonable conclusion on this case, because it helps set the cultural and legal expectations for how we view the creative regurgitations of our bots.
• Meet the mushroom that could one day replace plastic