teawrecks

So this could go one of two ways, I think:

1. the "no AI" seal is self-ascribed using the honor system and over time enough studios just lie about it or walk the line closely enough that it loses all meaning and people disregard it entirely. Or,
2. getting such a seal requires 3rd party auditing, further increasing the cost to run a studio relative to their competition, on top of not leveraging AI, resulting in those studios going out of business.

I wonder if someone has already patented tailpipe whistles in general, or if designing for specific sounds would be a sufficient "improvement" to the concept. We could be rich!

I mean I don't, that's why I was suggesting one of those YouTubers should make one for the content. iirc StuffMadeHere has used metal deposition for some of his parts.

I think it would be an interesting fluid dynamics challenge to construct a whistle that creates the specific air pressure pattern to match the tie fighter sound.

Another relevant whistle is the Aztec death whistle. This YouTuber 3d prints plastic reproductions of it.

Can't 3d print exhaust components

Oh? Why not? Is there a structural or chemical reason metal deposition wouldn't hold up?

According to this article

...recalling the inspiration behind the TIE Fighters. "In World War II the super dive-bombers had an artificially created siren wail created by air ducts...They didn't serve any purpose except to create this noise, which would terrify people."

He turned to The Roots of Heaven, a 1958 adventure film...Burtt sampled the movie's elephant noises and slowed them down, but then he hit upon the idea of mixing them with the sound of cars on wet pavement.

So by making a car sound like a tie fighter which sounds like a car+elephant, we've gone full circle.

I'm almost certain someone could build one of these that recreates the tie fighter sound. We need one of those YouTube makers with access to a metal 3d printer to design and build one.

That's how it would work for a country where the laws actually mean something. In this case, the law is just whatever the Kremlin says.

the media sure has some real reach, don’t they?

I mean, yeah pretty much. It's been a few decades of sensationalism, anti-intellectualism, and capitalism-is-patriotism rhetoric, but we got here. It's not entirely the media, but the media definitely has a huge impact.

What if the legislation required that content platforms provide an API that adhered to an open standard? Such that there could be open source clients that unify them all (not just janky ones that do their best to not break with every platform update), so that consumers can have their libraries in one place, and still browse all store deals in one place.

Ideally the legislation would also extend to all content including music, shows, movies, and internet content/streams, so that we don't have to have separate apps for Netflix, and Hulu, and Amazon, and HBO, and Roku, etc.

I think I've heard of them, but never listened. I'll check out Rooms of the House, thanks!

Eh, I think of it more in the vein of It Follows. It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to be a minigame for the audience to play along with the characters. It lays out a simple set of mechanics and then uses that to build tense dilemmas, giving the audience a chance to think about what they would do in that situation, and what they definitely want to prevent from happening.

I didn't see the second one, though. Heard it wasn't great (no pun intended).

Hah, seems like a random track. I'm curious what jumped out to you.

Horizon: Forbidden West

I think the combat in this series is my favorite of any action RPG. The various weapons, damage types and abilities give you a wide range of options, and the ability to knock pieces off the enemies makes your attacks feel meaningful. They're not just a health pool to widdle down.

The 2nd game didn't originally pull me in, but I just witnessed a story beat 10-15h in that has me intrigued.