Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider paying over five thousand dollars for an Nvidia RTX 3080 on Ebay (FTG!): 2277 x 3924 .jpg In which you electronically meditate on the underlying symbolic meanings of this global GPU ‘shortage’ and consider the inherent unresolved Capitalist ironies in casually talking /moaning about ‘scalpers’ in an age of artificial scarcity – … Read more
RND/ To consider or imagine Cyberpunk as (/un)dead. R.I.P. That Cyberpunk might even be far better that way. A satirical critique, and study of possible near-future potentials / alternatives. Warning: contains problematic Trans representation. Right off the bat: questioning the mere notion that Cyberpunk really amounts to anything less than a naked, celebration of Global … Read more
RND/ to consider a slightly rough Google transcript of a video by cool vlogger JayZTwoCents (Jason Langerin): In which, putting it all down on the page makes it read like the mild head-injury ramblings of someone foolishly immersed / half drowned in meaningless internal videogames industry tech mews minutiae. To ask, who talks like this? … Read more
RND/ to consider conceptually creepy art portraits of non-existent people computer generated by evil near-future graphics card manufacturers using advanced neural networks & machine learning 3840×3840, 2.8MB .jpg edited in Gimp, generated via thispersondoesnotexist.com – To note however, that such people are not in fact people but algorithms, and that unlike pseudo-people do in fact … Read more
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