There were a number of books back then like that (mysteries and such), with the idea that you only revealed the answers to things you couldn’t figure out.

As for the game itself, the one part that I have a continued memory about is where you could press the button labeled “Do Not Press”. Only doing it a few times gave you the same “nothing happens” message, but being persistent got a different one. Infocom games were so great and full of humor, even the non-Douglas Adams ones.

New creations from existing training data from an actor should have some type of royalties involved. The complication with that is the AI tools are largely a black box and it can be murky on where things come from.

I find it funny that no one in Meta involved with the upcoming new social media had ever heard of the movie when the name was suggested.

Three main phases.

1. A long time ago was EverQuest. Some online friends figured out you could take the beta exe file testers got and distribute it to others, who could run and get the updates. So I tried it out and got to see the world of Norrath. At one frame every five seconds. Turns out the integrated graphics wasn’t going to cut it, so I got my first ever graphics card, a lovely Riva TNT. Wow, the difference.

2. It was time for a new PC anyway, so along with getting the best I could afford, I had to have a new game to test it with, right? That was back when you could get a free Halo CE along with a Windows purchase, and I had been following the Halo development videos so it was a natural choice. My computer’s first sounds were the opening menu soundtrack.

3. Current PC, again it was time for a new one since the last was #2, and if you know the dates for Halo that was “ancient”, although it had done well for most things I had thrown at it. The game that I already had been playing but wanted an extra boost was Elite Dangerous. Not only did I get an upgrade in graphic card, CPU, memory, etc., but I obtained several used 24 inch monitors in order to have three screens, something I couldn’t manage with the previous PC/card.

Used Eudora long ago. As its support dropped and Qualcomm’s development of Thunderbird took off, somewhere during that I embraced the spiritual companion of Firefox. I have to use Outlook at work, that helps me not consider changing at home. Also jumped on the Gmail bandwagon back when you had to get an invite to participate. It was just a side email at the time with storage built in, but when my original ISP provider finally threatened to charge me for having an email account, I moved everything over and linked Thunderbird up to pull from Gmail.