After over 20 years, I finally got around to beating Final Fantasy VIII

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

Props. I need to do that w/ 'Final Fantasy IX'.

Reading this one: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/...

With all the nice references and stuff. What a project. What do you use to manage notes and stuff?

I generate articles for myself to read using perplexity. It also gives references and such. You can publish them as perplexity page and then you have basically a static and hosted html page for yourself or to share. Or you can create custom site with funny widgets: https://static.molodetz.nl/happy-ti...

@D-4got10-01 FF9 is great. I played it entirely in ePSXe (PS1 emulator) way back in the day on a Dell laptop with a GeForce 4Go in it. Loved it. It's my second favorite of the one's I've finished behind FF7 (original).

@whimsical I don't use any Weighted Random Word Generators for my posts. If there's a meme or screenshot in my folder for the event, I look up and find the original post or article. When you see 2+ sources, one is usually where I got the idea and the other is the tracked back original source. A lot of times I find misleading articles or videos referencing something that says something entirely different.

LLMs might be okay for some coding (only in small amounts and you have to watch them carefully) but it's really dumb to use them to summarize news. They can't lie; they have no intent. It's random weights and an associated RAG store/vector search, etc.

James Corbett (corbettreport.com) commented on the endless e-mails he gets saying "Well ChatGPT says..."

I suggest people do their own research. When you do and write your own posts, you learn so much. My views have changed as I've written articles and done critical deep dives into stuff.

@djsumdog Wow. ePSXe. I think FF9 was somewhat buggy in it around that time - required some special hacks to work or something like that. Emulator-wise I've moved on to DuckStation - somehow seems better, at least on PC.

As for the 'Final Fantasy IX' - even though I do have the original disc version for the PlayStation, I think I'll play the rerelease on Nintendo Switch.

@djsumdog sure, AI remains the solution for low effort. But I do love the fact checking of urls and YouTube videos trough it. It's just fun. But also, it researched hundreds of websites. I can only research ten or so.