Interesting Links for 17-01-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

(tags:AI Sweden music )

2. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

(tags:mining Greenland )

3. Who wants to be a Chinese Empress? (I had no idea that games like this existed!)

(tags:games china videos )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

1. Good
3. Me neither! I don't think I have enough spare time in my life to risk finding out if it's finally a kind of game I might actually like*


* I really DON'T have time for the the one kind of game I KNOW I would like (huge space strategy type things)

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I have games on my backlog that I'm not getting to until I retire.

[symbioid]

Heh back in 1996 when I got my first PC with a demo CD-ROM. It came with Silent Steel (A youtube link).

FMV game. I feel like everyone was trying to find a use for the data storage, and at that time FMV was probably the "killer app" for high data games til 3D really took hold, and larger engines became more common.

I also remember "PDF" samples - I think the idea was subscribing to digital CD-ROM discs (the way you would buy Encarta on CD). PDFs were still so large and took so much time to download vs the CD-ROM distro method.

But yeah... That said I think I touched Silent Steel once, and never looked back.

The Chinese Empress game looks far more amazing and modern.

[andrewducker]

I remember the early FMV DVD games. I don't remember any of them being any good. I'm not convinced this one is either, but it does look at least fun :-)