Prologue for the Singularity 0 ▲ Jim Leff 49 minutes ago · Life · hide · 0 comments There's an enormous, unimaginable cresting tidal movement happening in a very specific setting, and you almost surely don't know about it. It's complicated, so I'll just run you through the 30,000 foot view and you can take my word for it re: the significance.Mac gaming has always been problematic. Hardly anything is written for Mac natively, so it's all about emulation. And the problem with emulation is that it takes computing assets, which in turn reduces resolution, smoothness, and responsiveness - i.e. the very things that make games good. So it's been very frustrating, though incremental progress is being made.In the last month - maybe less, maybe three weeks - AI has been used by, like, kids, worldwide and separately, to reverse engineer, or recreate, or bit-by-bit rebuild games that are either completely unplayable (and un-emulatable) on Mac, or that had previously emulated poorly. In many cases, they look and play *better than on their original platforms*.There are a few ways… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.