matrix07012 @matrix@gameliberty.club

Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

I needed to extract information from a dozen emails in my inbox... so I ran a screen capture tool, clicked through each of them in turn and then got Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash multi-modal LLM to extract (correct, I checked it) JSON data from that 35 second video.

Total cost for 11,018 tokens: $0.00082635

I am seriously starting to feel a deep hate towards the concept of a game remaster.

Yes, I get it, when the game goes from an early 3D to a full phorotealistic experience. (Mafia might be a good example)

But most modern remakes literally just remove emotional intentional lighting, simplify animation, remove the 20 post-release patches and call it a day... In the better case. In the worse case, they also remove licensed music and change character models for uglier ones.

If a game came out since 2009 (The year, when photorealism in games got beyond the uncany valley), I am just not buying the remake. I want the original vision.