Bunch of my childhood town is now just more buildings. Used to be more forest and now there's nothing but slabs of concrete. This small mall that used to be there? Buildings now, just tons of buildings.
There used to be a nice little place in the woods, near my house, where people used to walk their dogs, light off fireworks, smoke a little weed and just get out of the house to hang out. There used to be a little ranger shack out there because it used to be a place where people would go as an actual park before it became run down. About 10 years ago some development company associated with the New England Patriots announced that they were going to build an indoor sports field thing for soccer and flag football and stuff like that. Long story short none of that happened and what the company did was they worked with the city to start tearing down old buildings from all around the city, and then dumping the debris and waste in the area. They promised they would build a sports facility in. Needless to say, local residents were shocked and appalled because it was in a heavy residential neighborhood less than a half mile from a school, and it was completely illegal and unethical. I proceeded to contact every local newspaper, and even Erin Brockovich and her foundation. To date nothing has been done really about the gigantic piles of waste in building debris, except that the company was ordered to stop doing so in a town meeting where a state reps showed up.
Sega World Sydney. It was a whole theme park based around Sega properties in Sydney, Australia. Rides themed around classic Sega arcade games, Sonic paraphernalia everywhere, a huge arcade and overpriced Sega merch shop. One ride entirely took place in virtual reality, with headsets for everybody. I wasn't even a Sega kid, but it was amazing.
I have a similar waterpark story except mine closed around 2005. It was my first job and I would ride my bike to and from there and goofed off with my highschool friends, all while getting paid for most of the summer. It was closed the next year and later demolished and a huge mansion erected in it's wake.
Just video rental stores in general. In my area there was a little rental place called "video to go". It was a small, and probably unremarkable as far as video stores go. Pretty much your stereotypical small town rental place. Every once in a while my dad would take us there to pick out a movie and some snacks for the evening.
That place went out of business long ago, and you can't even recognize the building anymore it's been remodeled so many times. We had a family video move into town after video to go went under, and they stuck around until family video went out of business. I miss being able to actually go somewhere to pick out a movie rather than mindlessly flipping through a streaming catalog.
My Secondary (High) School - levelled to build houses a few years ago.
If this had happened when I was still a pupil I would have been overjoyed to turn up for School one day and find a pile of rubble instead, but now I feel a bit sad at the destruction of a bit of my personal history.
It's Microsoft's take on ChatGPT powered search and as an example, I asked it what it was for you - this is the output:
Hello, this is Bing. Bing Chat is a new feature for Bing’s search engine that lets you talk to an AI chatbot rather than simply filling out search queries. You can ask questions, get answers, and create content using natural language. Bing Chat is powered by ChatGPT, an AI system that can generate realistic and engaging conversations.
It's now my go-to if I get stuck on anything and as another example, I asked it:
write me a program that says helllo Hikyuri in different colours in sinclair basic.
here's what it spat out:
I’ll try to create that. Here is a possible program that says hello Hikyuri in different colors in Sinclair BASIC:
10 REM This program prints hello Hikyuri in different colors
20 FOR C = 0 TO 7
30 INK C
40 PRINT "Hello Hikyuri"
50 NEXT C
60 END
It really is clever. Google also have Bard to do the same but it doesn't seem as good which is a first for me
That is really cool! This probably isn't something I'd need in my day to day but it's a great tool to keep at the back of my head if I ever do have a more complicated issue or question that needs resolving so thank you very much for sharing.
Also thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed and extensive response. For sure made me smile to have a little program made just for me hehe.
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