Ravi Hiranand
@ravi64.com
Hong Kong born and raised. Spent 20+ years covering tech and games and news for CNN, Rest of World, IGN. Liverpool fan. Addicted to video games. Huge Nintendo 64 nerd. Sign up for my free weekly newsletter: ravi64.com (Avatar by @wrenegade.bsky.social)
no 64DD really bummed me out too
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
no 64DD really bummed me out too
Yeah, I think that might have been the first major IP revival? (I hate that I used those words.) So a Ghostbusters sequel really felt impossible, and yet here it was... and I'm playing it!!!
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yeah, I think that might have been the first major IP revival? (I hate that I used those words.) So a Ghostbusters sequel really felt impossible, and yet here it was... and I'm playing it!!!
(I could be wrong, but I also think we hadn't quite entered the era of lots of long-dormant movie franchises getting sequels yet? Crystal Skull was the previous year and was notable for being one of the longest gaps between entries, iirc?)
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
(I could be wrong, but I also think we hadn't quite entered the era of lots of long-dormant movie franchises getting sequels yet? Crystal Skull was the previous year and was notable for being one of the longest gaps between entries, iirc?)
Scratched an itch that I never thought they'd scratch. Seemed like all hopes of a sequel were dead by then.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Scratched an itch that I never thought they'd scratch. Seemed like all hopes of a sequel were dead by then.
Forgot to say, I LOVED the Ghostbusters piece. I am very much in the same boat as a fan and was skeptical at first, but that game is Ghostbusters III to me. It's a proper delight!
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Forgot to say, I LOVED the Ghostbusters piece. I am very much in the same boat as a fan and was skeptical at first, but that game is Ghostbusters III to me. It's a proper delight!
surely that's WHY he's getting the red carpet rolled out...
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
surely that's WHY he's getting the red carpet rolled out...
I guess this is how I discover that I didn't configure Cloudflare properly for my site because it's still up lol
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I guess this is how I discover that I didn't configure Cloudflare properly for my site because it's still up lol
I haven't been writing as much as I'd like to recently; I sank into a bit of a dark place and it took me a while to find my voice again. But I'm quite proud of this piece so I hope you give it a look! ravi64.com/the-smartpho...
Why the smartphone killed the Xbox
The console wars are over, but another console didn't kill the Xbox.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I haven't been writing as much as I'd like to recently; I sank into a bit of a dark place and it took me a while to find my voice again. But I'm quite proud of this piece so I hope you give it a look! ravi64.com/the-smartpho...
well I'm not goated with the sauce so
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
well I'm not goated with the sauce so
Reposted by Ravi Hiranand
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.