Considering that there exist cheap ICs that handle analog video overlays that really only need a serial input...yes, your 8088 could at least render the overlay with less than $100 of extra hardware.
As for the video on CGA...I guess that's possible too.

...looks like something out of Kerbal Space Program.

Because it's not in the summary and buried at the bottom of the article:

Your problematic nostalgia is triggering me, harasses women, someone think of the children, contribute to my Patreon.

More seriously, the decline to shit here coincides with Slashdot Beta and the rise of Reddit. Of course, that place has spiraled into a corrupt cesspool of censorship and social manipulation.

In practice, it's typically 60-80 hours...depending on how much bilking^W practice your instructor thinks you need.

There are already laws governing harassment.

Unless you're referring to garish shirts worn by scientists or - the horror - people who hold politically correct views, or may even disagree with you.

Aside from the whole organic-3D-printing-of-entire-humans angle, this isn't a new idea. Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth features an extraterrestrial colony of humans descended from machine-grown progenitors.

While Sacramento's metropolitan area is certainly bigger, the city of Fresno now has a greater population.
Silly point though, as pretty much all of the Central Valley is frequently shit upon by the rest of the state.

Part of that lag is the ridiculously long travel time of the left/right triggers.

I wonder if the abuse would be mitigated if the software were released publicly while under the open source license. Evade taxes, taxpayers get access to your product.

Not just Quake. A little over a decade ago I worked on a vehicle-based total conversion for the original Unreal Tournament that centered on air combat.

I have a pair of 22" monitors mounted in a vertical configuration using the DS-100 Vertical. It's a bit pricey (I did get it on sale at NewEgg), but it's ridiculously strong and sturdy. You can just install one of the monitor brackets at the top of the pole and have plenty of room for a laptop below. As an alternative, you can try their cheaper single monitor arms.

The technology for the semi-autonomous fighters I described exists today, though politics and cost currently preclude the deployment of said systems.

You're assuming that the drones will never be autonomous in a situation that requires low latency. While a human pilot may have better ingenuity and unpredictability in a dogfight, he cannot physically react faster than a computer. Connect that computer to the right sensors, and you'll have a system ready to fly an airframe capable of doing turns that will turn any human pilot into red jelly.

The perceived threat of an emergent-hard-bootstrapping-self-aware-full-on-singularity-in-a-lunch-box intelligence stems as much from from its supposed intelligence and influence as it does from the fact that its motives are inscrutable. We just don't know yet what it would "want", beyond the assumed need for reproduction or self-preservation. That assumption itself may be wrong as well...