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UltraMagnus

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  • White House throws commanding admiral under the bus in killing of alleged drug boat survivors

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  • Admiral should've remembered the oldest rule in the military... "shit always rolls downhill." Don't think for a second that your superior will cover for you when something like this happens, even if they gave the order and should also be held accountable.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • It's good for rural areas and areas without many internet options. Even my internet isn't really that bad, and it would still take a few hours to download a game that large. It would be convenient to just take an SD card from one device and put it into another.

    I'm glad that they're thinking about these edge case scenarios. Valve is good about this- for example, I've never needed any of steam's accessibility options, but I'm glad they are there.

  • The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’

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  • Gameplay - quick time events weren't super annoying (I wasn't a fan of telltale batman quick time events), I personally liked the hacking minigame (though not everyone did), and the actual "dispatch" segments were tons of fun.

    The story was excellent - I kept expecting a "twist" like we've seen in a lot of superhero media recently, and there weren't any big twists. I think this was a good thing, it's nice to see more of a "reconstruction" of good guy vs bad guy.

    Spoilers - ::: spoiler spoiler If there is a twist, it's that Shroud's actually kinda stupid with common sense things - no grand plot, he's just good at math and let it get to his head. Letting Robert live since he was "unimportant" really was just Shroud missing an opportunity. Not having Toxic kill him in the first scene really was just shitty planning, and probably the need to be a drama queen in the warehouse and the need to defeat Mecha Man, not some "I am your father" type moment like some theories were suggesting.

    I enjoyed this a lot, even though it meant a lot of theories around the game didn't pan out.:::

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • Steam's business model does prevent it from pricing its consoles like Sony, Xbox, Nintendo, etc. since they need the console itself to be profitable, not just a means of bringing in games sales.

    It's plausible that they're taking into account an uptick in overall game sales from this console - at least for me, I've been purchasing new games mostly off of steam rather than playstation/nintendo ever since I got a steamdeck - but you're right that they aren't going to sell at a loss.

    Regardless of the price (and whether or not I even buy one), I think it's healthy to have another "big" player in the console market.

  • Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

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  • I suppose the use case would be for journalists, distributing banned books, and so on - pure text-based information. However, video footage is extremely useful in today's media environment - how many current events do we see first from some tiktok or twitter video, rather than nightly news?

  • Refrigerator ads are finally here!

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  • I suppose I'd want to know if my fridge was about to explode... /s

    In seriousness, though, you're right - the problem isn't with the technology, it's how the technology is used

  • Trump booed at Commanders NFL game before calling plays from Fox broadcast booth

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  • Out of curiosity, how did you know? They're showing up as banned now, but the comment seemed normal to me

  • Yup

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  • I think it's important to consider other points of view thoughtfully, and question your base assumptions. Sometimes, constructive and argumentative discussion can help with that, assuming both parties are informed and respectful.

    Now, how often have you seen a disagreement in the comments section where both parties are informed, respectful, and working constructively to really understand the underlying issues?

    Sometimes, it's best to just walk away, and blocklists are an excellent way to do so.

  • More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

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  • YouTubers really are the way to go. For me, there's no better way to see if I want to play a game than watching someone play it.

    And for story games best played blind, I go by word of mouth.

  • Which year was the most stacked for game releases?

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  • Yep. There are people who can vote who were born after Portal came out XD

  • The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft software for an open source alternative

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  • OpenDesk seems more aimed at municipalities and larger orgs, whereas cryptpad is better for smaller orgs - the 1000 user "large" edition may be too small for ICC. I'm assuming they aren't selfhosting the community edition of open desk and wanted the support.

    Or maybe open desk just gave them a better deal. Who knows

  • The most male and female reasons to be admitted to the hospital

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  • Possibly for breast cancer? Men can get breast cancer, it's just not as common

  • I have joined the ranked of the steam powered.

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  • As soon as I got a steamdeck this year, I started kicking myself for every game I had bought on console T_T. I've got plenty of steam games, too, but I never had a particularly "good" gaming PC until the deck, just laptops

  • Which year was the most stacked for game releases?

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  • Oh yeah, that's definitely around the time when games started getting "big", especially with Halo.

  • Which year was the most stacked for game releases?

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  • We are living in great times for small studio and indie games!

  • Layoffs hit CBS News and Paramount as David Ellison’s cost-cutting plan takes effect

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  • I feel like every other news article I've read today has been some sort of layoff.

  • Floppy disks, tablets, and a #FascistRegime, #StarTrek has an eerie insight into the future. They even got the damage to the #WhiteHouse

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  • I'd say Star Trek tends to be "above average", especially when it considers how people might interact with technology in the future.

    ...though i do hope star trek's wrong about a near-apocalyptic world war coming before world peace/unification

  • Dispatch sells 1 million copies in 10 days

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  • It has a little more gameplay than past telltale games with its dispatch sections (a bit of strategy, deciding which heroes go on what calls), but otherwise you are right, it's a fancy choose your own adventure game. They have done some interesting things with superhero tropes so far (e.g., superheroes working out of a corporate call center), but it's a bit early to tell if they'll subvert some of my expectations for the "final boss".

  • Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

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  • As soon as this phone kicks the bucket, I'm getting grapheneOS. (Sadly, my current phone is too old to be supported)