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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
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Fine-grained reactive performance
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The race to replace Redis
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Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
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‘Godzilla x Kong’ conquers Easter box office with $80m opening; Legendary Monsterverse franchise crosses $2 billion
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Which anime or manga transcend the boundaries of genre and medium?
Which anime or manga, in your opinion, transcend their genre and medium? Something that is not just a good example of their genre or medium, but a truly worthy piece of fiction you're glad to have...
Which anime or manga, in your opinion, transcend their genre and medium? Something that is not just a good example of their genre or medium, but a truly worthy piece of fiction you're glad to have experienced? Something that touched you deeply or changed your mind about certain things in life. And, without spoiling anything, what are the reasons?
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Ross Anderson, computer security expert, passed away
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The influencer who “reverses” Lupus with smoothies. Psychiatrist Brooke Goldner makes extraordinary claims about incurable diseases. It’s brought her a mansion, a Ferrari, and a huge social following.
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'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs
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Kalle Rovanperä scored an imperious victory on Safari Rally Kenya, as his World Rally Championship rivals repeatedly ran into trouble on the infamously tough event
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Trans men enter Miss Italy pageant in droves after trans women are told they can’t compete
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US police are using GPS tracking darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
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The Matrix forever changed the craft of Hollywood filmmaking
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Favorite hobby / subculture YouTube channels?
I’m wondering what everyone’s favorite YouTube content creators are - I leave my history off and try to avoid YouTube’s recommendation engine, so it makes me hard to stumble naturally on...
I’m wondering what everyone’s favorite YouTube content creators are - I leave my history off and try to avoid YouTube’s recommendation engine, so it makes me hard to stumble naturally on interesting channels.
Please feel free to suggest anything - here are a sample of ones I like with a link or two to a good video from them
- ALFA music (music) https://youtu.be/cLQZyreoZcs?feature=shared
- anndj (music) https://youtu.be/D_XSSIymUZg?feature=shared
- bushradical (homestead stuff) https://youtu.be/UQv9EDpwfqQ?feature=shared
- Gabriel Varga (kickboxing) https://youtu.be/DfboF0CN7fM?feature=shared
- Go Magic (board game) https://youtu.be/hPlkEIrWaXU?feature=shared
- L1011 wide body (old games) https://youtu.be/SV6Lv-McqlY?feature=shared
- RM Transit https://youtu.be/YYVfmMTda0Y?feature=shared
- Scamboli reviews (anime reviews) https://youtu.be/n96aV2rmVGE?feature=shared
- Grappling Academy (bjj) https://youtu.be/v_WjtZVGzvE?feature=shared
- Grace Mandarin (learning Chinese) https://youtu.be/DMGO9CZE2vs?feature=shared
- make your pet (robotics) https://youtu.be/cWNikw-Jsr4?feature=shared
- Munson guitar (easy strum along) https://youtu.be/Ywb8lVYIxUI?feature=shared
- north of the border (clay stuff) https://youtu.be/INU9WD1nxMM?feature=shared
- tabi e (car camping) https://youtu.be/K4TbzyXUCtk?feature=shared
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The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
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March Madness Writing Club and Metas
Apologies to @etiolation, if they are still around and it's a problem, for coopting this thread. I want to start writing. My goal is to be a famous and well-compensated pundit with lots of...
Apologies to @etiolation, if they are still around and it's a problem, for coopting this thread.
I want to start writing. My goal is to be a famous and well-compensated pundit with lots of beautiful young groupies and first class tickets spilling out of my inbox.
I'll settle for having a minor impact making someone's life a little better.
But, I really don't know how to get started in making it useful, how to engage in a broader community of writiers and develop and connect with an audience.
So I'm reaching out to the highest quality online community of which I am a part:
Is there anyone here who knows their writing has impacted another? Would you care to share the how's, the why's, and the wherefores?
Is anyone here a part of a writing group that's open to new members? Would you share?
Is there anywone here who has made money as a writer?
My particular writing focus is how to increase the level of "goodness" in the world. I don't even yet have a fully formed idea of what I think that is, perhaps a good topic for an essay. But, I don't even really know what an essay is. Somehow I got through a liberal arts education with decent grades, but don't seem to really know diddly squat about abstract thinking. More importantly, I don't have a well defined goal of the point of anything, with one exception: connection. The only time I truly feel at peace in this world is when I feel connected to another human. And it's a thing that perhaps a lot of folks take for granted, but which I was (presumably inadvertently) trained to avoid at all costs as very young person.
So, if you have any thoughts on how to develop focus and form, and identify venue, and raise profiles and get feedback, I'd be most obliged.
All the best and all the blessings
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Marvin Gaye: Never-before heard music resurfaces in Belgium
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Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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What books helped you deal with the anxiety of life's uncertainties?
Be it fiction or non-fiction, what books did you find helpful for accepting the uncertainties of life? I used the word anxiety in the title, because that's the angle I'm mainly interested in right...
Be it fiction or non-fiction, what books did you find helpful for accepting the uncertainties of life? I used the word anxiety in the title, because that's the angle I'm mainly interested in right now, but in no way I'm just asking about psychology books. All kinds of books are welcome.
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Baltimore port bridge collapse: Global ocean carriers put US companies on hook for urgent cargo pickup
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France plans mobile school force after headteacher resigns over death threats
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You don't need to document everything
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EverCraft - a voxel based MMORPG
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The insane engineering of the Nintendo Game Boy
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SubTropolis – The "world's largest underground business complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri
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Nineteen-year-old American Ilia Malinin lands a record six quads to capture world figure skating title in Montreal 2024
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Daniel Kahneman, who plumbed the psychology of economics, dies at 90
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Early spring brings a ‘hungry gap’ for bees – here’s how you can help
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The fight for abortion pills – In the US, UK and around the world, the backlash against safe, at-home abortion medication is growing
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The Minecraft boat-drop mystery
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of March 24
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
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Children predict the year 2000 (1966, video)
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California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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Mechanism keeps track of the time cells take to split, sounding the alarm on cells that may turn cancerous
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The Kiffness x Onset Music - Asibe Happy (2024, Amapiano remix)
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Retirement warning highlights fight over finance’s hardest problem
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers
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It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles
I often starts playing a game, then quit because it simply doesn't feel like a PC game to me. Sometimes it is because it is a console port, but not always. I just tried playing VAMBRACE, and got...
I often starts playing a game, then quit because it simply doesn't feel like a PC game to me. Sometimes it is because it is a console port, but not always.
I just tried playing VAMBRACE, and got stuck when trying to open a door. There was an "open door" icon right at the door, but clicking it had no effect. Turns out I had to press the action button, which was the E on the keyboard. What's more, all the icons in the game works like this, having assigned a key you have to press. With me having a mouse which is designed especially to click on things on the screen, this makes little sense. It reminded me of the way early homemade DOS games let you use keyboard input, typically in this format:
<P>lay <M>anual <Q>uit
Obviously, VAMBRACE was designed to be played with an Xbox controller. But the end result is a control scheme which grew out of fashion thirty years ago.I quite hate the Xbox controller. That wobbly thumbstick are just so so uncomfortable, with the forward direction forcing you to move your thumb forward and slightly left in the most awkward of movements. Despite most humans having 10 fingers, the majority of actions are performed by the right thumb which have to move between 4 different buttons. In the Xbox controllers defence, it had to have the wobbly thumbstick as a replacement from WASD + mouse first person shooter movement. But this doesn't change that I'm never going to like this silly gadget.
I can't say exactly what the difference is between PC games and console games. There are of course the controls, keyboard and mouse VS gamepad, but I also feel like there are also some differences in the basic feeling of the game. A lot of consolish games feel a bit like a tech demo with some light interaction throughout, sort of like a rollercoaster ride.
This was something I liked about NOITA. It is designed for PC from the ground up. The aiming requires a mouse cursor, and the wand tinkering would be pretty much impossible without a mouse.
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Microsoft, Rockstar, Epic, and others are being sued for using "addictive psychological features" in games like Minecraft, GTA 5, and Fortnite
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The Yemen Listening Project
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Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles
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Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it (in mice)
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Louis Gossett Jr. passed away
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Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far
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Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to twenty-five years in US prison
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