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15 votes
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The Keeper of the Ghost Trees (Albino Redwoods) - Great Big Story
4 votes -
Bitcoin must die: if Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear
60 votes -
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison open to following President Donald Trump in moving Israel embassy to Jerusalem
7 votes -
How 500 Days of Summer gets the Manic Pixie Dream Girl right
12 votes -
Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections
10 votes -
Hurricane Michael showed how woefully unprepared the military is for extreme weather
9 votes -
Forget The Ticket — Could You Get Arrested For A Parking Violation?
5 votes -
My struggles with LGBTQ+ nonprofits as a Black trans woman
6 votes -
The making of Fallout Shelter
14 votes -
Amy Winehouse hologram to start touring in 2019
13 votes -
Liberapay status update: Still alive, moving to Stripe and PayPal
9 votes -
Is America ready for the luxury hostel?
5 votes -
West Virginia botches impeachment of chief justice, faces constitutional crisis
11 votes -
The employer surveillance state: The more bosses try to keep track of their workers, the more precious time employees waste trying to evade them
9 votes -
Phoenix Framework 1.4.0 release candidate
6 votes -
How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database
8 votes -
Cops with military experience up to three times more likely to shoot than non-veterans, according to new study of Dallas Police Department
8 votes -
Maps have the power to shape history: A groundbreaking female cartographer charted the evolution of the United States—and the dispossession of Native Americans
6 votes -
American Truck Simulator: Oregon is published!
10 votes -
I've been an ‘abortion doula’ 2,000 times
9 votes -
What Color is Your Function?
21 votes -
UK Biobank data on 500,000 people paves way to precision medicine
8 votes -
Palm is back (sort of), and it built a tiny smartphone sidekick
9 votes -
Green Party ends conservative CSU’s 61-year political dominance in Bavaria
14 votes -
Melody Labs: Voyage of Spirits by Dugkar ⚗ VOS 037
3 votes -
Brother Bird - Landslide | OurVinyl Sessions (2018)
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What are some of your favorite tools that have given individual games a new life?
I grew up playing DOOM, but if I were to boot up the original game I would find it frustrating to play by modern standards (e.g. mouse movement?!). Thankfully, there are a ton of source ports that...
I grew up playing DOOM, but if I were to boot up the original game I would find it frustrating to play by modern standards (e.g. mouse movement?!). Thankfully, there are a ton of source ports that modernize the engine and make the game more accessible to current gaming sensibilities (e.g. WASD-movement). They're basically community remasters of the game.
It got me wondering about what other games have strongly benefited from tools that exist outside of the game itself.
Examples of what I mean:
- Source ports (e.g. DOOM)
- Community bugfixes (e.g. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines)
- Restored/extended content (e.g. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II)
- Significant mods (e.g. Frostfall for Skyrim)
- Rulesets/challenges (e.g. Nuzlocke Challenge for Pokémon)
- Anything else that doesn't fit the above categories
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Watch full episodes of 'Mister Rogers Neighborhood' on new website
13 votes -
Doctor Who S11E01 'The Woman Who Fell To Earth' discussion thread
So... New Doctor, new companions/friends, new showrunner, new composer. What did folks think? I'm going to leave my initial thoughts for a comment.
24 votes -
Why Do We Humanize White Guys Who Kill People?
12 votes -
Rogers, Fido and Bell call centre workers penalized for reducing plans, offering credits
4 votes -
Why atheists are not as rational as some like to think
17 votes -
Award-Winning Cuban Sandwich by El Cochinito
8 votes -
Separated refugee families launch legal action against Australian government at UN
7 votes -
What do you look forward to in your week?
This can be anything, I'll accept "relaxing in front of the TV with a drink" as an answer. Personally I've grown fond of Wednesdays, because that's when I sometimes get me a sandwich from my...
This can be anything, I'll accept "relaxing in front of the TV with a drink" as an answer.
Personally I've grown fond of Wednesdays, because that's when I sometimes get me a sandwich from my favorite place, and Sundays because that's when I often go to play board-games with some old friends.
Do you have something you look forward to in your week? Or maybe some advice for people who are looking for something to look forward to?
26 votes -
Big Boi - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2018)
7 votes -
When a DNA test reveals your daughter is not your biological child
11 votes -
Universal basic income is Silicon Valley’s latest scam
14 votes -
What are your thoughts on the BAT system?
I have recently been getting into the Brave browser and they have a system called BAT. I'm still not totally clear on all the intricacies, but the basic idea is that they have a universal token...
I have recently been getting into the Brave browser and they have a system called BAT. I'm still not totally clear on all the intricacies, but the basic idea is that they have a universal token that can be given to content creators, instead of using advertising. Here's a link because I probably messed up that description somehow. So what are your thoughts on it?
19 votes -
What is American cheese, anyway?
14 votes -
Similar to what you might see on ~tv for example, would anyone here be interested in a weekly or biweekly game discussion?
I was inspired to ask this because I see a lot of other groups like ~TV people have been doing periodic discussions, and I got to thinking it could work here too. Every now and then, we could hold...
I was inspired to ask this because I see a lot of other groups like ~TV people have been doing periodic discussions, and I got to thinking it could work here too. Every now and then, we could hold a discussion on either a video game or board game, for example. If I were to start this up would anyone be interested?
Edit: Oh, and any suggestions for if I do start it up? What games I could start with etc?
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North Korea: Diplomatic life inside Pyongyang can be 'superficial, difficult, and controlled'
7 votes -
Last year, the flu put him in a coma. This year he's getting the shot
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Pinboard on Twitter: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
@pinboard: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
25 votes -
A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments
6 votes -
The history of the electric chair that might soon kill an inmate in Tennessee
6 votes -
Unprotected: "An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped."
9 votes -
The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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Faces of a new capitalism: How Millennials are embracing socialist values
21 votes