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15 votes
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What kind of climate change coverage do you read in the news? It depends on whether you live in a rich country or a poor one
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Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
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Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV series in the works at Hulu from Carlton Cuse & Jason Fuchs
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Coleslaw kissed by fire: Grill, smoke or ember-roast cabbage to make this traditional side dish the star of the barbecue
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What games have you enjoyed for the "wrong" reasons?
So, I just finished playing Sleeping Dogs. It's a kung fu action game with a heavy emphasis on the hand to hand combat. It feels like it's the Arkham games roided up with some hack and slash...
So, I just finished playing Sleeping Dogs. It's a kung fu action game with a heavy emphasis on the hand to hand combat. It feels like it's the Arkham games roided up with some hack and slash juice. Almost all the upgrades are hand combat based, the vast majority of combat encounters are hand to hand. It's how the game was advertised, it's what all the reviews talk about, it's why I was interested in it, and why it was recommended to me. And you know what? I was way more into the shooting than the hand to hand combat.
The game does not seem all that proud of its gunplay, there's not a place to buy or customize guns, you just have to pick them up when a firefight starts and drop them after, and there's only like 3 guns total in the game. But it's some of the most fun gunplay I've played in years in a third person shooter. It heavily utilizes slow motion when you jump over cover or kick an enemy and leap into the air, incentivizing you to not just stay in cover the whole game. It really reminds me of Vanquish, which is one of my favorites in the third person shooter genre of all time.
So this got me curious, what are some games that others have enjoyed for "wrong" reasons? Wrong is in quotes, because, well, it is still something meant to be enjoyed if it's in the game, but it clearly wasn't the focus of either dev time, or marketing, or general hype around the game, or all of the above. Although if you want to share something that wasn't something meant to be enjoyed at all, like something left in totally unintentionally by the developers, feel free to share that too.21 votes -
SkyCity hotels to add climate change 'bible' to rooms
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Oh Hiroshima - In Solar (2019)
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Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year
8 votes -
Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from
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The endless, invisible persuasion tactics of the internet
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The JRPG Startup Cost, Part II - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs
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30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World
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The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
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At Drag Queen Story Hour, ‘a difference between getting upset online and showing up in person'
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Once again authorities are looking at the feasibility of a railway to Tromsø in the north of Norway
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Finland's green scheme to invest €40m in cycling and walking – 450 million new journeys on foot or two wheels
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Stopping climate change will never be “good business”
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It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand
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'The sport is at a tipping point': Inside US horse racing’s deadly crisis
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Should board gamers play the roles of racists, slavers and nazis?
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Apple globally suspends program in which humans review users' Siri queries
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Weight loss for older people?
My mom is almost 65 and she's pretty heavy. It has got to the point where it's affecting her life quality - she often has joint pain, heart problems, clogged arteries... She has to lose weight,...
My mom is almost 65 and she's pretty heavy. It has got to the point where it's affecting her life quality - she often has joint pain, heart problems, clogged arteries... She has to lose weight, basically. Problem is, I feel like she has no motivation to do so. She never even tried doing it. I researched a bit online, and it seems like older people have it harder to lose weight, not just mentally, but also physically because they have less muscle mass and stuff. Is there anyone more knowledgeable on this topic?
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Copenhagen's new City Ring metro line is likely to face delays, breakdowns and other operating issues when it finally opens at the end of next month
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Detailed maps of the donors powering the 2020 Democratic campaigns
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Solar brings in the big bucks for local governments
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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
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Democratic Debate #2 Thread (Night 2)
welcome to debate #2, night 2. with night one out of the way, and the expectations set by our first night of candidates, we turn to a much more diverse, much more ideologically separated group of...
welcome to debate #2, night 2. with night one out of the way, and the expectations set by our first night of candidates, we turn to a much more diverse, much more ideologically separated group of candidates ranging from asian-american technocrat andrew yang to moderate-progressives african-americans in booker and harris, and from berniecrat-type tulsi gabbard to solidly moderate joe biden. it seems likely that we'll see more fireworks today than we did last night, especially given CNN's adversarial lines of questioning in the first night. as always, here are all the details you'd ever need, and probably then some:
i recommend you sort by newest first (or order posted) instead of the default since this thread will likely be semi-active and covering a live event.
How to Watch:
The debate each night will start at 8 p.m. ET and last two hours.
TV broadcast: CNN
Free online stream: CNN.com, CNN apps
Additional coverage: CBS News, NBC NewsThe Candidates:
The second Democratic presidential debate: July 30-31, 2019
~ Night 1 (Tuesday, July 30): Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, author Marianne Williamson, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. ~
Night 2 (Wednesday, July 31): Former Vice President Joe Biden, California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, business leader Andrew Yang, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet.The Rules:
A candidate "who consistently interrupts" on Tuesday and Wednesday nights will be penalized by having his or her time reduced.
Campaign representatives have also been told there will be no "lightning round"-type questions requiring a show of hands or one word responses.
The debate will be moderated by Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper. Each of the 10 candidates each night will be allowed to make brief opening and closing statements, the network said.The Analysis:
NPR has 5 questions for this debate:
- Will there be any distinctions drawn between Sanders and Warren?
- Will some of the air be taken out of Sanders' sails because Biden isn't onstage?
- How is race raised?
- Who breaks out?
- Without hand-raising, will we get answers that are as clear?
other pre-debate analysis pieces that may be pertinent to you:
Aftermath of Night One:
- POLITICO: It’s a center-left party after all
- the Atlantic: Elizabeth Warren’s Big Night
- NPR: Sanders And Warren Stand Together: Takeaways From Tuesday's Democratic Debate
- NBC News: The Warren-Sanders wing comes up short
- NPR: 'Impossible Promises' Vs. 'Small Ideas.' Moderates And Progressives Clash At Debate
- the Atlantic: Democratic Moderates Fade Into the Background
- Buzzfeed: Mayor Pete Has A Plan To Address Systemic Inequality For Black Americans. He Was Barely Able To Talk About It In The Debate.
- Vox: Is it me or is Marianne Williamson making a lot of sense?
- Vox: 3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
- the Guardian: Who won the Democrats' debate? Our panelists' verdict
Expectations for Night Two:
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Steam Play Proton 4.11 released, a pretty huge release pulling in D9VK and a replacement for esync
24 votes -
Heavy rain triggers series of landslides in Norway – at least one person is presumed dead and many others unaccounted for
6 votes -
I've visited the largest manufacturer of guitars in Spain: Alhambra Guitars
6 votes -
The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change?
13 votes -
Preserving laptop stickers on MacBooks
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Ugress - Static Troopers (2019)
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North Carolina gun shop billboard calls congresswomen ‘The 4 Horsemen’ in what anti-gun violence advocates call an incitement to violence
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Are Spotify’s shareholders failing to see signs of the early stages of subscriber saturation?
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The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
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California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up
7 votes -
The math of Emil Konopinski
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Could renewable natural gas be the next big thing in green energy?
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A mathematician has resolved the Sensitivity Conjecture, a nearly thirty-year-old problem in computer science
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He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
8 votes -
Twitch streamer Ninja leaves Twitch and will be streaming on Mixer
@ninja: The next chapter, https://t.co/lvn9KBjEYq https://t.co/tljVgyM3bG
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San Fermin - Sonsick (2013)
3 votes -
A ticket out of town: when cities buy homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town, should they count that as a success?
6 votes -
The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time
12 votes -
What’s in a name? A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places
9 votes