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9 votes
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US Congress raises legal age to buy tobacco products to 21
14 votes -
Running the numbers to figure out Amazon's market share: it has about 35% of US ecommerce, but closer to 6% of addressable retail overall
5 votes -
The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world
9 votes -
Why Biden has such a large lead in the polls
13 votes -
Denmark approves new US consulate in Greenland – part of a broader move by Washington to expand its diplomatic and commercial presence in Greenland and the Arctic
7 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
SoftBank Vision Fund employees depict a culture of recklessness
3 votes -
Starliner test flight passes launch readiness review
4 votes -
Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
4 votes -
How the Republican party went from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump
8 votes -
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a new type of magnetic explosion on the Sun
6 votes -
Why Kansas City’s free transit experiment matters
6 votes -
Beach House - PPP (2015)
4 votes -
Boeing to suspend 737 MAX production in January
5 votes -
Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all
9 votes -
Theo Katzman - (I Don't Wanna Be A) Billionaire (2019)
5 votes -
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
7 votes -
The old man and the rising seas
5 votes -
Gary Clark Jr - Travis County Courthouse (2004)
3 votes -
Reply All - The Real Enemy (3-parts)
Part 1: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhd33/152-the-real-enemy-part-1 Part 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hwe43/153-the-real-enemy-part-2 Part 3:...
Part 1: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhd33/152-the-real-enemy-part-1
Part 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hwe43/153-the-real-enemy-part-2
Part 3: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hl3vj/154-the-real-enemy-part-3
4 votes -
Every year, revellers gather in a Danish national park to ring in one of the largest Independence Day celebrations outside the US
4 votes -
NASA approves December 20 Boeing Starliner test flight onboard an Atlas V to International Space Station
10 votes -
How releasing 1,500,000 balloons went horribly wrong
8 votes -
Some of the Pew Research Center's most noteworthy findings from 2019
9 votes -
US Federal Communications Commission proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number
19 votes -
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
13 votes -
Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too.
9 votes -
The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
9 votes -
The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
Home Alone | Laws Broken
5 votes -
Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules
12 votes -
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex team has officially selected the site on asteroid Bennu to collect a sample for return to Earth
8 votes -
US Federal Aviation Administration engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
5 votes -
The US Internal Revenue Service sent a letter to 3.9 million people. It saved some of their lives.
6 votes -
Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
19 votes -
US Federal Trade Commission weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
3 votes -
Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
26 votes -
What makes NASA's Artemis suit the best space suit yet?
3 votes -
How I get by: A week in the life of a McDonald’s cashier
14 votes -
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to criminal justice data
9 votes -
Federal Trade Commission settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students
14 votes -
US Federal Aviation Administration chief says Boeing 737 Max recertification process to stretch into 2020
8 votes -
Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
3 votes -
A look at the differences between the Curiosity rover and Mars 2020, which will start exploring Mars' Jezero Crater for signs of life in 2021
12 votes -
Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
8 votes -
Sparks - I Bought the Mississippi River (Live 1976-11-27)
5 votes -
Vulfpeck live at Madison Square Garden (2019)
5 votes -
Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
5 votes -
Varien - The Second Industrial Revolution (2019)
7 votes