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9 votes
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Are New Zealanders buying slave-picked tinned tomatoes?
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Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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Local artists thread
Let's mix things up a bit and talk about musicians and bands from our local areas. There's often some really great music happening in a local scene, which rarely sees the light of day. So hit us...
Let's mix things up a bit and talk about musicians and bands from our local areas. There's often some really great music happening in a local scene, which rarely sees the light of day. So hit us up with links to the music makers in your local scene (or your own band even!) so we can have a listen and maybe discover something new and amazing :)
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Where can you find the content policy
Don’t know if this is the right place to post this but where can I find the things you can post and the things you can’t
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Birds of Prey | Official trailer
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What are some co-op games with full-controller-support that run flawlessly on Linux?
Just looking for games to play with girlfriend. Cheap is better.
7 votes -
PlayStation Now subscription price reduced; GTA V, God of War, Uncharted 4, Infamous 2 added as first "marquee games" available for a limited time
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Rocket League - A first look at Blueprints, the system replacing crates
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Tractor trails of protesting Dutch farmers snarl traffic for hundreds of miles
6 votes -
Police shoot teen protester with live ammunition as Hong Kong violence escalates
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Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking
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Darkwood
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Make your 5“25 floppy double-sided by punching a hole
10 votes -
Meat isn’t evil, it’s how we raise it, how it’s prepared, and what it’s eaten with
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Inmates suffering heart attacks or brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs wouldn’t have to pay for their medical care. Some were rearrested once they had recovered.
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Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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October 1 1989 – Thirty years after Denmark became the first country to allow same-sex couples to register in legal unions
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Meet Ari Eldjárn, Iceland's hottest comic – the former flight attendant started standup as a dare
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Mississippi Fred McDowell: You Done Tol' Everybody (1959)
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Bike riding courses offer Finland's immigrants new freedom
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Billy Idol - Save Me Now (2014)
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 uses streaming satellite data to allow you to fly anywhere in the world, including taking off and landing at over 40,000 airports
Microsoft held a Global Preview Event on September 19 and 20 for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it's been NDA'd until today. Here's the official blog post, which doesn't say much itself,...
Microsoft held a Global Preview Event on September 19 and 20 for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it's been NDA'd until today. Here's the official blog post, which doesn't say much itself, but there are a ton of detailed impressions articles and videos all over the internet today.
The major revelation is that they're using satellite data from Bing Maps and combining it with procedural generation and some other data sources (such as the ability to use live weather data) to make it so you can fly anywhere in the world and it will look extremely realistic. Being able to do this in Google Earth is already very cool (especially in VR), and this should be even better.
Here are a few of the articles - a lot of them have incredibly stupid titles because that's how internet journalism works now, so I'm just going to link with the site's name:
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What games would you consider "expired classics"?
If there's a better or more commonly used term for this let me know, but my idea of an "expired classic" is a game that was acclaimed and beloved at the time of its release but that would be...
If there's a better or more commonly used term for this let me know, but my idea of an "expired classic" is a game that was acclaimed and beloved at the time of its release but that would be nearly unplayable or unacceptable by modern standards. Not just less impressive or weaker, mind you, but outright bad. Think "aged poorly" but like, REALLY poorly.
The quintessential example is Goldeneye 007. While absolutely landmark for its time, gamers that pick it up now would likely be baffled by its controls and appalled by its significant, unforgivable framerate issues. Even some people that used to love playing it have a hard time enjoying it now (myself included). It is a game that has "expired" over time.
The expiration doesn't have to be due to technical issues either. It could be due to cultural issues, design issues, or any other factor that makes the same significantly less palatable today, even to those that want to play it!
What are some other examples, and why have they expired?
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What's a piece of art or media (film, book, painting etc) that you loved, but would never want to see again?
I have some obvious examples, like the anime Kare Kano, and the movies Lion (2016), It and The Exorcist. What are yours?
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This Inside-Out Motor for EVs Is Power Dense and (Finally) Practical
6 votes -
The British show how to improve 401(k)s
8 votes -
Zig 0.5 Release Notes
10 votes -
In California, orcas and salmon have become so scarce people have forgotten what once was. Will the Northwest be next?
11 votes -
Send your name to Mars
10 votes -
Humble Book Bundle: Linux & UNIX by O'Reilly
8 votes -
Bernie Sanders' US CEO corporate tax plan
16 votes -
US President Donald Trump pressed Australian leader to help William Barr investigate Robert Mueller inquiry’s origins
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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65daysofstatic - Five Waves (2019)
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Inequality
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The fifty best video games of the 21st century
14 votes -
AFC Bournemouth's striker Joshua King on his Black history tattoos, the impact of visits to Gambia and teaching his son to take nothing for granted
4 votes -
Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia
8 votes -
Ten ways government leaders can improve transport mobility
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Tencent will acquire 29% of the shares in Funcom, becoming the largest shareholder
8 votes -
How podcasts went from unlistenable to unmissable
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Sans Soleil - Poetry will be made by everyone
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WeWork has announced it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its IPO
9 votes -
New SIM attacks de-mystified, protection tools now available
6 votes -
The secret list of words causing demonetization by Youtube bots
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'Everything you're seeing is deception.' How right-wing media talks about impeachment
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A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
6 votes