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Not planning to use either much, but they'll be good contact lifeboats for when someone starts up Schmitter in a few months time.
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this was 2021
cannot be understated how fucking stupid these people are. they have billions of dollars at their disposal and they just shit in their hands.
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Tickets for AEW All In booked!!!!!!! See you all at Wembley, let's goooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
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I'm assuming all of games media met up and agreed that no one was allowed to use "Dreadfall" as their strapline?
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Okay, now that it's Monday, time for a proper Destiny 2 Content Coordinator thread. 6 month contract. $5-6k/month pay band.
Responsibilities would include writing news/guides, editing freelancer content, coordinating our coverage, and managing our content schedule.
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After that huge wave of tech sector layoffs, all the big companies posted great earnings reports and their stocks are doing fantastic. You guys need a union.
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With His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.
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Someone I know went to get their tongue pierced years ago and got refused because it was too short, so they got their belly button done because they were psyched to get something.
Anyway, I wonder which studio will be Microsoft's belly button piercing after the Acti deal block.
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Pretty sure this isn't the end of it, but good. Corporate consolidation will be the death of every industry, and that includes gaming.
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We’ve prevented @Microsoft from purchasing @Activision over concerns the deal would damage competition in the #CloudGaming market, leading to less innovation and choice for UK #gamers. 
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Genuinely, I think AI might kill the internet. When it's all AI-generated gibberish, who is going to use it? Like sure, I'll check the temperature on it, but I'm not gonna read anything or trust websites for anything more than giving me data points.
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SCOOP: Insider is laying off 10% of its team, according to a memo sent out this morning by president Barbara Peng.
Here’s the memo:
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"rapid unscheduled disassembly" is an all-timer, no notes.
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The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, Space X's Starship, launches in Texas before a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" during ascent
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I do love my job, but fuck me, the pedants in the comments section might be worse on science sites than they are on game sites. It's wild.
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Dying laughing that the rebrand is from "HBO Max" to "Max is where you can find HBO stuff."
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Very cool - I was lucky enough to interview Vic Glover a while back!
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They're going to the Moon! Introducing the #Artemis II astronauts:
Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid), Commander
Victor Glover (@AstroVicGlover), Pilot
Christina Koch (@Astro_Christina), Mission specialist
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Did Limp Bizkit Predict the Future? Because Everything Is Fucked and Everybody Sucks
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This is not a drill! This is happening!
After much musing over the years about there being potential for an anime adaptation of ‘Scott Pilgrim’, I’m thrilled to say one is IMMINENT, with the whole cast back together and… you are going to lose your minds.
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Amanda Holden on Paul O'Grady:
"He didn't have a woke bone in his body"
That would be the drag artist, AIDS campaigner, LGBTQ+ hero and anti austerity critic Paul O'Grady.
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It's sad that E3 is dying, but there's no mistake that they did it to themselves. They chased money and turned it into something else, and as it turns out, that wasn't what people wanted from it, so all the publishers buggered off and did their own shows.
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“… loitering in public places like parks.”
You mean young people *using* parks for the purpose that parks were designed for? Monstrous. Keep them indoors so that columnists can write more fucking columns about how young people don’t go outside.
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BREAKING: The Ball Pit has pulled out of E3 2023. Organizers scrambling.
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Libertarian Dragon Ball Character Refuses to Contribute Energy Toward Spirit Bomb
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Resi 4 remake people. I walked backwards instead of forwards at the hill trap, now blocked by rubble. Did I fuck myself here and broken my game or am I missing another route?
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I do appreciate that GW is leaning more heavily into "no but seriously, the Imperium sucks" side of 40K again because it's flushing out the right-wing idiots with zero media literacy.
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Did not think I'd be getting hyped to play Counter Strike again in the year of our lord 2023, but god damn that looks sick.
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Fuck man, Reddick was the star of every scene he was in. twitter.com/DaniellePartis
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Reading all the Resi 4 remake reviews got me like....
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Silicon Valley’s problem is, in large part, that they’ve stopped fixing the average person’s problems. Tech hasn’t improved most people’s lives in a noteworthy way in over a decade, and has made an awful lot of people’s much worse.
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VCs now realizing Silicon Valley has a public image problem and suggesting we increase PR efforts and participation in politics to make clear that Silicon Valley problems are every American's problems…
A better (and easier) starting point might simply be investing in more… Show more
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1. Market consolidation bad actually
2. Maybe Hitman is good right now BECAUSE IO is independent
3. "The growing independent studio has one proven IP and two more promising new ones."
Folks we've seen exactly one logo and one concept art...
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"Programmes must not include material which... condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behaviour and is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour..." - Ofcom Code.
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