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    Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too

    Is that actual antialiasing on MP4 for Switch 2? Nintendo? Wonders never cease! Maybe 13 years after we expected it, but wonders never cease! Seriously though that looks like by far the best IQ of the games shown here so far, it's almost too bad it seemed like a bit of a throw in rather than...
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    Switch 2 games so far: The big, the indie, the unexpected Bloodborne successor

    We have made contact (this gesture itself is a microcosm of why I love Bloodborne. It's simply named "Make Contact" with no explanation. Outside of the game,it has been suggested that if you ever meet an extra-terrestrial being, the first thing you should do is draw a right-angled (or...
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    Do ya think I’m sexy? Male fruit flies more attractive when drunk.

    Same, fruit fly, same
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    CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95

    Of course, level 4 "Shakespeare Cliff Refinery" was using some clever tricks for the illusion, such mirrored texture mapping and an invisible pane so you couldn't walk through the inverted geometry. But 1997? At my age? My mind was blown, "How are they doing that?!". The mirror level stood out...
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    CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95

    I still wish we could see a faithful MDK3 somehow This level looked like ray tracing to me decades before it was consumer ready lol
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    The Wheel of Time takes us to the world of dreams—and beyond—in episode five

    Hopper! Bestest boy! So down for seeing him more again in Tel'aran'rhiod. I know Jordan gets some fair criticism for being wordy, but some passages waterworks are impossible to translate to a screen and vice versa and must be brought out when they come up
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    CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95

    This is all I need (points for recognition)
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    Corning’s new Apple-like ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster

    The typical model has been that Apple gets the first run on a new glass technology, and then a year or a few years later everyone else does, in exchange for Apple having front ran some of Corning's development costs to get it first. Is this basically Ceramic Shield under Corning's marketing...
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    Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter

    Article should update with the public image. I suspect these are forewings instead of canards, the latter of which is ramping up in online discussion over
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    At the halfway point of season 3, The Wheel of Time is getting it done

    Yup, you nailed it. Maybe a few small things that are slightly different, but as Jordan would say, WAFO. Maybe I'm undercrediting show watchers because I already have context to draw from and understand everything in, I don't have to think and remember scene details much since I remember so...
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    At the halfway point of season 3, The Wheel of Time is getting it done

    I've never thought that about this series in particular, and I don't have an OLED TV or a particularly bright high end LCD one, it's a middle range Hisense. The show seems bright compared to some of the darker big shows. I've seen it on several devices and never thought it was dark. The show is...
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    At the halfway point of season 3, The Wheel of Time is getting it done

    I have to say, that episode was an absolute banger. Brought me right back to everything I love about the books. I'm not entirely sure, as a heavy book reader, if non-book readers would have really grasped the full gravity of the revelations there about the Aiel and Tuatha'an, how foundationally...
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    Anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. weaponizes child’s measles death

    I never get this particularly American subcultural Venn diagram of being anti-vaccine, which have risk to benefit ratios of 1 to millions easily, but also being super gung-ho about their right to surgically alter a perfectly healthy child for no medical reason when no major medical board on...
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    Even the worst mass extinction had its oases

    I've wondered the same about the Death Stranding, the 5 Extinction Events. Was the universe actually trying to kill life, or did it only accelerate its development by creating pressure for stronger, or smarter newer forms Err, and about real life too I guess
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    The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps

    I think we're in complete agreement then. I guess I was just sensitive to how some people seem to forget about the passage of time, and maybe that person already had progressive-for-now views in the 90s but most of their heroes did not. Robert Jordan, with 8 of the 14 books written from...
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    The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps

    I always had a bit of head-canon here that this was unnatural selective pressure, for at least a significant part of 3000 years men who could channel were hunted down by women who could because of the taint, and who would have slightly better odds of getting away long enough to perhaps procreate...
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    The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps

    Fair enough, I assumed anyone down here was a reader/fan but I guess this is slightly ahead. And they did mention it in the show already as you reminded me. Tagged as spoiler though.
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    The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps

    Lol, this was the first "First" post I've read in more than a decade that I was ok with and upvoted Yeahhh, I keep giving it more chances because I love these books, but after watching the 10 minutes of early release season 3 preview I strongly recommended a friend of mine who was WoT-Curious...