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Wednesday 2023-03-15 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-03-15

15-Mar-2023 – [Fanatical] Flash Deals: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint – Ultimate Edition (-83% ~ $20.99/£17.49/€20.99) & Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters (-55% ~ $20.24/£15.74/€20.24) | Spring Sale: Frontier Developments & Foundry Deals an

Brief Summary: “Hello, GameDeals! Flash Deals Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint – Ultimate Edition Title Discount USD GBP EUR DRM Metacritic HLTB Tom Clancy’s Ghost”

Monday 2023-03-13 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Monday 2023-03-13

12-Mar-2023 – “Caterpillar” Is Outstanding Documentary at SXSW 2023

Brief Summary: ”
“Caterpillar” was a fascinating documentary at SXSW about a new YouTube fad, changing one’s eye color, which is done, surgically, in India. It sounde”

13-Mar-2023 – Setting expectations before a game – GM Tips & Tricks

Brief Summary: ”
This past week I managed to try out a game I’ve been looking forward to play for a long time: Mork Borg. It was a one-shot with a group of 5 friends,”

13-Mar-2023 – Meta is Exploring Plans to Build a Twitter Rival

Brief Summary: “”Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is working on a standalone, text-based social network app,” reports the BBC.
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“It could rival bot”

12-Mar-2023 – Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

Brief Summary: “Comments”

12-Mar-2023 – How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first

Brief Summary: “Hacker News displays comments in a tree. This can be frustrating if you want to keep track of a particular conversation, as you constantly have to see”

12-Mar-2023 – Regulators shut down crypto-friendly Signature Bank

Brief Summary: “Two days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and four days after the collapse of Silvergate Bank, the New York Department of Financial Services “

Sunday 2023-03-12 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-03-12

12-Mar-2023 – Godzilla Island Live-Action Series of Shorts Streams on YouTube

Brief Summary: “TOHO streams episodes of series in Japanese with English subtitles every Tuesday, Thursday”

12-Mar-2023 – There’s a Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board game on the way

Brief Summary: “A campaign to crowdfund a new rogue-lite board game inspired by Dead Cells will shortly launch on Kickstarter.
Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite Board game -“

12-Mar-2023 – How Mega Man X rewrote the player/character relationship

Brief Summary: “”So you’ve come.”The capsule sits alone, sealed in an abandoned portion of the tunnel beneath the snow. As X approaches, the device comes to life. It “

12-Mar-2023 – Immersive Virtual Reality from the Humble Webcam

Brief Summary: “[Russ Maschmeyer] and Spatial Commerce Projects developed WonkaVision to demonstrate how 3D eye tracking from a single webcam can support rendering a “

11-Mar-2023 – Meta says it plans to block Canadians’ ability to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram if the country’s proposed Online News Act becomes law (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)

Brief Summary: ”
Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:Meta says it plans to block Canadians’ ability to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram if the country’s”

11-Mar-2023 – Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn’t understand their communities (Gita Jackson/The Verge)

Brief Summary: ”
Gita Jackson / The Verge:Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership tha”

11-Mar-2023 – Researchers Claim Their AI Algorithm Can Recreate What People See Using Brain Scans

Brief Summary: “Slashdot readers madsh, Ellis Haney, and sciencehabit all submitted this report from Science:

A recent study, scheduled to be presented at an upcomin”

11-Mar-2023 – GitHub to Start Rolling Out 2FA Requirement

Brief Summary: “GitHub will soon require all developers who contribute code on the platform to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for improved security.
The post “

Saturday 2023-03-11 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-03-11

10-Mar-2023 – Badge Art Revealed For Celebration Europe 2023

Brief Summary: “The official site has revealed the badge art for the upcoming Celebration Europe event next month. Created by digital artist Alice X. Zhang, this migh”

10-Mar-2023 – From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi Announced

Brief Summary: “As expected, the third book in the From a Certain Point of View series has been announced and will be released on September 5, 2023. Like the other tw”

10-Mar-2023 – #4410: Nissin Lamen Doce Sabor Chocolate – Brazil

Brief Summary: ”
After over 4400 reviews, finally. It’s happened. A chocolate instant noodle. To make things even more wonderful, it’s from Brazil. Thank to Cian for “

10-Mar-2023 – Ghibli Park Has a Problem with People Groping Statues

Brief Summary: ”
At Ghibli Park there are many statues of Studio Ghibli characters that fans can admire or take pictures with. However, some people have been using th”

10-Mar-2023 – Code Project – JavaScript Drum Kit

Brief Summary: “The second actual project from the class I’ve been doing is a simple clickable drum kit. Part of the purpose was to work with signs and to work with “

10-Mar-2023 – [Humble Bundle] Train Simulator Classic: On the Fast Track

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/Highwayz [link] [comments] “

10-Mar-2023 – Professor Layton’s new adventure turns him into Luke’s protégé

Brief Summary: ”
A new trailer for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam has shown off a neat twist to this surprise puzzle-solving sequel’s story.

After a lon”

10-Mar-2023 – Fortnite’s grind rails are just super

Brief Summary: ”
It says a lot about the pace and invention of Fortnite that, as soon as we heard the new update would add grind rails, as a team we started questioni”

09-Mar-2023 – Radians are Cursed

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11-Mar-2023 – It’s Time to Reveal the Truth About the Star Wars Holiday Special

Brief Summary: “On Nov. 17, 1978, Princess Leia sang these lyrics to the melody of John Williams’ Star Wars theme: “We celebrate a day of peace/A day of harmony/A day”

11-Mar-2023 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review – The Movie This Game Deserves

Brief Summary: “The world isn’t ending. Probably. Yet somehow in the realm of blockbuster cinema and high fantasy, it’s always seven seconds to midnight. Maybe that’s”

10-Mar-2023 – Recursive Sentences

Brief Summary: ”
It’s been a while since I last wrote up a specific lesson idea so when
my friend Garth asked about recursion ideas I thought I’d write this
one up. T”

10-Mar-2023 – Meta is Working on Twitter/Mastodon Alternative

Brief Summary: “Meta is working on a new text-based social network that’s also decentralized, similar to Mastodon. The project is codenamed ‘P92’, but it will reporte”

11-Mar-2023 – It’s a great time to start playing Dead Cells

Brief Summary: “Just me and my bud Alucard. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The VergeThis week, the indie roguelike Dead Cells got a massive Castlevania-themed expansion”

11-Mar-2023 – Computers for Fun

Brief Summary: “The last couple years have seen an incredible flourishing of the cyberdeck scene, and probably for about as many reasons as there are individual ’deck”

Friday 2023-03-10 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2023-03-10

09-Mar-2023 – Discord embraces OpenAI with new chatbot and AI server moderator

Brief Summary: “In an effort to become a place for “AI with friends,” Discord is launching three new features powered by OpenAI.

09-Mar-2023 – Epic Games Store now lets developers publish their own games

Brief Summary: “Epic Games’ new self-publishing initiative aims to make its storefront as enticing to developers as possible.

10-Mar-2023 – Jenna Ortega In Talks To Join ‘Beetlejuice 2’ With Michael Keaton

Brief Summary: ”
Following the overwhelming success of Netflix’s Wednesday, Jenna Ortega may well be settling nicely into the Tim Burton family. According to The Holl”

10-Mar-2023 – Catan is getting a football-themed board game expansion

Brief Summary: “A new board game expansion for Catan invites players to score goals to win more victory points.Catan: Soccer Fever is an upcoming board game expansion”

10-Mar-2023 – “woke”

Brief Summary: “The most useful thing about the word “woke” is that it allows me to instantly recognize the lying idiots. All these conservatives complaining about “w”

10-Mar-2023 – A Tape Loop Echo you Can Build

Brief Summary: “Echo and reverb are now electronic audio effects done in a computer or an integrated circuit, but originally they were achieved through mechanical mea”

10-Mar-2023 – Fortnite now requires Windows 10 or higher on PC

Brief Summary: “Image: Epic GamesFortnite’s new cyberpunk-themed “Mega” season launches Friday, but if you’re on PC, you’ll need to be on Windows 10 or higher to be a”

10-Mar-2023 – Fortnite turns into a cyberpunk anime in new season

Brief Summary: “Image: Epic GamesFortnite is going even more anime in its new season. Chapter 4 Season 2 of the battle royale kicks off today, and it’s subtitled “Meg”

09-Mar-2023 – Epic will now let developers self-publish to the Epic Games Store

Brief Summary: “Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeEpic Games is finally going to let developers self-publish games to the Epic Games Store beginning Thursday. Th”

09-Mar-2023 – Epic Games Store Announces Self-Publishing Tools and Upcoming Support for Subscription Services

Brief Summary: “Epic Games is launching new self-publishing tools for game developers and publishers interested in releasing their games on the Epic Games Store. The “

09-Mar-2023 – Florence + The Machine have covered No Doubt’s 1995 classic ‘Just A Girl’

Brief Summary: “Florence + The Machine have covered No Doubt’s 1995 classic ‘Just A Girl’.

Produced by Florence Welch and Mark Bowen of IDLES, the song is featured”

10-Mar-2023 – Every Super Mario Game Ranked Easiest to Hardest

Brief Summary: “The Super Mario franchise is not considered to be that difficult in the grand scheme of gaming. After all, Mario is Nintendo’s mascot, and you don’t w”

09-Mar-2023 – The Lord of the Rings: Gollum reintroduces Smeagol’s story in new trailer

Brief Summary: “Publisher Nacon and developer Daedalic Entertainment shared a trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum reintroducing the tragic story of Smeagol. Her”

10-Mar-2023 – 50 Cent TV series named Vice City, but unrelated to GTA

Brief Summary: ”
Rapper and producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is developing a TV series named Vice City, a new report has confirmed – but it is nothing to do with Roc”

09-Mar-2023 – [Epic] Call of the Sea (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/YogPi [link] [comments]”