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Tuesday 2023-01-31 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-01-31

23-Jan-2023 – JWST Heralds a New Dawn for Exoplanet Science

Brief Summary: “The James Webb Space Telescope is opening an exciting new chapter in the study of exoplanets and the search for life beyond EarthAn illustration of th”

31-Jan-2023 – Overwatch 2 is making it easier and cheaper for you to get older skins

Brief Summary: “Image: Blizzard EntertainmentTo coincide with the release of season 3, Overwatch 2 is reintroducing Overwatch credits, giving players ways to earn tho”

31-Jan-2023 – Colossal Cave returns from the 1970s in a 3D reimagining

Brief Summary: “Colossal Cave, originally released in 1977 from Will Crowther and Don Woods has been revived and reimagined for modern audiences.”

30-Jan-2023 – Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer – Part 23: Ready, Set, Go!

Brief Summary: “If you look at the commercial Linux gaming catalogue at the turn of the millennium, in amongst all of the 3D shooters and strategic simulations being “

30-Jan-2023 – Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now

Brief Summary: “A free and open source survival sandbox game pack for the voxel game engine Minetest, MineClone2 is as close to Minecraft as you can get without playi”

31-Jan-2023 – Rest in Virtual Peace, AltspaceVR: 2013 – 2023

Brief Summary: “I love VR. I’ve loved it for years, and I am excited to see what it still has to offer in the years and decades to come as an immersive, interactive d”

31-Jan-2023 – Netflix’s Password Sharing Cash Grab Finally Arrives In The States

Brief Summary: “After years of saying password sharing wasn’t really a big deal and was akin to free advertising, Netflix recently announced it would be cracking down”

30-Jan-2023 – Twitter Sued For Not Paying Rent On Its SF Headquarters And Its London Offices

Brief Summary: “There have been a bunch of stories about how one of Elon’s big “cost saving” techniques was to stop paying for basically anything, including rent.

To”

30-Jan-2023 – Asteroid’s sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection

Brief Summary: “The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to human”

30-Jan-2023 – Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA

Brief Summary: “Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FAA bug in a new centralized system that Meta created for users to manage their logins for Fa”

31-Jan-2023 – Will Smith and Martin Lawrence announce Bad Boys 4

Brief Summary: “They ride together. They Die Together. And now Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have announced Bad Boys 4 together.  Taking to Instagram, Will Smith, ak”

30-Jan-2023 – Mario battles Donkey Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie promo

Brief Summary: “Illumination has released a new TV spot for the animated feature adaptation of the iconic Nintendo video game series, The Super Mario Bros. Movie whic”

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Saturday 2023-01-28 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-01-28

28-Jan-2023 – American Truck Simulator DLC will head to Kansas after Oklahoma

Brief Summary: “American Truck Simulator hasn’t yet received its already-announced Oklahoma DLC, but work is underway on the state that will follow it: Kansas. You’ll”

28-Jan-2023 – Dungeons and Dragons scraps new OGL plans after backlash

Brief Summary: “Wizards of the Coast has scrapped their plans for a new Dungeons and Dragons Open Game License (OGL) after massive backlash from players, content crea”

28-Jan-2023 – Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader shares this report from OMG! Ubuntu:

Developers have just uncorked a brand new release of Wine, the open source compatibility lay”

28-Jan-2023 – D&D Won’t Change Its Original 1.0 OGL License, Reference Document Enters Creative Commons

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader shares a report from PC Gamer:

In a blog post published Friday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it is fully putting the kibos”

27-Jan-2023 – Reverse-Engineering the Conditional Jump Circuitry in the 8086 Processor

Brief Summary: “The condition PLA evaluates microcode conditionals.As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 80”

09-Jan-2023 – Neon Modem Overdrive

Brief Summary: “Neon Modem Overdrive

Neon Modem Overdrive is a BBS-style command line client that
supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and
Hacker News as backends, an”

25-Jan-2023 – Factorio is about to increase in price so be quick

Brief Summary: “The developers of the awesome Factorio have announced that the price is about to go up, so if you still haven’t purchased it now is the time.”

23-Jan-2023 – Free open source RPG ‘FreedroidRPG’ arrives on Steam

Brief Summary: “It’s not going to win any awards on style but some of you may want to know that the classic free and open source RPG FreedroidRPG is now on Steam.”

27-Jan-2023 – Selfie: An educational platform for teaching systems engineering

Brief Summary: “Comments”

22-Jan-2023 – PHP Will Not Die

Brief Summary: “PHP, the programming language that has been declared dead more times than a cat has lives, is still very much alive and kicking. Despite what some eli”

27-Jan-2023 – Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on

Brief Summary: “Subtitles aren’t just for the hard of hearing, with Netflix reporting 40% of its viewers regularly use them. But do we just enjoy them or is there a m”

27-Jan-2023 – Taylor Swift has shared a video for ‘Lavender Haze’ – watch

Brief Summary: “Taylor Swift has released a video for ‘Lavender Haze’. The latest visual from her 2022 album, ‘Midnights’, features transgender activist and actor Lai”

27-Jan-2023 – Maisie Peters is kicking off a new era with her track ‘Body Better’

Brief Summary: “Maisie Peters has dropped a new single, ‘Body Better’.

The first single from her soon-to-be-announced second album, it was penned alongside Ines Du”

26-Jan-2023 – Zara Larsson has dropped her massive new single, ‘Can’t Tame Her’

Brief Summary: “Zara Larsson has released her new single, ‘Can’t Tame Her’.

The track was co-written by the artist herself alongside MNEK and MTHR and produced by”

26-Jan-2023 – PVRIS has dropped her new single ‘Goddess’

Brief Summary: “PVRIS has released a new single, ‘Goddess’.

The track coincides with a bunch of UK and European dates, with Lynn Gunn commenting: “It’s a celebrati”

27-Jan-2023 – Adam Driver battles dinosaurs in new trailer for sci-fi 65

Brief Summary: “Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ upcoming sci-fi thriller 65. The film follows pilot Mills (A”

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Friday 2023-01-20 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2023-01-20

20-Jan-2023 – [GOG] Haven Park (-100%, FREE)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/n_wolf6 [link] [comments] “

20-Jan-2023 – [ITCH] 100+ solo RPG and journaling games bundle for charity ($10)

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

20-Jan-2023 – Factorio will increase in price next week “to account for the level of inflation”

Brief Summary: “New games have become more expensive in recent years, but older games have continued to remain the same price or to get cheaper. Excellent factory con”

20-Jan-2023 – GTA Trilogy – Definitive Edition is rubbish on the Steam Deck, too

Brief Summary: ”
Now that the Rockstar-embarrassing, staccato-titled Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition is out on Steam, this terrible trio of remaste”

20-Jan-2023 – Deep Rock Galactic’s Lunar Festival event is now available

Brief Summary: “Deep Rock Galactic is no stranger to seasonal events, with the Halloween and Holiday events happening a few months ago, but the space rig never stays “

20-Jan-2023 – Suiting Up for Their First Spacewalk

Brief Summary: “Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a”

20-Jan-2023 – NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Ahead of Columbia 20th Anniversary

Brief Summary: “The agency will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of “

18-Jan-2023 – Rebecca Black has shared a new album taster, ‘Sick To My Stomach’

Brief Summary: “Rebecca Black has shared her brand new single ‘Sick To My Stomach’.

The track, which is from her highly anticipated debut album, is an honest and “

18-Jan-2023 – Watch Soccer Mommy’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Brief Summary: “Soccer Mommy has shared a new NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

The Nashville-based singer-songwriter performed four tracks from her three full-length albums”

19-Jan-2023 – [Ubisoft] Rayman Raving Rabbids (Free/100% off)

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

19-Jan-2023 – [Epic] Epistory – Typing Chronicles (Free/100% off)

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

19-Jan-2023 – [Itch.io] Will Glow the Wisp: (100% off)

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

19-Jan-2023 – [GX.games] Princess Farmer (free/100% off) | ends Feb 2nd

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/TheBubu22 [link] [comments] “

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Sunday 2023-01-15 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-01-15

22-Jun-2020 – How to search Google without using Google, the self-hosted way

Brief Summary: “Hello everyone!
Last week I was talking with a friend and he was complaining about how Google knows everything about us,
so I took the chance to recom”

13-Jan-2023 – Deep Rock Galactic sold 2.3 million copies last year and I’m not surprised – it’s awesome

Brief Summary: “Deep Rock Galactic is a game about a bunch of Dwarves going mining, and there’s lots of creepy-crawlies that want to get in the way. It seems to only “

13-Jan-2023 – TNT Won’t Air Final Season of SNOWPIERCER

Brief Summary: ”
The small screen bloodbath continues. Deadline reports that Season 4 of Snowpiercer, the final outing of TNT’s last scripted series, won’t air on the”

13-Jan-2023 – Final Fantasy 7 mod adds voice acting to original game

Brief Summary: ”
The original Final Fantasy 7 is now fully voice acted, thanks to a new mod by the Tsunamods community.

Available today, Echo-S 7 adds voice acting t”

14-Jan-2023 – Is Hasbro Slowly Choking The Collecting Communities?

Brief Summary: “Today I want to talk about Hasbro’s current business strategy. This is not about whether or not Hasbro will go down, they will not, but ever since Chr”

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Thursday 2023-01-12 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-01-12

12-Jan-2023 – HBO Max Increases Monthly Subscriber Price from US$14.99 to US$15.99

Brief Summary: “New ad-free plan pricing starts on February 11”

12-Jan-2023 – [Epic Games] Divine Knockout (DKO), First Class Trouble, Gamedec (Free/100% off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/AT1952 [link] [comments]”

11-Jan-2023 – [Humble Bundle] Wadjet Eye: Sixteen Years of Adventure! (pay at least €9.48 for Unavowed, Strangeland, Primordia, Shardlight, Technobabylon, Resonance and more)

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

12-Jan-2023 – GOG officially ends its Steam-import Connect service after years of inactivity

Brief Summary: ”
GOG’s Connect service, which let users grab a free copy of a game they already owned on Steam to add their GOG library, is officially no more.

Launc”

12-Jan-2023 – Legend of Zelda cartoon writers reveal D&D influences

Brief Summary: ”
I may be biased, but I really feel that 1989 was a great year (I am biased because it was the year I was born). But, aside from my arrival in the wor”

11-Jan-2023 – Last year was a disaster for PC games – here’s how things need to change

Brief Summary: ”
2022 was a rough year for PC ports. Between stuttering performance issues and infuriating user experience problems, I was almost broken as a reviewer”

11-Jan-2023 – NES The Legend of Zelda recreated in VR Doom mod

Brief Summary: ”
If you’ve ever wanted to fully immerse yourself in The Legend of Zelda now’s your chance as a modder has made the original NES game playable in VR.

“

11-Jan-2023 – ClassicPress Community Votes to Re-Fork WordPress

Brief Summary: “In December 2022, the ClassicPress community voted on whether to re-fork WordPress or continue on with the project as-is. As WordPress continues to ev”

12-Jan-2023 – Humble’s excellent Wadjet Eye bundle has 13 games for less than a tenner

Brief Summary: “Wadjet Eye Games are behind some of the greatest point and click adventures of the last two decades, and if you’ve been looking for an excuse to catch”

12-Jan-2023 – The Legend of Zelda: How Every Version of  Zelda Is Related

Brief Summary: “Despite its name, the Legend of Zelda series has historically focused on Link. Even though they share the same name, most Links in the franchise are a”

12-Jan-2023 – Mega Man-like side-scroller action game Super Alloy Ranger now on Linux

Brief Summary: “Enjoy games similar to Mega Man? Like running and gunning? Super Alloy Ranger looks interesting and they recently put up a Native Linux version too.”

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