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What are some quality YouTube channels that you recommend?
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Tom Scott would be my top pick for quality YouTube not tied to a specific hobby. His videos are great.
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What are some quality YouTube channels that you recommend?
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Tom Scott would be my top pick for quality YouTube not tied to a specific hobby. His videos are great.
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5 Reminders NOT to Pre-Order Games This Year ~ We used to demand trials before buying before, what happened? ~ Stop Pre ordering Games
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The exception to this is GOG -- They, and publishers/developers that release on their store, should be supported whenever possible.
Not perfect, but miles above the alternatives.
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The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats
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Yeah I really don't understand this why specifically the gaming communities seem to suffer from this problem more than others.
Perhaps it's not reported on as much in other hobby circles, or it's a confirmation bias on my part.
Regardless, it's really disappointing that these communities have this 'there I go death-threating again' stigma growing against them. Absolutely disgusting.
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Baldur's Gate 3 is PC Gamer's highest scoring game in 16 years. Here's why
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Agree about the player custom character during dialogue. The facial animations are terrible considering the face options are predefined. Other characters though look great IMO. Not TLOU2 level face capture but fantastic for an isometric RPG
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Anytype has open sourced all their repos! Self hosting now possible!
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It's quite similar to Obsidian, if you're familiar with that.
It's a notetaking app that lets you visualize how your notes are related to each other, and gives you plenty of options for formatting.
It's quite neat to play around with, but probably overkill for daily note taking, unless you appreciate the UX.
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Where do you get your gaming news?
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You can also create an RSS feed from any subreddit by adding .rss to the URL. I check r/games from feeder a few times a week just to see the top news stories.
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South Korea welcomes first panda twins
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I believe they manage this because they have a monopoly on the world's supply, and they only 'loan' them to zoos on the condition that they still belong to China (including any offspring).
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Australian man and his dog rescued by Mexican tuna boat after drifting 3 months in the Pacific Ocean
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I always thought raw fish was filled with parasites and worms, which was why 'raw' fish is always flash frozen first. I'd imagine in a situation where the chances of dehydration are so high, risking food poisoning would be life or death.
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Siestas in Germany? Doctors recommend mid-day break – DW – 07/18/2023
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Might as well go to sleep and never wake up.
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Gameplay Reveal Trailer | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
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If you pre-order and then cancel, would you keep access to Soap in Warzone?
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Where do you get your gaming news?
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Skill Up is a good one. Digital Foundry also has a weekly show that covers news, which I find is well done.
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The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered Seemingly Outed By Composer Gustavo Santaolalla - PlayStation Universe
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I would also love a PC release of TLoU2. I keep my PS4 around for 2 games -- TLoU2 and Ghost of Tsushima. Hoping GoT is coming soon as well.
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Are steam key sites legit/worth it?
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Yeah CD Keys is the only one that I buy from. I've never had a real problem, but sometimes preorder keys don't arrive in time to preload on Steam.
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Making Call of Duty a Battle.net exclusive was apparently a 'resounding failure'
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I agree, but certainly not all launchers are at the same maturity. I love Steam because it's so much greater than the sum of its parts -- community controller layouts, cloudsaves, Workshop, forums and community content, a marketplace. I do have other launchers with a fair share of games (GOG for example), but still it's not nearly the experience of Steam.
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Viewfinder out on Steam (also 10% off until July 25th)
The discount currently doesn't show for me, but I can see the historical low was 10% off yesterday -- was the deal only for Launch?
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Making Call of Duty a Battle.net exclusive was apparently a 'resounding failure'
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I hope this means we eventually see other Battle.net games come to Steam, even as a showing of good faith. I'd love to see some of the older Blizzard games on Steam.