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    Climate Nearing “Point of No Return”

    https://theconversation.com/carbon-budget-for-1-5-c-will-run-out-in-six-years-at-current-emissions-levels-new-research-216459
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    Read some stuff: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (2/5) Halo: Saturn Devouring His Son (4/5) The Dragon Prince: Bloodmoon Huntress (4/5) Green Arrow: Stranded (3/5) A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel – Volume 2 (5/5) Diablo: Webtoons of Sanctuary (4/5) The...
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    Why have game developers struggled to make amazing space sci fi games during the 2010s?

    This is all over the place, but: Okay, but really, neither BSG or The Expanse is anywhere like Mass Effect bar the basic premise of being set in space. ME is more in the vein of storytelling as Star Trek and Babylon 5. Problem being that hard sci-fi is harder to make a game around. How...
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    Star Trek: Picard - Second Self (2/5) Really didn't like this book. It takes place between season 1 & 2 of Picard, but most of its story/lore is drawn from Deep Space 9, what with the Cardassian Occupation, the Dominion War, etc. Stuff that I don't have much familiarity with, which in part...
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    Halo: Sunrise On Sanghelios (3/5) A short story (a very short story, actually) that takes place in the immediate aftermath of Halo 5, with John and Thel reuniting after years apart. It's fine, really. Writing's extremely basic, and I'm guessing this was jotted down in a hurry. The only thing...
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    I can't remember if it specifies. I think there's vague references to the world being on the edge of the galaxy/universe (so many writers throw around terms with no sense of scale), but really, the comic doesn't care, why should I?
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy - The First Wall (3/5) The third installment in the Siege of Terra sub-series, further, ahem, "reinforcing" my belief that there's no way this series needed to be so many volumes. I actually enjoyed the ending sections quite a bit, but as a whole? Yeah...
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    What are you currently playing?

    So I powered through the rest of Act I and all of Act II in Shadows of Valentia in a single day, because that's how I roll. At this point in time, I don't have much to say I already haven't in terms of the game's quality (that I haven't said already), but in regards to more specific thoughts...
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    Climate Nearing “Point of No Return”

    And in other news: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-could-peak-as-soon-as-2023-iea-data-reveals/ (Skeptical, but I need hopium.)
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    Climate Nearing “Point of No Return”

    I will say in Captain Planet's defence that there's a line you can draw between the villains who outright wanted to harm the planet (e.g. Dr. Blight, Skumm, Zarm), and those who had an "eff the world, got mine" attitude (Hoggish Greedly, Sly Sludge, Looten Plunder, etc.) But, um, yeah...
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    Staying at home is the norm... What are you reading?

    The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun (3/5) A graphic novel adaptation of the episode of the same name. TBH, I've never watched The Twilight Zone in any incarnation, so I can't comment on the source material, but as its own story, the story is, well, fine, really. The conceit is that something...
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    Funny Events of the "Woke" world

    https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/lifestyle/haters-try-to-bring-down-aussie-style-sushi-restaurant-in-nyc/
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    Climate Nearing “Point of No Return”

    https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/24/10-times-as-many-evs-and-50-renewables-heres-how-world-energy-could-look-by-2030 I'm usually sparing with posting here, and by itself this article isn't saying anything I haven't posted before, but there is a little titbit there that caught my attention...
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    What are you currently playing?

    So awhile back I gave my thoughts on Shadows of Valentia. Having since played more of the game, I can now confidentally say that...um, actually I can't say much new at all, pretty much everything I said then holds true. So to give a very abridged series of thoughts: -The map design is basic -...
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    What are you currently playing?

    DIABLO IV FIRE EMBLEM HEROES FIRE EMBLEM: SHADOWS OF VALENTIA OVERWATCH 2