Author: Jack Slater
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Today in Shitty Capitalism
Albert Burneko talking about the situation with Tronc, Inc, the company that just laid off half of the editorial staff of a paper after paying out an executive a $15 million award for groping women: It’s legal, if you’re rich enough, or carefully enough obscured behind the legal fiction of a hedge fund or corporation,…
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49 Years Since The First, 46 Years Since The Last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96EPhqT-ds On July 20th, 1969, humans first stepped onto the Moon with Apollo 11’s mission. That was 49 years ago and it’s been 46 years since Apollo 17’s final landing. We haven’t been back since. Today, the US space program is in shambles. Much of it has been given over to private entrepreneurs. It’s a…
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Danger Zone 2 Review (Windows)
Is Blue Sky Crashing Back? Find out, in this review of Danger Zone 2.
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Sailor Moon’s Long-Lost Americanized Bizarro-World Counterpart
Cecilia D’Anastasio has the fascinating story behind the version of Sailor Moon created for a western audience that never aired. I don’t give a shit about Sailor Moon, except that it was valuable in broadening the audience for different kinds of animation outside of the typical Ninja Scroll-tier of garbage that was popular at the…
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Zachtronics’ EXAPUNKS Announced For August
The Zachtronics behind the other programmatical puzzlers like TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O have announced a new one of those, EXAPUNKS. I can’t explain how much I love these games, both for their niche and the wonderful aesthetic each game embodies so well. In this adventure you’re an ex-hacker with a bad case of the phage…