Author: Jack Slater
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No Man’s Sky Is Back & On the Xbox One
Hello Games’ No Man Sky is two years old, but if you are like me and tried it out back then only to move on before finishing the main quest then you might want to check out the latest updates. Hello Games has added multiplayer, Jack wrote that they have also added third-person options, base…
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The Story of Otto Warmbier, As Best We Know It
Doug Bock Clark has an incredibly detailed account of Otto Warmbier’s time in North Korea as a hostage. This is the American whose torture and eventual death our national embarrassment used for justifying possible war with, and bellicose rambling at, North Korea.
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C64 Mini Gets a US Launch Date in October; Is Still Garbage
The people behind the US launch of the C64 Mini today announced an October 9th US release date for the C64 Mini that we last talked about more in-depth way back in April: The miniaturizing nostalgia shrink ray is sprayed at everything now: Cars; entertainment systems both super and conventional Nintendo; iPads; arcade cabinets… There’s also now…
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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…