Cook, Serve, Delicious! instantly lets me know that I’m old and can’t keep up with modern process-oriented games beyond Diner Dash. If you’re still young enough to keep up you can play the sequel on Steam for Windows on August 24th, although the game’s Steam page already has system requirements for Linux and macOS as well.
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Variety’s Janko Roettgers Interviews the Latest Hollywood Studio That Got Hacked
Some time last year the audio post-production studio, Larson, got hacked and the attackers leaked Netflix’s latest season of Orange is the New Black. Variety’s Janko Roettgers has an interview with Larson’s folks to talk about the attack. It’s not an incredibly technical overview, but it is fascinating to read.
After reading the article I would very much recommend visiting Larson’s website. It’s very 2000.
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Vox: “The Senate GOP health bill in one sentence: poor people pay more for worse insurance”
This is the single most important issue for many Americans today. The Russian interference into our elections is bad, but this could be imminently devastating to anyone who needs their health care to actually function. Ezra Klein:
If all this sounds a bit in the weeds, here’s the bottom line: Low-income Americans get less money to buy crummier insurance. In the GOP bill, the measure of what is affordable has gone up and the definition of what counts as decent insurance has gone down.
As they argue for the bill, Republicans are going to claim that it will not allow insurance plans to discriminate against people because they have a pre-existing condition. But that just isn’t the case. The Republican plan may not allow insurers to discriminate against a pre-existing condition through the front door, but they’ve created a backdoor way in.
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The Times’ Catalog of Dear Leader’s Lies
David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson:
Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
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There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president — of either party — has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.
Great work, I’d love to see everything from the campaign as well but I’m very happy to see a major news organization calling the Liar-in-Chief a liar instead of using mealy-mouthed words to pretend that it isn’t intentional.
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The Hitman That Owned Himself
Square-Enix recently decided to drop IO Interactive from their portfolio of development studios, which left IO’s series of Hitman (and other games) up in the air. Good news. IO is now the company that owns themselves and also owns the Hitman “Intellectual Property” according to the CEO’s statement. I have a few questions as to who owns the previous games and the right to publish those, and what this means for the remaining staff at IO after they recently had to lay off some, but I’ll be looking forward to playing the next elusive target.