Owlcat founder breaks down RPG budgets and Larian’s impact on genre: “We can’t invest $200 million to make BG3” | Game World Observer (gameworldobserver.com)
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)
The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: gofetch.fail
The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies (www.nytimes.com)
Spyro and Crash studio Toys For Bob has reportedly agreed to partner with Microsoft on its next game (www.videogameschronicle.com)
The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections (www.theguardian.com)
Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the case...
Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries (newatlas.com)
Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in the UK are not great either. A new study has examined what’s caused this rise in the death rates of these two cultural...
"Inverse vaccine” shows the potential to treat autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. (mag.uchicago.edu)
High Court orders temporary suspension of Telegram's services in Spain (www.reuters.com)
An American Communist classical playlist: The Composers’ Collective on Spotify (www.peoplesworld.org)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/4079282...
The town that can’t live without migrants, but isn't sure it wants to live with them (www.nbcnews.com)
Fremont, Nebraska, has three massive meat-processing plants that need workers. It also requires anyone renting a home to sign a declaration that they’re in the U.S. legally....
Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops (www.theverge.com)
Israel Attacking West Bank Farms (www.npr.org)
The U.N. humanitarian affairs office has recorded 650 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, harming residents and property. It says settlers have killed at least nine Palestinians in the territory and Israeli security forces have killed more than 400 Palestinians in that time.
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian Working on Additional Evil Endings, and 'They're Really Evil' (www.ign.com)
Germany approves partial legalization of cannabis from April (www.dw.com)
'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys (www.pcgamer.com)
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
Is my voice annoyingly high? (drive.google.com)
I try to stream my favorite games, and I will get small audiences because I do events in the online games. But whenever I try to edit or listen back I feel like I’m in pain....
Hungary’s Support for Israel Exposes Its Fake Pacifism (jacobin.com)
Far-right Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has claimed that his refusal to help Ukraine is a “pro-peace position.” Yet Hungary is also the only EU state that openly backs an Israeli attack on Rafah — showing the hypocrisy of Orbán’s supposed pacifism....
U.N. Weather Agency Issues 'Red Alert' on Climate Change (time.com)
UNRWA accuses Israel of cutting off aid convoys to northern Gaza Strip (www.jpost.com)
UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini claimed that Israeli authorities had informed the UN that they would no longer approve any UNRWA food convoys to the north of the Gaza Strip, according to a post on X on Sunday.
Geomagnetic storm from a solar flare could disrupt radio communications and create a striking aurora (apnews.com)
Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday, saying an ouburst of plasma from a solar flare could interfere with radio transmissions on Earth. It could also make for great aurora viewing....
UK, Australia call for ‘immediate’ end to fighting in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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Storm threatens snow in the Midwest, thunder in the South. Other parts of the US dig out (apnews.com)
A major spring storm threatened parts of the central U.S. on Monday with heavy snow in its northern reaches and thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the South....
A completely unbiased review of how stupid and desperate the Nazis were late in the war. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Hong Kong official warns online criticism could breach new national security law (www.theguardian.com)
The Article 23 legislation includes penalties for five categories of crime including treason, insurrection, espionage, sabotage and external interference...
