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Fellow Dragon Age fans, I need you to play Baldur's Gate 3 with me (www.pcgamer.com)
We still have a long wait for Dreadwolf, so don't miss out on playing a true evolution on Origins.
Fellow Dragon Age fans, I need you to play Baldur's Gate 3 with me (www.pcgamer.com)
We still have a long wait for Dreadwolf, so don't miss out on playing a true evolution on Origins.
Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
Family rescued in Maui thanks to iPhone's satellite feature (9to5mac.com)
With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no...
Dragon Age: Origins walked so Baldur’s Gate 3 could dash (www.techradar.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t the first successful attempt to marry cinematic aspirations with the traditional branching narratives and simulationist world-building of CRPGs. 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins had a very similar mission statement, offering a spiritual successor to BioWare’s earlier Baldur’s Gate titles long before...
Dragon Age: Origins walked so Baldur’s Gate 3 could dash (www.techradar.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t the first successful attempt to marry cinematic aspirations with the traditional branching narratives and simulationist world-building of CRPGs. 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins had a very similar mission statement, offering a spiritual successor to BioWare’s earlier Baldur’s Gate titles long before...
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
Iraq bans media usage of words ‘homosexuality,’ ‘gender’: reports (thehill.com)
Iraq’s official media regulator has reportedly banned the terms “homosexual” and “homosexuality” on all media and social media platforms and is instead mandating the usage of the term “sexual devia…
Disney raises streaming prices as CEO Bob Iger warns of password sharing crackdown (finance.yahoo.com)
Police investigating, lawsuit filed after baby allegedly decapitated during delivery at metro Atlanta hospital (www.fox5atlanta.com)
Police are now investigating after a lawsuit alleging a baby was decapitated during delivery on July 9 was filed in Clayton County against Southern Regional Medical Center and others.
Michigan meat processor ordered to pay fines after teen lost hand in grinder (www.cbsnews.com)
The owner of a meat business in western Michigan has been ordered to pay nearly $1,200 after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.
The toughest plastic bag ban is failing: A tale of smugglers, dumps and dying goats (www.npr.org)
Kenya was hailed for its decision to outlaw single use plastic bags in 2016, with remarkably hefty penalties. So why are the bags back in stores, piling up in dumps — and being ingested by livestock?
Saudi Arabia makes USB-C mandatory for electronic devices (9to5mac.com)
iPhone 15 is coming next month, and multiple rumors suggest Apple will finally switch from its proprietary Lightning connector to...
KUNA : "Barbie," "Talk to Me" banned in Kuwait (www.kuna.net.kw)
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information's committee on cinematic censorship decided on Wednesday to ban the screening in Kuwait of "Barbie" and "Talk to Me" films....
Virginia prison officials won't divulge complaints about facility where inmate died (apnews.com)
The Virginia Department of Corrections has refused to release records of complaints by inmates at a southwest Virginia prison that's under scrutiny in the 2022 death of an inmate.
Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed' (www.businessinsider.com)
The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
ROK police investigating claims pastor molested 8 North Korean defector students (www.nknews.org)
Seoul police are investigating a South Korean pastor who runs an alternative school for North Korean defectors on charges of sexually assaulting eight youth and child escapees from the DPRK....
Baldur's Gate 3 developer demands full list of uncredited translation staff "immediately" (www.eurogamer.net)
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has said it has taken "immediate" steps to ensure localisation staff currently left ou…
A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/hguLn...
No bail for Chicago man accused of fatally shooting 9-year-old girl 'completely unprovoked' (www.fox32chicago.com)
CHICAGO - A Cook County judge ordered a man accused of gunning down a 9-year-old girl last weekend in Portage Park to be held without bail.
PS5 shipments top 41.7 million (www.gematsu.com)
PlayStation 5 has shipped 41.7 million units worldwide, Sony announced in its financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023.
ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
Full text of A-bomb survivor's Pledge for Peace on 78th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing (mainichi.jp)
The following is a translation of the Pledge for Peace delivered by atomic bomb survivor representative Takeko Kudo on the 78th anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1224173...
Just want a solid gaming laptop (reddit.com)
My mom likes to play No Man’s Sky and Valheim, but her Asus TUF started freezing on games. RMA found no problems and sent it back to her but it still happens. I ordered a Legion for her but now I see these posts about all Nvidia 40-series laptops freezing up. What’s a gaming mom supposed to do?
The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…
'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)
When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.
Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules (www.tampabay.com)
The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.