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    EA wants its own Call of Duty salt mines with Battlefield, and it doesn’t make sense

    The road EA is taking with the next Battlefield has been slowly coming into view in the months since the company began to right the Battlefield 2042 ship. That may not necessarily be evident, if all you’ve been really following is 2042’s constantly evolving state. Behind the scenes, however, EA and series creator DICE have been putting together the building blocks for what is very likely not going to be just a standard sequel in the storied military shooter series.In the simplest possible...

  • Fire doesn’t make it out of West Haven garage

    WEST HAVEN, Utah, April 10, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Fire crews were able to make short work of a Wednesday afternoon blaze, keeping a garage fire from becoming a house fire. “At 4:16 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, the Weber Fire District and Weber County Sheriff’s Office responded to a garage fire in Haven Estates, […] The post Fire doesn’t make it out of West Haven garage first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • Shadowheart doesn’t miss in Baldur’s Gate 3 when you use the right spells

    It has been a long-running meme in Baldur’s Gate 3 that Shadowheart is unable to hit her targets, but it’s not because she doesn’t know what she’s doing. As someone with a massive range of spells, it’s possible that she appears weak because you’re using the wrong ones.  At the start of Baldur’s Gate 3, a lot of the enemies you come across are going to be lower level with subsequently lower stats. As a result, cantrips like Sacred Flame will be useful - especially because you have an...

  • What a surprise! Free speech absolutist Elon Musk doesn’t really love free speech

    The X owner is paying legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ over their posts while weaponizing the law to shut down his criticsLet’s check in on the platform formerly known as Twitter shall we? Let’s have a gander at how it’s doing since Elon Musk, the world’s cleverest man, decided to set its extremely valuable brand equity on fire and rename it “X”. Continue reading

  • Pushing Buttons: The Fallout series doesn’t just look right – it feels like it was made by gamers, too

    In this week’s newsletter: Great game adaptations are increasingly high-budget fan-fiction, thanks to a generation of writers who actually understand games• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI am a few episodes from the end of the series Fallout on Prime Video. It’s funny and gory, at times sentimental and at other times ridiculous. In other words, it’s just like the games, which veer between quiet, tragic moments exploring the vestiges of America, and being chased...

  • ‘Having a big following doesn’t mean you’re a great recipe writer’: What makes a hit cookbook in 2024?

    Gone are the days of books by celebrity chefs lining the shelves at Waterstones. Today’s recipe tomes are instead being written by social media stars, from the women behind Pinch of Nom, to kindly grandmas living in the foothills of Italy. For publishers and writers, it’s a strange new world, writes Helen Salter

  • ‘One blip doesn’t have to mean you’ve blown it’ Mhairi lost 11 stone making new mindset grooves

    Mhairi says ‘Over the years I have had setbacks with losing weight and couldn’t understand what they were. I would start off eager and confident with every new diet I tried and then something would happen, and I would fall off it yet again.’ I went to Slimming World – and after I listened to my consultant explaining about how important it was to change your mindset around food and activity I realised things needed to change within me to make this happen. The survey of 2,003 adults,...

  • You Probably Won’t Have A Good Time Watching Netflix’s ‘Good Times’

    An animated sequel fizzles where it doesn’t actively offend

  • Make It Make Sense: Online Censors Demand Trust Despite Stifling Free Speech

    Big Tech censors work to violate Americans’ constitutional rights and then turn around and demand implicit trust from those same Americans. This was evident from two recent events. Soon after Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi warned Americans to pay attention to the “mass censorship” occurring online thanks to public and private partners, a “disinformation” expert called on Americans to believe only “trusted” and pre-approved sources for election-related content. Yet the very sources...

  • Make It Make Sense: Online Censors Demand Trust Despite Stifling Free Speech

    Big Tech censors work to violate Americans’ constitutional rights and then turn around and demand implicit trust from those same Americans. This was evident from two recent events. Soon after Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi warned Americans to pay attention to the “mass censorship” occurring online thanks to public and private partners, a “disinformation” expert called on Americans to believe only “trusted” and pre-approved sources for election-related content. Yet the very sources...

  • “Don’t worry”: Jackie Chan, 70, wants fans to know that he still doesn’t look 70

    Jackie Chan, the action movie superstar best known as one of the few actors willing to jump between the rungs of a ladder for a stunt, is doing alright. Celebrating his 70th birthday yesterday, Chan went on Instagram to tell fans that he’s fine, despite a recent photograph showing him looking his age. “Don’t worry,” he doesn’t actually look like a 70-year-old; those gray hairs and whiskers last seen in a curious viral photograph are for a role. About three weeks ago, a photograph of Jackie...

  • Goodbye Earth trailer spotlights Ahn Eun Jin but doesn’t feature lover Yoo Ah In – come on Netflix, don’t be cowards

    While Goodbye Earth trailer spotlights Ahn Eun Jin and features other main actors, there's narry a peep from male lead Yoo Ah In. Come on Netflix, stop being cowards or don't release the drama in the first place.