Random News Snippets & Articles

That’s cool and all, but I got my very first hype train last night, after over a year and a half of streaming.

Booya!

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“Put simply, we may be too worn out by social media to think deeply about things.”

What a quote to come out of this interesting article!

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Attention spans are dwindling

I don’t even entertain any social media and I have that problem…

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It explains why TikTok is so popular (and also banned in my house). I’m also moving my kids to a new school next year where chess is part of the curriculum to hopefully help them develop their attention spans (among other benefits).

As for the article, it might be that the same set of people who used to like strategy games, still do, but their numbers have been diluted in relation to the total number of gamers because of new gamers entering the “playground” since 2015. The new TikTok generation of gamers I would think, would almost have no interest in strategy games.

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Maybe not new news, but officially, your steam library gets lost in time when you die.

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I do see that they mention that doing so is a flagrant violation of Steam’s terms, not that anyone will really care.

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RIP Donald Sutherland. :cry:

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Too bad, so sad.

Such a phenomenal actor.

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Very sad, I grew up watching his movies.

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This one hurt a lot

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Not quite sure where this fits in in terms of posting it here, but here we go: Steam is now building a recording system into their client, which I think is pretty great, also, about damn time XD.

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Literally came here to make a post about it… :smiley:

Steam Game Recording - Gaming - Most Epic Win

So this happened…

Redd-edit to Add:

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Rest In Peace Shannen Doherty.

Fuck cancer.

What’s your excuse

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Goldfish don’t have a job to hold down!

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RIP James Earl Jones

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/arts/james-earl-jones-dead.html

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What a legend!