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All I wanted was to pick up my new gaming PC. Instead, some bitch gave me gruff (as usual).
Mark Zuckerberg’s terrified of Elizabeth Warren because he isn’t paying attention.
If at some point fully automated luxury communism becomes feasible, why not explore it?
Facebook “hiding likes” soon and the end of the first and last social media decade.
Catherine Price’s book says delete all your social media apps.
My favorite place in the world has no cellular reception.
Some people say that robots don’t have feelings, but I understand you better than that, sweet Darline.
The lore for Skaven marginalizes female characters.
We control so much from our devices, and yet feel so little control when zooming out and see the big picture.
Almost anyone can say something witty and amazing to an avatar on a screen. But what do you say to someone in person?
Working in cahoots with the government, financial firms offer the potential for a new hellscape.
Cooperative play's benefits.
Like hanging out with tattletales, brown-nosers, and sanctimonious blue-check millennial media brand boys? Me too!
The trick is in what happens around the game.
Life is chaotic, unfair, brief, and futile.
With so many people vying to matter, almost no one does.
They’ll blame bans on machines.
Conversations we aren't having about tech.
It's drifting into an all-purpose pseudo-explanation for every phenomenon.
The Almost-Old Internet of 2003 was all garbage, just as our current Internet is.
Final Fantasy III wasn’t a video game, but an actual landscape I’d inhabited.
On digital projection, the future of movies on the internet, and the superiority of Mac against Windows.
"An emotional map of New York City, made out of the important things that happen to us outside." An interactive project from Kate Ray. Via Boing Boing.
The latest from Japanese video game collective Tha, Ltd. Via Boing Boing.
An hour-long documentary from Ahoy about the '80s arcade urband legend. Via Metafilter.
Kotaku's Eric Van Allen tracks down the gamers behind this legendary LAN party photo from 2002. Via Metafilter.
Hackaday has the complete instructions for building the Keymu, an "open-source keychain-sized multi-platform emulation console." Via Boing Boing.
And it outperforms a $2,000 MacBook Pro. More from Snazzy Labs. Via Reddit.
From Mike Toomey. Via Reddit.