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atomheartbevo

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  1. https://kotaku.com/polygon-sold-vox-media-valnet-layoffs-digital-gaming-1851778655 The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet and much of its masthead has been laid off, Kotaku has learned. The sale was subsequently announced in a press release. Multiple staff members have posted online about losing their jobs or about colleagues now being out of work. — Vox SVP Chris Grant, who was Polygon’s founding Editor-in-Chief, shared insight into the deal and is apparent frustration with it on Bluesky. “14 years ago I pitched what would become Polygon to a startup called Sports Blogs Inc on the unfurnished third floor of a DC townhome,” he wrote. “I held a laptop on my knees and went through a deck. Today that same company—now called Vox Media—sold Polygon to Valnet.” He continued, “Their press release proudly calls Polygon a ‘premium gaming publication’ but Valnet literally refused to meet with me or answer a single question of mine throughout this process. They were wildly incurious about how a gaming publication even becomes ‘premium.’ I really, truly (!) hope that the remaining Polygon team gets a chance to continue the work we all cared about so much! But somehow this is the end of my journey with the thing I created.” “My most heartfelt thanks to the entire team, I’m so sorry things ended this way.”
  2. Camelot Unchained trailer out, spiritual sequel Dark Age of Camelot. Reactions are mixed, given that a taken 13 years.
  3. It's an AR video, reminiscent of Cloverfield.
  4. She and Syril have a more normal/grounded relationship than any Skywalker over the span of 9 movies.
  5. Holy shit, I thought he died 20 years ago.
  6. We are the dumbest fucking first-world country on this planet. RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research | WIRED A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities.
  7. Elon Musk on X: "It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!" / X
  8. He desperately needs to distract people, but not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.
  9. The Gulf of America shit is embarrassing as fuck. It only extends to our territorial waters.
  10. Another Kinnamen series that dropped off the radar - Altered Carbon on Netflix (well he's in the first season).
  11. If the board is actually doing it, given how much they stand to lose either way, and that they are all tied to him, they've decided they will give up the batshit p/e ratio for something more stable, even if it's less value overall. Too bad for him and them, the automobile version of Gwynne Shotwell is not walking through the door.
  12. They'll open it up until he reads something on truthsocial criticizing him or Musk whines. It's the nature of the beast, but at least this should get some stuff that was being held up flowing again.
  13. Make him Pope Alexander IX, rename Ivanka to Lucrezia.
  14. I may go camping and fishing Friday/Saturday so that you all can get some rain.
  15. He (almost) caught the bad guy (Cassian), saved Dedra, and got to hook up with Dedra. Andor is really his story.
  16. I like her English accent versus her Irish accent
  17. Plan to see Revenge of the Sith if it's in theaters this weekend, but I'd watch Phantom Menace again
  18. I will think of you all when I'm getting sued for copyright infringement over '50 Shades of Imperial Gray'.
  19. Dedra would never go for something that tacky. It's gotta be a rebel spy who goes deep undercover who whisks her to safety after she is blamed for a certain massacre, and he spends weeks at hyperspace trying to convince her that deep down she's a good person. Well, at least in one of the stories, maybe in others it might be some rebel spy she is interrogating, and he convinces her to free him and go on the run with him. Well, shit, there's a lot of stories....out there on the internet.
  20. I can't imagine how many hundreds or even thousands of words of erotic fan fiction about Dedra have been written since 6pm here in Austin. But next time I open up my word processor, I'll do a word count and let you know.
  21. Sorry for reposting but
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