Luke Plunkett
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Streamer Dislocates Knee Playing Call Of Duty
Have you ever caused yourself any genuine, physical harm while playing a video game? My thumb tore open after playing Gran Turismo endurance races for a week back in 1998, and I once kicked a table doing some kung fu shit for an EyeToy game. That’s about it. I have never, unlike this poor guy,…
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NASA Robot Sends One Of The Saddest Tweets I Have Ever Seen
InSight — or, less elegantly, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission — is a robot that NASA’s JPL (with help from the European Space Agency) sent to Mars back in 2018.
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Riot Games Trying To Get Out Of Terrible Crypto Sponsorship Deal
Back in August 2021, Riot Games — the developers of League of Legends — signed a sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You know, the exchange that is now bankrupt, with its founder arrested and facing serious fraud and money laundering charges.
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ArtStation Responds To AI Controversy, Makes Things Worse
Both professional and amateur artists alike were united yesterday in protest against ArtStation, the field’s biggest portfolio site, for its seeming inaction against a rising tide of AI-generated imagery washing up on its front page.