Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t meet EA’s expectations.
The game “engaged approximately 1.5 million players during the quarter, down nearly 50% from the company’s expectations,” EA says in a pre-announcement of its preliminary Q3 earnings results. That’s a shame, because the game is pretty good.
“Global Football” — aka the EA Sports FC franchise — also didn’t do as well as EA thought it would.
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The hardest part of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is making a choice
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is full of compelling characters, narratives, and choices that make the game an excellent conclusion to the saga that began with Dragon Age Origins.Ash Parrish (The Verge)
Major Subreddits Are Banning Links to X Following Musk’s Seig Heil-Like Salute
https://gizmodo.com/a-ton-of-big-subreddits-are-banning-links-to-x-following-musks-seig-heil-like-salute-2000553732?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Major Subreddits Are Banning Links to X Following Musk’s Seig Heil-Like Salute
More communities are considering blocking links to Musk's platfrom.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
Nvidia’s triple-fan GPU cooler was one step along the way to a slimmer RTX 5090
A leaked quad-slot prototype GPU design from Nvidia was real and informed the modular system used to make the upcoming RTX 5090 smaller than the RTX 4090.
Nvidia’s triple-fan GPU cooler was one step along the way to a slimmer RTX 5090
Nvidia confirmed the leaked ‘Titan ADA’ four-slot triple-fan GPU cooling system prototype and explained how it impacted the slimmer design of its new RTX 5090 GPU.Umar Shakir (The Verge)
Trump macht den Great Reset, die Große Transformation obsolet
Mit dem Austritt aus dem Pariser Klimaabkommen, aus der UN-Sonderorganistaion WHO und dem Stopp der Zahlungen an die von der Hamas durchsetzten UNWRA nähert sich Trump der demokratisch nicht legitimierten UNO selbst: America First.Fritz Goergen (Tichys Einblick)
Trump threatens Putin with taxes, tariffs and sanctions over Ukraine war
Trump threatens Putin with taxes, tariffs and sanctions over Ukraine war
US president tells his Russian counterpart to ‘settle now and stop this ridiculous war’ or face repercussionsPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
fortune.com/well/article/japan…
Japan’s loneliness epidemic is so bad that elderly women are committing crimes to find friends and health care in prison
Japan’s largest women’s prison has become home to a growing number of seniors.Ani Freedman (Fortune)
Russian Subway Dogs is currently 65% off on PlayStation in most regions! (70% with PS+)
Lowest price ever!🎉
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Includes the PS Vita version via crossbuy!
#PlayStation #indiegame #PSVita
Russian Subway Dogs
A fast-paced arcade game inspired by the stray dogs of the Moscow metrostore.playstation.com
They don't have proper "trending" page, that's why it seems barren.
At least on Pixelfed.social, there are a lot of active photographers, both casuals and professional posting their work there.
I didn't remember which one it was. I'm not really a GitHub user. It said there were open issues for a long time.
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Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/border-patrol-agent-who-was-killed-in-vermont-worked-at-the-pentagon-during-9-11-family-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says
Agent David Maland, 44, was killed Monday afternoon following a traffic stop, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement. A German national in the country on what the FBI called a current visa was killed.PBS News
Trump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes Investigators
In his inauguration speech on Monday, President Donald Trump said he wanted to be known as “a peacemaker and a unifier” in his second term, before applauding his own efforts of securing a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, as well as the return of t…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/chinese-astronauts-install-debris-shields-on-tiangong-space-station-during-8-5-hour-spacewalk-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Chinese astronauts install debris shields on Tiangong space station during 8.5-hour spacewalk (video)
Two Chinese astronauts completed an 8.5-hour spacewalk on Jan. 20, a sojourn that installed debris shielding outside the Tiangong space station.Andrew Jones (Space)
Trump administration asks U.S. health agencies to pause reports, online posts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/health-communication-trump-1.7438695?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health @health-cbcnews
Tourism growth: A ‘very serious investment’ in infrastructure needed, says mayor
Tourists have flooded back to Queenstown, but the mayor says they need support to pay for roads and pipes to cope with additional visitors.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Prime minister to attend events marking 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-liberation-auschwitz-ceremony-1.7438667?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Is this true?
Is it even what has been expected?
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •webghost0101
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •How long till the flipflop.
“I got ukrain the best deal by pressuring russia. All they have to do is give up half the land”
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Empricorn
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Sanctions haven't worked for three years, and Russia has already successfully diverted its economy away from the west at this point. The Financial Post was literally just reporting how Russia’s budget revenue rose to a record high last month even after the US targeted the banking sector with a new round of sanctions aimed at disrupting foreign trade payments and curbing proceeds from exports.
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Russia's Budget Revenue Surges to Record in December Despite Sanctions
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Guttural
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •businessinsider.com/russia-eco…
cnn.com/2024/11/18/economy/rus…
All is well.
Russia's economy is entering a year of pain in 2025
Thibault Spirlet (Business Insider)☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
in reply to Guttural • • •All is well indeed, especially compared to western economies
Russian economy is booming, and the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendat…
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-for…
It's absolutely hilarious how western propagandists have been predicting Russian economy collapsing for the past three years, but it's only getting stronger. I guess there will always be rubes like you who still believe it.
Russia is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year
Holly Ellyatt (CNBC)Guttural
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Well at least things are accelerating down there, hopefully the madness will end soon enough, so the image they're trying to project won't hold for long.
It'll be interesting to see how an already aging population will fare with so many of the active population dead.
Last time it happened in the West, it took imperialist pigs in the West a few notches down. Let's hope for Russians and the neighbouring countries they bully the story will be similar with the pigs in the Kremlin this time.
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in reply to Guttural • • •Apparently you can't even do basic math. Russian population is 140 million, and the total size of Russian army is 1.5 million, the casualties according to the only western source that provides any methodology is around 88k. If you think that's going to have a significant impact on Russia overall then you're delusional. en.zona.media/article/2022/05/…
Meanwhile, absolutely hilarious you think Russian economy is some sort of a Potemkin village that's got all the economists at the IMF and World Bank fooled. You keep on waiting there for Russian collapse, I'm sure it'll happen right after China collapses.
Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated
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in reply to Guttural • • •Guttural
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Must be nice living in that bubble of yours: reuters.com/world/europe/putin…
Or do you know the Russian economy better than its dictator?
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in reply to Guttural • • •Sodium_nitride
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Always funny to see how trump is way less pro-russia than liberals keep screaming. Man completely failed to warm US-Russia relations in his first term and I doubt he is in the second.
Lol the trump admin is only unpredictable if you take trump's statements too much at face value. The US government doesn't run on 1 person's tweets.
Shift? The west has been using economic measures since day 1.
Lol. Sanctions raj on overdrive.