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Review | I played ‘Resident Evil Requiem’ 9 times. Here’s what does and doesn’t work. The series’ most confident game in the last decade opens strong but lags in its second half.

I finished Resident Evil Requiem NINE times. This is my definitive review.

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Wow...RIP Fred Brennan. One of the many folks who helped me understand the QAnon world.

Reality TV then was parasitic. Maybe it's different now, I don't know. But they took what they needed from the participants—the "characters"—and discarded them when they were done.

ANTM was a dream for me at the time, but I'll always be relieved that I didn't end up a "former reality star."

As I was leaving the hotel, I realized that the real audition wasn't the walk or the headshots.

It was them egging on the girl who was standing in front of the line. It was the all questions in the application, like how we acted when we were drunk or how our relationship was with our parents. >>

On the ground, there was a line of tape we were meant to stand behind. One girl was standing slightly in front of it. Suddenly the casting director just exploded at her. And the girl wasn't having it at all, she got pissed and gave it right back to them.

I eventually got cut that day. >>

I tell this story whenever America's Next Top Model comes back into the news cycle: I auditioned in NYC at an open casting in 2009, when they opened it up to shorter girls. I made two callbacks.

At the 2nd callback, we walked in bikinis—not for Tyra or any judges, just the casting folks. >>

I love it

A photo of figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito. Above them, text reads “Alt, Gay, and from New Jersey”: The “Babes of Glory” are TikTok Fancam Fuel. The post was made by Them.

I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Bad Bunny just gifted us the best halftime show performance in recent memory, and the best statement to meet the moment that I've ever seen

A Sea of Bad Bunny Fans Gather in Puerto Rico For the Super Bowl

From @theathletic.com: Our reporter is in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and it was packed two hours before game time. There were a sea of Bad Bunny fans wearing shirts that say “I'm just here for the Benito Bowl.”

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I feel a deep connection to whoever drafted this

i am recovering from a successful lobectomy, yet here i am, tubes sticking out of me like i’m weapon x and stressed about all this. i need the insurance. i need my medical team here. please please let us all be ok.

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL Grok showed a “complete failure” for some prompts.

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL

It can end badly or it can end worse than badly. Those are the realities we're barreling towards

Not only has Gene been a fixture in gaming journalism for years, he has also fought back against some of the most toxic sludge trolls I've ever seen on social media. A fighter through and through.

Please donate or share his donation resources, whatever you are comfortably able to do.

Picture comparing YouTuber Kurt Caz's use of AI in his video thumbnail compared to the actual shot in the video

I'm back on QAA this week, talking about the YouTubers who travel to London to tell their audience that western civilization is collapsing, and that England's supposedly lawless, multi-ethnic capital city is at the heart of it. The episode is called London Has Fallen.

if you prefer venmo. thank you all so much. i can’t begin to express my gratitude.

Fun fact: Gene was there the second I met Kat. He was dressed like a hitman on a tropical vacation. He glowed me, a schlub, up pretty good despite being much cooler than I am. Which is what cool people do. Rest is history.

Gene is a wonderful person who has absolutely fucking walloped cancer in the past. He’ll do it again.

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hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.

my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.

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Yes

Many people don't know what the definition of 'doxing' actually is so they weaponize the word to accuse innocent people of committing some heinous act when in reality they are often sharing publicly available information

Beth Israel synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in September 1967. Fifty-eight years later, it was set on fire, with a suspect now in custody and charged with arson.

Like I said

It is easy to fall into despair right now, but even if it doesn't feel like it yet, history will require that we remember and document what is happening in this moment.

Do the research. Archive everything. Look in places that other people aren't looking. It will be necessary

This is an underacknowledged phenomenon, IMO: Real events, even those with actual proof and documentation, being falsely depicted in the form of AI outputs.

When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question

AI literacy education is sorely and increasingly needed—not just because AI-generated content can be so convincing, but because its very existence sows doubt in authentic content

AND it also needs to co-occur with standard media literacy education. Without that foundation, it won't be enough

Melissa was part of the “Be Here for the Cure” campaign in 1993. She was 21 yo. She’s still here, more than three decades later. Sometimes, when the present makes me sad or scared, I think about the courage that those young people had to stand up and fight — for their lives — against the stigma.