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To Grandmother’s House We Go

McSweeney’s
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Over the river and through the woods,
To Grandmother’s house we go;
At the airport on time, which is good cause the lines
Are moving super slow.

Over the river and through the screens
Then stuck at security
I’ve been patted down and thrown to the ground
Due to my…

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord War Sails designer on ships that mimic horse archers and dredging for inspiration in French bogs

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Can a ship be a horse archer? This is one of the many maritime musings Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's devs had to grapple with when putting together the flotilla of vessels which make up its naval warfare-themed War Sails expansion.

Ahead of War Sails' release on November 26th

Seasons Of Solitude is a wistful turn-based strategy game with constantly changing prehistoric maps

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Seasons of Solitude is a soulful balance of survival game and turn-based strategy about an exiled prehistoric tribesman who is trying not to trash his own habitat. It's the work of Estonian developers Ninjarithm Studio, and is based on Estonian myths.

There's a demo on Steam, which I've spent barely…

🥩 Red Meat Friday: Cloudflare And AWS

Irreal
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I’m sure that every Irreal reader is aware of the recent Internet outages caused by problems at AWS and Cloudflare. Most of those readers also know that things happen. Servers fail, cables break, backhoes wreak havoc, software runs up against implicit boundaries, and human beings make configuration errors. When those…

PHP 8.5.0 released

LWN.net
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Version 8.5.0 of the PHP language has been released. Changes include a new "|>" operator that, for some reason, makes these two lines equivalent:

    $result = strlen("Hello world");
    $result = "Hello world" |> strlen(...);

Other changes include a new function attribute, "#[\NoDiscard]" to indicate that the…

PUBG: Black Budget is an extraction shooter spin-off with an island trapped in a time loop of supernatural munching

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Krafton have revealed PUBG spin-off Black Budget, just in time for alpha testing of the extraction shooter to kick off next month. As you might expect given the genre, this latest work from PUBG Studios is all about getting out of the bad vibe zone in good time, after shooting…

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