This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo machine has a built-in panic lever, which I would be hammering furiously at every opportunity

I have precisely one tattoo, which I paid a trained artist an exorbitant amount of money to ink into my pasty skin. YouTuber Emily The Engineer may have developed a more cost-effective solution, however, as she’s cracked open a 3D printer, bypassed its firmware, equipped it with a tattoo gun—and even found a willing volunteer…

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There’s a whole world of MMOs you probably don’t know about, and the best way to play them just got basically its own Steam Workshop

Unless you’re one of the fewer-than-50 people who still play it regularly, there are solid odds you’ve never heard of Lusternia, Age of Ascension, a 21-year-old, free MMO that’s been quietly, contentedly trundling along for most of this century. That’s a shame, I reckon, because as someone who is decidedly ‘not an MMO guy,’ I’ve…

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Civilization 7 review

Civilization 7 feels more like a series offshoot than a Civilization 6 sequel, taking the venerated grand strategy series in a different direction from the past two games. Its most radical ideas certainly offer an interesting way to play Civilization, though as things stand it doesn’t feel like the best way to play. It’s the…

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