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In a desperate attempt to undo the damage of accidentally wiping their fiancée’s Red Dead Redemption 2 save, someone paid $159 to enlist Arthur Morgan’s voice actor to apologise for them

It’s hard to find a better voice than Roger Clark’s, the man behind Red Dead Redemption 2‘s protagonist Arthur Morgan. I’m jealous, really. But he’s a good sport about it, often recording videos and fulfilling Cameo requests from fans in character. It’s the usual things you’d expect, like birthday wishes, roasts, questions, or community jokes….

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Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs

It’s 11 years old and Rocket League has decided it’s had it up to here with cheating. In a post (actually an “article,” which I guess the everything app has now) on X, the game’s official account announced that, come April, Rocket League will be implementing Easy Anti-Cheat. “Adding Easy Anti-Cheat elevates our ability to…

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My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450’s worth of books for around $15

Pathfinder 2e Fanatical Bundle | 26, 10, or three items | Adventures, rulebooks, and miscellany$457.78 $14.99 at Fanatical (save $442.79) If you’re looking to start your adventures in Pathfinder 2e (and aren’t planning on running a homebrew campaign of your own design, since Paizo offers all its rules for free) then this bundle’s a no-brainer….

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Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen

Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past year, it can’t have escaped your notice that memory sticks and SSDs are painfully expensive right now, having risen fourfold in price in less than six months. With the AI market showing no signs of slowing its rampant consumption of DRAM and storage, you’d expect things…

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In its brave quest to never learn a single thing from science fiction, Meta has patented a literally ghoulish AI that keeps you posting long after you’re dead and gone

In season two, episode one of Black Mirror—a science fiction show designed to do what good sci-fi always does, satirise and critique the future—Martha, boyfriend of the late Ash Starmer, decides to try out a new service that creates an android from her dead boyfriend’s social media profiles. The episode is about how existentially horrifying…

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Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there to be ‘active intentional involvement from Microsoft’

Windows 11. There’s a lot I could say about Microsoft’s latest operating system, but if I got into it, we’d be here all day. So, let’s focus on the most recent development—namely, how many Windows Insiders have been blocked from downloading the latest preview build ISOs. To be clear, non-Insider builds of Windows 11 are…

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