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After the recent Giant Bomb news, Vinny, Brad, and Alex went into the ups and downs of the site and pulled back the curtain: they were shareholders and reluctant to sell to CBS, profitability, the motivation for Papa Vinny's Pizza Party, how Vinny found the money to hire Abby and Ben, shutting down GBeast, RV acquisition. For a longtime fan, it was an interesting trip.
On The Nextlander Podcast 198: I'm Worth It!

Sieste, jour 3. On va essayer de récupérer de la courte nuit (3h de sommeil) Toujours pas d'orage, on cuit en attendant.
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Today we arrived back in Vienna at ~14:00, after leaving Istanbul on Tuesday 11:00, so ~50 hours of relaxed travelling (3h bus to Edirne, ~39h with the Optima Express train to Villach (2 nights & one day in a private sleeper compartment, like a cruise but on a train), then 4.5h to Vienna)

Hydrodynamic simulations of black hole evolution in AGN discs II: inclination damping for partially embedded satellites
Henry Whitehead, Connar Rowan, Bence Kocsis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23899

Hydrodynamic simulations of black hole evolution in AGN discs II: inclination damping for partially embedded satellites
We investigate the evolution of black holes on orbits with small inclinations ($i < 2^\circ$) to the gaseous discs of active galactic nuclei. We perform 3D adiabatic hydrodynamic simulations within a shearing frame, studying the damping of inclination by black hole-gas gravitation. We find that for objects with $i<3H_0R_0^{-1}$, where $H_0R_0^{-1}$ is the disc aspect ratio, the inclination lost per midplane crossing is proportional to the inclination preceding the crossing, resulting in a net e…