Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 (Kosta Andreadis/TweakTown)
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108287/steam-just-broke-its-concurre…
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said ‘This one is heavy : try it and you will see.’ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28
🏛 Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman <…
The great thing about search in social media is you can always check if someone has made your devastatingly insightful or funny remark before. It's usually multiple times, too, rather than zero.
(Post, search, delete: done it again)
Ukraine is where despot empires break - from Napoleon to Hitler to Putin, Ukraine is the battlefield where things are decided.
Giorgio reviews the history with many maps and clarity, the type of reporting we no longer find in the USA.
Support his work and the people of Ukraine by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Kirkman/115735269218730822
This is what we mean when we say that capitalism is endlessly innovative.
"Battlefield 6": EA zeigt sich mit Kampf gegen Cheater zufrieden
Die meisten "Battlefield 6"-Partien sind frei von Cheatern, schreibt EA. Zu verdanken sei das auch der Secure-Boot-Pflicht.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115565988319370376
People can be terribly annoyed when you do that, i.e., draw equivalences between islamophobia and antisemitism, but the similarities are often very obvious.
Predictions: how is Trump going to react? Pooh-pooh all the criticism, pretend it's a storm in a teacup, or completely melt-down?
He doesn't normally get blowback from his own side.
https://www.rawstory.com/rob-reiner-2674400641/