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Far Cry New Dawn review: More of the same, only pinker

Feb16
by on February 16, 2019 at 12:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Far Cry New Dawn looks like it should be a big shakeup to the series, but once you peel back the outer layer of neon-pink paint, it’s the same old Far Cry underneath. If you like the series’ trademark open-world busywork, then it’ll scratch your itch. But, while it does show flashes of potential, the crazy post-apocalyptic mayhem it promises never really materializes. Far Cry 5 ended (at least canonically) with nuclear bombs wiping out most of the United States. New Dawn has absolutely no problem spoiling that, so I don’t either. After two decades, the nuclear winter has come…

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Far Cry New Dawn review: More of the same, only pinker

Feb16
by on February 16, 2019 at 12:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Far Cry New Dawn looks like it should be a big shakeup to the series, but once you peel back the outer layer of neon-pink paint, it’s the same old Far Cry underneath. If you like the series’ trademark open-world busywork, then it’ll scratch your itch. But, while it does show flashes of potential, the crazy post-apocalyptic mayhem it promises never really materializes. Far Cry 5 ended (at least canonically) with nuclear bombs wiping out most of the United States. New Dawn has absolutely no problem spoiling that, so I don’t either. After two decades, the nuclear winter has come…

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Study: Trump’s bravado isn’t an anomaly, it’s the culmination of a century-long political trend

Feb15
by on February 15, 2019 at 9:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


To outsiders, President Trump’s brazen speech and unconventional style may make him seem like an outlier, the sum of leftover parts assembled by a pissed-off populace. But for one group of researchers, Trump’s idiosyncrasies aren’t so much a departure from societal norms as they are a continuation of a trend dating back more than a century. As a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explains, Trump is actually the culmination of a century-plus long trend in Presidential communication. Researchers came to this conclusion by studying campaign speeches and those that followed, relying on text…

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What is a Facebook ‘legacy contact’ and why do you need one?

Feb15
by on February 15, 2019 at 8:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Of all the things you want to do after losing a loved one, cleaning up their social media profiles will probably be at rock bottom on the list. And even when you do get around to it, it can be needlessly complicated, requiring your loved ones to provide proof of your death, deleting your accounts, and possibly downloading your information so as not to lose it. If you want to avoid that, you can use…

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