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Ben Van Camp
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🎸Rock
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🎲Tabletop and TCG
👻Horror and Sci-Fi
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"On and off the court, straight fundamentals, no funny business"
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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SUNFLOWER SEEDS

new beat for the rain
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Bell pelpers, beef bells, beff pubbels and bepp, pub beefers and bebb, and beef
November 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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The Bard's Tale III. Wasteland. Wolfenstein 3D. Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Out Of This World. Baldur's Gate II. Neuromancer. Battle Chess. Rock & Roll Racing. And, let us not forget: Super Noah's Ark 3D!

Rebecca's work is everywhere in this industry, and she deserves our support and our love.
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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sideburns being named after general burnsides sounds like one of those apocryphal folk legends except it's true. They're literally named after this guy
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I say this with empathy toward every struggling actor who is just trying to make due:

Providing your voice for A.I. undermines everyone in the industry. It is a net negative, that will only make it harder for you and everyone else down the line.

It. Is. Wrong.
“But in ARC Raiders the GenAi voices were officially sanctioned by the actors! And so did Fortnite!” - and their agreement to this undermines everything the rest of us Voice Actors, our union, and other industries have been fighting against.
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This beat has been about 90% done for like 2 years, I just finally decided to finish it
SUNFLOWER SEEDS

new beat for the rain
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
SUNFLOWER SEEDS

new beat for the rain
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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this sucks so much man
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.

www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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It's really fascinating seeing the back and forth of splitting hairs people are making in the CSB youtube comments about how it's not GenAI, it's actually just feeding VA into TTS and that's totally different, when the game has this disclaimer on its page.
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I've faced similar claims and it's like bro I am streaming Digimon and going back to shit like Peak and Lethal Company because there are like a billion games. Like a billion.
Someone called me a liar for saying I wouldn't buy any new games if every game suddenly had gen AI content in it, as if old games don't exist. These people are Desperate.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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My entire life I've watched speculative scams rise and fall. Eventually they just get so obvious you can't pay attention to them, but AI and Crypto being tech based means we have to deal with them online constantly. Tupperware party is at least limited to the neighbourhood you live in.
Every economist worth their the pixels their words are strewn across says it's a bubble that's about to pop. But the people totally in on AI only listen to the guy with no credentials who says what they want to hear. Being correct is irrelevant, they want to feel like they're right
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Really good example of trying to foster AI doomerism in the comments I was describing. Even IF all of that is true (it's not, but sure), I can't stand the attitude of, well, since you *must* use X that's ethically compromised, you might as well just give up on everything! Just begging for a pass
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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imagine that
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I keep telling this story.

Imagine a vast orchard, bequeathed to the Boomers by their parents.

They spend their working lives tending it, growing it, selling the apples and cider. They show it to their kids, and they say, "It'll be up to you to keep this going when I retire."

(cont.)
Talk about robbing the future from a generation.
The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.

Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The Boomers grow older, as they predicted.

And then, one day, they saw down every tree in the orchard to build their retirement cabin.

"I'm done with the orchard," they tell their kids and grandkids. "It's all yours. Enjoy!"

And now, they're annoyed when their descendants complain.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM