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I think it's safe to say that we're in Twitter's endgame now. I don't think it's going to collapse like a dying star: Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the tortured, eternally unprofitable platform, and his creditors certainly want to see some kind of return on that investment. But Musk's annoying mercurial unseriousness, MAGA drift, and the fundamental reality that 11 figures is way too much to pay for a beleaguered social media company has me and other longtime posters coming to terms with the fact that Twitter is already well past its peak. Nothing lasts forever on the internet, especially when venture capital is involved. I've got mixed emotions about it. Twitter and its clout jockeying has been bad for my mental health and terrible for my perception of reality, but some of the greatest posts ever written have appeared on my Twitter timeline, and I'll be sad to lose that venue when it's gone. While the signal is still blinking, we've assembl...

Nintendo and animation studio Illumination shared the latest trailer for The   Super Mario Bros. Movie today. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto was on hand to introduce the new trailer; Anya Taylor-Joy (who is playing Princess Peach) and Seth Rogan (who voices Donkey Kong) also shared selfie videos of themselves sharing their contractually obligated excitement about participating in the film. The trailer showed more of the Mushroom Kingdom and primarily focused on Donkey Kong and Princess Peach. We also heard more from Chris Pratt's Mario, Charlie Day's Luigi, and Jack Black's Bowser (who explicitly refers to Mario as being a human). The trailer shows Mario training, fighting Donkey Kong, driving a kart on a rainbow road, traveling with Peach, and there was also one quick moment where we saw the human world. The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrives in theatres on April 7, 2023. from Game Informer https://ift.tt/ukCczdE via IFTTT

It's been a challenging couple of years for the GPU industry, with it hitting a not-so-great milestone recently: a new report from JPR says that in Q3 of this year, GPU shipments dropped 10.3% from the previous quarter.   Year-to-year, overall shipments on GPUs are down about 25%, which includes standalone GPUs as well as those shipped inside desktops and laptops. That's the biggest drop in GPU shipments since the 2009 recession. "The third quarter is usually the high point of the year for the GPU and PC suppliers, said John Peddie, president of JPR. "Even though the suppliers had guided down in Q2, the results came much below their expectations." On top of that, GPU attach rates are down 6% from last quarter, which means fewer people are buying systems (laptops and desktops) that come with a discrete or integrated video card. The report notes that AMD's overall GPU market share fell 8.5% while Nvidia lost about 2% of its market share, with Intel going ...

Earlier this year, video clips of the Russian invasion of Ukraine were seen by more than 110,000 people , and shared 25,000 times, before they were taken offline—because they weren't actually clips of the invasion at all. Instead they were gameplay videos taken from Bohemia Interactive's military sim Arma 3. It wasn't the first time this sort of thing has happened, and apparently Bohemia has had enough, because today it issued an explainer aimed at helping people tell the fakes from the real thing. "While it's flattering that Arma 3 simulates modern war conflicts in such a realistic way, we are certainly not pleased that it can be mistaken for real-life combat footage and used as war propaganda," PR manager Pavel Křižka said . "It has happened in the past (Arma 3 videos allegedly depicted conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and even between India and Pakistan), but nowadays this content has gained traction in regard to the current conflict in...

As more and more players finish the main storyline of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, many are dipping their toes into their primary ongoing endgame content: Tera raids. But increasingly, these players are voicing their displeasure with ways in which these raids are extremely broken. According to players, the newest Pokémon games suffers from poor matchmaking, lag, long animations, unforgiving timers, bugs, and ill-equipped players are actively ruining the experience. Here's how Tera raids work. Players can find sparkling Tera crystals scattered around the world of Paldea that, when interacted with, offer the opportunity to battle a powerful Terastallized Pokémon. These Pokémon are usually significantly more powerful than regular wild Pokémon, and often have a Tera type (basically this Pokémon generation's battle gimmick of choice) that's uncommon for their species. For instance, a Gyarados (normally a Flying/Water-type) might have a Dragon Tera type. If you're just p...

World of Warcraft's professions have had a pretty major overhaul in Dragonflight, bringing changes to how they work. While the core system will stay the same, profession stats, crafting orders, and item quality are just some of the things that you'll need to familiarise yourself with if you want to make the most of crafting in the new expansion. Don't be put off, though—the new profession system isn't as confusing as it might appear and I'll explain everything you need to know. If you're ready to get to work, here's what's new with professions in Dragonflight. WoW Dragonflight professions: How they work  The new crafting UI might look confusing at first, but it's pretty straightforward once you know what you're looking at. There's a whole mess of numbers and percentages in the screenshots below, but I'll go over what each of them means. You've got your standard recipe list on the left and in the main window you'll see the mat...

Dragon Glyphs are collectables you can find in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. These glyphs are scattered around the Dragon Isles and you can use them to unlock additional dragonriding talents. You unlock your first dragonriding mount soon after arriving in the first new zone so it's worth keeping an eye out for these to make getting around a little easier. You'll generally need to take to the skies to pick up these Dragon Glyphs as they're often high in the air or pretty much unreachable without the aid of your mount. So if you're ready to start powering up your flight, here's where to find every Dragon Glyph in Dragonflight and how to unlock your dragonriding talents. WoW Dragon Glyphs: How to unlock dragonriding talents  You will unlock your dragonriding skill—and gain your first dragonriding mount—once you progress the story quest a little way in The Waking Shores. Soon after, you're sent to Skytop Observatory where you will be introduced to dragon cust...