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Does extraterrestrial life exist on planet K2-18b?
  • Carbon dioxide and methane have been found on lifeless comets, yes? Seems like an "okay" indicator for life rather than a direct result of.

  • US sues to block merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, saying it could push prices higher
  • Sounds good on paper but in the 80s/90s the US people were told 401ks are better than pensions. Now in order to retire we all have to cheer on non-stop expansion of corporations or we can never retire.

  • What food or drink do you dislike that a lot of people like?
  • Cucumbers and celery. Really the only produce I actively dislike

  • Bike-friendly Paris votes on triple parking fees for SUVs
  • planet-killing microdickmobiles.

    Saw a Ford F-250 recently... Why do people with micro dick energy feel they need these awful vehicles?

  • Trump set to meet with Teamsters as he targets Biden support
  • If any union makes a deal with Republicans or that lunatic rapist they are out of their minds.

  • The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets
  • There are over 1000 Pokemon at this point. There's bound to be some level of similarity here and there. Gamefreak even designed Pokemon after other creatures, so it just seems somewhat silly to point a finger.

  • Nintendo reportedly could be releasing a Switch Pro
  • A clam shell Switch --without Joycon drift-- that plays my digital Switch library and features better graphical hardware is all I want. Doesn't need to be a revolution, but it needs to play more games than the Switch currently can.

  • How do we feel about federating with Threads?
  • How would you block threads? There are still many things about kbin that confuse me, so asking in earnest.

  • Joe Biden on Benjamin Netanyahu's Gaza war: ‘Israel starting to lose support’
  • lol Didn't some of the released hostages say Israel killed some of them due to their indiscriminate bombing of civilians?

  • If you could permanently change ONE thing about the world right now what would it be and why?
  • I'd crank all human empathy levels by 15/100 points to see what happens

  • Sonic Superstars' Sales Were 'Slightly Weaker' Than Sega Had Anticipated
  • Maybe it had some glitches on release

    I haven't heard much about it as of late and won't comment on its current state, but when it first came out it was a glitchy mess. Several reviewers mentioned how glitchy it was and docked it points. dunkey made a whole video showcasing glitches and odd design choices. It's a step in the right direction, so they deserve credit, but that doesn't change its shortcomings at launch.

  • Sonic Superstars' Sales Were 'Slightly Weaker' Than Sega Had Anticipated
  • Kind of seems silly to buy any game developed by Sonic Team these days. They are either half-baked ideas (Sonic with a sword? Sonic as a werewolf?) or glitchy messes with repetitive, cheap gameplay (Frontiers, Lost World). They seem to rarely learn from previous mistakes or grow as a development team, similar to Gamefreak. Both studios are sustained by name recognition.

  • YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
  • Watching 4 ads in a video under 6 minutes is bad design.

  • The future of Fitbit doesn't look good | Digital Trends
  • It's the worst when you already own a product and then Google buys it, e.g. Nest.

  • Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie with Sony
  • This director doesn't have many directing credits but seems that worked out well for The Super Mario Movie. His current catalog is averaging around 7 on IMDb, which is a far better indicator of quality than RT, so that's promising.

  • Embracer’s TimeSplitters studio Free Radical faces closure | VGC
  • I personally haven't seen a FPS be unique or engaging since the last Bioshock... and before that was maybe the first Bioshock or FEAR lol

    The MiLiTaRy Is CoOL vibe from COD, Battlefront and Halo never appealed to me, but Halo Combat Evolved on PC and Halo 3's multiplayer was at least fun.

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    Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable
    kotaku.com Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

    The company behind Fortnite is currently in a legal fight against Google over in-app fees

    Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

    The company behind Fortnite is currently in a legal fight against Google over in-app fees

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    Israel sends thousands of cross-border Palestinian workers back to Gaza
  • Concentration camp turned graveyard

  • ‘Captain Marvel’ Tracking Lower Than ‘The Flash’ — World of Reel
  • we’re all bored with the same product over and over again.

    Obviously with the success of the franchise I am in the minority with this belief, but from a critical standpoint 80% of the MCU films are "okay" and just popcorn flicks. There's nothing wrong with that, but now that has caught up with the viewers and Disney.

    Infinity War was special because the good guys actually lost and that alone shook things up for once. Endgame was special because it was the culmination of 10 years of filmmaking and a downright spectacle. Once you drill in beyond those, there are only a few standouts: Winter Soldier, Civil War, Iron Man 1 and Age of Ultron are all standouts in my opinion due to their themes: "what really defines the good guys?"

    There are a few others I enjoyed but they had problems: In Homecoming, Feige really screwed up a lot about what makes Peter Parker likeable. Ragnarok was fun but in retrospect it is dragged down in quality by the major screw ups of its successor and its refusal to take much seriously. The misfits of GotG were fun too but ultimately its success really messed up the tone of the entire franchise. None of those 3 really jump out as memorable long-term, either - just fun. The rest are forgettable and almost cookie cutter copies of each other.

  • The Beatles’ ‘last’ song ‘Now and Then’ is released
  • but seriously, why?

    It's a pretty cool and special release in my opinion, no need to be a hater. Literally all of the Beatles were included on the track as each of them touched it in some way over the last 30 years: John's now isolated vocals from his demo tape was the starting point, George's recorded guitar parts from before he died and obviously Ringo and Paul's work too. Given Paul and Ringo's ages it's a beautiful send-off to some of the most famous and influential musicians to have ever lived.

  • What is one generally common thing a lot of people do or believe that you cannot understand?

    I bring this up because it seems to once again be gaining traction in the zeitgeist: I cannot comprehend why UFO hunters put so much time and effort into trying to force governments to "reveal the truth about extraterrestrial contact", but I also cannot fathom how they think aliens even have a chance of successfully contacting us in-person in the first place.

    a) Why does anyone believe extraterrestrials would be able to track us down at all? Space is BIG. b) If aliens knew we existed in the first place, please explain the math of how they'd get here. Even taking Star Trek logic into account and considering warp drive as a possibility, when considering relativity, Newton's third law and the mathematics of achieving the right conditions of either for deep space travel, warp drive still seems implausible. c) In the mathematically improbable situation where intelligent life did manage to get here, why would they be tiptoeing around in the background for seemingly 80 or so years when they are clearly technologically superior to us and nothing humanity has available to itself could remotely stop them? It seems silly to imagine these incredible lifeforms getting here and then having an "oops we crash landed" event. d) Lastly, governments successfully covering up such an event(s) for decades is a fairy tale. Governments playing around with flight and stealth technology for the last 100 years? Yeah that seems likely.

    Do I think intelligent life exists? Absolutely. Is there a chance those beings have contacted or reached us? 99.9999999% no. Is it fun to speculate about the possibilities and portray those possibilities in stories? Of course. Should people be spending time and money forming organizations to "force the government to tell the truth", thereby wasting everyone else's time and resources and ultimately being drains on society? Absolutely not. I don't get it.

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