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Patrick Klepek and the entire staff at Waypoint, Vice's video game vertical, were laid off effective June 2nd. This was my favorite video game podcast. The demise of Giantbomb was so hard. Now this feels like the last bits of video game journalism I truly enjoyed being destroyed by capitalism. I guess now I'll have time to listen to all 3+ hours of Gertsmann's podcast. Sigh.

Jerry Springer died?!?!

"Sup? Wanna play?" https://imgur.com/gallery/06oU6Ce

No more Microsoft branded peripherals, only Surface, which tends to be more pricey. No word on any existing MS stuff moving over, but my impression is they're just bailing on lower margin devices. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23700998/microsoft-keyboard-mouse-webcam-discontinued-surface-brand

Feels weird to say "end of an era" when it's related to a gigacorp, but I'm sure we've all owned and liked a few MS peripherals at some point in the past 40 years

It's irrefutable! What sucks is when the vacation is over, like for me this week. 10 hours into my first day back, my average heart rate shot back up by like 25bpm :(

Woman who got Emmett Till murdered permanently evades justice.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/us/carolyn-bryant-donham-emmett-till/index.html

Thanks, Feinstein

Because Senator Feinstein was absent, the Senate overturned a Biden rule that would cut pollution from heavy duty trucks and causes harm to people’s lungs. We are putting decorum over democracy and our values. It’s time for Senator Feinstein to step down gracefully.

https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1651571775031980032

Are you really going to blame capitalism here? Like, video game coverage should be a public utility or something?

Sucks to see Klepeck leave VICE. But thanks to the free market and demand for his perspective, he will find a new niche somewhere, like how the Nextlander guys have cut out on their own and made a living.

I like the idea of this useless old tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

Telling the bees is a tradition in many European countries in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper's lives such as deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the household. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees leaving their hive, stopping the production of honey or dying.

you are a critically broken person