Evening Reading - January 11, 2024

Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look.

In case you missed it at Shacknews:

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review: Becoming immortal
• Al Gore is leaving Apple's board of directors
• Google lays off roughly 1,000 employees across hardware, engineer, and assistance teams
• Discord to lay off 17% of staff
• Twitter (currently known as X) ends NFT profile picture support
• Rabbit r1 AI Pocket Companion device sells 10,000 units in one day
• SEC approves rule change opening the door to Bitcoin ETF creation
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review
• Shack Chat: What is your video game prediction for 2024?
• F-Zero 99 review: The Race of the 21st Century

And now... Other Stuff From The Internet!!!

One of the best scenes from the Silicon Valley TV show

Every founder who raised in 2021: 💀

(must watch) pic.twitter.com/SM9pYCPeid

— Steph from OpenVC (@StephNass) January 10, 2024

Some startups out there wishing they took less in 2021.

Can someone help Zain out in Stardew Valley?

My parents have this displayed in the house

Not sure if they read the quote on the bottom pic.twitter.com/0wtoy1ybAd

— Zain (@ZainNaghmi) January 10, 2024

LOL.

Best battle rap song of all time

Who Made This? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/0BhZO0JJ0A

— Shawn K The King  (@SKTheKingYT) January 10, 2024

My man J.G. Wentworth is so cash money.

A real Guitar Hero

Watching this makes my hands hurt.

PirateSoftware with some advice on getting out of a doom spiral

Dude is one of my favorite streamers.

Keep on keeping on!

I made a custom @KojiPro2015 #DeathStranding Heartman notification for the @nothing phone(2) while I wait for #DeathStranding2. @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN @Kojima_Hideo @KojiPro2015_EN pic.twitter.com/FKc16MNfzH

— Dave Gibson ⠿🗼 (@AJapaneseDream) January 9, 2024

The Death Stranding community continues to make cool things.

The Generation Gap

i've seen crazy ads in my life but NOTHING compares to this. pic.twitter.com/Ci77pukeZx

— guillaumehuin (@HuinGuillaume) January 9, 2024

Well that was certainly a video about... Australia?

Two Zelda Games, Two Videos, One Cup

BOTW still owns.

Tears of the Kingdom really does allow for more torture scenarios.

There you have it, Shacknews. Your Evening Reading for January 11, 2024. Please consider playing Bubbletron to support our site's latest development project.

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Asif Khan

CEO/EIC/EIEIO

Asif Khan is the CEO, EIC, and majority shareholder of Shacknews. He began his career in video game journalism as a freelancer in 2001 for Tendobox.com. Asif is a CPA and was formerly an investment adviser representative. After much success in his own personal investments, he retired from his day job in financial services and is currently focused on new private investments. His favorite PC game of all time is Duke Nukem 3D, and he is an unapologetic fan of most things Nintendo. Asif first frequented the Shack when it was sCary's Shugashack to find all things Quake. When he is not immersed in investments or gaming he is a purveyor of fine electronic music. Asif also has an irrational love of Cleveland sports.