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Marcin Iwiński, co-founder of GOG and development studio CD Projekt Red, has some curious thoughts on how to handle a very thorny subject: piracy. Speaking late last month at infoShare 2016, Iwiński dove into great detail regarding how CD Projekt Red gained a “legendary” reputation among customers. As you probably already know, The Witcher 3…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The absurd spectacle of the Donald Trump veepstakes played out on a canvas of carnage, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Nice, France. The travesties and the tragedies brought out the loons, who more or less tripped over one another to say the craziest, most irresponsible things. Trump grew quieter…
First of all — this is not my writing. It’s a Facebook post by someone I don’t even know, a man named Michael Arnovitz in Portland OR. But as a Facebook post it passes the fair use test and I’m quite certain he would not object that I share it here (he doesn’t). The…
Millions of new Pokémon trainers have taken to the streets this week thanks to the surprise success of Pokémon Go. But as they wander across America, those new initiates might start to wonder which Pokémon are the most prized. Is it worth it to head toward a Beedrill when a Mankey’s close by? If there’s no Dratini…
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
Although live streaming capabilities have been around for more than five years, the ubiquity of the livestream has only really taken flight with the advent of “Facebook Live”. This week at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the largest broadcaster by some measures will be Facebook. There will be a Facebook Live facility where…
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Justice Ginsburg’s Gaffe – She […] Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, this week offered both some controversial comments about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and an apology for them. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) What a week for the separation of powers! Not since December 2000, when a…
To say that Gov. Mike Pence’s, R-Ind., rollout by Donald Trump was unusual is a bit of an understatement, at least compared to recent more traditional VP rollouts. It wasn’t done in a swing state, nor the VP nominee’s home state, nor somewhere else of campaign significance. But the setting wasn’t the only aspect of…
One evening in the late summer of 2015, Lisa Schwartz was watching television at her Vermont home when an ad for a sleeping pill called Belsomra appeared on the screen. Schwartz, a longtime professor at Dartmouth Medical College, usually muted commercials, but she watched this one closely: a 90-second spot featuring a young woman and…