making @unchained_game (now on Abstract Portal). burner, love dogs & coffee. before: @gankstars, @intel
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last Dragon Age was almost AI slop combined with extreme leftist writing, so no surprise here
as a liberal, it's wild to me these big studios keep targeting this imaginary "modern audience" w/o depth or nuance or options for the other 95% of audience
BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Just start putting this guy’s tweets on the back of food labels.
Most decaf coffee is made with methylene chloride. It's the solvent that used to be in paint stripper.
The green beans are steamed, then washed in methylene chloride, which pulls out the caffeine and not much else. The beans are steamed again to drive off the solvent and then roasted at over 400F. FDA allows up to 10 parts per million. When a lab tested 24 decaf brands in 2020 it found the solvent in 10 of them at about 0.05 to 0.1 ppm, around 100 times below the limit. The industry calls this the European method.
There are 3 other ways to do it. Ethyl acetate, a solvent that can be made from sugarcane, which the trade calls the natural method. Carbon dioxide under pressure. And the Swiss Water process, which uses hot water and carbon filters and no solvent at all. Peet's says all of its decaf is water process. Starbucks has told reporters most of its decaf is the direct contact method, meaning solvent.
EPA banned most uses of methylene chloride in 2024, but food is FDA's job, so decaf wasn't part of it. A petition to pull it from food has sat at FDA since December 2023. FDA reopened comments on it in May and hasn't decided. If the bag says Swiss Water or water process, no solvent touched it. If the bag says nothing, you don't know.
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This isn't ragebait, clickbait or a joke. I genuinely want to have a meaningful discussion.
Web3 gaming is in a really tough spot right now, and I want to keep believing in it and pushing it forward.
But man, it's been ages since I've made money while actually having fun.
"But what about Cambria Gold Rush?"
I spent 7 days creating content, playing 8 hours a day and genuinely having fun. But I didn't make any money because I didn't reach a specific milestone.
I'm not saying Cambria is bad. It's not.
But it's been a while since a Web3 game has made me genuinely invested in its economy and excited to build alongside its community. Most things I've engaged with have either gone nowhere or ended in disappointment.
A lot of people ask me if I'm going to mint X or invest in Y, and honestly, I don't want to.
Not because they're necessarily bad investments. Some are already established enough that they could still do a solid 2x or 3x.
I just want something new to believe in.
Something I can discover early, get invested in, push alongside the community and watch grow.
I don't want to keep jumping into things that are already at the top. I want to help build something that gets there.
I'll most likely be playing Cambria when it launches. It's still my favorite Web3 game and, quite literally, the most fun I've had playing any Web3 game.
This isn't a criticism of Cambria. I just wanted to share what's been on my mind lately.
I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.
Where is Web3 gaming heading? What needs to change? Are there games or ecosystems right now that have given you a reason to believe again?
PS: I don't give a fuck if your entire argument is that "Web3 gaming is dead." Give me reasons. Give me data. Explain what went wrong and why.
I'm looking for actual discussion, not people hating for the sake of hating.
F*ck Russia. F*ck Orange Clown. F*ck anyone who blames Ukraine for the terrorism of an evil, psycopathic dictator.
Ukraine will win, w/ Starlink or not. We Ukrainians never give up, we're impossible to defeat. Just extra children will die needlessly.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
interesting stuff
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
an engineering marvel and a terrible product all-in-one
This may not be a popular take, but it seems like Tesla made the same mistakes with the Roadster as they did with the Cybertruck.
They went completely overboard.
While the Roadster demo was spectacular. It was just a demo and most owners won't get or use the features shown off.
The thrusters dictate so much of the vehicle's design and likely single-handedly delayed the vehicle. The thrusters only provide a one-time, 5 second boost before the tank is depleted. From estimates gathered online, the tank also costs $500 - $2,000 to fill.
Instead of the original sleek design that was already prototyped with 2+2 seating and could be used around town, Tesla designed the vehicle around the thrusters. It's not practical and you have to mount on a windshield wiper if it starts raining.
While the demo was amazing, this isn't the vehicle most people wanted and Tesla likely spent 10s of millions of dollars developing the thruster system instead of focusing on releasing a quad-motor version of the 2017 Roadster on time.
Is this what you wanted in the Roadster?
