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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 24m

"Why are you dressed up like a die?"

I thought you said you were into rollplay

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 1h

Potential BIOS dive aside, Battlefield 6 goes surprisingly easy on PC hardware

For all its Secure Boot fiddliness, Battlefield 6 is a stable and high-performing shooter. Here's how you can make it run even better with settings tweaks.

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Parm @parmparm.bsky.social · 1d

IM SO READY FOR BATTLEFIELD 6

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Drone terrorism will be a big thing soon and we are completely unprepared www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Belgian PM reported to be among targets of ‘jihad-inspired’ drone plot

Officers in Antwerp arrest three suspects and recover an improvised explosive device

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 4h

We’d all love to hang out with you 🥰

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Ship it !

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 14h

I feared playing To the Moon: Beach Episode as the characters Kan Gao created as are close to my heart as my own family, and the Sigmund Minisodes were ominous.

My fears were proven true as In just 2.6 hours I was (again) emotionally destroyed.

Damn you, Kan 10/10 would cry again

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 20h

Battlefield 6 review

Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 1d

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed set in post-Civil War America due to US politics and Yasuke backlash

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game set in post-civil war America last year, with execs citing concern over the US political climate.

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

A ticking time bomb under our economies
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‘The debasement trade’: is this what’s driving gold, bitcoin and shares to record highs?

Investors fear governments will not – or cannot – rein in borrowing so are putting their money elsewhere

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

I had a good time restoring the Roman Empire, but my poor computer could not handle the fully developed world around 1300.
By then the game was running agonizingly slow and completing it has taken me months.
The whole game probably lasted 2 years (playing on and off). Crazy but I did it 😵‍💫 (8/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

By the end, the Roman empire had broken in three, with an Eastern empire and an Arabic Empire splitting off, and the Romans spilling into Central Asia, Tibet, Central and Eastern Europe, Scythia and central Africa.
Our combined forces were about 2 million soldiers. (7/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Emperor Ruhollah completed the conquest of India, making Fars the second most powerful empire in the world, after the Roman empire itself.

More than 500 kinsmen were at my beck and call and our dynasty renown score was over 1.9 million. The world was ruled by Robertines. (6/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Many emperors would follow and slowly restore the Roman empire's border back to when it had been at its greatest extent, under Trajan (98 - 117).
Eventually a civil war went wrong and emperor Gelduin was deposed and wandered the Earth before conquering Fars and starting a new Empire in Iran (5/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Becoming king at only 4 years old, amazingly Helie survived his regency period and after a glorious 74 year reign and a century of French expansion he managed to restore the Holy Roman Empire and die an Emperor. (4/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Duke Gilles was the finest warrior of his age and became the Marshall of France and the terror of its foes.
When he became regent for the new prince, his high status and great popularity made it possible to execute a bloodless coup.
After a glorious 51 year reign he died as Viceroy of France. (3/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Starting as lowly 9 year old magistrate in Anjou I was promptly murdered 3 years later 💀
My successor Robert II ruthlessly expanded his power by any means and had a good but bloody 45 year reign.
His successor would become a Governor (2/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

I completed my challenge of finishing a complete maximum length Crusader Kings 3 game starting in 867 and ending in 1453 (586 years) before Battlefield 6 comes out, but only barely. 😅 (1/8)

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJo...

Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven - Available October 28

YouTube video by Crusader Kings III

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see how this expansion won't melt my computer but I am willing to find out ! :)

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 1d

The largest ever Crusader Kings 3 expansion takes us to China, Japan and Southeast Asia this October

Paradox have slapped a date on Crusader Kings 3's All Under Heaven DLC, the 4X strategy game's "largest expansion" ever.

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a robot behind him says never tell me the odds

ALT: a man with a robot behind him says never tell me the odds

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 2d

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

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👨‍🚀 Rick Hunter 🚀 ❤️ 🇺🇦 ❤️ @rickhunter.bsky.social · 2d

Russia isn't making its recruitment targets and is forced to quadruple the sign-up bonuses in a bid to boost their recruitment numbers.

3.4 million rubles ($41,425) is a massive sum for a poor Russian, about 8-14 years of income.
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Russian regions are massively boosting military sign-up bonuses to lure more people to fight in Ukraine | CNN

Russian regions are dramatically increasing the amount of money they pay to new military recruits as analysts say “ideological” recruitment campaigns are no longer enough to motivate people to fight i...

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