Month: October 2021
Losing Facebook is bad, but losing WhatsApp is worse
In the chaos of Monday’s Facebook outage, it’s easy to lose sight of the company’s reach. Not being able to post a new photo to Instagram is an annoyance, but it’s not necessarily catastrophic. Yet for WhatsApp users, especially outside of the US, losing Facebook’s encrypted messaging service is a…
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Anomymous returns with another huge Epik data dump
The hacktivist collective Anonymous is back yet again with even more data from the web hosting company Epik and this latest leak contains data on the Republican Party of Texas. In a press release titled “You Lost The Game”, Anonymous revealed that its Operation Epik Fail isn’t over yet and…
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Gloomhaven and other popular tabletop games are on Amazon’s Deal of the Day
Amazon has billed today’s Deal of the Day as its “Epic Daily Deal,” and the shoe certainly fits when it includes one of the most epic RPG-in-a-box titles of all time. Gloomhaven is currently on sale, tying its all-time low price of $85 just for today. This shaves 40 percent…
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Facebook is finally back after hours-long outage, as are Instagram and WhatsApp
Big social media is still in big trouble: Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Facebook Messenger experienced widespread outages Monday morning, and many users around the world can’t use some of the most popular sites – Facebook’s services. While this isn’t unknown, the length of the outage, spanning over six hours at…
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Mephisto Hints Which Future is Marvel’s Actual Sacred Timeline
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #74 As one of the greatest sources of evil in the Marvel Comics universe, the demon Mephisto has access to all sorts of secrets the likes of which would bring other characters to their knees – including the truth about the Marvel Universe’s real Sacred…
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Tabletop RPGs That Are Easy To Play Through Text Messages
Online roleplaying has surged in popularity over the past year and a half, with some tabletop gamers using virtual tabletop sites like Roll20 to play classic RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons. However, others have started participating in narrative “Play By Post” RPGs on forums and chat clients like Discord. The RPG systems below are particularly good…
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