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Filmschoolrejects - Leather as power in Turn-of-the-Millenium Genre films

Picked up both Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey in the Ubisoft sales... Sometimes you have to plunge on the time wasting activities..

Far Cry 5, continuing on from my Thanksgiving start. I don't know why, but it still amuses me that they put in a way to finish the game within 5 minutes of the start. That, and that the past couple of Far Cry games all make a point of having key villains and psycopaths comment on how quickly the player got into killing large amount of people with very little prompting.

RollingStone - That uplifting tweet you just sent? A Russian troll might have posted it

Since it's thanksgiving in the US, I sat down and started playing Far Cry 5....

I think it's something like, we have a decade of vaping in the UK, and a single death that relates to vaping - and from what I dimly recall, again it was someone using illegal vaping stuff rather than legitamate sources. Still, it's a single decade, so it's not as if it's a serious amount of time to see ill-effects as such. But it's also one of those interesting in just how quick many governments are to snapkick legislation vs vaping in general without worrying about the science but keeping that initial "related to smoking" backlash. Which you rarely seem to see with booze...

To be fair, if its less dangerous than smoking cigarettes.. It's still an improvement..

CDC finally confirms that EVALI is caused by illegal thc, not legal vapes

Forbes - Koalas functionally extinct after Australia bushfires destroy 80% of their habitat

Giving Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey a try. Third-person survival type, but with the premise of being set 10,000,000 years ago in Africa (at least, that's where it starts), and you're slowly guiding the evolution of primates into humanity. Deveoping "skills" over generations that represent improved communication, motor functions, tool making, etc. The opening sequence includes a line about "we're not going to help you much", and by god that's right. The tutorial is very basic, and there's no real guidance on what you're doing. You have to learn as you go, figuring out what you actually need to do - just like a primate that has yet to evolve. One key thing is that so much of it runs by audio cues, when to click a button, when to release a button, it all comes down to hearing the right audio cue or everything goes **** up. Frustrating and engaging at the same time.

ScienceMag - How early Christian Church gave birth to today's weird Europeans