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Women detail drug use, sex and payments after late-night parties with Gaetz and others WWW.CNN.COM The first thing some of the women were asked to do when they got to the house parties in the gated community in suburban Orlando was to put away their cellphones, according to two women in attendance who spoke to CNN in recent days. The men inside, a who's who of local Republican officials that often included Rep. Matt Gaetz, did not want the night's activities documented. A God-fearing man, indeed. I vaguely remember this.

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I actually laughed during the ending of the movie.

It’s one of his early works that eluded me that people seem to like.

Worth its own thread, but first posted here: Store PS5 Games on Compatible External USB Drives.* With this feature, you can now transfer your PS5 games to USB extended storage from your console’s internal storage. It’s a great way to extend the storage capabilities of your PS5 console, and you can seamlessly copy your PS5 games back to the console’s internal storage when you’re ready to play. It is faster to reinstall PS5 games from USB extended storage than to re-download or copy them from a disc. Because PS5 games are designed to take advantage of the console’s ultra high-speed SSD, PS5 titles can’t be played from USB extended storage. PS5 titles also cannot be directly downloaded to USB extended storage. However, games that you transfer or copy back to internal storage will automatically update when applicable. In addition, you can select which game modes you want to install (such as campaign or multiplayer) for select titles that support the option. For tips on using USB extended storage on PS5, including storage device requirements, please visit: USB extended storage on PlayStation®5 consoles WWW.PLAYSTATION.COM Learn how to format a USB drive as USB extended storage for your PS5™ console, which USB drives can be used as USB extended storage, and what games can be stored in USB extended storage on PS5. Cross-generation Share Play. PS4 and PS5 players can now Share Play together while chatting in parties. This means PS5 console users can let their friends on PS4 consoles view their game screen, or even try out the PS5 games through Share Play, and vice versa. Options include the ability to share your screen with a friend, pass your controller virtually to a friend, or pass a second controller virtually to play co-op games together. Request to Join Game Session. A selection of your friends’ joinable game sessions will now appear on both PS5 and PS4 consoles, allowing for more gameplay opportunities together. The “Request to Join” option also serves as a shortcut to sending a game invite, reducing the time it takes for you to get into games with friends. Through the Privacy Settings menu, you can modify who can interact with you through parties, games and messages. Improved Game Base. The Game Base menu has been improved for quicker access to important content and features. You can now easily switch between Parties and Friends to start chatting with your existing parties or see what each of your online friends is up to. In addition, you can turn notifications on or off for each of the parties you’re in. Disable Game Chat or Adjust Players’ Volume. You can now quickly disable in-game chat, which turns off your mic audio and the voice audio of other players. Additionally, you can easily adjust the individual voice chat volume of other players in the same chat so you don’t have to ask your friends to lower or increase their mic volume each time. Game Update Pre-download. Once it’s enabled by developers, title updates for games will pre-download to your console if the “automatic updates” setting is enabled and your console is on or in rest mode. This will let you start playing the latest version of a game immediately after the update’s release. Customize Game Library. With the ability to search your library or hide games from view, it’s now easier to find content and personalize your view of your game library. Screen Zoom. You can now adjust the magnification of the screen to suit your preference from the Settings menu. New Trophy Settings and Stats Screen. The level of trophies that results in automatic capture of a screenshot or video clip can now be customized — so you can now choose to only capture and save images/videos of moments when you earn higher-grade trophies, like Gold or Platinum. We’re also introducing a new player Trophy Stats screen, where you can check out the summary of your trophy level and status at a glance.

Announcing a New Funding Round of $1 Billion to Support Epic’s Long-Term Vision for the Metaverse WWW.EPICGAMES.COM Epic Games announces a new round of $1 billion in funding to help develop the long-term vision for the Metaverse. Sony Group Corporation and a host of investment partners are supporting Epic’s growth.

I think one of the real tragedy is that if the Taser had worked, nobody would have been shot. 😕 It actually could have saved a life.

The black Capitol officer who got Romney to safety and led the mob astray was also a bit overweight, but I'd buy him a drink. The whole issue frustrates me because it's probably one of the few issues where I feel that two sides are speaking past each other. And some just have ill motives and are racist, but I know some people who work crime scenes and get excited if they can prove someone's innocence. So I know there are people who really think it's a calling, but I also know that too many people die who shouldn't, whether it's Tamir Rice or George Floyd (especially the latter having known people who have gotten off drugs). Fun fact about that: despite how they look, if they're passing the physical exam, then they're good. I don't think it's necessarily none of his business, especially if there are other things in the car connecting the wanted man with other crimes. EDIT: Oh, there may be a misunderstanding. The car belongs to the person with outstanding warrants. It's totally his business, and he was trying to explain that to the woman. Just so the point isn't lost, I'm referencing this one because it's an example of someone who was maybe too patient and was shot, but was able to save himself because he was armed. He clearly wasn't trying to kill anyone until the very last second, so I don't think disarming him would be the answer. An innocent person dying is heartbreaking, but so is an innocent cop. Let's protect both.

I could see letting her go, to an extent. But not knowing what she has in her car (and we find that it's a gun that she used on him), and the fact that she was telling people where she was (don't know if they're armed), there are a lot of moving elements. He even tried a taser at first, which is the nonlethal option, and I've learned they're not 100% reliable. Do we really have to insult the cop when the person who shot him was also fat? Why not pick our battles? I just get worried that at some point, we're just hurting good officers. Yeah, the dude is huge, but he was patient as all hell, wasn't going out guns blazing, and tried non-lethal force AND told her to drop the gun. That's what I want to see as opposed to the Virginia cops who came out guns blazing and I'm pretty sure realized they eff'd up by the end of it. But for this video, I'd rather she had turned her life around (only 31) and he wasn't shot, but given the circumstance, that's a situation when I feel it's brought on herself, and he's alive at that point because he's armed. There has to be not necessarily a straight middle, but something between guns blazing and being unarmed, imo.

I don't think that was an option in the video. I've seen cops let someone run, but they'll pick their wallet out of their pocket for identification.

I don't know what the percentage of armed people are in traffic stops, but I think it's more than we think. Ex: I just saw this recently. I feel terrible that the woman was only 31. But I think at that point, after all that patience, and clearly trying to go in the vehicle several times where her weapon is, that lethal force was the only thing that made sense (especially since his taser failed, which apparently happens often). Had he not been armed, then we'd just have a possible dead cop due to a taser that didn't work.

This doesn't make any sense. Republicans in the state didn't coordinate who would vote for Moore and who would vote for Jones. Indications were that it would be a close race a few weeks prior to the election, and that was before the accusations and being banned from the mall came out. Moore is a good example of candidate quality mattering, a mix of increased turnout, especially among African-American women, and Republican defectors.

There's probably research into this and how it changes with polarization (maybe people care more when we're less polarized). But Roy Moore is a HUGE example of this. It was competitive to begin with, but there were plenty of Republicans willing to let him lose and get someone else in 2020 (as shitty as what they picked), or were completely frightened by his pedophilia issues, not to mention turnout from Democrats. When I was first getting into politics, we had Mark Foley, who made headlines here in Florida in 2000, who either resigned in disgrace or decided not to run, and the Democrat won. The Democrat, Mahoney, was embroiled in his own scandal in 2008 for domestic abuse and lost in a year when Democrats swept nationwide. I would think there are probably many factors: how far away from an election it happened, is it still in people's minds by Election Day (different "scandal," but Hillary's emails is a good example), what kind of scandal it is, etc. etc.

But what he’s claiming the article is about is contradicted by his own reporting. Their issue with TLOU was that it was over budget comparative to their previous remakes, not that it wasn’t big enough. Days Gone was profitable but because of its troubled development and critical reception, they’re doing a new IP instead. If they were doing Days Gone 2, they’d still be working on a big game. All in all, most of their releases aren’t AAA and especially haven’t been in the past year and this year.

I’ll be the judge of what point you were making

Most of their releases the last few years have been new IPs, though.

Strangely (considering the headline), Sony has been on fire the past year releasing games that are outside the big TLOU2 releases (Dreams, Predator, Astro Bot, Sackboy, Destruction All-Stars, Demon’s Souls Remake). And methinks the money spent on Ratchet and Returnal isn’t in the same ballpark as Horizon or GOW. That’s why I don’t know if Jason knew some thing that he didn’t share in the story, or if he is making his own observation as the headline.

I wasn’t attached to him, but why are we celebrating?

Fuck, folks could just look at the summary description that comes with the link.

Biden to form commission to study Supreme Court changes WWW.NBCNEWS.COM The bipartisan commission will examine the length of service and turnover of justices on the court as well as its membership and size, the White House said.

From the article, this smaller team wanted to start on that since it would be easier and then remake Uncharted 1 since doing UC1 first would take more resources since it requires more quality-of-life updates. Hulst asked why it was more expensive than the other remakes they've done and wasn't convinced that they should do it, so development was handed to Naughty Dog as they work on that and Factions. It's sad, but pitches are turned down a lot, and I can see how it makes sense to salvage a remake of a game that's getting a TV series soon and possibly packaging it with TLOU2. Remaking an older PS2 game, even with QoL updates, may have been a better idea for this small team. Some of this news is concerning to me (replayed Days Gone this year and loved it, wanted a sequel), but I think Schreier could make making a leap with this headline considering they're supporting and pushing games like Ratchet, Returnal (more a AA roguelike), supporting games like Kena and working with smaller developers like Heart Machine, are supporting and expanding ASOBI who have mostly made fun and smaller-budget platformers and Playroom games, and doubled down on their support of Media Molecule since they're profitable and make critically acclaimed games. With the thrust of the article being about this new team trying to remake TLOU1, it seems like kind of a leap that, "Why is this remake so expensive?" is doubling down on nothing but blockbusters.

Just broke on NBC. Prince Philip, husband of the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99 WWW.NBCNEWS.COM In his active years, Philip helped set a new course for the monarchy under a young queen, championing Britain itself.

You're so progressive you're basically Flo

Was it an insult? Quantified. I know, it’ll be interesting what would get bleeped 😛