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Last night I spent 2 hours watching 'Contrapoints' and 'Three Arrows' videos. These are incredible channels and they cover a variety of topics, here are some examples:

Contrapoints: Incels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0

Three Arrows: Was Hitler a Socialist? - A Response to Steven Crowder and Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFvG4RpwJI

Contrapoints: Jordan Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas
(she calls him daddy and I love it)

Half-Life 2 mod was just released after 9 years of development.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/after-9-years-half-life-2-mmod-is-available-for-download-improves-graphics-ai-vfx-sound-more/

Here are the key features of this mod:

Revised Gunplay
Enhanced Player Feedback
Hardened AI and AI’s Abilities
Brand New Weapon Animations
Fixed, Revised Weapon Models
New Arsenal
Numerous Bugfixes
VFX Re-Design
Sound Re-Design
Weapon Foley Sounds
Restored HEV Voicelines
Enhanced Visuals
Optional In-Game Graphical Enhancements
Nearly Everything is Optional
Lore Friendly

I think I'm going to play through this again :)

CONTROL TWEAKS:

-setting the camera deadzone all the way down and sensitivity up a couple notches made the camera feel way better for me
-under accessibility, change the run button from hold to toggle, so you just hit X/A once to start running and then you're off, instead of having to hold the button in and losing your right thumb for camera control

There are probably some other settings you can massage to make it feel more like a real video game, if you're not loving the way it plays I'd recommend digging around in there some more. The only thing you can't change is the incredibly slow walk speed but even that you get used to after a few hours.

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Podcasts!

Not sure if there's been one of these threads recently but what do you guys listen to on a daily/weekly basis?

Here's my list:

1a - https://the1a.org/podcast
Stay Tuned with Preet - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/551791730/stay-tuned-with-preet
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Freakonomics Radio - http://freakonomics.com/archive/
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin - https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/heresthething
How Did This Get Made? - https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/independent-content-provider/my-favorite-murder
The West Wing Weekly - http://thewestwingweekly.com/
Startup - https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/all#all-episodes-list
Pod Save America - https://art19.com/shows/pod-save-america
Radiolab - https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab

I also listen to an MMA podcast but that's pretty much it.

So here:
Disclaimer- I personally don't use exact measurements... I mostly use eyeballing and taste
3-4 medium-sized sized ripe avocados
1-2 roma tomatoes
1 clove of garlic
1/2 of a jalapeno
1/4 cup of cilantro
juice of 1/2 lime. If your limes are smaller size, maybe a bit more
1/2 of a small-medium sized onion
1/4 tsp of cumin
1/2 tsp of cayenne
salt and pepper to taste

Place avocados (you did peel and get rid of the seed, right) to a bowl. Add lime juice.
Dice onion and garlic to small dices (garlic should be very fine) and add to the bowl.
De-seed jalapeno and dice very fine. Add to bowl.
De-seed the roma tomatoes. Dice. Can be a bit larger since they should add a touch of texture. Add to bowl.
Taste.
Add spices (cayenne, cumin, s&p)
Taste.
Add more spices to your liking
Taste.
Mix. Fork works the best since you want to break the avocado texture up.
Add chopped up cilantro.
Taste.
Mix well.
Place a plastic wrap on top of the bowl tightly against your deliciousness and place to fridge to wait (if you can).

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Shack, I just put up an interview I did with Nate Wells (Thief 1, System Shock 2, Bioshock, The Last of Us) and I think it's one of the more interesting ones I've done.

Dude is super-cool and has lots of eye-opening perspectives about video game development. Like when they were working on SWAT 4 they really wanted to show how truly awful that job can be. Listen here:
https://youtu.be/T8UeNgNyOi4?t=14m32s



Anyway, if you want to check out the full interview, it's 45 mins and located here:

https://youtu.be/T8UeNgNyOi4

Yes.

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-16-editorial-boards-protectors-of-establishment-ideology