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I knew Capcom was doing pretty well, but its stock is skyrocketing
The official D&D Virtual Tabletop is looking pretty slick
Pretty Things’ Dick Taylor: “I’m not sure we wanted the level of success of somebody like the Stones”
Dick Taylor, Pretty Things founder: “We wanted to put our own mark on things”
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Terra Nil review: a pretty reverse citybuilder that struggles to find its identity
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Terra Nil is a puzzle-citybuilder about reclaiming the environment. You replace pollution with lush life across a series of four randomly generated dioramas (plus four slightly more complicated challenge levels), covering the landscape in fynbos and forests, lichen and lagoons. When it all comes together and you can look over the fruits of your labour, birds chirping and piano melodically playing in the background, it’s beautiful. Getting to that point, though, is an often repetitive experience marred with frustration.
That TikTok hearing was pretty messed up, right?
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Yesterday continued Congress’s recent history of calling tech executives into a hearing to berate them about their excessive collection of users’ private data for financial means. But where Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai suffered through the hearings only to face little to no repercussions for their potentially egregious collection of data and anti-competitive practices, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was met with something far more defined — and the users of his platform immediately picked up on it.
“Your platform should be banned,” was one of the first things Chew heard when the hearing started. That was from Chair Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) in her opening statement. Her mind seemed made up, as did many of the members of Congress on the…
Lords of the Fallen’s technical showcase is pretty impressive
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During GDC 2023, CI Games studio Hexworks revealed a technical showcase for its dark-fantasy action-RPG Lords of the Fallen as part of Epic’s State of Unreal keynote.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, the showcase revealed one of the reboot’s early locations, character customization, adaptable armor, and the Lumen Global Illumination lighting.
The demonstration also showed how you can travel to and swap between the two worlds: Axiom, the realm of the living, and Umbral, the realm of the dead.
We live in pretty seaside town infested with ‘super-rats’ as big as CATS – no one can stop them
RESIDENTS in a pretty seaside town say it’s infested with “super-rats” the size of cats – and no one can stop them.
The resort of Tenby in South Wales offers a sandy beach, a pretty harbour and scenic cliff views which attracts thousands of tourists each year.
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Tenby’s tourism trade could be under threat from the super-rats if the problem cant be dealt with[/caption]
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Boatman Roger Miles says the issue of rats has worsened in recent weeks[/caption]
But locals say the tourist trade could be sabotaged due to a new breed of visitor – “super-rats”.
They say their town has been invaded by an army of rodents “as big as cats” – with fears their ability to breed prolifically will soon lead to the seaside town being overrun.
The giant rats have made their home on a huge hill overlooking Tenby’s famous golden sands.
Local boatman Roger Miles said the rodents have become a worsening problem in recent weeks, adding it is now “really concerning”.
He told The Sun: “Early evenings, dusk, early morning, rats all over the place really.
“There’s a certain area where you see parts of the cliffs at Castle Hill have been eroded.”
The rodents, he claims, are “as big as cats sometimes”.
He urges the Pembrokeshire council to take drastic action, adding: “It’s been going on for a long time, it’s been left alone and something needs to be done about it.”
Another local said: “You just can’t kill them quicker than they can breed.
“Once they’re here, they’re here to stay. Besides, they’re intelligent animals so they’ll soon work out the bait is no good for them.
“We’re living in terror of the bloody things.”
Resident Derek Brown added: “It’s the structural damage they might be doing to the cliff face that is the big problem.”
A female rat typically has six litters a year of up to 12 rat “pups”.
They reach sexual maturity after four to five weeks, meaning that a population can swell from two rats to around 1,250 in a year, with the potential to grow exponentially.
Local mayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, an all-year swimmer in the sea beneath Castle Hill, where the rats have made their home, admitted she regularly spots the giant rodents sauntering across the sand when she emerges from the water.
The civic official, who also represents her home town as a Pembrokeshire county councillor, has been instrumental in addressing the infestation by helping organise dozens of large bait boxes containing poison, which have been placed around Castle Hill.
Fisherman Michael Lewis said Tenby has had a rat issue for years, but they’ve become “famous” since they appeared on Facebook.
“Rats are a nuisance but now people are aware of them, some are scared stiff and others think they’re cute and cuddly,” he said.
“Truth is they breed like mad and they are unhygienic if they get into houses and the garbage from the restaurants and cafes.
“But you know how the saying goes – you’re never far away from a rat, and Tenby is no exception.”
Poet Clive Dobbins, from Tenby, found a rat in the lounge of his High Street flat two months ago.
“Suddenly this thing dashed and hit my leg,” he said. “Quite a few people have told me, especially on this mountain here, they’ve seen clusters of them.”
Tenby’s sandy bay attracts thousands of holiday-makers during the summer months and is famous for hosting the Wales Ironman triathlon event every September.
The annual endurance race, which gives the town a £5m economic windfall, starts on the beach with a 2.4-mile sea swim.
Reports of the massive rats, some of which are more than a foot long, scuttling around on the beach could well deter entrants.
But Ms Skyrme-Blackhall, who walks her dog on the beach every day, said people have no reason to be afraid of the rats.
“I see them all the time,” she said. “They’re just rats, though, they don’t worry me… rats are everywhere. It’s the same in every town.”
Lee Ashworth, 55, and his partner Michelle Lamb, 51, from Worcs, have visited Tenby for years and were spending the weekend looking for their “forever home”.
“A few rats aren’t going to put us off,” said Mr Ashworth. “We didn’t know the problem was as bad as it is until we got here.
“We’ve looked along the cliffs here by the lifeboat but we haven’t seen any yet, except for the bait boxes.
“In fact we haven’t seen any cats, let alone rats.
“It would put me off if we come here to live permanently, but we don’t intend moving for another 18 months, so hopefully they will have fixed the problem by then.”
Ken Long, 62, who volunteers for the RNLI in Tenby, said he sees the rats “everywhere” along the cliffs, but reckons the problem has been “overstressed”.
“To be honest I think it’s the refuse bins at the bottom of the hill leading down to the harbour that are attracting them,” he said.
“If there’s food left around in the bins, that’s only going to encourage rats isn’t it? No wonder they get so big.
“I walk the cliff path regularly and see plenty of rats, but I think the seagulls present a bigger problem. They are all vermin.”
Pembrokeshire Council has urged people not to feed birds or drop food, and said specialist staff are examining the cliffs where the rats are thought to be nesting.
A spokesperson told The Sun: “We are aware of issues with rodents and the need for additional baiting points and have been working on this on an ongoing basis in order to address this concern.
“We will be accessing the cliff face and starting a baiting programme imminently, using specialist staff.
“We continue to urge members of the public and the local community not to feed the birds or provide any food sources that may attract vermin to this area as this is the likely cause of the problem. We will also look to provide additional signage to reinforce this message.
“Following the planned baiting programme we will look at what options we have available to prevent the re-emergence of this issue in the future.”
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Lee Ashworth and Michelle Lamb say they hope the problem is dealt with by the time they move to Tenby[/caption]
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The Council has urged people not to feed birds or drop food in the area[/caption]
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Many of the rats have made their burrows on Castle Rock[/caption]
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Roger fears the rats could cause damage to the cliffs in Tenby[/caption]
Something Pretty Right: a History of Visual Basic
Visual Basic (or VB) burst onto the scene at a magical, transitional moment, presenting a radically simpler alternative for Windows 3.0 development. Bill Gates’ genuine enthusiasm for VB is evident in an accompanying 1991 video in which BillG personally and playfully demonstrates Visual Basic 1.0 at its launch event, as well as in a 1994 video in which Gates thanks Alan Cooper, the
“Father of Visual Basic,” with the Windows Pioneer Award.
For Gates, VB was love at first sight. “It blew his mind, he had never seen anything like it,” recalls Cooper of Gates’s reaction to his 1988 demo of a prototype. “At one point he turned to his retinue and asked ‘Why can’t we do stuff like this?'” Gates even came up with the idea of taking Cooper’s visual programming frontend and replacing its small custom internal language with BASIC.
After seeing what Microsoft had done to his baby, Cooper reportedly sat frustrated in the front row at the launch event. But it’s hard to argue with success, and Cooper eventually came to appreciate VB’s impact. “Had Ruby [Cooper’s creation] gone to the market as a shell construction set,” Cooper said, “it would have made millions of people happier, but then Visual Basic made hundreds of millions of people happier. I was not right, or rather, I was right enough, had a modicum of rightness. Same for Bill Gates, but the two of us together did something pretty right.”
At its peak, Visual Basic had nearly 3.5 million developers worldwide. Many of the innovations that Alan Cooper and Scott Ferguson’s teams introduced 30 years ago with VB are nowhere to be found in modern development, fueling a nostalgic fondness for the ease and magic VB delivered that we have yet to rekindle.
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This Moto Razr 2023 Leak Looks Pretty in Pink
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If you were a fan of the original Moto Razr line from the early 2000s, you’d love the latest leak for the all-new 2023 Moto Razr. While most images are leaked renders, we’re getting one of the first live photos of Motorola’s new foldable with a familiar Magenta pink paint job.