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I’ve got a belly and a big butt – my boyfriend says I should still wear a bikini, he’s my biggest fan
WE should love ourselves but so should our partners.
A woman’s boyfriend is her biggest fan as he urged her to show off her figure in a bikini.
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Nicola, a content creator, shared she felt self-conscious about wearing a bikini because of her big butt and belly[/caption]
Nicola (@nixylou) shared her worries in a video with over 30,000 TikTok followers.
The influencer felt self-conscious about wearing a bikini but her boyfriend coaxed her through the scary experience.
“My boyfriend telling me I can wear a bikini: Don’t overthink this, look in my eyes,” she said, adding the hashtags #biggestfan and #thicctok.
“Don’t be scared, don’t be shy, come on in, the water’s fine,” she continued, describing his encouragement.
Nicola shared her insecurities: “But I’ve got a belly and big a**,” she protested.
Her boyfriend said he didn’t care, as he should: “Like I give a sh**,” he replied.
People took to the comments to share their thoughts.
Many agreed with her boyfriend: “You are gorgeous!!! Stawp,” said one commenter.
“Girl put it on!! I’ll show you mine!!” encouraged another.
“Love it,” said a third. “You’re stunning go for it.”
“Aww love this, you’re beautiful,” said a fourth supporter.
“Hope you’re all keeping well.”
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Her boyfriend encouraged her, saying he doesn’t care[/caption]
Do voxels still have a place in the new age of modding and community creators?
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It’s a very interesting time for the tech that powers your favourite games. The industry is pushing forward on several fronts: AI, the metaverse, community content creation initiatives and, yes, even blockchain. It’s easy to get the impression that we’re on the precipice of a big new leap forward.
But where does that leave those who bet on the big cube roulette table that is voxel tech? We’ve seen some incredibly slick developments in that particularly geometric space over the past few generations; be it in gorgeous ray traced lighting, or jaw-dropping physics sandboxes. I spoke to Dennis Dawson and Marcus Gustafsson from Tuxedo Labs (best known for Teardown) about what place voxels have in an industry running forward at such a pace, and what we can expect from Tuxedo Labs in the future, too.
“We weren’t really ready to move on from Teardown. It’s still increasing in daily users – so we decided to hold off on a new game and keep working on Teardown,” states Dawson, CEO at Tuxedo Labs. Teardown, a game that blew many away back when it released in 2020, continues to have a growing audience of casual players and creators alike even today. The pair say they considered moving onto a new game following the Art Vandal update in 2022, taking their adventures with voxel games “to the next step”, but instead decided to stick with Teardown thanks to its active, and growing, player base.
Hacker Gary Bowser released from prison early, still owes Nintendo $14.5 million
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In April 2020, Bowser, who shares the same name as Nintendo of America’s president (and a certain Nintendo character), was arrested along with fellow Team Xecuter member Max Louarn on 11 felony counts of piracy. The group created tools like modchips and jailbreaks that allowed buyers to circumvent Nintendo’s security…
Starting tomorrow, only six EVs will still qualify for a $7,500 federal tax credit
The IRS released a list of electric vehicles that still qualify for the full $7,500 federal tax credit after strict new guidelines, announced back in March, officially go into effect on April 18th. The list is very short, as just six EVs now qualify under the new terms. The updated rules pertain to EV batteries and cut out China as an approved trading partner, so we knew the vehicle list would shrink, as most electric vehicles use batteries manufactured in China or by Chinese companies.
If you want to get that full tax credit, choose from the Cadillac Lyriq, Chevy Bolt, Chevy Bolt EUV, some Tesla Model 3 versions, some Tesla Model Y versions and Ford F-150 Lightning. Many EVs lose the full credit moving forward, like the Nissan Leaf and Volkswagen ID.4. So check the full list before zeroing in on your next car purchase. $7,500 is nothing to sneeze at.
EVs shunted out of the exclusive full tax-credit club may still qualify for a half credit of $3,750, so long as they meet certain requirements. Three PHEVs also qualify for the half credit and three more qualify for the full tax credit, including models manufactured by Ford, Lincoln, Chrysler and Jeep. These credits are not about excluding hybrid technology and are all about making sure components are sourced properly.
Here’s how that breaks down. Battery components that are 50 percent made or assembled in the USA qualify for the first half of $3,750 and if the company sources at least 40 percent of critical minerals from the US or free trade partners, the second $3,750 kicks in. If a company meets one or the other standard, the vehicle gets a half credit.
While the list winnowing down to just six vehicles makes for a good headline, it should beef up as automobile manufacturers make changes to meet the rules. New EVs that meet the component sourcing standards will get added to the list and other vehicles will get re-added as manufacturers open new factories in the US and other approved countries. New trade deals could also impact the list of approved vehicles as time marches forward. However, these rules grow stricter over time. Batteries must be completely made in North America by 2029 to continue to stay on the IRS’s good side and get that full $7,500 credit.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/starting-tomorrow-only-six-evs-will-still-qualify-for-a-7500-federal-tax-credit-185304414.html?src=rss
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Dark and Darker is still off Steam, so its devs are encouraging players to torrent it
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Following Dark and Darker’s delisting from Steam, developer Ironmace Games is now encouraging players to torrent the game.
The whole situation with Dark and Darker has been a bit of a wild one. Things started out exceptionally well with its third playtest back in February, but soon after that Ironmac Games was raided by police due to accusations of asset theft from video game publisher Nexon. In turn, Dark and Darker was pulled from Steam due to a cease and desist from Nexon. Now, in the latest development of this bumpy ride, Ironmace Games is fully encouraging its players to just torrent the game so they can keep playing it.
Ironmace Games sent a message to all users in Dark and Darker’s official Discord sharing the torrent, in quite a radical move for such a situation. “Thank you for your patience. We apologise for the radio silence,” the message reads. “Unfortunately, due to the complexities of our situation, especially across international lines, it is taking time to resolve the Steam situation. In order for us to keep our promise to our fans we’ve had to go old school this time,” going on to say that players who want to participate in the fifth alpha playtest can download the game through a torrent link the developers provided.
Dark and Darker is still kicked off Steam, so Ironmace is ‘going old school’ with BitTorrent for the latest playtest and fans are loving it
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iPhone 15 Pro Now Expected to Feature Two-Button Design for Volume, Mute Switch Still Replaced by Button
While Apple is planning to revert back to two buttons instead of the planned unified volume button, there will still be a change to the mute switch. Rather than a switch, Apple will use a physical button. Internally, this button has been referred to as the “ringer button” or the “action button,” and rumors have suggested that it could be a customizable button that is similar to the Apple Watch Ultra Action button.
Up until earlier this week, Apple was still working on a unified, solid-state volume button that offered haptic feedback rather than a physical button mechanism. Apple abandoned the solid-state button design on Tuesday, and Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the change was due to “unresolved technical issues.”
At the time, Kuo said that Apple would revert back to a “traditional physical button design,” but it was not clear if Apple would continue to use the unified button that it had designed or if the company would swap back to a two-button design. Unknownz21’s sources today learned that Apple will opt to revert to two buttons, delaying the unified button design until the iPhone 16 Pro.
Earlier today, MacRumors shared renders of what the iPhone 15 Pro models would have looked like with the unified volume button design. This is the design that Apple planned on using for most of the iPhone 15 Pro development period, and it is just this week that the change was made to shift back to the old design.
Unfortunately, we were working on these renders before we got the news about the solid-state button change, and we did not hear about Apple’s revised plans for the buttons until after the renders were published. The renders we shared are now representative of the solid-state button design that Apple planned to use for the iPhone 15 Pro, which will not be the final design.
The renders offer a look at what the design might have been had Apple stuck with solid-state technology, and they feature the button design that Apple is likely to adopt for the iPhone 16 Pro models. Though delayed for now, Apple is continuing to work on haptic buttons, and the company is expected to implement the technology in next year’s Pro iPhone models.
Apple will use standard mechanical buttons for both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, but as mentioned before, the mute button that is in the renders remains accurate. Apple is expected to use a mute button instead of a mute switch for the iPhone 15 Pro lineup. These design changes are able to be made because the devices are still in the Engineering Validation Test stage and have not reached final production.
Apple did create some iPhone 15 Pro models that have solid-state buttons and the volume button design that we shared, and these will be used internally for testing to ensure the technology is ready for the iPhone 16 lineup.
Renders, case makers’ dummies, CADs, and other leaked information that has depicted a unified volume button is now out of date due to Apple’s late design shift. Late stage design changes are unusual for Apple, but do happen when there are issues with a feature that can’t be worked out in time for launch.
The AirPower, for example, was nixed entirely after Apple could not get it to work as intended. Back in 2011, there were widespread rumors of a teardrop design for the iPhone 5 that did not pan out after Apple went with a different design, and with the third-generation iPod touch, Apple added a camera during the design stages and then removed it from the final product.
There are a number of new features still rumored for the iPhone 15 Pro models, such as a titanium frame, a faster A17 chip, periscope lens technology (iPhone 15 Pro Max only), thinner display bezels, and a USB-C port instead of a Lightning port.
This article, “iPhone 15 Pro Now Expected to Feature Two-Button Design for Volume, Mute Switch Still Replaced by Button” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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