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Controversial forum Kiwi Farms taken offline over ‘imminent threats to human life’
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D&D’s attempts to root out racism in its books have taken a step backward
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How Stellaris has taken on new life over its six-year strategy journey
Galactic alliances aren’t built in a day, a month or even a year, to warp a comfortingly familiar phrase from 90s telly. Interplanetary 4X Stellaris has been evolving for more than six years now, having first released on May 9th 2016. Unusually, I remember exactly when I bought the game, because it was in the days just before my partner and I welcomed our first child. Being a ginormous sci-fi nerd, I enthusiastically downloaded it thinking I’d have all the space-time in the universe to invest in building my own interstellar superpower.
I did dip my toes in back then, and have many, many times since, but rather naively didn’t foresee the inevitable. The structure of my life altered dramatically with the arrival of our baby. It didn’t stop there either, and still hasn’t, taking on some unfamiliar but just about recognisable form every few months. I suspect the developers of Stellaris had a similar feeling following the game’s release into the wider universe, like Kubrick’s giant cosmic infant at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I know I’ve felt like my furniture’s been rearranged whenever I’ve started a new game of Stellaris with a different civilisation over the intervening years.
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Maisie Smith shares new holiday pictures taken by Max George on secret holiday to Crete
MAISIE Smith posed up a storm in snaps from her holiday to Crete with new love Max George.
She shared the photos days after Stacey Giggs, 43, branded Max a “lying dog” after The Sun revealed he had taken Maisie, 21, on the romantic break soon after they split.
The EastEnders star stunned in the photos as she frolicked on a boat in a black and white swimsuit, and fans commented on Maisie’s post.
One asked: “did max george take these ”
Another remarked: “Max is a good photographer”
Both Maisie and Max have been sharing snaps from their getaway, but have not mentioned each other.
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However last week Max and Maisie were seen kissing and cuddling in the pool at a five-star resort in Crete.
And onlookers told how the couple were “all over each other” during the flight from Manchester to the Greek island.
Stacey, ex-wife of Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, began dating Max in January 2019.
But after an on/off romance they split up again in late July.
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Furious Stacey this week accused Max of cheating on her with Maisie.
She told a pal: “To see them dating publicly so quickly after I dumped him is like a dagger to the heart.
“After everything I’ve done for him, I cannot believe he would be so rude and disrespectful. He’s a lying dog. I feel betrayed.
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“I’m very shocked he could be so cruel and I don’t recognise the person he’s become. I think Max has become obsessed with fame.”
Stacey took another swipe at Max on Instagram this week but has sinced deleted her comment.
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Salman Rushdie is taken off ventilator & is talking & joking a day after Hadi Matar stabbed ‘The Satanic Verses’ author
SALMAN Rushdie has been taken off of a ventilator and is speaking a day after he was stabbed 15 times.
Rushdie remains hospitalized after suffering serious injuries, including damage to his liver, and severed nerves in an arm and an eye.
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Aatish Taseer, a fellow author, tweeted on Saturday that Rushdie was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent confirmed the news.
Earlier on Saturday, Rushdie’s accused attacker pleaded not guilty after allegedly stabbing the author 15 times.
Hadi Matar, 24, was accused of attempted murder and assault after inflicting the horrific attack while Rushdie was on stage preparing to deliver a lecture on Friday.
Police had identified the suspect as Matar, who was arrested after the attack at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center.
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An attorney for Matar today entered the not-guilty plea on his behalf during an arraignment hearing in New York.
Matar appeared in court wearing a black and white jumpsuit and a white face mask. His hands were cuffed in front of him.
He was arraigned on the charges last night and remanded without bail, said the Chautauqua Co. DA’s office. New York state police said on Saturday that Matar of Fairview, New Jersey, was being detained at Chautauqua County Jail.
The bloody attack upon the author was met with shock and outrage from much of the world, along with tributes and praise for the award-winning author who for more than 30 years has faced death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses.
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Investigators have been working to determine whether the alleged assailant, born a decade after The Satanic Verses was published, acted alone.
US law enforcement last night revealed an initial investigation suggested Matar is sympathetic to the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the New York Post reported.
He was born in the US to Lebanese parents who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, said its mayor, Ali Tehfe.
A state trooper and a county sheriff’s deputy had been assigned to Rushdie’s lecture, and police confirmed the trooper nabbed the man.
But after the attack, some longtime visitors to the center questioned why there wasn’t tighter security for the event, given the bounty on his head offering more than $3 million to anyone who killed him.
ARTISTIC FREEDOM
As Rushdie remains in the hospital, Iran’s dictatorship has celebrated the horror attack – branding him an “apostate” and “heretic” as they praised his attacker for “tearing neck of the enemy of God with a knife”.
More than three decades ago, the regime called for Rushdie to be murdered – forcing him into hiding.
Ultra-conservative Iranian newspaper Kayhan commended the stabbing as its chief Hossein Shariatmadari described Rushdie as “depraved”.
He said: “Bravo to this courageous and duty-conscious man who attacked the apostate and depraved Salman Rushdie in New York.
“Let us kiss the hands of the one who tore the neck of the enemy of God with a knife.”
And in a chilling warning, its vengeful editor cautioned on Saturday that former US President Donald Trump and ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “are next”.
FARS News, another regime-owned outlet, accused Rushdie of having “insulted the Prophet of Islam (PBUH)” with the book’s “anti-religious content”.
Rushdie was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom when the man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist.
Horrified attendees rushed to his aid with pictures from the scene showing Rushdie lying on the stage as a crowd surrounded him.
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Blood could be seen splattered across a screen in the lecture theatre and a chair Rushdie was sitting on.
He was later airlifted to the hospital.