It was unofficially Blowout Week in the NFL. With three five-win teams among the six on a Week 8 bye, the NFL turned in a stinker of a weekend. Twelve of the 13 games were decided by at least 10 points, with the only draft-position battle in Jets-Bengals providing any last-minute drama. Starting with the Chargers dismantling the Vikings on …
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When it comes to video game deals, Amazon is showing no signs of slowing down after its October Prime Day sale and before Black Friday deals kick off as we inch closer to November. PS5 users, in particular, have plenty of different game deals to check out right now at the retailer, including some excellent discounts on Death Stranding 2, …
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Boom! Bang! Kablam! Etc. and so on. There will be a lot of that happening today as a big new event on Steam has a whole host of fantastic retro-inspired first-person shooters on sale for the rest of the week. On September 23, Boomstock 2025 started on Steam. The event celebrates “all boomer shooters and retro-inspired” FPS games and features …
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Congratulations to all on coming off the first week of NFL football with games scheduled the way they should be. There was no Friday evening game played in another country, where one team gives up a home game. There were two Monday night games without overlap, with the first game between a team on the East Coast and one in …
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WASHINGTON—Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a clear view of the “Free Palestine” movement. Speaking at Duke University on Tuesday, he said, “‘Free Palestine’ is, to me, just—you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” he said, according to the Duke school newspaper The Chronicle. And: “By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really …
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Samsung’s stable One UI 8 rollout with Android 16 should be starting any day now and, ahead of that, a bunch of new Galaxy phones have been updated to gain access to the beta program or get a revised version. The One UI 8 beta program originally started with the Galaxy S25 series and, finally, added other devices last month. …
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Science Would you be willing to ride in a lab and let researchers tug on your handlebars? Image: Accident Analysis & Prevention You’ve probably had it happen to you. You’re riding along, not a care in the world, when suddenly your handlebars twitch, and in an instant you’re scrambling to keep yourself from hitting the deck. Maybe you’ve hit something …
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It’s been just over a year since Microsoft fractured its very good, very straightforward Game Pass subscription into a bunch of differently priced tiers that seemed designed to be as confusing as possible. The company is now throwing players who are subscribed to the cheapest Game Pass tiers a bone: increased access to PC and cloud gaming perks. The company …
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If you’ve tried to pay for something on Steam via PayPal over the past month and a bit, only to be told you can’t, Valve have now offered an explanation as to why, pointing to a bank that previously handled PayPal transactions in certain currencies as having suddenly terminated its support. Folks in affected countries first noticed notifications informing them …
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Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in the form of a dildo, the joke that is also the question becomes a double entendre: Can you take …
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