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In Other News – 29 June 2016

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I keep typing short blurbs here in the hope of making you smile or laugh, but everything I write seems to be so serious today. So instead, I’m just going to remind you of how old you are – 19 years ago today, Mike Tyson bit an ear instead of throwing a punch. Time flies when you’re a cannibal.

In Other News:: Call of Dragons, PlayStation Plus has many millions of subscribers, JK Rowling is changing things in America and John Oliver says more funny things about Brexit.

Here’s the news we didn’t post because we were too busy watching the best thing ever.

News

Ryze’s long-awaited update is finally here
Sony Doesn’t Plan to Imitate Microsoft’s Xbox and PC Unification Strategy, Exec Suggests
PlayStation Plus paid subscribers near 21 million
EA Settles With Former NFL Player Jim Brown For $600,000
Microsoft shifts one million of those £129 Xbox One Elite controllers
Black Ops 3 DLC Includes Dragons Because Why Not?

Stuff

J.K. Rowling has introduced four new houses at the American version of Hogwarts
CatCon is the ultimate convention for cat people
Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings

Vidja

Prison Architect – Launch Trailer | PS4

LEGO STAR WARS (Honest Game Trailers)

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Brexit Update (HBO)

The Movies

Roland Emmerich to attempt to destroy earth once more with MOONFALL
This new trailer for BRIDGET JONES’S BABY is a two man job
Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: what clichéd dialogue irritates you the most?

Last Updated: June 29, 2016

38 Comments

  1. Lord Chaos

    June 29, 2016 at 16:03

    Don’t remind me. Just over a week until I run straight into the wall called 30.

    Reply

    • VampyreSquirrel

      June 29, 2016 at 16:12

      I’m beyond that wall already

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      • Ottokie

        June 29, 2016 at 16:14

        I still have a run up xD

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      • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

        June 29, 2016 at 16:24

        Same, that poor wall

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    • Darren Peach

      June 29, 2016 at 16:13

      Ag shame. Just a year or so until I hit 40.

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      • Lord Chaos

        June 29, 2016 at 16:14

        Getting old feels worse when you’re still young. 😛

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        • Pariah

          June 29, 2016 at 16:15

          how would you know what getting old feels like?

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        • Darren Peach

          June 29, 2016 at 16:15

          30s are rough. Too old to party, Too young to not party. What do you do ?

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          • Pariah

            June 29, 2016 at 16:16

            Play games and work.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 29, 2016 at 16:16

            That would be a positive, spend more time at home playing games

          • Darren Peach

            June 29, 2016 at 16:17

            Good answer. But I warn you, as the advent of 40 draws near, you question your gaming more and more often.

          • Pariah

            June 29, 2016 at 16:17

            I’m already questioning it. I’m in my early 30’s.

          • Darren Peach

            June 29, 2016 at 16:17

            Some get it a touch earlier.

          • miaau

            June 29, 2016 at 16:19

            It is the family responsibility and the gaming and the work that is a bit tough for me.

            Been playing the crew over weekend, mostly because

            a) it was free and kinda fun to play
            b) I can play it with a toddler underfoot

          • Pariah

            June 29, 2016 at 16:20

            When the kids get a little older and join you – then you start to have fun again in games. Generally the type of game you play might change, but you have a lot of fun.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 29, 2016 at 16:21

            Sounds like you know from experience.

          • Pariah

            June 29, 2016 at 16:22

            I do. 🙂

          • Darren Peach

            June 29, 2016 at 16:31

            Responsibility. Yep, Kids will do that to you 🙂

          • Pariah

            June 29, 2016 at 16:19

            Like, I’m picturing the time I could be doing my garden instead – it’s looking shoddy. Or at that half-finished painting that could be 4 already. And my 2 guitars gathering dust. The little things around the house that I never get to. And all because gaming is more appealing, and none of those are pressing.

          • Darren Peach

            June 29, 2016 at 16:23

            I know how that feels. In my thirties, I taught myself to write music, I bought DJ gear and learned that whole thing. Taught myself many things that I thought would add value to my life but in the end, None of that stuff added much value to my life apart from a neat distraction.

          • miaau

            June 29, 2016 at 16:17

            and have kids

          • Lord Chaos

            June 29, 2016 at 16:18

            I’m too scared I’d spawn Damien.

          • miaau

            June 29, 2016 at 16:19

            Yeah, but you still love them.

          • Lord Chaos

            June 29, 2016 at 16:21

            Me, sure, it’s the other people running scared when it turns 30. 😛

          • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

            June 29, 2016 at 16:23

            PARTY! At least that’s what I do

          • Darren Peach

            June 29, 2016 at 16:24

            Yeah. Good for you.

      • miaau

        June 29, 2016 at 16:15

        yes. scary thought.

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  2. Ottokie

    June 29, 2016 at 16:09

    mlem mlem mlem mlem!

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    • Pariah

      June 29, 2016 at 16:10

      memory leak extends memory

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  3. Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

    June 29, 2016 at 16:10

    Moonfall? Skyfalls sequel?

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    • Pariah

      June 29, 2016 at 16:11

      What’s next? Moonraker?

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  4. Fox1 - Retro

    June 29, 2016 at 16:13

    The RX480 is now available and it’s “not” expensive.

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    • miaau

      June 29, 2016 at 16:13

      for a given definition of “not”, right?

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      • Fox1 - Retro

        June 29, 2016 at 16:13

        Subjective to user discretion.

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        • miaau

          June 29, 2016 at 16:16

          you used only 4 words, but the meaning of that will unpack into many, many words.

          you have a great future in politics OR law OR philosophy or as a gamer who just wants to have fun.

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          • Fox1 - Retro

            June 29, 2016 at 16:20

            LOL! I love having an open-ended conversation. It always leaves the one I’m conversing with more confused than the beginning.

  5. HvR

    June 29, 2016 at 17:09

    “Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings”

    And I’m going to sue him; I have a drawing dated from 1988 when I was in preschool on which I drew a rectangle

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  6. nortee

    June 29, 2016 at 21:35

    the honest trailer guys are my heroes!!!!! Especially the end part when he voices the stuff that people ask him to say in the comments XD

    Reply

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