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A great travel ad?
Hah. Wowā¦
BEIRUT, LEBANON: Satellite Images Show Explosion Damage
Some of the pictures have slideable dividers, so you can see before/ after.
The Guardian reports that the National Park Service has made it official: if youāre about to be attacked by a bear, donāt run and donāt push over a slow friend to act as a sacrifice as you escape.
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Another website you didnāt know existed and now you canāt live without it: Stampede Entertainmentās FAQ about the Tremors movies and TV series.
Reading about weird-but-interesting glitches in the new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator has been extremely amusing.
A particular favorite is a bridge where the side has trucks painted on it.
Thereās also an interesting thing going on here in that if you buy it via Steam the initial download is only about 500 megsā¦ But then it downloads something like 150 gigabytes of data in-engine, which counts as āplay timeā for rebates from Steam and such. (Valve has said they wonāt count this time for anyone asking for a rebateā¦ But it still shows.)
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Iām not a Portal player, but this was funny.
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If I remember correctly the voice of GlaDOS is a trained opera singer, which explains why Portal 2 has built-in surreal musical numbers. Iāll need to watch this one when I can.
I have played Portal, and that was hilarious
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Just watched it and I agree itās pretty good.
Portal 2 is ancient now, but totally worth playing. Itās more a āpuzzle that uses FPS conventionsā than a traditional FPS.
My 70s/80s-styled Aperture Science shirt has been in hot rotation since Iām working from home heavily as of late.
Wow that scratches all of the itches for me, thank you. I need to replay those games again.
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If youāre in the mood for a bit of 80s and 90s nostalgia greatness, check out Poolside FM.
Iāve never played any of the Portal games, and have only the vaguest idea what itās about. However, that is one very cool (and slightly disturbing) video.
Except that damned song has ear-wormed me and I canāt get it out of my headā¦
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When I (as The Button Brigade) branched out into ID badges, this is one of the first ones I created:
Itās one of our best sellers. Iāve always wanted to do an Aperture Laboratories Test Subject costume for conventionsā¦ if we ever get to do conventions againā¦
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My god, listen to them pixies scream!
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Yes, that pretty much describes Portal as well 