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Lefty | Gamer | TCG Enthusiast | He/Him

[mr_eggs @scrumble_eggs]

I hope Tim is having a good pride month.

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

I was invited to see Exodus early, special thanks to the developers for the amazing opportunity!

Here are the highlights of what I saw:

- Exodus is an RPG akin to old Bioware titles, in specific it is most similar to the Mass Effect franchise, with different character builds and a ton of story choices

- You play as Jun Aslan, the game has a full character creator and Jun can be played as either Male or Female

- A Paragon/Renegade style morality system is here, Named "Immortal/Paladin", your decisions will push you towards one of these paths and change how the world percieves Jun

- Gameplay consists of third person shooting, combining different companions' abilities to achieve powerful attacks on top of your own, and you have an ability to scan enemies in order to see their weaknesses and strengths mid-combat

- Jun's home is a gorgeous hub world that you can always revisit to stock up on supplies and speak to locals, one of these traders is actually a talking elephant

- Matthew Mcconaughey plays a myserious ghostly cowboy companion named C.C. Orlev

- You can choose 2 companions to accompany you on a mission

- There is a class of "ascended" animals who have gained intelligence and can speak, one of those is an Octopus in a robot suit named Salt, who is one of your companions

- I made sure to ask the developers if you could romance Salt, they confirmed you cannot romance the sentient Octopus

- There are characters you can romance and get into relationships with

- Time Dilation, during pivotal moments in the narrative, a time dilation mechanic comes into play where time on a specific planet may be accelerated in relation to whats outside, similar to Interstellar.

- Time dilation will show how your decisions impact generations of people

I went from being a bit interested to seriously looking forward to Exodus's launch next year in Early 2027, The cutscenes in this game look phenomenal, the gameplay looks fun and it really is carrying that Mass Effect torch forward.

Special thanks once again to the team for the opportunity to cover this!

[Netflix @netflix]

Can’t contain this. Ghostbusters: Night Shift, an original animated series is coming to Netflix in 2027.

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

Instead of putting Trump’s mugshot on the $250 bill, it should be this

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at the LEGO SMART Play Pokémon sets.

• Training House with Pikachu – $69.99
• Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle - $119.99
• Mewtwo’s Lab Break – $69.99

(1/3)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for a remaster of the ‘TOY STORY 3’ game.

Releasing October 15 on PC and consoles.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.

And the wildest part?

One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.

Think about that.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

White phosphorus ignites instantly on contact with oxygen. It burns at over 800°C. It melts through clothing, skin, muscle — and bone.

In the bloodstream, it becomes a systemic poison. It attacks the heart, liver, and kidneys leading to multi‑organ failure and death.

Monsters.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

By the way, he’s still working at Harvard.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The punishment for a president failing to disclose millions in day trades shouldn’t be a $200 parking ticket.

PUNISH THE CORRUPTION!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Anachiro @jester_mango]

Destiny 2

[LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight @LEGODCGame]

Proceed with caution, Bowie Knife99 is on the loose.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This week alone:

DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.

The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.

The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.

Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.

It’s just Thursday.

The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

So let me get this straight… Trump gets found liable by juries TWICE, owes E. Jean Carroll millions, then his DOJ launches a CRIMINAL probe into HER? That’s not justice. That’s revenge wearing a government badge.

[The Witcher @thewitcher]

Medallion's humming... that can only mean one thing! It's time to announce The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past! ⚔️

This brand new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will take you to the Path with Geralt of Rivia once more. It’s being co-developed with @Fools_Theory and is coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 in 2027. Stay tuned for more information in late summer. ⏰

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

So the feds are dropping charges against the Israeli citizen caught in Las Vegas with an illegal biolab, after he was caught in LA with an illegal biolab https://t.co/4KAU8mbNNB