Panu

A Finnish Geek

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Viktor Orban has been defeated!

Let's all rise for the European anthem 🇪🇺🫡

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
—- J.R.R. Tolkien

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

Hideo Kojima re-wrote the story of Death Stranding 2 because too many people liked it.

"I’m going to be very honest, we have been testing the game with players and the results are too good. They like it too much. That means something is wrong; we have to change something." Kojima told Woodkid half-way through production

Kojima then "changed stuff in the script and the way some crucial stuff happens in the game", because he was afraid it wasn't "polarising enough and not triggering enough emotions".

"If everyone likes it, it means it’s mainstream. It means it’s conventional. It means it’s already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don’t want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn’t like when they first encountered it, because that’s where you really end up loving something."

Honestly I fully respect Kojima for having the courage to do something like this, we need more artists in this industry who take more risks and don't make brand-safe products meant target everyone.

A game for everyone is a game for no one.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Watching the richest man alive and the most powerful man in the world go head-to-head

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

Oblivion Remastered is quite literally a REMAKE.

Some major details:

- Gameplay touched up, new levelling system that's between Skyrim and Oblivion
- New voices added and new lines recorded
- All OG hilarious lines are back
- Fully remade visuals from the ground-up
- All animations remade
- Combat has been remade with a new dodge button
- You can now SPRINT!
- Unreal Engine 5 Visuals
- ALL DLCs are included

THIS IS AN INSANE PROJECT TO JUST SHADOWDROP, A HUGE DEAL

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

On K2-18b biosignature detection.

- 2nd independant detection from different instrument
- 0.3% detection error possibility
- Habitable zone (Hate this term but just means it could have liquid water)
- Water Vapor detected in atmosphere
- Not only is Dimethyl Sulfide a biosignatue, its at the consentration we predict a hycean world with life would have
- This chemical must be replinished

I am not an expert on this subject, just relaying what I have digested so far.

Hypersketpticism is good in science. But while it is accurate to say we are not 100% sure K2-18b has life, it is just as accurate to say life is the simplest and most likely explanation for the evidence. In any non-astrobiology science, in such a scenario, we would usually just say that last part outright. Its more likely than not that K2-18b has life.

Awesome!

[Brendan Hodges @metaplexmovies]

irony is dead and all but it’s pretty depressing to see Ghibli A.I. slop on the timeline not only because Miyazaki famously thinks A.I. art is disgusting but because he’s spent the last 50 years making art about environmental waste for petty human uses

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

We are living in dangerous times.

Europe‘s security is threatened in a very real way.

Today I present ReArm Europe.

A plan for a safer and more resilient Europe ↓ https://t.co/CYTytB5ZMk

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Gotta love this massive coping hysteria from Elmo fanboys in the comments.

If someone like Zelensky were caught on camera waving hands in something that could even be very remotely similar to a Nazi salute in images, there would be riots in the streets right now.

But when it's Elmo clearly doing what he did, don't believe your own eyes seeing the video in every detail second by second - it's just an emotional "my heart goes out to you" gesture, you hoax spreader.

Sure, sure, sure.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

sort of miss the days when you’d tweet “I like pancakes” and a human would reply “oh, so you hate waffles” instead of twelve AI bots responding with “pancakes are an enjoyable food”

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the absolute state of X in January 2025. Since its acquisition by Elon Musk, this platform has rapidly transformed into his personal political tool and a breeding ground for hate speech and disinformation.

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[Panu @magemanu]

@P_Kallioniemi Hyvää joulua Pekka, kiitos hyvästä työstä mitä teet!

[𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin]

Kids these days don’t understand that memes used to last YEARS. Not days or weeks. YEARS. This was foundational. One of the core pillars upon which the rest of this *gestures broadly* was built.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Everyone needs to watch this!

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Every American watching the debate and realizing that we really are a late stage empire

[Panu @magemanu]

@SteamDeckHQ Woop woop