Non-IT News Thread

[mlnews]

The New Yorker on the situation in Nicaragua.

[Obsolesce]

Google just bought your banking data

[scottalanmiller]

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

Google just bought your banking data

Best way to combat this... pay attention to ads and do NO business with anyone advertising with platforms like this. If someone advertises to you, avoid them.

[scottalanmiller]

When the news.... makes the news...

US news anchor's skull fractured in fracas with colleague - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45371607

[Obsolesce]

Incredible
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2018/08/31/this-is-why-mars-will-always-have-the-solar-systems-largest-volcano/#1def5f897960

[black3dynamite]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-fire-museum/rios-200-year-old-national-museum-hit-by-massive-fire-idUSKCN1LJ00L

[scottalanmiller]

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-fire-museum/rios-200-year-old-national-museum-hit-by-massive-fire-idUSKCN1LJ00L

Saw that a bit ago. So horrible.

[scottalanmiller]

Rethinking City Streets

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Rethinking City Streets

Looks like streets in Sweden I've seen

[scottalanmiller]

@obsolesce yeah, lots of Europe looks kind of liket his. It was Madrid that I thought of.

[momurda]

Bob Woodward has a new book being released next week
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bob-woodwards-trump-book-author-details-aides-worries-about-trump/ar-BBMS253?ocid=spartanntp
Wow.

[scottalanmiller]

Unlocked, continue with the news.

[black3dynamite]

Superman Is Now the Witcher, Henry Cavill Cast as Geralt in Netflix Series
https://www.geek.com/television/superman-is-now-the-witcher-henry-cavill-cast-as-geralt-in-netflix-series-1751230/

[travisdh1]

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Superman Is Now the Witcher, Henry Cavill Cast as Geralt in Netflix Series
https://www.geek.com/television/superman-is-now-the-witcher-henry-cavill-cast-as-geralt-in-netflix-series-1751230/

This isn't going to follow the over sexed, middle age looking, blood'n'guts trend that's been happening recently at all....

That said, that one's more interesting to me than most. Are they basing it off of any particular game in the series?

[momurda]

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

over sexed, middle age looking, blood'n'guts

That stuff IS the Witcher series. Apart form the great characters and some good quests.

[travisdh1]

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

over sexed, middle age looking, blood'n'guts

That stuff IS the Witcher series. Apart form the great characters and some good quests.

Of course it is. Even on easy it was challenging at times, I'm kinda scarred of what will become of me if any game studio ever get all the physics correct!

[black3dynamite]

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Are they basing it off of any particular game in the series?

I can only guess that it's either The Witcher or Witcher 3.

[coliver]

Hopefully the original it had a decent story.

[NDC]

Are they basing them on the games or the original novels by Andrzej Sapkowski? Perhaps a bit of a mix...

[jmoore]

I downloaded that game but havent had time to play it yet