"No, I haven't sat down to play the games," said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. "And I won't. I won't. I won't play the games. I'm not interested."

The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn't want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.

"All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don't believe that I'm an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world." he said.

"The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with," Goggins said.

What is true is that Amazon managers are demanding substantially more work out of every employee. It has always been an intense place, but my former coworkers who have been at the company for a decade say that teams now have more responsibilities with fewer people. We see more frequent “large-scale events” — for example, AWS outages like the one that rocked the internet this October — because teams are under pressure to deliver more with less. Non-stop rumors of layoffs instill a corrosive fear into jobs we used to find challenging and satisfying. This fear means that the company can get away with unreasonable expectations of productivity.

Not only does Amazon demand we use AI internally, the company is rushing to build data centers because AWS sells the computing power that many other companies’ models run on. For example, Palantir runs the mass deportation software used by ICE on Amazon Web Services. Thus, layoffs can be understood both as an attempt to free up cash for more data centers and as a sales strategy, signaling to enterprise customers that they too will be able to lay off huge swaths of their corporate employees — all they have to do is sign up for AWS’s AI tools and services.

What are the chances this will work on non-Steam hardware?

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Happy Thanksgiving nerds!

Several months ago we got a "sneak peek" at Android desktop mode. Since then it's been completely silent. I am on a Pixel 7 which doesn't have DP Alt mode. But I anxiously await the day I can use a single device for all my computing needs (other than my server).

Is anyone using this or has used it recently, in the last month or so? What are your impressions?

tl;dw/r:

3 new pieces of hardware revealed coming "2026".

1. Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset. Release "early 2026". ARM processor. Runs SteamOS. (Yes this translates games made for x86 on Windows into Linux on ARM using Proton and FEx). Inside out tracking. Up to 144Hz. 2160x2160. Can also run Android APKs. Includes 6GHz stick for wireless streaming.

2. Steam Controller. Basically what we've been expecting. Just took the controls off the Steam Deck and bolted them to a controller. TMR magnetic thumbsticks. Has a weird like magnetic charging/pairing dock thingy that sticks on the back, but can still just be charged with USB-C.

3. Steam Machine. Cubic, softball-sized mini PC (like, literally its just a computer, much like the Steam Deck). AMD GPU. Obviously runs SteamOS as well. No word on HDMI-CEC that I can find. 300W power supply. 6x more powerful than Steam Deck.

I'm going to keep updating this thread with links as I find them. Add more in the comments.

Videos:

Valve YT video

Gamers Nexus video (long and comprehensive)

Articles:

The Verge

Ars Technica

RockPaperShotgun

Polygon

Tom's Hardware

Phoronix

Recently I was locked out of my own Ghost blog platform because they decided they were going to add Email 2FA. I also cannot add any other authors because that requires email verification.

Today I was looking at installing Bonfire and came across this:

Bonfire requires working email for user signups, password resets, and notifications. Most installations will need email configuration before the instance is usable.

Setting up email is a pain in the ass, costs money, is dependent on 3rd parties, violates privacy, and is just completely unnecessary. Why wouldn't you give users the option to not use it? It's infuriating!

cross-posted from: https://trailers.ddigest.com/videos/watch/d8addf70-9099-4fbf-a0e0-9e7ff5aaea6f

This is the trailer for KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (2025), presented in 4K Ultra HD.

Downloads:

• Trailer [4K HEVC MKV]: Coming Soon!

Movie Information:

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks, and David Carradine as “Bill”

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic—presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR stands as one of cinema’s definitive revenge sagas—rarely shown in its complete form, and now presented with a classic intermission.

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Release Date: December 5, 2025 (Theatrical, United States)

© 2025, Lionsgate

Chalk another one up for Big Brother. I wonder if this will apply to/be enforced on FDroid and Obtainium?