revisiting

Cyberpunk 2077: Revisiting the Game on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop

For a place that constantly reminds you how grim the future could be, Night City sure is beautiful with the right hardware. When the weather is good and you’re strolling through the Heywood District, seeing the sun glint off windows and watching the world go by, it’s almost possible to forget this is a nightmare vision of where humankind could end up. Until you notice that all the pedestrians are cybernetically augmented and it all comes flooding back. When night time rolls in, the graphics take on a more seedy vibe. Without natural light, the world becomes drenched in the…
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Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand

This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension. The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern…
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Link Tank: Revisiting Hackers After 25 Years

About twenty-five years ago, the movie Hackers introduced the internet to the wider American audience. “It’s wild to think that the internet has only been a part of the public consciousness for a few decades. When the movie Hackers hit theaters in September 1995, only 14 percent of Americans had access to the web, according to Pew Research, and the vast majority were on achingly slow dial-up. But the online revolution was just around the corner.” Read more at PCMag. Killer whales have been attacking boats near the Spanish waters, and it seems to be on purpose. “Reports of orcas…
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Link Tank: Revisiting Reign of Fire After Eighteen Years

It’s been over eighteen years since the release of Reign of Fire. Here’s a look back at this beloved cult hit film. “With the tagline ‘Fight fire with fire,’ the dragon apocalypse blockbuster Reign of Fire crashed and burned at the box-office in the summer of 2002. Once it hit home entertainment, the metamorphosis from flop to beloved cult film was almost instantaneous. Over the next two decades of cable reruns, the movie rose from the ashes to a loyal fandom.” Read more at Gizmodo. Check out these fifteen fun facts about the life of the late acclaimed British novelist…
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