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There are a handful of games out there that can truly be called classics, and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy is one of them. This is why many gamers were pretty damn excited when the company officially announced that they would be launching a Final Fantasy VII Remake, which would feature a slightly changed game along with updated graphics.
As to when the game will be released, that’s really anyone’s guess although earlier this year it was revealed that the game still had a long way to go. How long, you ask? If you were hoping to see it this year, you can pretty much forget about that because it seems that we might only be able to expect it in 2018 at the earliest.
This is based on an investor’s document shared on NeoGAF in which it was revealed that some of the company’s major releases will only be seeing a launch in the 2018 financial year which begins at the start of April. Note that the screenshot above says “and beyond” which means like we said, titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake and the latest Kingdom Hearts will see a 2018 release at the earliest, and it is possible that it might even be released in 2019 or later, but we’re really hoping that is not the case.
We suppose it is better that the developers take their time with their games instead of just rushing them out to meet a deadline, since a buggy game or something that feels rushed certainly won’t be doing anyone any favors.
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Bethesda’s Fallout franchise is best known as a video game, but if you’re looking to take your Fallout gaming experience offline, you’ll be pleased to learn that there will be a tabletop version of the game dubbed Fallout: Wasteland Warfare that is made by Modiphius Entertainment, who has some pretty successful games to its name.
In terms of what we might be able to expect from the game, it is rather unclear at the moment because all we got was a teaser image posted onto Facebook on Modiphius’ page where it reads, “Fallout: Wasteland Warfare – command a crew of detailed 32mm scale minis through PvP, co-op & solo tabletop missions.”
Its website doesn’t really tell us much either, but basically from what we can tell from the teaser image, Wasteland Warfare seems to be based on the latest Fallout 4 franchise and shows some warriors clad in T-60 power armor and combat armor, we can also see some super mutants, and what appears to be a deathclaw and a Nuka Cola machine in the background.
We suppose we’ll just have to wait for the details, but whether or not Modiphius will be launching this directly or if they’ll be holding a Kickstarter campaign remains to be seen, but we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for more information.
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Back in March it was reported that Google was apparently testing out a feature for Android that would save users a couple of steps when it comes to copying and pasting text. This was done by predicting what users wanted to copy and it would then offer up suggestions, and given how finicky copying/pasting is on mobile, it sounded like a great idea.
The good news is that if you thought that was a cool feature, you’ll be pleased to learn that in a report from VentureBeat, it seems that Google has already started to test out the feature in Chrome for Android. The feature is dubbed “Copyless Paste” and according to the flag’s description, “If you looked at a restaurant website and switched to the Maps app, the keyboard would offer the name of that restaurant as a suggestion to enter into the search bar.”
According to the report from VentureBeat, it seems that this feature in its current state won’t work when using incognito tabs for in Chrome Canary for Android, but given that incognito mode is meant to protect your privacy, we guess it makes sense. It also seems that lower-end devices won’t be able to take advantage of the feature but we can’t be sure why that is.
If you are using Chrome Canary on your Android device, you can try to enable the feature in chrome://flags but as VentureBeat notes, turning it on might not necessarily do anything for now. We’re not sure if and when Google will eventually introduce it into Chrome or Android in general, but it looks like it is currently in the works so hopefully not too long.
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Casio has announced the launch of its WSD-F20 smartwatch, a wearable first unveiled during CES 2017. This smartwatch features Android Wear 2.0 and comes in two varieties: one that is black and another that is orange. This model is hawked under the Casio PRO TREK Smart Outdoor Watch name, and it is designed to handle one’s adventurous outdoor activities, including … Continue reading
WASHINGTON ― The Supreme Court doesn’t decide a lot of police shooting cases, but when it does, it tends to side with the officers. And increasingly it does so in unsigned rulings for which it doesn’t bother to hold oral arguments.
The justices again sided with the police Monday, but by choosing to not get involved. They declined to review a ruling from Texas favoring an officer who shot an unarmed man in the back after a vehicle stop. In the officer’s view, the shooting was justified because the driver had appeared to reach for a gun in his waistband.
Except it’s not at all clear that the victim, Ricardo Salazar-Limon, was even reaching for his waistband, let alone that the officer’s version of events is the final word of what happened in the case. A jury never got to weigh the conflicting versions.
Given this uncertainty, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a pointed dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court should have heard the case — if only to reaffirm the principle that juries, not judges, should be the ultimate arbiters of who’s being truthful when an officer is accused of violating a person’s civil rights.
“The question whether the officer used excessive force in shooting Salazar-Limon thus turns in large part on which man is telling the truth,” Sotomayor wrote in her opinion, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Our legal system entrusts this decision to a jury sitting as finder of fact, not a judge reviewing a paper record.”
In many ways, the facts of Salazar-Limon v. City of Houston are reminiscent of the countless incidents of police brutality that have grabbed headlines and hashtags since the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Back in 2010, Salazar-Limon had been drinking and driving erratically on a Houston freeway when Chris Thompson, a Houston Police Department officer, stopped him at a roadside check. After finding no open warrants or pending charges, Thompson asked Salazar-Limon to step out of his truck, and the two stood next to each other near the back of the vehicle.
This is where the details of their encounter gets a little hazy, and the two sides dispute what happened exactly. But one thing is clear: Salazar-Limon began to walk back to his truck, then Thompson shot him in the back. The victim testified that he was shot “immediately.” But Thompson said he shot Salazar-Limon only after he ordered him to stop walking and perceived that he was reaching for a firearm in his waistband.
Rather than acknowledge this conflicting testimony and let the case be decided by a jury, two lower courts determined that Thompson’s version of the shooting ruled the day and that he shouldn’t be held liable.
Perhaps drawing on her years as a trial judge, Sotomayor observed that “the evenhanded administration of justice does not permit such a shortcut.”
We take one step back today.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
“Our failure to correct the error made by the courts below leaves in place a judgment that accepts the word of one party over the word of another,” wrote Sotomayor, who has become one of the fiercest critics of how the law shields police abuse.
In a footnote, Sotomayor added that the “increasing frequency” of police officers shooting unarmed suspects going for “empty waistbands” makes it all the more imperative for jurors to be the ones deciding who’s more credible in these kinds of cases.
More tellingly, the justice then expressed dismay at a “disturbing trend” in how the Supreme Court has played a role in jumping to immunize police officers who are quick to pull the trigger, while doing little to step in whenever an officer has been wrongly shielded.
“But we rarely intervene where courts wrongly afford officers the benefit of qualified immunity in these same cases,” she wrote, as she listed case after case after case in which her colleagues instead gave officers a reprieve from liability. She called that feature an “asymmetry” that the court, at times, has tried to correct.
“We take one step back today,” Sotomayor wrote.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote a short response to Sotomayor, in which he stood up for the courts that ruled for Officer Thompson — and for the Supreme Court’s handling of similar cases.
“This is undeniably a tragic case, but as the dissent notes … we have no way of determining what actually happened in Houston on the night when Salazar-Limon was shot,” Alito wrote. “All that the lower courts and this Court can do is to apply the governing rules in a neutral fashion.”
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Your mom has been dutifully putting up with your crap for decades now. The least you can do is give her a Mother’s Day card that’s as awesome as she is.
The 21 humorous cards below should fit the bill.
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In his first time speaking publicly since he was unceremoniously ousted from Fox News last week, Bill O’Reilly resumed hosting duties on his nightly podcast Monday.
O’Reilly opened his “No Spin News” podcast by promising his listeners that new details ― presumably ones redeeming him in his sexual harassment scandal ― are forthcoming.
“I am sad that I’m not on television anymore,” he said. “I was very surprised how it all turned out. I can’t say a lot, because there’s much stuff going on right now. But I can tell you that I’m very confident the truth will come out, and when it does, I don’t know if you’re going to be surprised, but I think you’re going to be shaken, as I am. There’s a lot of stuff involved here.”
He also introduced a new plan for the episodes, which had typically been around four minutes long. Going forward, O’Reilly said, the show will have about 12 to 15 minutes of news discussion and will eventually include on-air guests, becoming “longer and longer and longer, into a genuine news program.”
O’Reilly spent the rest of the episode discussing President Donald Trump’s approval ratings, the French election, former President Barack Obama’s return to public life and the dustup over Ann Coulter’s speaking engagement at the University of California, Berkeley.
I can tell you that I’m very confident the truth will come out, and when it does, I don’t know if you’re going to be surprised, but I think you’re going to be shaken, as I am.
Bill O’Reilly
The show, which is free this week but available only to paying subscribers starting May 1, last aired April 11, just days after an explosive New York Times report found that O’Reilly and Fox News had paid about $13 million in settlements to address complaints brought by five of his female former colleagues.
The revelations led to a mass exodus of advertisers, protests outside Fox News headquarters and, ultimately, the network’s decision to cut ties with O’Reilly last Wednesday and ax his top-rated show, “The O’Reilly Factor.”
O’Reilly categorically denied the accusations made in the Times’ story and lamented his ouster as the price of fame.
“It is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims,” he said in statements last week. “But that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today.”
He walked away with a $25 million payout as part of his settlement to leave the network.
In addition to continuing his podcast, O’Reilly has a speaking tour scheduled to start in June with Fox News personality Jesse Watters and comedian and political commentator Dennis Miller.
Similar to complaints lodged against advertisers on “The O’Reilly Factor,” his “The Spin Stops Here” tour has been the subject of public outcry. More than 26,000 people have signed a petition urging the speaking venues in Anaheim, California; Westbury, New York; Tampa, Florida; Baltimore; and Las Vegas to cancel his appearances.
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A conservative network is apologizing for comments made by a host who suggested it was “time to kill the globalists” who run CNN.
Nick Fuentes, a host for Right Side Broadcasting Network, made the comments April 19 on his show, “America First With Nick Fuentes.”
Fuentes made the comments during an Islamophobic tirade:
“The First Amendment was not written for Muslims, by the way. It wasn’t written for a barbaric ideology that wanted to come over and kill us. It was written for Calvinists. It was written for Lutherans and Catholics, not for Salafists, not for Wahhabists, not for the Saudi royal family. Don’t think the founders had that one in mind. And it also was intended for citizens, not for immigrants.”
Fuentes then started talking about the mainstream media, lumping in Fox News.
“Who runs the media? Globalists. Time to kill the globalists. I don’t want to not watch CNN. I don’t want CNN to go out of business. I don’t want CNN to be more honest. I want people that run CNN to be arrested and deported or hanged because this is deliberate.”
The complete video can be seen above courtesy of MediaMatters.org, which saved it for posterity.
The comments were incendiary enough that the network was forced to post a message on Twitter proclaiming that, while they believe Fuentes’ comments “were made in jest, they are still unacceptable, inappropriate and do not reflect the view of our team here at Right Side.”
MediaMatters.org reported that tweet was contradicted by another tweet sent by Fuentes’ producers thanking Twitter users who praised Fuentes as “a smart young man” for wishing death to CNN employees.
That tweet has since been deleted.
The tone of the tweet also contrasted the tone of comments made last June by Right Side Broadcasting Network CEO Joe Seales during a Reddit Ask Me Anything.
When Seales was asked how to deal with the mainstream media, he said, “Just continue to discredit them, call them out and mock the hell out of them,” according to The Washington Post.
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