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			<title>Man of No Ego - Galactic Girl</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1vpdowy/man_of_no_ego_galactic_girl/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/noideasforcoolnames</dc:creator>
			<category>r/electronicmusic</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:47:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>offering LCD Soundsystem red rocks tonight 2 tix</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vpd733/offering_lcd_soundsystem_red_rocks_tonight_2_tix/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Humble_Season3382</dc:creator>
			<category>r/denvermusic</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Right section, row 26, seats 5&amp;6. paid $250 will sell for $200 or best offer. AXS transfer </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Humble_Season3382"> /u/Humble_Season3382 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/"> r/denvermusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vpd733/offering_lcd_soundsystem_red_rocks_tonight_2_tix/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vpd733/offering_lcd_soundsystem_red_rocks_tonight_2_tix/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:26:27 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Selling two tickets for Sam gellaitry at the showbox, seattle tonight.</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1vpcyj6/selling_two_tickets_for_sam_gellaitry_at_the/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/mystline935</dc:creator>
			<category>r/electronicmusic</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>$30</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mystline935"> /u/mystline935 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/"> r/electronicmusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1vpcyj6/selling_two_tickets_for_sam_gellaitry_at_the/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1vpcyj6/selling_two_tickets_for_sam_gellaitry_at_the/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:16:35 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>DJ LAYLA - Single Lady (ID VIBE FM MIX)</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1vpcgw0/dj_layla_single_lady_id_vibe_fm_mix/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/andrewifrim</dc:creator>
			<category>r/electronicmusic</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:57:02 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Bad day to park on the low side of the lot…</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vpch78/bad_day_to_park_on_the_low_side_of_the_lot/</link>
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			<category>r/Denver</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:57:25 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>does chicken fight offer any vegetarian options?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>i’m looking at going to chicken fight at elitches this year but my partner is a vegetarian. does anyone who’s gone before recall if there’s any vendors offering vegetarian or vegan options? i know it might be a stupid question since it’s definitely a meat forward event, but i figured it doesn’t hurt to ask. thanks! </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ligokleftis"> /u/ligokleftis </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/"> r/denverfood </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpc4w5/does_chicken_fight_offer_any_vegetarian_options/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpc4w5/does_chicken_fight_offer_any_vegetarian_options/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:43:45 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Rice bowls Recommendations?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpbut2/rice_bowls_recommendations/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/ZestyclosePie4454</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hello! Currently craving a rice bowl with veggies 😫 but i’m at a loss for selection. Chipotle has skimpy portions, and qdoba just isn’t it.. Cava is overrated at this point 😭 Let me know your recommendations! Thank youu</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ZestyclosePie4454"> /u/ZestyclosePie4454 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/"> r/denverfood </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpbut2/rice_bowls_recommendations/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpbut2/rice_bowls_recommendations/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:32:08 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>What were the planes over Chatfield Reservoir this morning?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vpb9r4/what_were_the_planes_over_chatfield_reservoir/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Hot_Fan_4169</dc:creator>
			<category>r/Denver</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:08:33 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>What to get at Aung’s?</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/PastSelection5138</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Every time i go and try something new and everything has just been okay. Is there something they excel at? I want to like it because it’s in walking distance from my house but every time it feels just eh. I’ve had the pad see ew, panang curry, chicken larb and Thai egg roll (I do love the Thai egg roll). </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PastSelection5138"> /u/PastSelection5138 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/"> r/denverfood </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpb1q2/what_to_get_at_aungs/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpb1q2/what_to_get_at_aungs/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:59:35 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Is there Puerto Rican-style sofrito in Denver?</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/ColoradoCatSitter</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Does anyone know of someplace or someone locally who sells Puerto Rican-style sofrito?</p> <p>I’m specifically looking for the traditional green-style sofrito with recao/culantro, ají dulce, peppers, onion, garlic, etc. I’m not really looking for the red, tomato-based Goya sofrito.</p> <p>I’ve been thinking about making a big batch myself, and I’m actually considering renting time in a local commercial/ghost kitchen to prepare it properly and potentially sell it in small batches here in Denver. Obviously, I’d need to get a food safety certification first.</p> <p>Before I go down that rabbit hole, I’d love to know:<br> - Does anyone already sell authentic Puerto Rican sofrito locally?<br> - If so, where can I find it?</p> <p>¡Gracias!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ColoradoCatSitter"> /u/ColoradoCatSitter </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/"> r/denverfood </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpavyd/is_there_puerto_ricanstyle_sofrito_in_denver/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vpavyd/is_there_puerto_ricanstyle_sofrito_in_denver/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:53:02 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Any home bread bakers want to split bulk flour?</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/mufasana1</dc:creator>
			<category>r/Denver</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I had a hard time finding 25lb bulk flour without paying a lot for shipping, but I found a local restaurant supply store that has 50lb bags. It’s easier for me to store 25lbs, so I was wondering if anyone would like to split a 50lb bag? They have a variety of bread flours, but the King Arthur Special Patent Flour would be about $10 per person/25lbs.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mufasana1"> /u/mufasana1 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp9i43/any_home_bread_bakers_want_to_split_bulk_flour/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp9i43/any_home_bread_bakers_want_to_split_bulk_flour/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:58:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Denver Craft Coffee has Jumped the Shark</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/Former-Knowledge1797</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>As a recovering coffee snob during the times of insane inflation and tariffs, I’m amazed by what the craft coffee industry has become. This past year to 18 months I’ve capitulated and switched to purchasing what I can tell to be single origin Peruvian sourced beans from 2 different brands at Costco. I’ve been doing this for a while as it’s $17 (EDIT: to $22) for a 2.5 lb bag and doesn’t taste burnt like all of the other crap does.</p> <p>For my birthday a couple months ago I went to a couple of my old favorite coffee shops in Denver to pick up some beans for pour overs at home and the free coffee that comes with it. At the time, I was taken aback by $25 for a 12oz bag. Like when did that become the norm, used to be $18-$22. I was so appalled that I decided to just go home without coffee on my hour long round trip, but did make it worth while with other goodies on my return.</p> <p>Fast forward to today, and I’m feeling extra stupid for wanting to pay an outrageous price for coffee beans, so I go back to my favorite shops and find that now it is $25 for a 10 oz bag!! What in the actual F!? That was the last bag of beans I’ll ever purchase from one of my beloved and highly held coffee shops. I felt our city had many, but they have utterly and completely jumped the shark. Insane pricing for a commodity that they’re warehousing and distributing, especially when I’m buying natural beans.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Former-Knowledge1797"> /u/Former-Knowledge1797 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp7tsd/denver_craft_coffee_has_jumped_the_shark/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp7tsd/denver_craft_coffee_has_jumped_the_shark/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says 'it just wasn't for me at the time'</title>
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                                <p>On an August 13 episode of the <a href="https://youtu.be/peXOgVAUm40?si=-XDuLixga_B3m7iq">Happy Sad Confused</a> podcast, actor Matthew McConaughey spoke about almost playing Joel in HBO's The Last of Us TV series, and why he ultimately turned down the role.</p><p>McConaughey said he was in contact with showrunner Craig Mazin about playing the part, and that he seriously considered taking it up. "I wasn't really acting at that point," McConaughey explained. "I was doing more writing and looking at leadership roles in life." Even with that caveat he was still tempted: "It was really good, I was really excited."</p><div data-nosnippet data-sanitized-class="youtube-video"><div data-sanitized-class="video-aspect-box"><iframe data-lazy-priority="high" data-lazy-src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/peXOgVAUm40" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>At least part of the problem seems to have been that Mazin had a tough act to follow: McConaughey is a prolific Hollywood actor, and has lent his voice to TV animation here and there, but his only lead role on a TV series? The legendary first season of Nic Pizzolatto's noir anthology, True Detective.</p><p>"We pulled off a real coup with True Detective, at a time when [TV] series were not something that actors like myself or Woody Harrelson would hop over and go do," said McConaughey. "That one succeeded in a real fashion. Last of Us was really good, it just wasn't for me at the time. I don't know what would have been for me at the time."</p><p>McConaughey also expressed trepidation over the potential long-term commitment required by a successful TV show: "In success, this is something you'll be doing for years and years and years."</p><p>Maybe not so much with Joel in The Last of Us, given, uh, spoilers. The role likely still demands an obligation through flashbacks and the like, though. True Detective S1 made me a McConaughey sardaukar for life, but even for me, him passing on this role doesn't seem like a great loss for human flourishing. By all accounts, Pedro Pascal is killing it.</p><div>                                <div data-sanitized-class="kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO"></div>                            </div>                            <div data-sanitized-class="product"><a data-dimension112="ff41843a-98e2-11f1-a749-0fb4d851b5a2" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd.jpg" align="middle" width="661" height="654" data-sanitized-id="6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd" data-sanitized-class=""></p></div></div></figure></a><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/new-pc-games-2026/" data-dimension112="ff41843a-98e2-11f1-a749-0fb4d851b5a2" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games" data-dimension25=""><strong>2026 games</strong></a>: All the upcoming games<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pc-games/"><strong>Best PC games</strong></a>: Our all-time favorites<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/"><strong>Free PC games</strong></a>: Freebie fest<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-fps-games/"><strong>Best FPS games</strong></a>: Finest gunplay<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-rpgs-of-all-time/"><strong>Best RPGs</strong></a>: Grand adventures<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-co-op-games/"><strong>Best co-op games</strong></a>: Better together</p></div>
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Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook  
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0213 PM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026

Valid 161200Z - 171200Z

...NO CRITICAL AREAS...

No changes were made to the Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook; please see
the previous discussion for more information.

..Elizalde-Garcia.. 08/15/2026

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 0140 AM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026/

...Synopsis...
The upper ridge over the central US is forecast to flatten Sunday as
the western US trough and a weak subtropical disturbance move across
the northern periphery. This will help force the stalled front over
the Plains southward. Showers and thunderstorms will remain likely
over the Intermountain West and across the Southern Plains where
monsoon moisture remains.

...Southern Plains...
The stalled front over the Plains is forecast to move southward
Sunday with showers and storms developing along it across parts of
the TX Panhandle into OK. These storms may develop over ares of very
dry fuels with the potential for lightning. While some risk for
strikes is possible, slow storm speeds and increasing moisture along
the front suggest limited potential for dry storms.

...Northwest and northern Rockies...
Another day of showers and storms is likely Sunday as the upper
trough moves eastward and monsoon moisture remains in place. Several
days of preceding storms will limit available dry fuels.
Additionally, slower storm speeds will favor a wetter storm mode
over areas that have received substantial wetting rains. This will
limit ignition potential. However, sporadic strikes are still
possible within locally more receptive fuels from eastern OR/WA into
parts of ID.

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...

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			<link>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really</link>
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			<link>https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/human-trial-chemogenetic-brain-therapy/104/web/2026/08</link>
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			<link>https://www.denver7.com/news/crime/three-teens-arrested-in-connection-with-murder-of-teen-found-shot-in-car</link>
						<dc:creator>Kaylee Harter</dc:creator>
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			<link>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/</link>
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Day 1 Fire Weather Outlook  
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1144 AM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026

Valid 151700Z - 161200Z

The forecast remains on track for a third day of mixed wet/dry
thunderstorms across portions of the Northwest. Localized
accumulating rainfall has occurred within the last 24-48 hours
across the Isolated Dry Thunderstorm risk area, but is not enough to
alleviate broader fire concerns. Consequently, lightning ignitions
are possible where receptive fuels exist. In the southern Plains,
many days of hot, dry and windy conditions have contributed to the
curing of fine fuels. Given an uptick in new starts and some fires
exceeding 500 acres, the fuelscape has proven to be increasingly
more receptive. ERCs approaching the 95-98th percentile amid dry and
breezy conditions this afternoon will generate an Elevated fire
weather threat across portions of the eastern TX Panhandle, western
Oklahoma, and south-central Kansas. See the previous discussion for
more information.

..Elizalde-Garcia.. 08/15/2026

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 0138 AM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026/

...Synopsis...
A prominent upper ridge over the central US is forecast to continue
building rapidly with weak upper-level troughing remaining over the
northwestern US. Scattered showers and thunderstorms remain likely
on the periphery of the ridge near the upper trough and a belt of
monsoon moisture. Under the ridge, excessively hot temperatures are
again likely over the Plains and central US supporting low afternoon
humidity, breezy winds and an elevated fire-weather risk.

...Northwest...
Along the northern periphery of the expanding upper ridge, weak
upper troughing and monsoon moisture will support another day of
showers and thunderstorms. Scattered thunderstorms should develop
over the higher terrain of central OR and the WA Cascades before
spreading northeastward through the day. Despite several prior days
of rainfall, some fuels remain receptive. Near the upper trough,
faster moving thunderstorms (25-30 mph forward motions), are
expected and should limit rainfall supporting some drier storms.

To the east over parts of eastern OR into ID, a mix of wet/dry
storms is expected with slower storm speeds. Fuels here are also not
as receptive within a broader swath of observed wetting rain.
However, greater storm coverage should favor increased lightning
potential. Some drier strikes are possible outside the heavier
precip cores, supporting some risk for lightning ignitions in the
remaining dry fuels.

...Southern Plains...
Another day of very hot, dry and breezy conditions is expected south
of a weak frontal boundary over portions of northwest OK and the TX
Panhandle this afternoon.  As the upper ridge continues to build
flow will be weaker with south winds of around 15 mph. However,
afternoon highs in the 100s F and RH falling to as low as 15 percent
will overlap with very dry fuels and recent notable fire activity. A
few hours of elevated fire-weather conditions are possible across
parts of the TX Panhandle, northwest OK into far southern KS.

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...

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			<link>https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-heavy-lift-drone</link>
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						<dc:creator>/u/bscoop</dc:creator>
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			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp9apy/when_do_you_get_faster/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Embarrassed-Pick962</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I’m NEW NEW to running. Like less than 6 months kind of new. I enjoy it! I did a 5k and have some 10ks coming up. But this week I’ve been frustrated because even when I think my time is improving…… it’s not. It seems like my body is physically incapable of a sub 13 min/mile unless I’m running downhill. When do you start to get faster? 🤣</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Embarrassed-Pick962"> /u/Embarrassed-Pick962 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp9apy/when_do_you_get_faster/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp9apy/when_do_you_get_faster/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Is it normal for dispensaries to ask for a copy of your MED license during application?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vpa1qk/is_it_normal_for_dispensaries_to_ask_for_a_copy/</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I tried to look this up, but I haven't been able to find an actual answer.</p> <p>I've been applying for work on one of the various work sites and I've come across a posting that mentions that they won't consider applicants unless they include a copy of their MED license. I was under the impression companies can easily look you up on the MED site, so why do they need a copy of the license? Should I already be including the license number with my resume? Or are they stinky scammers trying to harvest MED licenses?</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WhoodaHell"> /u/WhoodaHell </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vpa1qk/is_it_normal_for_dispensaries_to_ask_for_a_copy/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vpa1qk/is_it_normal_for_dispensaries_to_ask_for_a_copy/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit &amp; Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes</title>
			<link>https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/simpsons-creator-matt-groening-implies-that-a-hit-and-run-remaster-is-coming-current-showrunner-hastily-disputes/</link>
						<dc:creator>ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)</dc:creator>
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                                <p>First reported by <a href="https://x.com/empiremagazine/status/2088376820874035441?s=20">Empire on X, "The Everything App,"</a> Simpsons creator Matt Groening may have let slip the existence of some upcoming return for The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run⁠—though this was immediately disputed by another grandee of the Simpsons Industrial Complex.</p><p>"I think the original game is coming back in some form," Groening said in response to a question about the series at a Simpsons panel discussion, part of the ongoing D23 Disney fan event. Current showrunner Matt Selman immediately poured cold water on the idea, declaring "Or not," in response to Groening's statement.</p><p>Groening seems to firmly operate in an "emperor emeritus" role when it comes to day-to-day operations of The Simpsons, and it's perfectly plausible that his supposition was based on out-of-date information, and Selman, who's more hands on with things, is correct.</p><p>But I'm inclined to think this was a "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sX_sE31r9Q">It's a secret⁠—<em>Ssshut uuuuuup</em></a>"<em> </em>sort of interaction. We're living in a time of endless remakes and remasters⁠—Spongebob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom <em>Rehydrated</em> from a few years ago feels like it rhymes with Hit &amp; Run, for example. Most persuasive of all, Selman himself, who wrote the original game, said <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/executive-producer-on-the-simpsons-says-never-say-never-regarding-a-hit-and-run-revival-even-if-he-prefers-the-2007-game/">"never say never" </a>about the possibility of the series coming back just this year.</p><p>Groening's choice of words, "the original game is coming back in some form," seems to preclude a sequel and imply a remake or remaster to my eye. But if it turns out he was talking about an art book or retrospective documentary or something, well that'd just be poor form on his part I think.</p><p>The reason for all the hubbub was a clever little cult classic of a tie-in game from 2003, a PS2-era, GTA-lite sort of deal where you drove or ran around Springfield getting up to hijinks. I never played it myself, but some of my friends swear by Hit &amp; Run. I think, for a certain band of zoomers and late millennials, it was a way of getting in on the GTA craze if your parents wouldn't let you touch the real deal, leading to lifelong loyalty and nostalgia. Jak 2 ticked that box for me.</p><div>                                <div data-sanitized-class="kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO"></div>                            </div>                            <div data-sanitized-class="product"><a data-dimension112="4dd08352-98d5-11f1-b441-fd6b1121a02c" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd.jpg" align="middle" width="661" height="654" data-sanitized-id="6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd" data-sanitized-class=""></p></div></div></figure></a><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/new-pc-games-2026/" data-dimension112="4dd08352-98d5-11f1-b441-fd6b1121a02c" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games" data-dimension25=""><strong>2026 games</strong></a>: All the upcoming games<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pc-games/"><strong>Best PC games</strong></a>: Our all-time favorites<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/"><strong>Free PC games</strong></a>: Freebie fest<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-fps-games/"><strong>Best FPS games</strong></a>: Finest gunplay<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-rpgs-of-all-time/"><strong>Best RPGs</strong></a>: Grand adventures<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-co-op-games/"><strong>Best co-op games</strong></a>: Better together</p></div>
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			<link>https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[We're halfway through the first week of Patch 12.1, and new Patrols and Strikes are available in the Vaults of Atal'Utek, allowing new achievements to be unlocked.<p>The Vaults of Atal'Utek</p><p>New Vaults Rotation</p><p>The Vaults of Atal'Utek swaps the available Patrols and Strikes biweekly with 5 available Patrols, and 3 Strikes which rotate. There are only 3 available Incursions which are always in rotation, and the Ancient Foe only rotates weekly. </p><p>Available Patrols</p><p>There haven't been enough available Patrols to complete Roll the Patrol yet.</p><p>The available Patrols until the weekly reset are:</p><p>Temple Patrol: Slay Children of Ula'tek</p><p>Temple Patrol: Laid to Rest</p><p>Temple Patrol: Vengeance for the Dead</p><p>Temple Patrol: Breath and Bile</p><p>Temple Patrol: Ash to Ash</p><p>Available Strikes</p><p>The remaining Strikes are now available which means that Spike the Strike is now available if you did all the strikes earlier in the week. </p><p>The available Strikes are now:</p><p>Purifying Earth and Sky</p><p>Overflowing Venom</p><p>Profane Pyres</p><p>New Achievement</p><p>There is one new achievement for this rotation: A Lone Wanderer.</p><p>During the Purifying Earth and Sky Strike, head to the Sky shrine on the east side of the map. Use your Extra Action Button to turn into a bird, and fly around until you find a Blue Orb and fly through it to get the achievement.</p><p></p>]]></description>
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			<link>https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-one-month/</link>
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			<link>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o</link>
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			<title>Man suspected of Northglenn murder at large, believed to be armed and dangerous, police say</title>
			<link>https://www.denver7.com/news/crime/man-suspected-of-northglenn-murder-at-large-believed-to-be-armed-and-dangerous-police-say</link>
						<dc:creator>Kaylee Harter</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[                                                                        <p>Police are searching for a man who is wanted in connection with a Friday night murder in Northglenn.</p><p>Alexei Munive-Rodriguez, 48, is believed to be armed and dangerous and remains at large, Northglenn police said in a Saturday morning release.</p><p>"DO NOT APPROACH Munive-Rodriguez. If you see him, call 911 immediately," officials said in the release. "Do not attempt to contact, follow or confront him."</p><p>Police say Lincoln County sheriff's deputy attempted to conduct a traffic stop in an effort to locate him, but a pursuit ensued and he eventually crashed near Lamar and fled on foot, according to police.</p><p>Officers had first responded to the 10500 block of Irma Drive around 10 p.m. Friday on a report of a stabbing, and despite lifesaving efforts, the victim was pronounced dead, according to the police.</p><p>Munive-Rodriguez was "quickly identified" as the suspect.</p><p>The investigation remains active, and Northglenn police are working with multiple other agencies.</p>This is a developing story that may be updated.     ]]></description>
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			<title>Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'</title>
			<link>https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-witcher/witcher-3-designer-says-it-wasnt-easy-to-convince-players-its-npc-simulation-wasnt-just-fakery-people-nowadays-are-interested-in-those-kinds-of-details-and-it-really-came-to-haunt-us/</link>
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                                <p>It might seem silly to ask in our <a href="https://aftermath.site/podcasts/you-are-error-horses-red-dead-redemption-2-horse-testicles/">post-Red Dead horse testicles world</a>, but how much exacting detail is too much? How much is not enough? Gamedev can go on forever if you don't prioritize the things that players actually notice, but if you're making an immersive fantasy RPG, it's critical that the intended illusions—bustling towns, lively taverns, festering dungeons, and so on—not shatter. </p><p>This tightrope walk is something CDPR has gotten better at over the years, but it loomed over The Witcher 3's development, as CD Projekt Red's Philipp Weber told Edge Magazine (via <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-witcher/the-witcher-3-lead-says-designing-for-player-curiosity-really-came-to-haunt-us-when-making-sure-it-felt-like-people-truly-exist-in-the-rpgs-villages/">Gamesradar</a>). The reason why is simple: wherever possible, gamers love to try and peek behind the curtain.</p><p>"If a village only has eight houses, people will want to see if the people truly exist in the world or if it's just fakery," Weber told Edge. "Lots of people nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us."</p><p>"Today, if you said 'give me a Witcher 3 village that has eight houses', I could give you that in two hours," he said. But there was a time that "when it came to actually reacting to the player, there wasn't that much detail." </p><p>An example case named in the article is that when the player starts using combat moves in the middle of town, NPCs were programmed to drop whatever they were holding and scram. This mostly worked, except for the fact that mothers swaddling their babies would do the same: "For a few weeks, women were just dropping their babies, left and right."</p><p>A big component of believability is just giving the NPCs apropos things to do, and cycling between those unpredictably. "We don't give them specific paths," Weber said. "We give them spots of interest that are available and then they're the ones doing the pathfinding ... for the 50 sailors at Novigrad harbour, for example, we made 200 possible spots, so even if all 50 were active at the same time, they would have options."</p><p>It seems like the human touch goes a long way here. Cyberpunk 2077's stylish and detailed NPCs are <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/faces-of-night-city-a-closer-look-at-cyberpunk-2077s-weird-wonderful-npcs/">a great case study</a> showing the value of a hand-crafted moment here and there. And while systems-driven simulation is a big part of why these digital nobodies are believable in the first place, CD Projekt <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/cyberpunks-quest-director-says-cd-projekt-red-has-experimented-with-generative-ai-but-theres-still-a-gigantic-really-long-way-to-go-before-ai-npcs-are-as-good-as-scripted-characters/">has said in the past</a> that the quality gap between manually programmed NPCs and <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-development/the-bigwigs-who-want-ai-generated-npcs-and-writing-think-youre-too-dumb-to-appreciate-a-good-story-dont-prove-them-right/">their controversial AI counterparts</a> is "like a canyon."</p><div>                                <div data-sanitized-class="kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO"></div>                            </div>                            <div data-sanitized-class="product"><a data-dimension112="f0371706-98ca-11f1-a7d9-31a70c97d4ac" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd.jpg" align="middle" width="661" height="654" data-sanitized-id="6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd" data-sanitized-class=""></p></div></div></figure></a><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/new-pc-games-2026/" data-dimension112="f0371706-98ca-11f1-a7d9-31a70c97d4ac" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games" data-dimension25=""><strong>2026 games</strong></a>: All the upcoming games<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pc-games/"><strong>Best PC games</strong></a>: Our all-time favorites<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/"><strong>Free PC games</strong></a>: Freebie fest<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-fps-games/"><strong>Best FPS games</strong></a>: Finest gunplay<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-rpgs-of-all-time/"><strong>Best RPGs</strong></a>: Grand adventures<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-co-op-games/"><strong>Best co-op games</strong></a>: Better together</p></div>
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			<link>https://www.core77.com/posts/144869</link>
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			<title>Sub 25 5K!</title>
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			<category>r/beginnerrunning</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Started running seriously since April this year and have been chasing this milestone for last few weeks now. Super stoked!!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/abhi2309"> /u/abhi2309 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vp93n6">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp93n6/sub_25_5k/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>How to make greek yogurt not suck</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp8wom/how_to_make_greek_yogurt_not_suck/</link>
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			<category>r/EatCheapAndHealthy</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>So, I’m trying to get more protein in the morning, as I find it helps kickstart my ADHD brain into normal functioning. The thing is, I have IBS and some food restrictions that make it hard to find something that works. In comes Greek Yogurt.</p> <p>I really want to like greek yogurt, but there are some things I struggle to get over - namely the after taste and the dry/chalky feeling it leaves in my mouth. It’s kinda a thing with any yogurt, to be fair, but greek yogurt tends to be especially rough. It’s acidic and a bit sour, which I can struggle with. Does anyone have any neat tips/tricks for improving these issues??</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Both-Gur570"> /u/Both-Gur570 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/"> r/EatCheapAndHealthy </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp8wom/how_to_make_greek_yogurt_not_suck/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp8wom/how_to_make_greek_yogurt_not_suck/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Recipes for moving into my first apartment</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/Extreme_Difference51</dc:creator>
			<category>r/EatCheapAndHealthy</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hi all, I am soon about to move into my first apartment. due to this, i am going to begin to make my own meals far more. i have also been trying to lose weight, but i feel it can be harder since i am soon having to pay for my own groceries rather than my dad. due to this, i am unsure of good receipts to make that are both cheap and low calorie, yet still tastes good. Any advice?</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Extreme_Difference51"> /u/Extreme_Difference51 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/"> r/EatCheapAndHealthy </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp7quo/recipes_for_moving_into_my_first_apartment/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp7quo/recipes_for_moving_into_my_first_apartment/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Ghost Canyon Ticket // Sat @ Bug Theater?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vp7mxa/ghost_canyon_ticket_sat_bug_theater/</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>don’t know what rock I’ve been living under but i just found out about this. and of course saturday’s tickets for the bug theater show is sold out. can’t find any resale. hoping to buy a ticket or two if someone has any available. thanks! </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Beehivebelief"> /u/Beehivebelief </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/"> r/denvermusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vp7mxa/ghost_canyon_ticket_sat_bug_theater/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vp7mxa/ghost_canyon_ticket_sat_bug_theater/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Finally 71 mins 10K PB!</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp7c25/finally_71_mins_10k_pb/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/TurbulentChipmunk928</dc:creator>
			<category>r/beginnerrunning</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Plateaued at 75 mins for the past 3–4 months. As advised by many here I finally stopped obsessing over HR for my easy runs and started running more by feel</p> <p>Did 2 speed sessions weekly..tempo + 4*4 VO₂ intervals.. finally witnessed the result today </p> <p>Not that huge but I am genuinely happy to finally break out of that 75 mins range</p> <p>Will test the next 10K in September end.. hopefully it's clean sub 70 mins with lower HR 😅</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TurbulentChipmunk928"> /u/TurbulentChipmunk928 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/gxkuqn58gkjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp7c25/finally_71_mins_10k_pb/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<category>r/beginnerrunning</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I turn 45 soon. That’s half way to 90. I’ve been running since mid-April this year and I got up this morning and wondered if I could run a marathon. So I did. My own personal birthday marathon. No medal. No finish line. No aid stations. No fun spectator signs. Just me, my audiobook, and some grit. Never in my life did I expect to be able to say that I could run a marathon. I’m tired now. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cmdrico7812"> /u/cmdrico7812 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vp6xsk">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp6xsk/first_marathon/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>The price of Whey concentrate (not even isolate) is OUTRAGEOUS</title>
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			<category>r/naturalbodybuilding</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>My grandfather was a farmer and also a cheesemaker on the side (true polymath) and my dad told me my grandpa used to throw whey, which in the past was considered waste byproduct during the cheesemaking process, in the local torrent</p> <p>Nowdays Whey protein from the site i usually buy from is 50€ for 907g. This is all because they are putting whey into everything, protein cookies, protein gummy bears and so on.</p> <p>Its an absolute shame that high quality supplements are becoming far less affordable for the general population. Also a piece of advice, casein protein is far cheaper than whey (30€ for 1kg) and it has the same aminoacid profile, soy protein is even cheaper but the aminoacid profile is slightly worse than casein.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Minimum-Chip-5483"> /u/Minimum-Chip-5483 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalbodybuilding/"> r/naturalbodybuilding </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalbodybuilding/comments/1vp6vfc/the_price_of_whey_concentrate_not_even_isolate_is/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/naturalbodybuilding/comments/1vp6vfc/the_price_of_whey_concentrate_not_even_isolate_is/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<category>r/electronicmusic</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I ran slow, at some points I felt like I could go fast but didn’t because I wanted this to be a no break run. Happened for the first time and the finish felt like I had more in the tank.<br> So thrilled right now..</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Formal-Host-7560"> /u/Formal-Host-7560 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/8xg6tsjztjjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp4aji/did_a_no_breakwalk_105k_for_first_time/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:28:29 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Furthest run ever</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/DinDalallo</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>First time poster, first half marathon I was really happy doing this route that had been on my mind for a couple of months</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DinDalallo"> /u/DinDalallo </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/lwp5ie2smjjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp3coc/furthest_run_ever/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:48:05 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>First half marathon!</title>
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						<dc:creator>/u/DubiousBenefactor</dc:creator>
			<category>r/beginnerrunning</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Been training for a full one this year, ran my first half marathon distance today. 2:15 is quite an average (maybe even slightly below) time but I don't care, I'm happy! Got a lot of helpful tips on longer running - that I need more water and chocolate will melt in my belt and be unusable after a while. Super fun regardless, onward and upward! </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DubiousBenefactor"> /u/DubiousBenefactor </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/if1ji81ddjjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp2670/first_half_marathon/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:55:18 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Stitches, I have tried everything</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1vp240j/stitches_i_have_tried_everything/</link>
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			<category>r/AdvancedRunning</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I've been running since December and one thing that consistently seems to happen during my harder efforts is getting really bad stitches (7-8/10 pain) to the point I can't maintain my desired pace.</p> <p>I feel like I've tried everything from <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1jby0nm/stitches_hitting_every_run/mhy6clo/">this very extensive post</a> from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/u/CodeBrownPT">/u/CodeBrownPT</a> I've also tried various breathing techniques and I've even gone to the doctor, who told me there was nothing that could be done.</p> <p>I'm at my wits end. I'll normally get at least two bad stitches that last for a long time (today I had them for about 10k out of 19k) and I try my best to run through them but sometimes the pain is just too much. This also happened about a decade ago too when I was running a little. It's a very frustrating feeling because often I can feel the rest of my body is capable of what I'm asking of it.</p> <p>For context, my 5k PB is 19:10, aiming for a half marathon time of 90:00, I'm male, in my mid-30s, running most days.</p> <p>Does anyone have anything else I can try? Anybody similar out there?</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tomcotard"> /u/tomcotard </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/"> r/AdvancedRunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1vp240j/stitches_i_have_tried_everything/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1vp240j/stitches_i_have_tried_everything/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:52:23 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Just ran 5km for the first time ever.</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp1qf3/just_ran_5km_for_the_first_time_ever/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/nooblox85</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I've never ran 5km before. Normally I just do 3km and 2km or 2km of running + 3km of walking. This is my first 5km ever, as an absolute beginner 😁. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nooblox85"> /u/nooblox85 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/nqh926cn9jjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vp1qf3/just_ran_5km_for_the_first_time_ever/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:34:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Salmon patties</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp1gru/salmon_patties/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Leading_Ad_1056</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I have a can of salmon I need to use up. I would normally put an egg, flour, and cornmeal in it. What are some other ways to use it that wouldn’t acquire as much flour or cornmeal? TIA </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Leading_Ad_1056"> /u/Leading_Ad_1056 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/"> r/EatCheapAndHealthy </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp1gru/salmon_patties/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp1gru/salmon_patties/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:21:32 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Soda alternatives.</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp00vr/soda_alternatives/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/DemDelVarth</dc:creator>
			<category>r/EatCheapAndHealthy</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>For the past year I have fixed up my diet mostly and dropped around 20kg along with exercise. Its taken a lot of willpower. My only issue is I fucking struggle to kick soft drinks, it is so hard to resist its annoying. I have given up on trying to cold turkey them and I am now looking for a replacement. For me I know its the bubbles and flavour I love. I tried doing 0 sugar drinks and they fucking suck. I have tried sparkling water but it tasted horrible to me. Please help me.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DemDelVarth"> /u/DemDelVarth </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/"> r/EatCheapAndHealthy </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp00vr/soda_alternatives/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/1vp00vr/soda_alternatives/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:06:41 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Monthly Fitness Pro-Tips Megathread</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1voxwc9/monthly_fitness_protips_megathread/</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p><strong>Welcome to the Monthly Fitness Pro-Tips Megathread!</strong></p> <p>This thread is for sharing quick tips (don't you dare call them hacks, that word is stupid) about training, equipment use, nutrition, or other fitness connected topics that have improved your fitness experience.</p> <p>This is <strong>not</strong> a questions thread. Do not ask for help or advice in here.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator"> /u/AutoModerator </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/"> r/Fitness </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1voxwc9/monthly_fitness_protips_megathread/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1voxwc9/monthly_fitness_protips_megathread/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:00:30 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Daily Simple Questions Thread - August 15, 2026</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vowx20/daily_simple_questions_thread_august_15_2026/</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Welcome to the <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Fitness">/r/Fitness</a> Daily Simple Questions Thread - Our daily thread to ask about all things fitness. Post your questions here related to your diet and nutrition or your training routine and exercises. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer.</p> <h1>As always, be sure to <a href="https://thefitness.wiki/">read the wiki</a> first. Like, all of it. Rule #0 still applies in this thread.</h1> <p>Also, there's a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/search?&amp;restrict_sr=on">handy search function</a> to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Fitness">r/Fitness</a> by using the limiter "site:reddit.com<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/fitness">/r/fitness</a>" after your search topic.</p> <p>Also make sure to check out <a href="https://examine.com/">Examine.com</a> for evidence based answers to nutrition and supplement questions.</p> <p>If you are posting a routine critique request, make sure you follow <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/rules#wiki_rule_.239">the guidelines</a> for including enough detail.</p> <h1>"Bulk or cut" type questions are not permitted on <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Fitness">r/Fitness</a> - Refer to <a href="https://thefitness.wiki/faq/should-i-bulk-or-cut/">the FAQ</a> or post them in <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/bulkorcut">r/bulkorcut</a>.</h1> <h1>Questions that <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/rules/rule5">involve pain, injury, or any medical concern of any kind</a> are not permitted on <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Fitness">r/Fitness</a>. Seek advice from an appropriate medical professional instead.</h1> <p>(Please note: This is not a place for general small talk, chit-chat, jokes, memes, "Dear Diary" type comments, shitposting, or non-fitness questions. It is for fitness questions only, and only those that are serious.)</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator"> /u/AutoModerator </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/"> r/Fitness </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vowx20/daily_simple_questions_thread_august_15_2026/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vowx20/daily_simple_questions_thread_august_15_2026/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:00:48 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>New runner here... how do you deal with getting bored of the same routes?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hey everyone! I'm a pretty new runner, trying to build a consistent habit. One thing I've noticed is that I keep running the same 1-2 routes near my place, and it's starting to feel a bit repetitive. I know I probably should explore more, but I don't always know where to go, so I just default back to what's comfortable.</p> <p>How do you all deal with this? Do you tend to stick to the same routes, or do you actively try to switch it up? What actually gets you out exploring new areas instead of just running what you already know?</p> <p>Also curious, what app do you use to track your runs? Does it give you a sense of achievement, or is it more just for logging the numbers? And has anyone tried those gamified running apps where you "capture territory" as you go? Curious if that kind of thing actually helps with the boredom, or if it's more of a gimmick.</p> <p>Would really appreciate any advice, still figuring out how to stay motivated!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Natural_Run_1240"> /u/Natural_Run_1240 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vowq96/new_runner_here_how_do_you_deal_with_getting/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vowq96/new_runner_here_how_do_you_deal_with_getting/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:49:15 -0600</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vow9eo/gym_story_saturday/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/FGC_Valhalla</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FGC_Valhalla"> /u/FGC_Valhalla </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/"> r/Fitness </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vow9eo/gym_story_saturday/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1vow9eo/gym_story_saturday/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:21:14 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Hit sub 45min 10k a week ago, I’m hyped!</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vovkoy/hit_sub_45min_10k_a_week_ago_im_hyped/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/tuonelanlautturi</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>28 male, started running early 2025. Sports background so didnt start from nothing but never really just ran before last year.</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tuonelanlautturi"> /u/tuonelanlautturi </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/"> r/beginnerrunning </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/uenj17bsihjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/beginnerrunning/comments/1vovkoy/hit_sub_45min_10k_a_week_ago_im_hyped/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>New Band : SLUGGARD</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1voua94/new_band_sluggard/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/brownnosethepirate</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1voua94/new_band_sluggard/"> <img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/Y2FqcWQxMGc1aGpoMe7PecxPFwr713Fnr7xp5OgM69yMUu8LsGwyOCnBXq1O.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=496df6fd610bca3b015d7721f12aa1c76453db3e" alt="New Band : SLUGGARD" title="New Band : SLUGGARD"> </a> </td><td> <div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Stoner, doom, psych, yada yada yada. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/brownnosethepirate"> /u/brownnosethepirate </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/"> r/denvermusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://v.redd.it/1mu3ig2g5hjh1">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1voua94/new_band_sluggard/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
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			<title>Achievements for Saturday, August 15, 2026</title>
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			<title>Official Q&amp;A for Saturday, August 15, 2026</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>With over 4,200,000 subscribers, there are a lot of posts that come in everyday that are often repeats of questions previously asked or covered in the FAQ.</p> <p>With that in mind, this post can be a place for any questions (especially those that may not deserve their own thread). Hopefully this is successful and helps to lower clutter and repeating posts here.</p> <p>If you are new to the sub or to running, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/1qtznm4/new_to_running_or_the_sub_click_here_first/">this Intro post</a> is a good resource.</p> <h2>As always don't forget to check the <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/running/wiki/faq">FAQ</a>.</h2> <h4>And please take advantage of the search bar or Google's <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=url%3Areddit.com%2Fr%2Frunning+SEARCH+TERMS+HERE">subreddit limited search</a>.</h4> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator"> /u/AutoModerator </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/running/"> r/running </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/1votsoc/official_qa_for_saturday_august_15_2026/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/1votsoc/official_qa_for_saturday_august_15_2026/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Deep Forest - Storm Brewing Mix (Early 2000s P2P Bootleg Megamix / Audiogalaxy) [Audio only] 72 minutes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1votcqu/deep_forest_storm_brewing_mix_early_2000s_p2p/"> <img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/yTgvoyChfga7fzZOtKQ-wVW59jvsFbcDhRI6KFL6MKw.jpeg?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=6de7a17c8b765476cac9c45848d4ac71310b893c" alt="Deep Forest - Storm Brewing Mix (Early 2000s P2P Bootleg Megamix / Audiogalaxy) [Audio only] 72 minutes" title="Deep Forest - Storm Brewing Mix (Early 2000s P2P Bootleg Megamix / Audiogalaxy) [Audio only] 72 minutes"> </a> </td><td> <div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Anybody know anything about this remix? I found it on Audiogalaxy 25 years ago, the Golden Age of File Sharing, and it's become one of my favorite work/study/chill soundtracks, but I can't find any information about it online, can't find anywhere that it has even been mentioned in a music blog, so I decided to upload it to YouTube so it can run around in the wild and bless a few other lives. </p> <p>If anybody knows who mixed it, my compliments to the chef. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CheckersSpeech"> /u/CheckersSpeech </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/"> r/electronicmusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://youtu.be/4Tv6ns524VA?si=KUHpsF6EEhHRpSMb">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/1votcqu/deep_forest_storm_brewing_mix_early_2000s_p2p/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
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			<title>Saturday General Discussion/Q&amp;A Thread for August 15, 2026</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/1vosmva/saturday_general_discussionqa_thread_for_august/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:01:07 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Any rock/emo/hardcore shows this week?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vosafb/any_rockemohardcore_shows_this_week/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Purple_Penthouse</dc:creator>
			<category>r/denvermusic</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>In Denver for the week for work and trying to go to as many shows as I can. Probably seeing the missing peace at globe hall Monday. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Purple_Penthouse"> /u/Purple_Penthouse </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/"> r/denvermusic </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vosafb/any_rockemohardcore_shows_this_week/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1vosafb/any_rockemohardcore_shows_this_week/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>What’s the Denver hardcore seen like?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denvermusic/comments/1voromp/whats_the_denver_hardcore_seen_like/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Purple_Penthouse</dc:creator>
			<category>r/denvermusic</category>
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			<title>Keep your dogs safe at City Park</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp81m7/keep_your_dogs_safe_at_city_park/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/AJillianReasons</dc:creator>
			<category>r/Denver</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp81m7/keep_your_dogs_safe_at_city_park/"> <img src="https://preview.redd.it/r7d9pbf9lkjh1.jpg?width=140&amp;height=140&amp;crop=1:1,smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=525aa75723cbc9d96d6f0856fb15804c3d2b0e46" alt="Keep your dogs safe at City Park" title="Keep your dogs safe at City Park"> </a> </td><td> <div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Zigs is a frequent park walker and is not allowed to eat off the ground, but sometimes the dogs are just too fast. Today, she snagged this piece of meat stick and took too long to eat it so I knew something was up. Luckily, I was able to pull it out of her mouth before she swallowed only to find it attached to a large fishing hook!</p> <p>Definitely a reminder to be extra diligent. Be safe, pups!</p> <p>EDIT: I don’t think this was intentional or a trap. I’m sure it was dropped by someone fishing—just something to be careful of! </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AJillianReasons"> /u/AJillianReasons </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vp81m7">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp81m7/keep_your_dogs_safe_at_city_park/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
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			<title>Denver reopening online parking ticket dispute portal</title>
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			<category>r/Denver</category>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:56:07 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Levitt Pavillon is an absolute Gem</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp7dms/levitt_pavillon_is_an_absolute_gem/</link>
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			<category>r/Denver</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp7dms/levitt_pavillon_is_an_absolute_gem/"> <img src="https://preview.redd.it/hjhhigpjgkjh1.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=7449cc1c0d3c2f83a2e661c1fdc2f4cc82fa5e1a" alt="Levitt Pavillon is an absolute Gem" title="Levitt Pavillon is an absolute Gem"> </a> </td><td> <div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Went to go see rebirth brass band last night, and yes, we decided to endure the rain, and this was not my first show at Levitt, but it was my first show after seeing Rainbow Kitten Surprise at fiddlers's green.</p> <p>And man, I couldn't help but think how much I would have rather seen Rainbow Kitten Surprise at Levitt versus fiddlers Green.</p> <p>And that the shows are almost always free, food trucks bring a diverse offering, and you can bring your own food and nonalcoholic beverages in, just wanted to take a moment and shout out how lucky we are to have that here in Denver.</p> <p>And, even with the rain, the vibes were so good last night!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CTD-"> /u/CTD- </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://i.redd.it/hjhhigpjgkjh1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp7dms/levitt_pavillon_is_an_absolute_gem/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
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			<title>'Wait Wait' for August 15, 2026: The Wait Wait Summer Spectacular!</title>
			<link>https://www.npr.org/2026/08/15/g-s1-138745/wait-wait-for-august-15-2026-the-wait-wait-summer-spectacular</link>
						<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2600x1463+0+0/resize/2600x1463!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F45%2Fe7%2Fbbcfeb00458fbf4914813947d5e9%2Fwait-wait-template4.jpg" alt="Reneé Rapp performs onstage during iHeartRadio z100"><p>This week, we celebrate our endless summer with some of our favorite guests, including Jason Benetti, Mychal Threets, Lily King, and Renee Rapp!</p><p>(Image credit: Dimitrios Kambouris)</p><img src="https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-138745">]]></description>
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			<title>Colorado Works removing individual case workers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I'm not even sure if this is the right place to post this, but I can't find anywhere else with this specific tag. I'm a single mom of twin toddlers and I rely on TANF to survive. CCAP has been frozen since January 2025, so I can't get a job even though I'd desperately love to work. I don't have any close friends or family here in Colorado. Anyway, I just received an email a couple days ago about how they're not removing all individual case managers for people on Colorado works. Now, if you have any issues, you are directed to call the main number. If any of you have ever had to call that number, you know the hold time is always long. Also, there was no notice of this whatsoever. I actually had grown to really care for my case worker Karina. It was nice to be able to talk with someone about my feelings about everything that's going on, and know she understood. It was nice to be able to ask someone working in the department what's going on instead of relying on random internet posts. But most importantly, there are so many people with absolutely no support and really need that contact. Is anyone else in this situation? Who can I talk to about this? I doubt that me saying how I feel about it to an official would do anything , but I really feel like this is a huge mistake. I guarantee it has something to do with budget cuts. It's like, you've already cut so much! They took away the little transportation money we'd get every month, made it infinitely harder for those with older kids to get the food stamps they desperately need, and now this. Thank you for reading if you did. Just looking for others thoughts and solidarity. If there's somewhere better I should post this, please lmk. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TowerOk4184"> /u/TowerOk4184 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp741z/colorado_works_removing_individual_case_workers/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp741z/colorado_works_removing_individual_case_workers/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>Best Place to Rent for a New Family?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp72kp/best_place_to_rent_for_a_new_family/</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hey all. My wife and I have lived in Denver for 8 years now. We just had a kid and now need to find a larger space to rent. We’re evaluating our next move and wanted to get some intel on what might be a great spot for young families within ~20-30 minutes of the city.</p> <p>Our priorities are safety and proximity to walkable areas so we can pull the stroller out and go. We’ve been in the city this whole time and are okay with something a little further out. That said, we’re aware of neighborhoods like Tennyson, edgewater, wash park, etc. but would love to hear some more ideas that offer a great lifestyle.</p> <p>Regarding budget, we’d like to keep it under 4k/mo.</p> <p>Any tips are much appreciated!</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NervyBlue"> /u/NervyBlue </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp72kp/best_place_to_rent_for_a_new_family/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp72kp/best_place_to_rent_for_a_new_family/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>SPC Day 1 Fire Weather Outlook</title>
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Day 1 Fire Weather Outlook  
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1144 AM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026

Valid 151700Z - 161200Z

The forecast remains on track for a third day of mixed wet/dry
thunderstorms across portions of the Northwest. Localized
accumulating rainfall has occurred within the last 24-48 hours
across the Isolated Dry Thunderstorm risk area, but is not enough to
alleviate broader fire concerns. Consequently, lightning ignitions
are possible where receptive fuels exist. In the southern Plains,
many days of hot, dry and windy conditions have contributed to the
curing of fine fuels. Given an uptick in new starts and some fires
exceeding 500 acres, the fuelscape has proven to be increasingly
more receptive. ERCs approaching the 95-98th percentile amid dry and
breezy conditions this afternoon will generate an Elevated fire
weather threat across portions of the eastern TX Panhandle, western
Oklahoma, and south-central Kansas. See the previous discussion for
more information.

..Elizalde-Garcia.. 08/15/2026

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 0138 AM CDT Sat Aug 15 2026/

...Synopsis...
A prominent upper ridge over the central US is forecast to continue
building rapidly with weak upper-level troughing remaining over the
northwestern US. Scattered showers and thunderstorms remain likely
on the periphery of the ridge near the upper trough and a belt of
monsoon moisture. Under the ridge, excessively hot temperatures are
again likely over the Plains and central US supporting low afternoon
humidity, breezy winds and an elevated fire-weather risk.

...Northwest...
Along the northern periphery of the expanding upper ridge, weak
upper troughing and monsoon moisture will support another day of
showers and thunderstorms. Scattered thunderstorms should develop
over the higher terrain of central OR and the WA Cascades before
spreading northeastward through the day. Despite several prior days
of rainfall, some fuels remain receptive. Near the upper trough,
faster moving thunderstorms (25-30 mph forward motions), are
expected and should limit rainfall supporting some drier storms.

To the east over parts of eastern OR into ID, a mix of wet/dry
storms is expected with slower storm speeds. Fuels here are also not
as receptive within a broader swath of observed wetting rain.
However, greater storm coverage should favor increased lightning
potential. Some drier strikes are possible outside the heavier
precip cores, supporting some risk for lightning ignitions in the
remaining dry fuels.

...Southern Plains...
Another day of very hot, dry and breezy conditions is expected south
of a weak frontal boundary over portions of northwest OK and the TX
Panhandle this afternoon.  As the upper ridge continues to build
flow will be weaker with south winds of around 15 mph. However,
afternoon highs in the 100s F and RH falling to as low as 15 percent
will overlap with very dry fuels and recent notable fire activity. A
few hours of elevated fire-weather conditions are possible across
parts of the TX Panhandle, northwest OK into far southern KS.

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...

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			<title>A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms</title>
			<link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x</link>
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			<title>I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better</title>
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                                <p>When I first played Half-Life at the tender age of 11, I found it a terrifying experience. Admittedly, I was scared of pretty much everything at 11. Wasps, heights, loud noises, football (or more specifically, everyone finding out how <em>bad </em>I was at football). I was an anxious child all around. Hence, playing an interactive disaster movie filled with weird aliens was an intense experience and lashings of violence was an intense experience.</p><p>Now I'm rapidly approaching 40, the idea of Half-Life being in any way scary seems ridiculous, especially when you compare it to modern horror games and actual real-life terrors like tax returns. But there is <em>one </em>part of Half-Life that still frightens me, and it appears right at the start of the game. Midway through the introductory tram ride, five words and a number appear on the screen:</p><p><em>SUBJECT: Gordon Freeman. Male, Age 27.</em></p><p>Every time I see this caption, it seems wrong, like it must be a typo. Surely Gordon Freeman is older than 27. I mean <em>look at this man</em>. That’s a fella in his mid-thirties at the youngest. </p><p>To be clear, this isn't a notion I've developed recently. I've always believed this. I must have seen the caption countless times, but it never really sank in, because I was busy watching all the scenery and cool scripted sequences that you get during that tram ride. </p><p>Basically, Freeman's youthfulness weirds me out. It also led me to wonder: how old are all the other '90s FPS protagonists? Is DoomGuy actually DoomBoy? Is B.J. Blazkowicz short for 'Baby Junior Blazkowicz?'. Is Duke Nukem even allowed to enter a strip club? </p><p>Riddled with doubt, I decided to try to find out the age of as many '90s shooter heroes as I could. The answers proved pretty surprising, and in some cases, instructive about game design.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="b-j-blazkowicz-wolfenstein-3-d">B.J Blazkowicz (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/wolfenstein-3d/">Wolfenstein 3-D</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="BJ kicking a nazi." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8q5ohX6oQwovPJUnTLhmaM.png" align="middle" width="957" height="538" data-sanitized-id="8q5ohX6oQwovPJUnTLhmaM" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: id Software)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Let's start with an easy one. William Joseph Blazkowicz has surprisingly extensive lore for a video game character created in the eighties. According to the <a href="https://wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/William_J._Blazkowicz_(Classic)"><u>Wolfenstein Wiki</u></a>, Blazkowicz was born on August 11, 1911. Canonically, the events of Wolfenstein 3-D take place in 1943, meaning that Blazkowicz is 32-33 when he takes down MechaHitler.</p><p>The Wiki also states that B.J. is canonically the grandfather of Commander Keen and an ancestor of DoomGuy, which is a fun bit of trivia.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="kyle-katarn-star-wars-dark-forces">Kyle Katarn (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-dark-forces-remaster-review/">Star Wars: Dark Forces</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Kyle Katarn looking at you while holding his blue lightsaber." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/r8FmPrRFUb4HTb92YBgXTj.jpg" align="middle" width="2046" height="1151" data-sanitized-id="r8FmPrRFUb4HTb92YBgXTj" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Raven Software)</span></figcaption></figure><p>I'm gonna skip Doom and Duke for the moment and deal with another straightforward case. Kyle Katarn is the protagonist of Star Wars: Dark Forces and <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-jedi-knight/"><u>Star Wars: Jedi Knight—Dark Forces 2</u></a>. (And also <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-jedi-knight-ii-jedi-outcast/"><u>Jedi Outcast</u></a> and, in a secondary role, <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-jedi-academy/"><u>Jedi Academy</u></a>, but those are noughties games). Because Katarn is a Star Wars character, and because Star Wars fans are, shall we say, fastidious, it's straightforward enough to find out Katarn's age.</p><p>According to <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kyle_Katarn"><u>Wookiepedia</u></a>, Katarn was born in 23 BBY (That's before the Battle of Yavin—the concluding act of the OG Star Wars—for non-Star Wars heads). Before Rogue One changed the canon, Katarn was the original thief of the Death Star plans which occurred in the same year as the Battle of Yavin. That makes him 23 at the outset of Dark Forces. He was 28 in Jedi Knight, and 35 in Jedi Outcast. Each of these facts is like a needle being pushed into my ageing body.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="cate-archer-the-operative-no-one-lives-forever">Cate Archer (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/no-one-lives-forever-review/">The Operative: No One Lives Forever</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="No One Lives Forever" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZuPKy5qhFAamarbnCHVsF4.jpg" align="middle" width="1600" height="902" data-sanitized-id="ZuPKy5qhFAamarbnCHVsF4" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: No One Lives Forever)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Strictly speaking, No One Lives Forever is a noughties shooter, releasing in 2000. But spiritually it is 100% a nineties FPS, and for that reason I'm going to include it.</p><p>Like Katarn, finding out Archer's age is easy enough, as Monolith gave her a detailed backstory. The <a href="https://nolf.fandom.com/wiki/Cate_Archer"><u>NOLF Fandom Wiki</u></a> says she was born in 1942. The events of the original NOLF take place in 1967, making her 25 when she becomes a superspy for UNITY. Like James Bond, Archer is apparently also natively Scottish, born in Glasgow.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="prisoner-426-unreal">Prisoner 426 (Unreal)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Prisoner 849 standing in the dark." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hp6sBDgzQ68oDYtE6h97rC.jpg" align="middle" width="2465" height="1387" data-sanitized-id="hp6sBDgzQ68oDYtE6h97rC" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Epic Games)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Another easy one, albeit for different reasons. Unreal's nameless protagonist is also an ageless protagonist. Since Unreal's player character can be customised both in character model and gender, Epic never specified an age for them either. In short, Prisoner 426 is as old as you want them to be (so for me, 57).</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="caleb-blood-blood-2-the-chosen">Caleb (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/blood-fresh-supply/">Blood</a>, Blood 2: The Chosen)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Caleb with a lit Zippo lighter" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZD37P8gnirMYzPXnvkjnXR.jpg" align="middle" width="2878" height="1615" data-sanitized-id="ZD37P8gnirMYzPXnvkjnXR" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Monolith Productions)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The age of Blood's revenant protagonist is somewhat dependent on perspective. According to the <a href="https://blood-wiki.org/index.php/Caleb"><u>Blood wiki</u></a>, Caleb was born in 1847 (in Texas, apparently). Since the events of Blood take place in 1928, this would make him a sprightly 81 years old by chronology. </p><p><em>However</em>, Caleb is murdered by his demonic master Tchernobog at some point between 1871 and 1928, so <em>biologically </em>he's likely significantly younger than his chronological age. Amusingly, Blood 2 takes place in 2028, which means Caleb would be 181 years old during the events of that game.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="doomguy-doom">DoomGuy: (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/doom/">Doom</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Doom (1993) key art depicting Doom Guy shooting at hordes of demons clawing at him from below." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hGepsyz5Aiffh5UJCnSbjN.jpg" align="middle" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-id="hGepsyz5Aiffh5UJCnSbjN" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: id Software)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Here's where things start to get tricky. Unlike his (alleged) ancestor B.J. Blazkowicz, DoomGuy does not have a specified age. It's generally assumed he's somewhere in his mid-thirties—mainly because the face at the bottom of the screen looks like it's <em>seen some shit</em>.</p><p>But I took a punt and reached out to John Romero, Doom's co-creator, and asked him whether, either publicly or privately, id Software ever determined a specific age for DoomGuy?</p><p>Romero quickly got back to me with a reply. Unfortunately, it appears id never officially pinned it down. "No, we didn’t invent Doomguy’s age, or Ranger’s," Romero wrote in response. "I think it’s assumed they are mid-to-late 20s."</p><p>If you're wondering who the hell Ranger is, well, spoilers for the next entry.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="ranger-quake-quake-3">Ranger (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/quake/">Quake</a>, <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/quake-iii-arena/">Quake 3</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Ranger's head, grimacing" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SuSvpZzWcjb8QsFPR2XSug.jpg" align="middle" width="1778" height="1012" data-sanitized-id="SuSvpZzWcjb8QsFPR2XSug" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Bethesda)</span></figcaption></figure><p>As Romero mentions above, id Software never specified an age for Quake's protagonist as they didn't with Doom. That would seem to be the end of that rabbit hole. <em>However</em>, Ranger also appears in 1999's Quake 3 <em>and </em>2022's <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/quake-champions/"><u>Quake Champions</u></a>. </p><p>Quake 3 isn't all that helpful in determining Ranger's age. But Quake Champions is. According to the lore added by QC, Ranger is actually a Vietnam veteran, having served in the US military up to 1975. </p><p>According to the Quake timeline, the events of Quake are concurrent with the game's release—1996, which means 21 years elapse between Ranger's return from Vietnam and the events of Quake. </p><p>Unfortunately, the timeline doesn't specify when Ranger signed up to fight, or how old he was when he did. But the youngest he could (legally) have been to sign up was 17. The US began active combat operations in 1965, so it's unlikely that he would have served <em>before </em>then, and the implication seems to be that Ranger did his tour(s) of 'Nam in the early '70s. Quake Champions also includes a photograph of Ranger and his family taken in 1978, in which he looks to be in his mid-to-late twenties—though he could be older.</p><p>All of which suggests that Ranger is either a mid fortysomething or an early fiftysomething during the events of Quake, which would make him the oldest still-living protagonist on this list.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="duke-nukem-duke-nukem-3d">Duke Nukem (<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/duke-nukem-3d/">Duke Nukem 3D</a>)</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Duke Nukem with big guns" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QZ68RDQHQ4r497UUQuRpDY.jpg" align="middle" width="1920" height="1020" data-sanitized-id="QZ68RDQHQ4r497UUQuRpDY" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: 3D Realms)</span></figcaption></figure><p>I've saved the most interesting case until last. There are a couple of ages banded about for Duke Nukem online. But most of those are for Duke Nukem Forever, and they suggest he's somewhere between 45 and 47 during the events of that game. The source for those isn't clear, however, and in any case, we really want the age Duke was during the events of Duke Nukem 3D.</p><p>To try to pin it down, I sent an email to Scott Miller, the founder of Apogee Software (later 3D Realms) the developer of Duke Nukem's 3D. He quickly responded with this: </p><p>"When I and Todd Replogle first came up with the Duke Nukem character, there were two things I decided to never reveal: what year the game took place in, and how old Duke was," Miller wrote. "I never wanted to say, for example, that the game took place in 2004, because whenever you nail down a date it often comes back to haunt you when you pass that calendar date in real life (eg. 2001: A Space Odyssey).</p><p>"So never in the Duke storyverse is a date mentioned. As for his age it was the same thinking—if we had mentioned his age in a game, would we need to keep aging him for every succeeding game? So, I just wanted to fully avoid these issues. But, in my mind, Duke was in his mid-30s".</p><p>In short, Duke is forever a man in his prime, which is only fitting for the character.</p>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles.</p>
<p>"In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos—the Progress Center, which was involved, among other things, in electronics production–was hit," <a href="https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2088547091471614397">Zelenskyy said</a> on the social media site X. "Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."</p>
<p>The largest city in the Samara Oblast, about 900 km from the Ukrainian border, Samara is home to Russia's most important manufacturer of rockets. The Progress center assembles the workhorse vehicle for Russia, the Soyuz-2 vehicle, as well as the newer Soyuz-5 rocket. The facility also builds military satellites.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/ukraine-strikes-major-russian-rocket-factory-with-cruise-missiles/">Read full article</a></p>
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			<title>Where do I go for beer</title>
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			<title>Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows</title>
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			<title>Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp1e2o/colorado_was_targeted_as_trump_fumed_over/"> <img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/fkkdr8nxkDel19Dm6miItlKit1URf-gzf_z1YL12Guw.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=7532f81cdecbf53135f57336f8ed1c9ad2d86d69" alt="Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows" title="Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows"> </a> </td><td>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lost_Rolls_"> /u/Lost_Rolls_ </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/colorado-trump-tina-peters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5lA.GWS5.xlRXVSQX0I39&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vp1e2o/colorado_was_targeted_as_trump_fumed_over/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:17:57 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Colorado issues public health order over tuberculosis at Aurora immigrant detention center</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorado/comments/1vowv5x/colorado_issues_public_health_order_over/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/Maxcactus</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:57:51 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Looking for witnesses or dashcam footage — I-225 eastbound</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vou6ts/looking_for_witnesses_or_dashcam_footage_i225/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/karibbeanqueen</dc:creator>
			<category>r/Denver</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Hi Reddit…hoping for help localized to Denver. I’m hoping someone may have witnessed a hit-and-run that occurred today, Friday, August 14, at approximately 2:37 PM on I-225 eastbound, immediately after the S. Tamarac Parkway exit.</p> <p>The other driver hit my vehicle and initially stopped. He got out of his car and told me he was going to go get his insurance information. I naively believed him, he got back into his vehicle, reversed, and immediately took the S. Tamarac Parkway exit and left the scene.</p> <p>The vehicle was a navy blue sedan, possibly a Subaru but it was raining and I can’t be sure of the make and model because my glasses also flew off my face in this collision. It appeared to have Nebraska plates. At the very least I can confirm no Colorado plates.</p> <p>The driver was a white male, 30-35 years old, approximately 6'0", with a slightly athletic build, about 175 to 185 lbs, short light-brown hair, light-colored eyes (possibly blue), tattoos on both arms, and black gauges in his ears. He was wearing a gray/dark-colored cut-off or sleeveless shirt. If I saw a picture of him, I would recognize him immediately. I was able to see part of the license plate, but I am missing one number and it ends with a C. I am not completely confident in the characters because it was raining heavily and my glasses flew off during the collision.</p> <p>Reddit won’t let me post the plate number, but I’m hoping with all of this information together I could identify the person with some help. Maybe someone knows them or works with them. Even if you know him, this person could seriously hurt someone else.</p> <p>I have filed a police report (Report #2026-4112), gone to urgent care, called insurance. I assume he didn’t have any, hence why he ran. I don't remember seeing significant damage to the other vehicle, although there may have been damage to the front of it from the collision. I sustained significant injuries in the crash, so I'm really hoping someone may have been driving through that area around 2:30ish today and either saw the collision, saw the driver get out and speak with me, saw the vehicle leave via Tamarac, or has dashcam footage from that stretch of I-225.</p> <p>If you witnessed anything or have footage that might be relevant, please DM me. You can also provide the information to police and reference report 2026-4112. I realize this is a long shot, but given the circumstances, I'm hoping someone happened to see it or captured the vehicle on camera. Thank you.</p> <p>Edit: added age to description. And this was my first accident unfortunately and I hope my last…but now I know to get the plate first and if possible, ID pic. </p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/karibbeanqueen"> /u/karibbeanqueen </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/"> r/Denver </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vou6ts/looking_for_witnesses_or_dashcam_footage_i225/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1vou6ts/looking_for_witnesses_or_dashcam_footage_i225/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:23:38 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>anywhere i can eat some flowers?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/denverfood/comments/1vou01f/anywhere_i_can_eat_some_flowers/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/dingleberry23432</dc:creator>
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			<title>EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026</title>
			<link>https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/everquest-legends-is-the-only-mmo-that-could-hook-me-in-2026/</link>
						<dc:creator>joshua.wolens@futurenet.com (Joshua Wolens)</dc:creator>
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                                <div data-sanitized-class="fancy-box"><div data-sanitized-class="fancy_box-title">Terminally Online</div><div data-sanitized-class="fancy_box_body"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="The Terminally Online logo." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PgGhmt5pTtxusaQQX3dHPF.png" align="" width="" height="" data-sanitized-id="PgGhmt5pTtxusaQQX3dHPF" data-sanitized-class="pinterest-pin-exclude"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><p data-sanitized-class="fancy-box__body-text">This is <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.pcgamer.com/tag/terminally-online/">Terminally Online</a>:<strong> </strong>PC Gamer's very own MMO column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. Like our own Joshua Wolens, who checked out Everquest Legends and liked it a whole lot.</p></div></div><p>Here are my memories of EverQuest in the year 1999. Me, six years old, pondering race and class options as my father offered guidance over my shoulder. His character was a gnome magician; I did not like the idea of being short. I settled on a half-elf, possibly because they looked the most like me, and named him Karokan. Dad, perhaps, chose my class and god for me, as I remember neither.</p><p>Then West Freeport. Then paralysing, all-consuming fear. The videogame worlds I had experienced before all felt finite. EverQuest, by contrast, felt incomprehensibly vast. I was scared of dying, sure—of the dreaded corpse run—but I was more scared of simply getting lost. I felt certain that if I strayed far from the city I would plunge into a fathomless ocean of map and never return. So I spent hours fighting rats and orc centurions outside the gates, dad's efforts to coax me out further than the East Commonlands confounded. I stayed home. I loved every second (hey, I was six).</p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Karokan enters EverQuest." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/diDv9ds7eBjofPGhx7RTJ.jpg" align="middle" width="2560" height="1440" data-sanitized-id="diDv9ds7eBjofPGhx7RTJ" data-sanitized-class="inline expandable"><a href="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/diDv9ds7eBjofPGhx7RTJ.jpg" data-sanitized-class="expand-button icon-expand-image icon"></a></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Daybreak)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The promise of EverQuest Legends, which released late last month, is simple: you can go home again. EverQuest in its infancy has been lovingly reconstructed. Its graphics are bright and rigid, its mechanics slow-going. Its UI does not feel contiguous or, really, designed. It sits scattered across your monitor as if surprised by a gust of wind. It's EverQuest (mostly) as the old-heads remember it, not as it endures, heroically, in the year 2026.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="i-used-to-live-here">I used to live here</h2><p>The weird thing is that this has already been done. In fact, it's still being done. <a href="https://www.project1999.com/">Project 1999</a> is a fantastic free-to-play version of classic EverQuest that operates with Daybreak's explicit permission. If you want to nose around the game as it was back in the day, you can do it for free. Why fork out the $20 and recurring $10 sub for Legends?</p><p>Because for most people, these are fundamentally different propositions. Project 1999 has its check-in-daily stalwarts, no doubt, but for most people it is something you sign into once, get your shot of nostalgia, and stop thinking about until you want another one about five to seven years later. For those who never touched OG EverQuest, it's a historical curiosity. You can visit home, but you probably won't stay.</p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="The magician guildmaster." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dQ3NXopZcGgQLHdRw3MRa.jpg" align="middle" width="2560" height="1440" data-sanitized-id="dQ3NXopZcGgQLHdRw3MRa" data-sanitized-class="inline expandable"><a href="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dQ3NXopZcGgQLHdRw3MRa.jpg" data-sanitized-class="expand-button icon-expand-image icon"></a></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Daybreak)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Legends, meanwhile, aims to keep you there. It's original EverQuest, yes, but only mostly as you know it. No more corpse runs, a tweaked and soloable MMO experience, in-game <em>maps</em>(!?)—all these things and more exist to fan your nostalgic curiosity into a full-blown dedication to this revitalized 27-year-old game.</p><p>Does it work? I think so. Make no mistake: the list of people for whom EverQuest Legends is <em>not</em> will forever be longer than the list of people for whom it <em>is</em>, but Game Jawn, a new studio comprised of EverQuest fans-turned-developers, has been smart in what cruft it's cut out and what it's left in place. This EverQuest has grown kinder in its dotage—it is more prone to hand out the candy pellet of a level up and forgive your mistakes in combat. </p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Fighting a bat." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7i4jSvY2Z53AF4k4xbTHx.jpg" align="middle" width="2560" height="1440" data-sanitized-id="7i4jSvY2Z53AF4k4xbTHx" data-sanitized-class="inline expandable"><a href="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7i4jSvY2Z53AF4k4xbTHx.jpg" data-sanitized-class="expand-button icon-expand-image icon"></a></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Daybreak)</span></figcaption></figure><p>It's a game I've found myself dipping into at lunchtimes and on idle evenings. I can take a wander, marvel at some places, think 'hey I remember that,' and slaughter enough helpless creatures to net myself a level up. It is a satisfying, undemanding loop, despite the classic MMO trappings.</p><p>At the same time, it's still crusty as hell in ways that will charm you, if you're a certain sort of person. Your walk speed is glacial, you have approximately 4,600 distinct equipment slots on your body, and the game's MUD roots are still visible right there on its face—in the way you CONSIDER potential enemies, run WHO commands to check if pals are online, and play the entire game with one eye on the chat window. It feels sometimes inscrutable but never, at least in my time with it, cruel, where the rigorously old-school experience of Project 1999 is perfectly happy to send you scuttling off naked on a corpse run.</p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Fighting an orc." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xELjuveFC9iwgK5ZDWNfp.jpg" align="middle" width="2560" height="1440" data-sanitized-id="xELjuveFC9iwgK5ZDWNfp" data-sanitized-class="inline expandable"><a href="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xELjuveFC9iwgK5ZDWNfp.jpg" data-sanitized-class="expand-button icon-expand-image icon"></a></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Daybreak)</span></figcaption></figure><p>It is an MMO for MUD enjoyers and Morrowind perverts—no longer hard, but still authentically idiosyncratic. It is for people who can't truly enjoy something that doesn't demand you wrap your mind around it first. It is a charming struggle. It is the Linux of MMOs.</p><p>There are people for whom that paragraph is practically engineered in a lab to repulse them. We call those people 'most people'. But for the rest of us? For me? Legends is probably the only kind of MMO that stands a chance of hooking me in 2026. My six-year-old self would be delighted.</p><div>                                <div data-sanitized-class="kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO"></div>                            </div>                            <div data-sanitized-class="product"><a data-dimension112="4973fa14-9637-11f1-926a-317d6cd0f3fe" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd.jpg" align="middle" width="661" height="654" data-sanitized-id="6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd" data-sanitized-class=""></p></div></div></figure></a><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/new-pc-games-2026/" data-dimension112="4973fa14-9637-11f1-926a-317d6cd0f3fe" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games" data-dimension25=""><strong>2026 games</strong></a>: All the upcoming games<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pc-games/"><strong>Best PC games</strong></a>: Our all-time favorites<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/"><strong>Free PC games</strong></a>: Freebie fest<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-fps-games/"><strong>Best FPS games</strong></a>: Finest gunplay<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-rpgs-of-all-time/"><strong>Best RPGs</strong></a>: Grand adventures<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-co-op-games/"><strong>Best co-op games</strong></a>: Better together</p></div>
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						<dc:creator>/u/PlatformNo182</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/1vp6f6s/i_made_a_film_but_its_not_good/"> <img src="https://preview.redd.it/16eptt338kjh1.jpg?width=140&amp;height=78&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=9678c46f9dc1ac523d602bd587d9f541cb37b9ac" alt="I made a film but it's not good." title="I made a film but it's not good."> </a> </td><td> <div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>I wrote this film in less than a day. I was leaving town and i wanted to create something really soon so i got my friend and I had somewhat an idea in mind, but when it came together it kind of didn't make sense. But atleast i got to practice cinematography. And I did get some experience using Open Gate instead of the usual 16:9 UHD. With the VFX I did it with my friends, I kind of got inspired by Arrival. Shot on a phone, if you couldn't tell. </p> <p>I worry that I might be a little too ambitious with what I have, but i do want to try and challenge myself further as a filmmaker which makes this so much fun. </p> <p>Main take away from this is that i need to establish the story a bit more clearer in the beginning. My friend Isn't an actor so I didn't want to stress her out with lines and so many takes. I had fun making this so i'm sharing it here. Enjoy. </p> <p>FILM: <a href="https://youtu.be/Wn_hr4lQwJc">https://youtu.be/Wn_hr4lQwJc</a></p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PlatformNo182"> /u/PlatformNo182 </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/"> r/Filmmakers </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1vp6f6s">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/1vp6f6s/i_made_a_film_but_its_not_good/">[comments]</a></span> </td></tr></table>]]></description>
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						<dc:creator>Kaylee Harter</dc:creator>
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			<title>Explaining Initiative #110: Colorado voters will decide whether to ban gender-affirming surgery for minors</title>
			<link>https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/explaining-initiative-110-colorado-voters-will-decide-whether-to-ban-gender-affirming-surgery-for-minors</link>
						<dc:creator>Colette Bordelon</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[                                                                        <p>There are less than three months until the 2026 General Election, when Colorado voters will decide upon a measure that supporters argue protects children, while opponents believe it is an attack on the transgender community.</p><p>The debate is centered upon gender-affirming surgery, which encompasses a range of procedures. Specifically, the ballot measure would ban minors from receiving that kind of medical treatment.</p><p>Initiative #110 submitted more than <a href="https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2026/PR20260317Initiative110.html">164,000 petition signatures</a>, sending what those behind the measure have dubbed the "<a href="https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/c3/af/3f0eb7b34e439a3334a17ddcf2f3/110final.pdf">Protect Children From Irreversible Sex Change Surgery Act</a>" to the November ballot.</p><p>The final text of the measure states that children "lack the maturity to make permanent, life-altering medical decisions." It continues to say that Colorado law already sets an age requirement for decisions like consuming alcohol and smoking, and argues that the same should go for gender-affirming surgery.</p><p>If Colorado voters approve Initiative #110, minors would be prohibited from receiving gender-affirming surgeries in the state. In addition, no state or federal funds, Medicaid reimbursements, or insurance coverage could be used to pay for such "prohibited medical interventions."</p><p>This week, the federal administration announced that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-surgery-hormones-minors-medicaid-oz-39722b01ab47a891bbca643a7ae5dde6">Medicaid will not fund gender-affirming surgeries or hormone treatments for minors</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.protectkidscolorado.org/">Protect Kids Colorado</a>, an organization that seeks to "mobilize the people of Colorado and the Church to engage with biblical and biological truth," is behind Initiative #110.</p><p>Denver7 spoke with two mothers who hold different opinions on the proposal, along with a doctor who believes politics should not play into the relationship between a physician and their patients.</p> <a href="https://www.denver7.com/news/politics"><b>Read more of Denver7's stories on Colorado politics here</b></a><p>When Kelli McKay-Conrady first heard her child speak their truth, she said she did her best to support them in whatever way possible.</p><p>She told us her name was Jessica, and we're like, okay, that's great," McKay-Conrady said. If your child comes out as being heterosexual, no one really questions that.</p><p>The mother of two said there were countless conversations with both doctors and therapists to help the entire family through the process, which began when Jessica was 13-years-old.</p><p>"It's not something that we take lightly as a family, and it's a big change. But Jessica's transition has been a slow, gradual process," said McKay-Conrady. She received a hormone blocker... All that hormone blocker does is just pause puberty. It doesn't change anything.</p><p>That was when the family was living in Oklahoma, and McKay-Conrady said it was before <a href="https://oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom/2023/may2023/governor-stitt-bans-gender-transition-surgeries-and-hormone-ther.html">Gov. Kevin Stitt signed bill into a law that banned hormone therapies for minors in the state</a>. The family decided to leave Oklahoma at that point and relocate to Colorado.</p><p>"I wanted her to feel like she was in a place where she was more protected," said McKay-Conrady, who feared for her daughter's mental health.</p><p>McKay-Conrady said the family has felt more at ease since living in Colorado, but has not been insulated from changes on the national level. For example, earlier this year <a href="https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/major-colorado-hospitals-stop-all-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-amid-federal-pressure">Children's Hospital Colorado and Denver Health announced they would suspend gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 18</a> as the result of increasing pressure from federal health officials.</p><p>Her daughter is now 17 and on the verge of becoming an adult, but McKay-Conrady is deeply concerned about Initiative #110.</p><p>"It is my opinion that the government should not have anything to do with medical care that is happening in the doctors' offices. They are not trained professionals; they are politicians," said McKay-Conrady. They take one step. I'm afraid they're going to take the next step. And to me, this is a slippery slope... I don't quite understand why we are going after such a small, vulnerable community that is already under attack, that is already having to deal with a lot of pressures of life.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/185716-temporal-trends-in-gender-affirmation-surgery-among-transgender-and-non-binary-minors#!/">a study that reviewed a national pediatric surgical database</a> and was cited by the <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-facts-on-transgender-healthcare">Human Rights Campaign</a>, 0.04% of all transgender youth across the country received some kind of gender-affirming surgery between 2018 and 2021.</p><p>Here in the state of Colorado, surgery for a minor is exceptionally rare, if not at all," said Dr. Drew Updike, who practices internal medicine. This ballot measure seems to be a ballot measure with some sort of solution about gender identity, but no actual problem."</p><p>Updike gave Denver7 his professional opinion on Initiative #110, which does not reflect his practice.</p><p>As a modern day doctor, I believe that every patient has the right to choose their medical care, right? And I think that each child, each parent, each physician should be able to engage in the free exchange of medical advice, treatment plans, and the things that they believe are best for them," Updike said. "What it [Initiative #110] is doing is it's inserting the government, it's inserting activists, and it's inserting advocates that are, again, not part of the doctor-patient relationship, into the exam room in order to try to choose what's best for somebody else.</p><p>On the other side of the issue is Kinsey Ringenberg, a mother of three children who spent 14 years as a physician assistant working in pediatric and adolescent medicine.</p><p>Every teenager is going to face identity challenges in some way or shape. It's a normal part of teen development, but when they have time to figure that out, it gives them the opportunity to make life-altering decisions for their body when they're an adult, and I think that is why I love this ballot measure," Ringenberg said. "It's specific to kids under 18, and it's specific to surgical intervention.</p><p>Ringenberg told Denver7 she is not a member of Protect Kids Colorado, but she did help collect signatures for Initiative #110.</p><p>Most people are not on the extremes of either side of this issue. Social media will have you believe otherwise, but it's not true," said Ringenberg. "I think there is still a lot of room for parents and educators and therapists to come alongside and support individuals without surgical care.</p><p>Ringenberg did not shy away from questions about how rare gender-affirming surgery is for minors.</p><p>"If it's only for a small amount of kids, why do we need a ballot measure for that? Right? I mean, it's a very fair question," Ringenberg said. "Yet, when it's you or your kid, and it affects the rest of your life, we should all be wanting to provide that extra time to give kids the opportunity to allow their identity and their frontal lobe to develop before that life-altering surgical procedure.</p><p>Denver7 asked Ringenberg if she believes this is an anti-transgender measure.</p><p>It does affect a small subset of kids, like we're talking about, but it does not cover the entirety of gender medicine, and so I wouldn't consider this an anti-trans measure," said Ringenberg.</p><p>Now, Coloradans must decide how to vote on Initiative #110, with the 2026 General Election on Nov. 3.</p>    ]]></description>
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			<title>Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch</title>
			<link>https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/star-wars-the-old-republic-hopes-to-recapture-the-classic-experience-with-difficulty-options-and-a-new-way-to-start-from-scratch/</link>
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                                <p>I don't know if Stars Wars: The Old Republic is the best MMO around—or even <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/15-years-after-it-was-shut-down-star-wars-galaxies-is-still-getting-massive-updates-thanks-to-this-restoration-project-like-a-helldivers-style-galactic-civil-war/">the best Star Wars MMO around</a>—but there's something to be said for keeping the party alive for nearly 15 years at this point, even as developer Broadsword took the reins from BioWare in 2023. If you miss those halcyon days when the game had just dropped, well, you might want to give the imminent 8.0 update a look.</p><p>It was revealed in <a href="https://www.swtor.com/info/news/article/20260813">a blog post</a> that went up Thursday, and it promises a pretty standard lineup of big MMO update features: a raised level cap, more spells and phat loots to futz with, and new zones to explore in the Twi'lek homeworld Ryloth. But there's also two new systems both tackling <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/the-modern-mmos-biggest-enemy-is-difficulty-because-pleasing-everyone-is-basically-impossible-and-yet-they-must/">the MMO's prickliest design conundrum</a>: difficulty.</p><p>The first of those is a difficulty slider, which lets you pick your poison between "a cinematic story-driven journey, a more demanding combat experience, or the ultimate challenge." Notably, you can group up with friends regardless of what you've all chosen, so it'll be interesting to observe how the scaling works out there. </p><p>There's also the new "venture" characters, which operate on their own difficulty system split between classic and expert options. These characters have to start a new story from the beginning, but they'll get special rewards for completing extra objectives as they play through the game normally. It's not clear what those rewards are, but the whole thing is apparently meant to "evoke the feel of the classic SWTOR experience" back when it was slightly less easy to roll over a dozen mobs at once. </p><p>It's a neat idea, assuming it doesn't morph into some battle pass-inspired FOMO nightmare. SWTOR probably isn't so different from its old self that fans are desperate for an OSRS-style <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/old-school-runescape-began-when-a-dev-found-the-2007-server-in-their-desk-drawer-13-years-later-its-setting-subscriber-records-for-the-long-lived-mmo/">revival</a>, but it does still have a best-in-class leveling journey let down by the fact that you can faceroll your way through a great deal of it. If the rewards are fun to pursue and objectives non-tedious, it could brush the dust off those zones and get people grouping in them again.</p><div>                                <div data-sanitized-class="kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO"></div>                            </div>                            <div data-sanitized-class="product"><a data-dimension112="5e634e5e-98ba-11f1-b7e9-1fcb46c809ef" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd.jpg" align="middle" width="661" height="654" data-sanitized-id="6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd" data-sanitized-class=""></p></div></div></figure></a><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/new-pc-games-2026/" data-dimension112="5e634e5e-98ba-11f1-b7e9-1fcb46c809ef" data-action="Deal Block" data-label="2026 games" data-dimension48="2026 games" data-dimension25=""><strong>2026 games</strong></a>: All the upcoming games<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pc-games/"><strong>Best PC games</strong></a>: Our all-time favorites<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/"><strong>Free PC games</strong></a>: Freebie fest<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-fps-games/"><strong>Best FPS games</strong></a>: Finest gunplay<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/best-rpgs-of-all-time/"><strong>Best RPGs</strong></a>: Grand adventures<br><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-co-op-games/"><strong>Best co-op games</strong></a>: Better together</p></div>
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			<link>https://www.wowhead.com/news=382437/saptor-salve-transformation-toy-now-available-again</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patch 12.1 brings The Blinding Vale dungeon into the seasonal rotation, giving players a chance to obtain the Saptor transformation toy again!<p>The Blinding Vale Dungeon Overview</p><p>Saptor Salve Toy<br>The Saptor Salve drops from the last boss of The Blinding Vale, Ziekket, on Mythic (and soon-to-be Mythic+) difficulty. A few players were lucky enough to get their hands on this toy before Season 1 launched, but it became unavailable once the dungeon was removed from the seasonal rotation.</p><p>When used, the toy transforms the player into one of Harandar's Saptors for one hour. The effects persist through death, mounting, Druid shapeshift, and entering combat. Being on a 10-minute cooldown, players can remain transformed as a Saptor indefinitely! Want to take on a dungeon as a Saptor? This toy is your chance to!</p><p>For the launch week of Patch 12.1, Mythic 0s are on a weekly lockout, meaning players will only have one chance this week at the toy per character. Once Season 2 releases, Mythic 0s move to a daily lockout, giving players many more opportunities to farm for this incredible transformation toy!</p>]]></description>
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			<link>https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/</link>
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			<link>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/</link>
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			<title>How has filmmaking shaped you?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/1vouy5k/how_has_filmmaking_shaped_you/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/dazzling_unicorns</dc:creator>
			<category>r/Filmmakers</category>
			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>For all the filmmakers—why film? How has making films shaped you as a person?</p> <p>I am curious because I am a young filmmaker, and would love to hear from everyone 😊</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dazzling_unicorns"> /u/dazzling_unicorns </a>   to   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/"> r/Filmmakers </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/1vouy5k/how_has_filmmaking_shaped_you/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/1vouy5k/how_has_filmmaking_shaped_you/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<link>https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-vectorization/</link>
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			<title>When Bridges Go Haywire</title>
			<link>https://controlsystemssecurity.com/posts/when-the-bridge-goes-haywire.html</link>
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			<title>Good half oz suggestions?</title>
			<link>https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vp5qlu/good_half_oz_suggestions/</link>
						<dc:creator>/u/SerbianHooker</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div data-sanitized-class="md"><p>Looking to grab a half of something decent and it seems that prices are all over the place around me. Looking for popcorn or regular buds, topping out around $80otd. I'm Northeast but am willing to travel around the metro for a good deal</p> </div>   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SerbianHooker"> /u/SerbianHooker </a> <br> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vp5qlu/good_half_oz_suggestions/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/COents/comments/1vp5qlu/good_half_oz_suggestions/">[comments]</a></span>]]></description>
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			<title>RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them</title>
			<link>https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/rpg-companions-need-to-be-hateable-otherwise-nobodys-going-to-love-them/</link>
						<dc:creator>harvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall)</dc:creator>
			<category>RPG</category>
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                                <div data-sanitized-class="fancy-box"><div data-sanitized-class="fancy_box-title">Dungeon Master</div><div data-sanitized-class="fancy_box_body"><figure data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure "><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="The Dungeon Master column logo" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ckZUwfxbakq5yXMJMfSmBW.png" align="" width="" height="" data-sanitized-id="ckZUwfxbakq5yXMJMfSmBW" data-sanitized-class="pinterest-pin-exclude"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><p data-sanitized-class="fancy-box__body-text">Welcome to <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/tag/dungeon-master-column/">Dungeon Master</a>, PC Gamer's regular RPG column. This week, Harvey Randall is once more stepping onto this site to argue that you should make your RPG companions obstructive, flawed little nightmares, or you're passing up storytelling gold.</p></div></div><p>In my Honour Mode playthrough of <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/baldur-s-gate-3/">Baldur's Gate 3</a>, I romanced Gale—<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/gale-is-one-of-baldurs-gate-3s-best-romancesand-im-tired-of-pretending-hes-not/">you can see my full thoughts on our under-appreciated wizard boy here</a>. What solidified him as one of my all-time RPG romances, however, wasn't his wit or his very nice hair. It was a conversation in which he acted like a petty little bastard.</p><p>After your first amorous night together, Gale—like any self-conscious bloke might do—asks you how he performed in the bedroom. If you respond: "It was fine," he fully has a sulk, stopping just short of making a thread on r/AITA.</p><p>"Nobody weeps because the weather is fine," he says while his voice actor, Tim Downie, puts as much quiet, brooding petulance as he can into his words. "No monarchs were overthrown because their ruling was fine. No artworks were burned because they were masterpieces, but merely <em>fine</em>." </p><p>Then he threatens to blow himself up, calling himself "a fragile vessel in which to place potentially world-ending power. Perhaps it would be better to not shake such a vessel." </p><p>I want to point out, Gale <em>sucks </em>for this—it's an absolutely toxic, unpleasant, and thorny response to being told you were just acceptable in the bedroom, so much so that it horseshoes around to being meme-able. But it also cemented why I liked his romance, why I liked him—because it makes him three-dimensional, fleshed-out.</p><p>It helps that it works for his character, too. Gale was essentially groomed by the god of magic. In his first relationship since trying to impress someone who has complete and utter power over him, he's going to be sensitive to criticism. Especially after his ex told him to blow himself up—his insecurity is believably petty, because he's measuring himself to perfection. </p><p>It's this willingness for companion characters to be unpleasant that makes BG3's cast fly off the screen. Larian's writers weren't afraid of people hating or disliking their characters—many of them are actively hostile to you, or have moments where they can turn against you entirely. And the more I thought about it, the more I've come to realise that that is, in fact, the point.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="hate-love-relationships">Hate-love relationships</h2><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Baldur's Gate 3 - Lae'Zel looks disaproving" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pf3vxbYCY8FEHHWi6sirQB.jpg" align="middle" width="2560" height="1440" data-sanitized-id="pf3vxbYCY8FEHHWi6sirQB" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Larian Studios)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The strength of any RPG's structure, story-wise, is in its genre conventions. Simply put, most RPGs have the following set of circumstances:</p><ul><li>There is a world-ending threat (or at least, something that will muck stuff up on the regional/continent level).</li><li>You have companions who'll accompany you on all your adventures.</li></ul><p>Now, if you're a writer, you might think to yourself: Well, I better make these people bearable to get along with. If you're going to be spending 50-100 hours with somebody, they need to be pleasant to be around. And while that has to be true of some of your party members—an RPG cast benefits from having a Karlach, Minsc, Tali, or Wynne in it—it's a terrible assumption to make for your entire crew.</p><p>It's throwing away gold, for one: You have a reason to put the most eclectic, weird mix of strangers into a huge 'get along or the world ends' t-shirt. Characters who'd otherwise have absolutely zero reason to so much as <em>look</em> at each other, who would otherwise hate<em> </em>each other, must interact for the greater good.</p><p>This friction is<em> </em>the fuel for any great RPG—no, more than that. It's why they work in the first place. The grinding of flaw against flaw is the mill that makes the bread of some of the genre's best banter. Take Alistair and Morrigan for instance. On paper, these characters would be the worst two to form a party with. But you should put them next to each other, because Morrigan's dry cynicism and Alistair's cheerful wit is extraordinarily entertaining when they're inches from ripping each other's throats out.</p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Taash stares, sorrowfully, off the screen in Dragon Age: The Veilguard." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kLfxGssHRQ7GMbT6D4mHV3.png" align="middle" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-id="kLfxGssHRQ7GMbT6D4mHV3" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Bioware / EA)</span></figcaption></figure><p>And listen, I hate to harp on Dragon Age: The Veilguard <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/we-cant-keep-making-videogame-stories-for-players-who-arent-paying-attention-to-them/">more than I already have</a>—especially since, given the development hell it went through, its writers may have wanted to do more with its cast, but simply couldn't. But it's unfortunately a good illustrative example of where this goes wrong. </p><p>As our own Lauren Morton pointed out, the <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dragon-age/the-veilguard-is-the-first-dragon-age-game-where-my-companions-dont-care-enough-about-anything-to-argue-with-me/">cast doesn't argue with you</a>, they don't bicker with each other, they don't have conflicting or impactful beliefs that dent the narrative (or your opinion of them) in any way. </p><p>They are all just blandly kind of likeable—or if they <em>are</em> unpleasant, they're unpleasant in ways that are vaguely-defined and blurry around the edges. Taash comes the closest to having an abrasive personality, and at the end of everything, they're really just sort of headstrong and opinionated in a way that'll make some people annoyed. And because of the story's resistance towards engaging in darker themes, they just come across as immature. </p><p>In a way, Veilguard's characters feel like empty vessels designed for the indistinct glob of fandom to project onto. Large fanfiction nets built to trawl for as many diehards as possible—and don't get me wrong, I've nothing against fanfiction. On the contrary, I think if your game has the sauce, you're going to have a smut-happy fandom whipped into an eager frenzy. </p><p>But there's a level of insecurity that radiates off characters who are built this way, a Netflix-esque, focus-tested glazed-over look in their eyes. And it's why I just can't love them. </p><h2 data-sanitized-id="it-s-all-about-bias-baby">It's all about bias, baby</h2><p>Human beings are weird creatures. We'll project emotions and feelings onto inanimate objects if we have to—slap a pair of googly eyes on a roomba, and guarantee you'll come up with a nickname for it within the week, if not the next hour. </p><figure data-bordeaux-image-check data-sanitized-class="van-image-figure  inline-layout"><div data-sanitized-class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="image-widthsetter"><p data-sanitized-class="vanilla-image-block"><img alt="Morrigan, the Witch of the Wilds, in Dragon Age: Origins" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5MxYXtbdaY3pSFz8MfpnKW.png" align="middle" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-id="5MxYXtbdaY3pSFz8MfpnKW" data-sanitized-class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption data-sanitized-class=" inline-layout"><span data-sanitized-class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><p>This affection for imperfection applies to how we form social relationships, as well. There's a name for it—the "Halo effect". Basically, if you form a positive opinion of someone, you're more likely to rationalise or dismiss their less pleasant behaviour further down the line. </p><p>The dark side of this is that we sometimes overlook awful behaviour from the people we love—but it's not an inherently terrible thing. Human beings are messy, we're flawed, we make mistakes, and if we didn't have a little softness for the people we care about, we probably wouldn't get much done. Giving grace to those closest to us is natural.</p><p>And I think this is why RPG characters that are thorny, unpleasant, and flawed tend to be treated with more affection than ones that are written to be frictionless—they map to a more accurate experience of what it's like to actually be friends with somebody. </p><p>You form an initial impression of them, negative or positive, and then when you get to know them better—when you're all socially bonded—the emotional systems we've developed for group cohesion kick in and give you the same chemical punt. Without those flaws to challenge our impressions of that NPC, they don't feel "real" in the same way.</p><div><blockquote><p>[Flawed characters] map to a more accurate experience of what it's like to actually be friends with somebody. "</p></blockquote></div><p>There's even some science backing this up. <a href="https://psmag.com/social-justice/pulitzer-prizes-journalism-reporting-your-brain-on-story-why-narratives-win-our-hearts-and-minds-79824/">Studies have shown that oxytocin</a>, a chemical responsible for social bonding, kicks in when we read stories. Much of the same neurological processes we use to form connections in real life apply to a stellar narrative, too—it's why people get so attached, and why a good yarn can bring you to tears.</p><p>Which, I think, is why frictionless RPGs characters just don't work. If you don't create the same feeling of growing attached to someone—a strong first impression, later counterbalanced by discovering flaws or virtues—then there's an uncanniness to it that forces us to disconnect.</p><p>The term "immersion" gets bandied around a lot, but it really applies here. The success of a good story, particularly a character-focused one, is in how it pulls you in—and if I don't feel like I'm playing an RPG with real, vivid characters who I might dislike on occasion, I'm going to start tuning out.</p><p>You need to add scenes that rub people the wrong way—actions that are genuinely questionable, beliefs that are genuinely unpleasant. Not for every character, and not to every harsh extent, but that variety is still mandatory. 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