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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Wired tried the motorized shoes.

    Brent Rose, noted friend of The Verge, got to check out the Moonwalkers. I’ve gotta admit I laughed at their original Kickstarter campaign, but these seem pretty fun and better thought out than I expected! I thought Brent would eat it for sure.

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    The *real* magic mouse is having a rare sale.

    It’s been an entire year since I’ve thought about charging my wireless gaming mouse — ever since my bro-in-law bought me this amazing mousepad. While it rarely ever goes on sale, you can find it for $20 off today at Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, and Logitech. It works with the G502, G502 X, G703, G903, G Pro Wireless, and G Pro X Superlight.

    (We may get commission if you buy via those links. While I think it’s obvious I just really like this product, here’s our ethics statement too.)

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    Dishonored, a damn good game, is free on the Epic Games Store through Wednesday.

    I don’t know anyone who’s played Dishonored who didn’t love it — there are many good reasons it racked up game-of-the-year awards in 2012. Now, the Definitive Edition for PC, with all the DLC, is free on the Epic Games Store until 1/5 at 8am.

    If you liked Deathloop, this is its spiritual predecessor. Also, please go play Prey. They’re all made by Arkane.

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    What is Musk doing to Tesla? Maybe he’ll explain on March 1st.

    Tesla just announced it’ll livestream its investor day on March 1st, 2023, “with the option for some of our institutional and retail investors to attend in person”.

    I imagine those investors will have some very pointed questions for him — like how it feels to become the first person to ever lose $200 billion? More on Tesla’s challenges in the Twitter era from my colleague Andy:

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    LG has achieved the perfect press release.

    Is this real life? Is this just parody? I can’t stop giggling either way. Not even ChatGPT can say this little with this many words. My favorite line:

    “Cho ended his talk by reminding everyone at LG that the future will be determined by the way we think and act now, which is, ultimately, to prepare for the future.” Oh we will, LG, we will.

    A real Jabberwocky moment, this.

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    Sean Hollister
    It’s probably safe to download the Steam Deck update now.

    I warned you yesterday after I heard a few horror stories and got stuck on the boot screen myself, but Valve has now pushed two fixes to the supposedly Stable ring — 3.4.1 and 3.4.2. They revert and defer the SD card pathing change that was tripping up people with emulators and symlinks, fix “regression causing games to crash due to missing dependencies”, and fix hardware acceleration for remote play.

    Since Valve is putting 3.4.3 into preview rather than just shipping it, it seems the flurry of fixes is done for now.