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Summary Ever since the arrival ofBaldur’s Gate 3, cosplayers from all over have been doing their interpretations of beloved characters from both the protagonists' party and beyond. However, one cosplayer decided to not just dress up as one character, but two – Shadowheart and Orin – and tie them together via a villainous ability. On Reddit, cosplayerMercuryginhighlights a special dual-cosplay set featuring her as Shadowheart and Orin. She titled the special photo “Orin’s Victim....

The fighting game genre has always had some barriers to entry, with top-level play requiring hundreds of hours of practice to master combos, positioning, and character matchups. The high skill ceiling has often pushed away more casual players from participating, sometimes making them feel inadequate compared to more seasoned comprtitors. However, the past year has seen developers implementing mechanics that better help rookie players ease into their games.Street Fighter 6introduced a Modern Control scheme aimed at simplifying things....

Earlier in April, a report was published noting that YouTube Kids would soon allow for a human-monitored version of the YouTube Kids app in the near future. Well, the near future is now here, andGoogle announcedthat it will be rolling out the new features this year. So what are the new features? Well, for starters, the app will essentially allows parents to whitelist channel collections and topics they want to allow their kids to see — instead of relying on algorithms to choose appropriate content for them....

In an unprecedented move, Meta has announced that it’s hiking the price of its normally affordableQuest 2 headset by $100starting on August 1. Although Meta claims that the price bump is meant to allow the company to invest more in VR in hopes of “moving the VR industry further,” I’m left skeptical about the plausibility of that outcome. The move will not only hurt VR fans’ wallets but potentially hurt Meta’s goals as it attempts to turnthe Metaverseinto a mainstream experience....

Summary Some may find the title ofThe Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killermisleading. It’s not entirely inaccurate, but beneath the film’s initial premise as described in the title is a different movie, one less about the process of writing and more about a marriage falling apart and how it might be saved over one out of control night. Cast This night, which takes up a bulk of the film’s runtime, leads to some ofThe Shallow Tale’s best moments, but it still ends up feeling like a misguided effort....

Smart-home devices sometimes require complicated installation that just doesn’t make sense for renters. Plus, apartments have different needs than single-family homes. That’s why we decided to outfit a whole condo with smart devices that don’t require rewiring or permanent installation. Each week, we’ll tackle a different category and look at various products, then explain how we made our selections. At the end of the series, we’ll examine the smart apartment as an ecosystem, and how all these devices — or do not — work together....

Apple proudly boasts that itsApple Musicstreaming service offerslossless audioversions of every track — and many are also available inhi-res audio. And yet, if you use an iPhone to listen to Apple Music using a set ofwireless earbudsor headphones, you’ll instantly lose some of that extra quality. That’s because the iPhone only supports two Bluetooth codecs, SBC and AAC, and neither is designed to transmit audio at bit rates that can preserve the quality of Apple Music’s tracks....

An unfeasibly long bus will soon to take to the streets of Colombia, though whether a driver will be brave enough to get behind the wheel is another matter entirely. At 26.8 meters long (88 feet), its Chinese maker, BYD, claims it’s the longest pure-electric bus in the world. It certainly looks that way. Thankfully for the driver tasked with controlling this hulk of a people carrier, the bus isn’t built in one long section....

When it comes to LED TVs, one of the best brands in the business right now is Hisense. Renowned for its budget-friendly pricing and incredible picture quality, there’s no shortage of Hisense models to choose from, but nothing beats the ultra-low-price of this incredible Walmart offer: For a limited time, when you purchase the Hisense 50-inch R6 Series, you’ll only pay $138. That’s one of the bestTV dealswe’ve seen onanyTV in a long time, bar none....

TikTok star NoahGlennCarter addresses $200K GoFundMe controversy after parents’ wealth revealed TikTok star Noah Glenn Carter is facing backlash after revealing his parents’ extravagant new home nearly two years after starting a GoFundMe when the property was destroyed in a fire. In November 2023, Carter shocked his audience onTikTokwhen he uploaded a series of posts showing his childhood homegoing up in a fiery blaze, which he’d narrowly escaped by climbing out of a window....

Toyota is getting into the ridesharing game. The automaker is launching its first service in Honolulu, Hawaii. CalledHui, it will offer customers 50 vehicles at 25 stations spread throughout the city. It’s operated by Servco — Toyota’s distributor in Hawaii — and works with an app (iOSandAndroid) that reserves the vehicles and manages accounts. you’re able to choose from a decent range of cars, too, among them the Toyota Prius, Prius Prime, and Camry XSE, as well as the Lexus RX 350 and RX F Sport....

President Donald Trump signed anexecutive orderon Thursday targeting social media platforms, pushing to make them liable for content posted onto their sites, and ordering the Federal Trade Commission and the attorney general to begin investigating the companies. “Today, I amsigningan executive order to protect and uphold the free speech and rights of the American people,” Trump said at the signing. The executive order comes on the heels of Twitter attachinga fact-check message to Trump’s tweetabout how a mail-in ballot system would promote voter fraud, and isseen by some critics as retaliationand an attempt to strong-arm tech companies....

Twitch makes Partner Plus much easier to get but for one group of streamers Twitch is making it much easier for one group of streamers to have Partner Plus status on the Amazon-owned platform after some complaints. The requirements for becoming a Partner have been tweaked a little bit over the years, but it is all about being consistent in your streaming, building a fanbase, and dedicating yourself to Twitch....