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Icon, Part 1: It Won’t Work // Andy Stanley

August 14, 2023 Ogghy Filed Under: Andy Stanley, SUCCESS

Icon, Part 1: It Won't Work // Andy Stanley

In Part 1 of Icon, Andy Stanley explains why it’s not intuitive to choose to lose, but Jesus introduced an upside-down way of living.

About the series: In the first century, the cross was a symbol of suffering and shame. In this series, we’ll talk about how it now represents an empowering invitation to a completely different way of life.
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0:00-Intro
2:30-Jesus Facing Temptation
11:53- Win / Lose World
13:43-A Better Way of Life
19:10-The Way of the Cross
32:37-A Question to Ask Yourself

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Biden takes heat for spending 40 percent of his days in office ‘on vacation’

September 1, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From New York Post:

Transparency advocates, meanwhile, say it’s alarming that Biden refuses to release visitor logs for locations other than the White House — saying it makes a mockery of his administration’s self-praise for releasing partial West Wing visitor logs.

First son Hunter Biden, who is under federal investigation for possible tax fraud, money laundering and lobbying violations in connection to his foreign business dealings, often travels with his father after repeatedly introducing his dad to associates during his vice presidency.

Tom Fitton, president of conservative transparency group Judicial Watch, said, “One would hope that President Biden is working when he is on ‘vacation’ in Delaware, [but] the unwillingness of the White House to disclose his official visitors at Delaware suggests that there is something to hide — including that Biden is completely checked out from his job when away from the White House.”

Read more here...

The post Biden takes heat for spending 40 percent of his days in office ‘on vacation’ appeared first on Judicial Watch.

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Fast, Fluid, Frictionless Payments Are the Future

April 26, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Coindesk

For a technology to really hit the big time, it’s got to evolve. Right now, we’re still in the early adopter phase of crypto. It’s hard to acquire, hard to use for most non-tech folks and it’s lacking a whole bunch of features.

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Vegas Golden Knights, Dallas Stars Go Head-To-Head Tuesday For Last NHL Playoff Spot

April 25, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Forbes

It’s do-or-die time for the Vegas Golden Knights, who need at least a point against the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night in order to keep their 2022 Stanley Cup playoff hopes alive.

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Who Needs a Tiffany-Blue Nautilus? Drake’s Turquoise Rolex Day-Date Shines at the Raptors Game

April 25, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: Robb Report, SUCCESS

It’s the perfect piece if you can’t get your hands on Patek Philippe’s hyper-limited edition.

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Dune: Spice Wars Early Access Review

April 25, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, IGN

It’s been a while since we’ve visited the Dune universe in a real-time strategy game – I thought the iPod was basically sorcery when Emperor: Battle for Dune came out in 2001 – but even in its early access form, Dune: Spice Wars is shaping up to be a triumphant return. Four distinct factions that all engage a little differently with interesting combat, politics, and exploration make for an exciting time on the beautifully deadly world of Arrakis. And more impressive still, it never made me feel like I need to be a highly trained Mentat mastermind to keep track of it all.

Spice Wars is a bit more of a traditional RTS than developer Shiro Games’ last project, Northgard, which shared a lot of elements with worker placement tabletop games. But a return to the old formula isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and its well-balanced resource mechanics are still at the heart of everything. Whether it’s manpower, political influence, or the all-important spice, I never fell into a rut in this glimmering desert where I felt like I had enough of everything. Spice Wars always keeps you hungering for something, which can lead to conflict even with a long-time ally if they just happen to get to that juicy spice field you were eyeing before you can.

Combat is relatively simple but satisfying. Until you get pretty deep into the military tech tree your army size will be limited to only a handful, which makes microing your units crucial in an even fight. I appreciate how this raises the skill cap significantly without having to worry about a giant, indecipherable blob of soldiers. And each faction fights a bit differently, from the relatively straightforward Atreides legions who get bonuses for ganging up on a single enemy, to the elusive Fremen who can cause a lot of delightful havoc by cleverly leveraging small squads of stealthy infiltrators. The added danger of the Shai Hulud introduces further tense and engaging considerations to each battle, especially in the late game. Why? Because having large groups of soldiers fighting over a small area risks getting them all turned into worm food.

MASTERS OF DUNE

Because of those differences each faction has some distinct flavor to their tactics, with the brutish Harkonnens relying on strong military garrisons to squeeze additional productivity out of their workforce, and the Fremen’s advantageous ability to collect precious spice without noisy, mechanical harvesters that tend to attract trouble of the giant death worm variety. Of course, you can never actually remove the threat of the worms, so you have to learn to live with them. I really like how this reminds you that no matter how powerful you get, you still have to bow to Arrakis’ unforgiving rules. In this way, the planet really comes alive and becomes a character of its own, supported by gleaming stretches of dunes in the daytime and an eerily quiet, almost meditative sea of twinkling blue at night. The look of the units and buildings is a bit cartoonishly stylized, but putting everything together, it’s gorgeous.

This signature harshness also manifests in a supply system that demands you supply all military units with provisions to survive for any length of time outside friendly territory. Particularly dangerous are the deep deserts, dividing up the map with basically impassible expanses, killing anything that tries to pass through them and creating effective tactical puzzles to solve. Some factions, especially the Fremen, can eventually gain the ability to cross them safely. But most of the time, I had to decide if it was worth risking my whole army to strike an enemy where they least expected it – a risky but exhilarating gambit.

NOT BRAVE ENOUGH FOR POLITICS

While all of this is going on, high-level strategy simmers as each faction jockeys for position in the cutthroat space senate, the Landsraad. The Atreides and Harkonnens are voting members with official representation, but all factions, including the unrecognized Fremen and Smugglers, can spend a resource called Influence to represent bribes and backroom deals to get what they’re after. It sounds complex, but the way it works is very easy to follow, with resolutions like increasing the upkeep on certain goods or giving a faction the ability to raise special Imperial armies coming to a vote periodically. It’s impressive how Spice Wars was able to bolt a fairly deep political system onto an already complex RTS without it feeling bloated or confusing. That said, this is one area that could use a balance pass before it comes out of early access.

Of the several games I played of Spice Wars, which each take around three to four hours to finish, all but one ended when the House Atreides were voted Governors of Dune. Once they attain this title, it’s only a matter of holding onto it for a certain number of days before the game ends. The main issue I had was that there doesn’t really seem to be any way to stop them, other than maybe wiping them off the map – and that’s almost impossible to do quickly, given each faction’s main base has defenses that will decimate all but the strongest late-game armies. You have to hope that the governorship randomly comes up for a vote again and try to take it for yourself. Sometimes it simply doesn’t come up again at all – there’s no way to influence this that I could find.

I, SPY

The espionage system is where the complexity might have finally boiled over. Using spies, who are named characters who generate an Intel resource, you can execute useful operations that range from hindering enemy replenishment in a region to starting a rebellion in one of their settlements. The problem with it is that it takes a lot of time to manage, and it ended up being one too many things to juggle when I had warfare, economics, and politics to worry about. Underhanded dealings are a big part of the Dune universe, so I wouldn’t necessarily want to see this system go away. But more ways to use my Intel passively instead of constantly having to assign it to new operations (or trade it away so it didn’t go to waste) would have been nice.

What We Said About Dune (2021)

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is beautiful to behold, a faithful adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel. Or of its first half, that is. And therein lies the problem that the film faces, for in cutting this story into two parts, Villeneuve has front-loaded Dune with a lot of set-up and no obvious way to end things… and so it lingers, and eventually overstays its welcome. This is a technically brilliant, visually amazing movie with a top-notch cast and deep sci-fi concepts. A shame, then, that it feels like a drag in its back half. – Scott Collura, September 3, 2021

Score: 7

Read the full Dune review

And those rebellions feel a bit too punishing, as well. Given the small unit cap, having an entire settlement on the other side of the map rise up while you’re in the middle of a war can be disastrous, even with multiple agents assigned to counter-espionage. Local militias you’ve built in the settlement only defend against rival powers and won’t lift a finger against rebels. So it can get pretty frustrating with how few tools there are to counter it.

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Chris Paul Is Showing Why He’s A Late-Game Assassin In Year 17

April 24, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Forbes

Chris Paul shouldn’t be this great at age 37. It’s not something we see from point guards his size, with this many miles on their legs. But for the Phoenix Suns, currently in a first-round battle with the New Orleans Pelicans, he’s doing exactly what he needs to do.

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Use this little-known Google feature to bookmark every movie you want to watch

April 22, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: PopSci, SCI-TECH

A close-up of a hand holding a TV remote with an out-of-focus TV screen in the background.
It’s easy to lose track of what you want to watch. Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash

There are so many streaming services out there that it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the choices. And these content factories aren’t slowing down either: Load up Netflix, Disney Plus, or any other streaming app and you’ll find a wealth of new shows and films to pick from every week, whether or not you’ve finished everything else you’re watching (spoiler alert: you haven’t).

Knowing this abundance of choice means certain titles can fall between the cracks, companies have created many digital tools to help you keep track of it all. Most of these are platform-specific, though some will help you manage everything you want to watch across multiple platforms.

Google’s improved watchlist tool is one of the latter. You may not have noticed it among the company’s bigger apps and services—it lives in the shadow of Gmail and Android—but Google Watchlist will log all the films you’re keen to see.

Build your watchlist

The Google search interface on a phone screen, showing the Google Watchlist icon.
Adding films to your watchlist requires just a single tap. David Nield

You can find the Google Watchlist everywhere you can find Google’s search engine—just make sure you’re signed into your Google account, wherever you happen to be. On the main Google search page, for example, click Sign in in the top right corner to enter your Google credentials.

Then it’s just a question of searching for whatever movie you want to add to your watchlist. If Google identifies your search terms as a film title, numerous related options will appear on the right side of the results page, along with the platforms you can watch the film on, its current rating, and information such as its original release date.

There should also be a Watchlist button alongside these details—click it to add the title to your watchlist. There’s also a Watched button you can use to mark off stuff you’ve seen, but we’ll be completely honest: we’re not sure what this does. There doesn’t seem to be anywhere where you can access this list of “watched” films, so the button currently appears to be rather redundant. (Google might be using it to inform your recommendations and personalize your searches, but it’s not clear.)

[Related: How to find where your favorite movies and TV shows are streaming]

We’re here to talk about your watchlist though, and Google will remember your click the next time you search for the same film. Search for a movie title from the main search box on the home screen of an Android device, for example, and you should see the same Watchlist button—it’ll be filled in if you selected it somewhere else.

If you’re searching for something obscure or that returns a different set of results—like a film that shares its name with a video game, perhaps—you might not see the Watchlist button on the right. If this happens, try adding “movie” to the end of your search terms to give Google a more precise idea of what you’re looking for.

Find your watchlist

Movies selected in Google Watchlist appearing on the Google TV app.
The Google TV app for Android is one way to get at your watchlist.

The easiest way to find the watchlist you’ve created is to simply enter “my watchlist” into the Google search engine (making sure you’re signed in first). You’ll see all the films you’ve bookmarked this way, and you can select any of them to see more details about the movie (including the Watchlist button, so you can click it again to remove something from your list).

You can get to the same watchlist through the Google TV layer than sits on top of Android TV on some newer devices (including the Chromecast with Google TV). Head over to the Library tab and your watchlisted movies will appear at the top—select any of them to see viewing options or remove them from your watchlist if necessary.

Then there’s the Google TV app for Android, which replaced Google Movies & TV (at the time of writing, there’s no Google TV app for iOS). There, you get a dedicated Watchlist button in the lower right corner which will take you straight to your movies: Tap any one of them to see more details, get viewing options, or remove it from the list. You can add titles to your watchlist from the Google TV app as well—the button appears on every film listing page.

If you need yet another way to get at your wishlist, point your browser toward google.com/save. As before, you can see your list, get more details on individual titles, and remove films from your watchlist. This page seems to be a repository for various other Google-related bookmarks too—places saved on Google Maps will appear here, for example—but it doesn’t seem to be a site Google has paid much attention to lately.

It’s possible that the Google Watchlist feature will improve over time, and may get a bit more functionality when it comes to the list of what you’ve watched as well as what you want to watch. For now though, it’s a handy way to use your Google account to bookmark films across multiple devices.

The post Use this little-known Google feature to bookmark every movie you want to watch appeared first on Popular Science.

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The Oakland Athletics Overcoming Early Challenges

April 22, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Forbes

It’s early, but the Oakland Athletics may be the biggest surprise of 2022 thus far.

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This lone holdout tenant is blocking a $70M NYC luxury condo tower

April 22, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: NY Post, THE NEWS

It’s David and Goliath, Upper West Side edition. 

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