Zach Hall

Zach Hall

@zhall.me

Nerd of many things. ⚽🏈📚🎲🗡️ Usually talking sports and TTRPGs. Corporate emo. [formerly CrownTownSoccer] | #CLT (he/him)

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NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

gamefile.newsWho made the art inside Control Resonant?When the developers of Control Resonant needed to fill their video game version of New York City with art galleries, they tapped the talents of people they knew particularly well

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

I'm a single dad of an elementary schooler with 50% custody, I'm autistic, I work full time, and being a parent is still not hard enough for me to use LLMs to help me talk about my daughter.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

This is why. GGs Lyon, still two more chances to qualify. #Worlds2026

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I refuse to get hope (but please LYON please) #lolesports #worlds2026

I will say, even in the first games, Fearless Bo3 changes the drafts so much and makes these 8 hour days of #Worlds2026 much more interesting to watch. Fearless was the best thing that ever happened to pro League. #lolesports

I totally get the logistics that need most of Swiss to be Bo1, even if I think the drafts themselves are less interesting. This year's #Worlds2026 format is the perfect mix of "no excuses" and "let chaos reign". It seems really unlikely for a team to get an "easy" path to Knockouts.

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Once more, we're on. Out January, THE POWER FANTASY #18. "Where we consider the big issues, like if you could travel back in time to kill baby Hitler, would you? How about if Hitler was actually a lovely-if-self-obsessed artist who killed the world by accident? Also, Jacky Magus panics."

Absolute CINEMA in the #Worlds2026 Day 2 draw. The LCK draws against themselves in the 1-0 pool: DK vs T1 CFO vs MKOI HLE vs GENG LYON vs KC

In the #Worlds2026 0-1 pool: G2 vs LOS IG vs TSW TES vs AL TL vs BLG NA's #1 seed, after dropping game 1 against CFO (a team from a much smaller region), must now face one of the best teams from Korea, BLG. Very real chance Team Liquid goes 0-2 and is fighting for their life the rest of the event.

Raz has to cover himself after NA finally gets a "series" win at #Worlds2026

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LYON gets NA on the board, beating Team SecretWhales in the last game of Swiss Day 1. Draw for Day 2 is next. In this year's format, teams are drawn against others with same record. 3 total wins qualifies for Knockouts, 3 losses and you're out. If a team could qual/elim, the series becomes a Bo3.

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LYON already beat TSW at internationals earlier this year, sweeping them at the Mid-Season Invitational. But tonight is a Bo1 -- anything can happen. Jatt actually predicts a TSW win from the desk, but I think it's a reverse psych. "I don't trust day one LYON." #Worlds2026

LYON gets NA on the board, beating Team SecretWhales in the last game of Swiss Day 1. Draw for Day 2 is next. In this year's format, teams are drawn against others with same record. 3 total wins qualifies for Knockouts, 3 losses and you're out. If a team could qual/elim, the series becomes a Bo3.

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TL drops their opener vs the "easy" draw of CFO. It was competitive in the mid game, but a great early game lets CFO stack dragons early that they were able to convert to Soul. TL's macro was pretty strong, but they never put the game away, then we're out played in crucial 5v5s. #Worlds2026

T1 handle business efficiently against LOS to move into the 1-0 pool for Day 2. Last game of opening day is NA's LYON vs TSW from the LCP/Vietnam. Both Jatt and Raz (the LCS analysts) look nervous as hell and I can't say I blame them. NA fans still looking for their first series win of #Worlds2026

Idk if G2 threw that or DK just had a perfect team fight at 33 minutes in, but DK ends up winning off of that one fight. Gonna feel like an oof for EU fans, when they should've gone 3-0 on the day. Next up: NA's top seed Team Liquid plays SEA's 2nd seed. On paper should be a TL win.

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

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We've had transcripts of Thiel's secret lectures on the Antichrist for a minute -- he's been publishing relevant parts of them, so we had David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, pull them apart for us. Gift link! www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...

I can't believe I have to wait another year for the next season, damn it.

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Diplomat S4 kicks ass (not done yet)

There's something very fun about watching MVK accept their role as "chaos incarnate" at #Worlds, like that knew they couldn't go toe to toe so they instead just decided to be unpredictable and ungovernable.

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

Me: driving us home after being out for 9 hours, having gone to dance class, brunch, target for clothes shopping, the library, the movies, then Target again My 6 yr old: how come you never make plans for us? Today was kind of boring.