40 year anniversary of the Memorial Day Flood of 1981

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This week marks the sixth anniversary of the 2015 Hays County flood that devastated parts of Wimberley and San Marcos. But Central Texas' history with flood events around Memorial Day goes back even farther to 1981 when 10 inches of ...

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Days of Play sale is now live - includes The Last of Us Part 2 for £10

The PlayStation Days of Play sale is now live and you can get your hands on a whole host of deals across top PlayStation games, PS Plus subscriptions and more.

The immediate highlight so far is The Last of Us Part 2 for £9.99 at Game. The sweetness of the deal is lessened a little when you realise you also have to pay £5 for delivery, but this is still an excellent price for one of last year's best games. It's just received its PS5 patch, too, so it's well worth it if you've managed to find any PS5 stock.

Alongside Naughty Dog's bleak opus, you can find the full array of Days of Play deals currently available below. These should all be available at select retailers while stocks last. I'll be back to update the table if I find any more.

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Odd Realm is Dwarf Fortress for people who can't keep houseplants alive

Odd Realm is an early access colony management game, like Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, in which you play a semi-interventionist deity looming over a square mile of dirt and issuing divine orders to a growing population of simulated people. You have the power to designate tasks for them to complete, tracing out where your villagers should mine, what they should build, choosing which seeds they should plant and which trees should be felled, until they're so self-sufficient you can sit back and observe them, like some omnipotent, hovering pervert.

Odd Realm hews closely to the Dwarf Fortress format. Bedrooms must be carved out of mountains or built on hillsides to accommodate your first settlers. Workshops, smithies, kitchens and distilleries are constructed and furnished to specification, so that your burgeoning town can begin to process the bounty and booze of the surrounding nature. Even Dwarf Fortress's most confounding aesthetic has made the grade: Z-levels, which let you flip through top-down cross-sections of the world, as though you're leafing through individual slices of an MRI scan, take a while to wrap your brain around.

Once you do, and your eyes can decode all of the pixelated goings on, Odd Realm begins to spill its charming guts all over the place. This is not nearly as detailed a simulation as other colony managers, but that makes Odd Realm a less daunting proposition. Where Dwarf Fortress is baffling to the point of turning new players away, Odd Realm's tender and tiny worlds invite you to experiment with ambitious architecture projects. The default biome is so forgiving, so overrun with friendly animals to tame and butcher and so verdant with edible plants and fermenting fruit, that you can concentrate on building a giant stone tower for everyone to live inside, or a cute wooden village on top of a lake.

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Missing your $1400 stimulus check? Here's what you'll need to do

Waiting for that stimulus money can be frustrating. Sarah Tew/CNET. The IRS has sent a majority of the third stimulus checks issued as part of the American Rescue Plan Act passed in March. But if you're not one of the tens of millions of people who have ...

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Want Your Honorarium? Sign an Anti-BDS Pledge First

Abby Martin, a journalist and filmmaker, sued Georgia Southern University after she was prevented from speaking at a conference there unless she agreed to refrain from boycotting Israel. By. Elizabeth Redden. May 26, 2021. AddThis Sharing Buttons.

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A Push to Improve HBCU Infrastructure

The bipartisan, bicameral HBCU Caucus in Congress hopes to help these institutions by passing the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, which would provide federal support for infrastructure projects on HBCU campuses. The legislation, formally known as ...

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COVID-19 vaccine inequality in India sends many falling through gaps

NEW DELHI: As the coronavirus tears through India, night watchman Sagar Kumar thinks constantly about getting vaccines for himself and his family of five amid critical shortages of shots in the country. But even if he knew how to get one, it wouldn't be easy.

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