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10 Awesome Management Games for Armchair Tycoons
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The 17 Best Weekend Deals on Phones, Face Masks, and Keyboards
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How to remove direct formatting in a Word document
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“It’s a Love Letter”: The Producers of Star Wars: Visions Celebrate the Unique Anime Collection
There is a moment in “The Duel,” the first short in the new Star Wars: Visions anthology, when the Sith Bandit jabs at a waterfall with her red lightsaber. Listen carefully and you’ll find the sound effect generated by the sizzling blade meeting the natural element matches another moment: when Darth Maul, separated from the […]
Arturito and Me
I remember the exact moment. My mom looked at 12-year old me with a face that was equal parts disbelief and indifference. “No se llama Arturito?” she asked. “No, his name isn’t Arturito,” I responded. “It’s R2-D2.” Turns out my mom, like many Latin American parents of kids born in the ‘70s and ‘80s, thought everyone’s […]
5 tips for using Microsoft’s To Do task-tracking app on Macs, iPhones and iPads
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LEGO Star Wars Battles Brings Epic, Hilarious Minifigure Clashes to Apple Arcade
LEGO Star Wars // SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 TT Games Brighton’s Jason Avent on the making of the mobile strategy game, available now, and the fun of leading LEGO Star Wars minifigures into battle. An Ewok versus Darth Vader? Leia versus Boba Fett? BB-8 versus R2-D2? The possibilities are endless, fun, and often times hilarious in […]