Not sure what you tried to link to, but this is a live page continually changing stories. Right now it's about the reflecting pool damage which is not World news.
I'd advise re-submitting a link that is not changing dynamically.
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Russian state media is propaganda, not news.
We don't allow editorializing in the headlines.
Remove the "Ha!" and you're golden.
Imma gonna go ahead and feature your post since I was lame and didn't get it up myself!
Working myself ragged opening my own bookstore, eta Saturday, 8/1!
I'd have to look, but I'm pretty sure I have 3 sets of the Lord of the Rings?
🤔
Used to be 4, I had a set of crappy paperbacks and wanted something nicer, so I bought the "Millennium Edition":
Which LOOKS great, but the paper is EVEN WORSE than the crappy paperbacks.
For years I looked around for the red hardback edition which was out of print. One would pop up every now and then, but would be damaged or written in or something.
Finally scored a clean copy of that, donated the crappy paperbacks to my little free library, kept the Millennium Edition because it is so very, very, pretty.
And then they came out with an illustrated edition with Tolkien's own illustrations...
Fine.
Self posts are not allowed.
Again, self posts are nor allowed.
First:
Self posts are not allowed.
Second:
Politics is for US Politics only.
Self posts are not allowed.
It's always tricky, but thanks for updating it!
The real problem are the "live" stories that update the headline every time you turn around.
The only solution is to watch it continually and update where applicable,
But I never outright remove something without giving the OP a heads up and a reasonable amount of time to fix it.
Blogs, including Substack, are not allowed.
I just got an email from dBrand cancelling the Steam Machine companion cube shell.
They posted the rationale on reddit, /r/dBrand but for the good folks who don't do reddit anymore, here's their post:
"RIP Companion Cube
🚨 Announcement 🚨
As you’ve probably noticed, the Steam Machine Companion Cube was eviscerated from our website, YouTube, and other social media platforms last week.
The blunt version is that we made the Companion Cube without a license from Valve. Everyone who purchased a Companion Cube will have their refund issued by end-of-day. Everything else beyond this is just detail. If you want the full story, keep reading.
On November 12th 2025, the day the Steam Machine was announced, we put up a concept render and sign-up page to see if anyone would be interested in a Companion Cube enclosure. It went moderately viral, with over fifteen thousand people signing up to be notified in the first day. In the months that followed, we built the idea into something real without ever asking Valve if we could.
We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time.
Over the next seven months, we poured our souls into this project. More than a thousand hours went into engineering from our industrial design team. Forty-four sets of injection molding tools were developed, one for each of the cube's sub-components. The entire product was redesigned from scratch more than once, just to get the way it cradles the console exactly right. We literally rented out a university campus to film the launch video. By the end, we were losing money on every $99 Poverty Cube sold, but it didn’t matter. This had turned into a passion project for the entire organization.
Unfortunately, being proud of the thing we made did not give us the right to make it.
We launched around 3am on Monday, June 22nd. Overnight, it became the second-fastest selling product in our 15-year history, behind only the Switch 2 Killswitch.
Shortly after, Valve’s legal team reached out. They stated that the Companion Cube is Valve intellectual property, for which dbrand does not have a license. They requested we take down the product and launch film immediately. This was entirely within their rights, and they were direct, fair, and respectful throughout.
We took everything down and made an appeal. We asked Valve whether there was any way to keep the project alive: properly licensed, with their blessing, on their terms. They said no. Given our backwards approach of building first and asking permission later, it was a fair answer.
That’s basically the whole story. We made something a lot of people were excited about, then incinerated our shot at bringing it to market. It’s a hard lesson to learn publicly.
It goes without saying, but we’ll say it regardless: Valve didn’t do anything wrong here. They built a game franchise a lot of people love and they alone get to decide how it’s used.
To everyone who was as excited about this project as we were: thank you, and sorry. Refunds are being issued today. If it hasn’t landed in your account by the end of this week, you know how to reach us.
To Valve: thank you for Portal, and sorry for the headache. We should’ve asked first."
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Even if the work hadn't been defective, driving a motorcade over it did not help.