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Are there any books that are combinations of two or more pre-existing stories? You know like for example Romeo and Juliet + Cinderella to make Romeo and Cinderella (this is a made-up example, I don't know if it actually exists, it doesn't exclusively have to be this). And it has to be explicitly stated or made clear that the story is a fusion of two or more pre-existing stories, I'm not looking for books that "kinda feel like X meets Y", cause a lot of stories could be described as "blank meets blank", I'd prefer it if the author made it clear that the story they wrote is a combination of X, Y, and Z.

The developers of the Sony PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have told their social media followers that it is now possible to play games straight from discs. As announced by the RPCS3 devs, the emulator’s latest refinement works only with certain internal and external Blu-ray drives. Happily for retro gamers, there’s a lengthy compatibility list of drives featuring many models and brands, and the same drives are also compatible with dumping your media to fixed storage.

“You can now play your PS3 games on PC... DIRECTLY FROM THE DISC DRIVE!” boast the open source emulator programmers. “PLUG AND PLAY! Owning your games as physical media allows you to play games released as far back as 20 years ago without relying on any servers!” The RPCS3 team thanks digant73 and Megamouse, specifically, for contributions making this feat possible.

Though the Tweet mentions PC, specifically, extended disc drive play support is also available on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. You just need to check that drive compatibility list. Moreover, all users can enjoy “optimized install times for package installations from the disc drive.” It has also been confirmed that PS4 and PS5 console users with Linux installs can launch PS3 games directly from disc using RPCS3.

Are there any books where maybe one girl wants to be topped by a dominatrix, but for lack of options has to ask her friend to do it, and then the friend agrees and has to learn how to be a dom?
Or maybe a book about a girl who gets a job as a dominatrix and has to learn the ropes?
Or a book where a girl has to pretend to be a dominatrix for whatever reason and starts to question whether or not she's actually into it or not?

Or any kind of book where a girl has to learn to be a dominant top for some reason? Anything with that vibe?

MGS4 mods are incoming, with TriggerHappy on YouTube already showing off a custom map in Kojima's 2008 stealth-action classic.

Back in 2021, modder Jayveer showed off a map ported from Metal Gear Arcade into Metal Gear Online 2, the multiplayer accompaniment to MGS4, but to my knowledge, TriggerHappy's is the first demonstration of a custom singleplayer map in MGS4.

It's 55 beautiful seconds of Old Snake crouch walking around Groznyj Grad, the iconic fortress level of Metal Gear Solid 3. Only now it's infested with Gecko walkers mooing their incongruous moos and showing off their distractingly shapely legs. Stupid, sexy Geckos. TriggerHappy laconically describes the gameplay as "initial testing for adding AI to a custom map."

The enemy AI certainly seems to work: Those Geckos are not happy to see Snake, and it's not because they believe a man of his age shouldn't be putting so much stress on his back and knees. It's unclear how TriggerHappy got this custom map working, or how far away we are from widely available map making tools, but this is an exciting first step in the realm of custom content for MGS4.

Do you remember School of Rock? The Jack Black movie about an overly enthusiastic guitarist who gets kicked out of his band and gets a job posing as a substitute teacher at an elite private elementary school to pay rent; then he forms a band with his students and teaches them about rock n' roll and being more confident in themselves. Can you think of any sapphic books with that vibe? Are there any books you can think of where a female teacher at a high school/university inspires her students in some way, and maybe the teacher falls for one of her co-workers along the way, or one of the students falls for each other, or if you're feeling spicy you can include a book with student/teacher romance if you want.

How long until we get Patcamo?

Valve has experienced a huge data breach, with 12TB of files archived between 2003 and 2013 being leaked onto the internet.

The content of these leaks doesn’t appear to be user data or any private information of Steam users, but rather assets and code related to games that have been published on the platform itself.

The leaked material appears to have been accessed by a legacy endpoint that was available publicly, rather than a new hack.

Early material for games like Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been leaked, giving us a glimpse at what some early builds for these games looked like.

In addition to this, the leak has also affected various developers and publishers who launched games on Steam during 2003 and 2013, potentially affecting hundreds of different titles.

Although only a small part of the leaks have been revealed so far, X user Gabe Follower has reported on some of the more noteworthy bits of information that have come to light as a result, with YouTuber snoopdoggfan4173 explaining them in more detail.

It appears that so far, the biggest hits came to Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead, which released in 2011 and 2008 respectively.