r/tldr • u/kaunis • Nov 14 '17
[Monday, November 13 2017] tl;dr: EA Games and Star Wars Battlefront; Robot bees can now dive in and out of water using tiny combustible rockets; Bill Gates commits $100 million for fund, start-ups, to fight Alzheimer's; Italy failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1958
EA Games
/r/OutoftheLoop: What’s going on with EA and Star Wars battlefront?
/r/StarWarsBattlefront: Gamespot purchases $100 worth of loot crates, ends up with less than half the amount of credits needed to unlock Darth Vader and Luke. 40 hours or $260 to unlock one of the main characters in Star Wars.
/r/BestOf: [gaming] Redditor explains how only a small fraction of users are needed to make microtransaction business models profitable, and that the only effective protest is to not buy the game in the first place."
/r/BestOf: [StarWarsBattlefront] EA calls fans ""armchair developers"". Armchair developer goes ahead and writes bot to show how easy it is to farm credits while idling in the game"
/r/news: EA's new 'Star Wars' game is so unpopular a developer is apparently getting death threats
/r/WorldNews
The EU signed a “historic” deal to integrate 23 armies to shake off its US dependence
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity'
/r/News
Budweiser's ex-marketing chief: Weed is the new craft beer
/r/space
My photo's aren't High Res so I went a different direction.
/r/technology
Sending in our nude photos to fight revenge porn? No thanks, Facebook. Rather than trusting a private corporation, let’s just enforce existing laws supposed to protect us from harassment and abuse – in person or online
/r/gadgets
[Title Post] Robot bees can now dive in and out of water using tiny combustible rockets
/r/futurology
[Title Post] Microsoft founder Gates commits $100 million for fund, start-ups, to fight Alzheimer's
A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer: A new study reveals how 'an old gene that was no longer functional was recycled from the vast “genome junkyard” to increase the sensitivity of elephant cells to DNA damage, enabling them to cull potentially cancerous cells early.'
/r/AskReddit
What was your “Ohh, so that’s what it was for” moment that took you too long to find out?
/r/explainlikeimfive
ELI5: Why do Home dishwashers need to take 3 hours? I know it’s for energy star requirements, but commercial machines get the job done in 90 seconds. Why the massive difference? Wouldn’t even a more powerful motor take less electricity for such a big time difference?
/r/TodayILearned
TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."
/r/cooking
Serious question: does turkey suck or does everyone just do it poorly?
What's the point of stuffing bird cavities with aromatics?
/r/Sports
[Title Post] Italy has failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1958.
That CFL limbo celebration destroys everything I've seen so far in the NFL this year.
/r/art
"So It Goes," Ryan Morse, oil on panel, 2017
/r/television
Amazon Sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’ TV Series With Multi-Season Commitment
Kevin Spacey Can’t Be Ousted from ‘House of Cards’ Over Allegations; No Morals Clause in Contract
/r/gaming
I made this years ago. We're at "Anger" again.
/r/OldSchoolCool
Alcohol smuggling lumber Truck, 1926.
/r/educationalgifs
Evolution of the Alphabet.
/r/MildlyInteresting
This guy runs a coffee shop out of a Beetle
/r/funny
Dude was showing the gorilla pictures of female gorillas and he for real is like "next one please"
/r/MostBeautiful
Golden hour in Ålesund
/r/EarthPorn
USA-Canada border as it ought to be: No cars, no gates, no guards. American and Canadian Border Peaks, North Cascades, WA. [OC][3456x4608]]
If you look at the bottom of the photo, you will see six kayaks that will give you a perspective of how large this place is. Horseshoe Bend AZ, [OC] [7032x4081]
/r/HistoryPorn
First photo of Earth from outer space; taken by strapping a camera to a US captured Nazi V-2 Rocket and hoping the film would survive the crash. October 24th 1946. [2048x1619]
/r/Aww
We have an office dog and he visited me today.
Glitch became a blood donor yesterday!
A very tiny puppy
/r/awwducational
An adult North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) has about 30,000 quills that cover almost all of its body. The quills are hollow and used primarily for defense, but also serve to insulate their bodies during winter. They cannot throw their quills.
Something New
Everyday we’ll feature a random, small subreddit and its top content. It's a fun way to include and celebrate smaller subreddits.
Today's random subreddit is…
/r/beetlejuicing
This is a subreddit dedicated to instances of Beetlejuicing.
Beetlejuicing is when one user posts a comment or thread on reddit, and another user with a username relevant to that parent comment or thread responds.
Its top 3 all time posts:
Became a superhero 3 years ago
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PM me ur farts, girl [NSFW]
