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Are Minecraft community servers illegal? The ESA brands them piracy, pushing back against the Stop Killing Games movement

The ESA has sparked controversy after describing community-run Minecraft servers as "illegal" during a California hearing on the Protect Our Games Act. The comments have reignited debate over game preservation, player-run servers, and Microsoft's approach to community-hosted Minecraft experiences.

Windows Central

Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

Tom’s Hardware

Private Minecraft servers are "illegal," game industry lobbyists declare as another Stop Killing Games effort is struck down in California

"Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them"

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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'

Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

PC Gamer

68 Random Pictures People Say Are Worth Going Down A Rabbit Hole For

People love going down rabbit holes, and when they crawl back with something new, they head straight to the subreddit 'All That's Interesting.' It's full of pictures of remote places, historical artifacts, inspiring human initiatives, and much, much more. So if you too enjoy learning obscure facts about anything and…

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68 Curious Pics And The Unexpected Stories Behind Them

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Twin sisters created their own language and refused to speak to anyone else. Then doctors separated them, and the result was a disaster

The "cure" turned out to be more traumatic than the problem itself.

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Best podcasts of the week: What really happens at celebrity trials (yes, Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash included)

In this week’s newsletter: Voice actors and expert analysis bring juicy celebrity legal affairs to life in Courtroom Drama. Plus: five of the best myth-busting podcasts

The Guardian - UK

Tragic silent twins who made up secret language before being locked away in Broadmoor

June and Jennifer Gibbons became known as the 'Silent Twins' after developing a 'secret language' which meant they only spoke to each others and their dolls, isolating themselves from everyone else

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: The Silent Twins portrays 'horror film' childhood of two disabled sisters

A new film exploring the lives of selectively mute twins June and Jennifer Gibbons will be all too familiar to neurodiverse children and their parents, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Daily Mirror

‘Like living mirrors’: what twins’ special bonds reveal about nature, nurture and genetics

A podcast by two brothers and a film about two silent sisters give fresh impetus to the debate about biology and the environment

The Guardian - UK

The Silent Twins review – intense tale of inseparable sisters

Perfectly mirrored performances from Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance distinguish Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s stylistically bold drama based on a true story

The Guardian - UK

The Silent Twins review: Letitia Wright stars in this moving and curious true story of twins June and Jennifer

Real-life twins refused to speak to anyone but themselves: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s semi-biopic asks why

The Independent UK

‘The Silent Twins’: Duo’s bio has a story that engages but a style that repels

Fascinating history of the real-life Gibbons sisters, who communicated only with one another, is obscured by film’s flashy, sometimes off-putting techniques.

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Movie review: 'The Silent Twins' an incredibly unique biopic about sisters in insular world

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s strange, whimsical and somber film “The Silent Twins” feels like a minor miracle. In a cinematic landscape where it seems like there’s only room for the predictably bombastic or prestigious, the odd, heartfelt gems that manage to slip through are to be celebrated.

Wales Online

The incredible and tragic story behind the new Silent Twins film about sisters from Wales and starring Letitia Wright

The story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, who grew up in a small, Welsh town, has been made into a film

Daily Mirror

'Silent Twins' who only spoke to each other believed 'one had to die so other could live'

June and Jennifer Gibbons cut themselves off from other people from a young age and became known as the "Silent Twins" - until one sister met an untimely and unexplained death

The Guardian - UK

The Silent Twins review – powerful story of Welsh sisters in a world of their own

Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs this well-acted, disturbing drama about June and Jennifer Gibbons, whose shared isolation ended in criminal acts

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The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

Daily Mirror

Extraordinary life of 'Silent Twins': Crime spree, mystery and 'death pact'

June and Jennifer Gibbons were always close as toddlers, but as they grew up their bond started to alarm those around them - leading to disastrous consequences

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