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Doom Just Received One Of The Highest Cultural Honors In The US

Doom Just Received One Of The Highest Cultural Honors In The US https://ift.tt/2voMyq1 The US Library of Congress has amassed numerous treasures deemed worthy of preservation over the years, and recently, the original Doom soundtrack has made the cut. Now sitting alongside other cultural artifacts that were added this year--like Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and Weezer's debut blue album--Robert Prince's Doom soundtrack is being honored for its part in ID Software's genre-defining first-person shooter. As part of the selection criteria for the National Recording Registry, sound recordings need to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and can only be added 10 years after it was first created. The program has been running since 2002 following the creation of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, and the first 50 entries were officially announced in 2003. So what Doom so special? According to the Library of Congress, Doom...

Pokemon Sleep Players Are Cheating By... Not Sleeping

Pokemon Sleep Players Are Cheating By... Not Sleeping https://ift.tt/dujn7G2

Pokemon Sleep is barely a week old, and players are already finding exploits that let them skip the need to sleep at all.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Pokemon Sleep is a game that just tries to promote healthy sleeping patterns, but as it turns out, it's a typical mobile game that has things like premium passes and quests to complete. At the moment, if you connect the new Pokemon Go Plus+ accessory to the game, you can unlock a unique quest in Pokemon Sleep that will net you a Snorlax wearing a nightcap. To get it, you need to track sleep using your Pokemon Go Plus+ for seven days--unsurprisingly, a lot of players don't want to do this, so they're skipping sleeping altogether.

As explained by players on the unofficial Pokemon subreddit TheSilphRoad (thanks, Eurogamer), Pokemon Sleep needs you to record at least 90 minutes of sleep a day, so to side-step this players are simply manually changing the dates on their phone to trick the app into thinking it's a new day. All you need to do outside of that is leave your Pokemon Go Plus+ somewhere with the sleep mode on for the required 90 minutes, then once it's done, turn it off and on again, and change the date on your phone. Easy peasy, though the point is obviously to encourage you to sleep.

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