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The 4 Best Webcams (2022): Razer, Dell, and More

Jaime E. Love

Nobody wants to look at you through the blurry, fuzzed-out webcam that came built into your laptop. If you’ve been holding out on upgrading your videoconferencing setup in the hopes that we’ll all go back to offices and leave Zooming behind forever, you’re half right. We may be heading back to offices and schools to some degree, but video calls are here to stay, so you may as well put your best face forward and upgrade your image with a decent webcam.

Check out our guide to all the best webcams on the market, plus a few that didn’t make the cut. Pick up a laptop stand, too, so that your webcam sits at about eye-level. The change in perspective does wonders for your on-screen look, since a low camera looking up can distort your face. Webcams are still in high demand and go in and out of stock, so

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An Inclusive, Cyberpunk Future Is In the Cards

Jaime E. Love

A diverse and inclusive world “had been something that, internally, we’d wanted for a long time, but the IPs had never really allotted for it,” she said.

In a podcast, Damon Stone, who later became Android: Netrunner’s lead designer, described the world-building as “pointillism”: Each card is a small piece of color that adds up to the overall world. Robinson had the job of directing the many artists who would contribute those small parts to bring about the big picture.

“If you send a text art brief, and you don’t specify things to an artist, especially freelancers, they’re going to give you what they think you want,” she said. “So if you don’t specify race/gender/age, you’re going to get a thirtysomething white man, with close-cut dark hair and dark eyes, sort of the anydude from video games.”

So the team got really specific with its art direction. Robinson said

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College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions, odds, lines for SEC/Big 12 Challenge

Jaime E. Love

College basketball fans, heed my advice: Do nothing but lounge on the couch all day. Because Saturday’s schedule is an absolute delight. There are 17 ranked teams in action, and headlining the day is the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, the national stage on which eight of those 17 will take.

It starts early and will run late into the evening, too. On deck at noon ET to kick things off is red-hot No. 9 Alabama traveling to take on another team putting things together of late in No. 24 Oklahoma, followed by an afternoon slate that includes Auburn at No. 2 Baylor and No. 10 Texas Tech at LSU.

Capping the day was expected to be a big one in Rupp Arena between No. 5 Texas and Kentucky, but that game has been canceled because of COVID-19 issues that forced a pause within the Wildcats program. The final games of the

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Virginia Tech Hires Hokie Star D-lineman JC Price to coach the DL: More Hokies Come Home

Jaime E. Love

News Highlights: Virginia Tech Hires Hokie Star D-lineman JC Price to coach the DL: More Hokies Come Home

Marshall goes shopping in the Coaching “Portal”

Do you remember the 2018 disaster and the makeup game with Marshall that got the team back on their feet and ended up being a fun day in a relatively empty Lane Stadium? We were talking about their Assistant Defensive Coordinator being a Hokie Defensive line star from the mid to late 90s (especially the great ’95 defense)?

It looks like JC Price is coming home to Blacksburg. He and his family will take the long journey down 77 and up 81 – no speed in the overlap, JC. They get you.

Normally you’d have to say Price had to fill big shoes, but he has a decade of solid coaching experience, mentored Darryl Tapp and learned from the best – like his fellow defensive

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