All posts tagged: Classic

The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales

The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump, as even some of his fiercest admirers will admit, is not always a paragon of personal virtue. Although the president’s aides sometimes treat him like he is a toddler, as the political scientist Daniel Drezner has observed, he’s not an especially well-behaved one. Trump often acts in ways that would result in detention or other punishment for an elementary-school student: bald-faced dishonesty, name-calling, unkindness, refusal to share, and an inability to use an inside voice. Put another way, Trump sometimes seems as though he missed out on all of the lessons that children are supposed to learn from fables and fairy tales. (Meanwhile, his administration is seeking to evict some lessons about tolerance from classrooms.) But perhaps that’s uncharitable: Trump isn’t ignoring those fables; he’s just taking different lessons away from them than the familiar ones. Here’s …

19 classic Warhammer games drop on Steam: Full list and how much they cost

19 classic Warhammer games drop on Steam: Full list and how much they cost

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s Warhammer season, apparently as 19 classic Warhammer titles have just been released onto Steam out of nowhere. The likes of Space Marine 2 have made the past few years a great time to be a Warhammer fan, but sometimes you just can’t beat revisiting the classics. So, if you’re curious which classic titles have made their way onto Steam in this mega drop, here’s what you need to know. Full list of Warhammer Classics games on Steam There are a total of 28 games included in the Warhammer Classics sale on Steam. This includes 12 games returning to Steam after a stint away, and seven games that have come to the platform for the very first time. Here’s a list of all of the Warhammer Classics games on Steam: New games Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War Warhammer: Dark Omen Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Gold Edition Returning games Space Hulk Space Hulk: Ascension Warhammer 40,000: …

Orange Lutheran baseball defeats Norco to win Boras Classic South

Orange Lutheran baseball defeats Norco to win Boras Classic South

Published by Sam Flores

Orange Lutheran (12-3) is the midseason No. 1 team in Southern California high school baseball. The Lancers completed a four-game sweep at the Boras Classic South on Friday night, winning the championship game 4-1 over Norco. Orange Lutheran’s pitching depth was impressive all week. Ricardo Hurtado had a single and a home run and Brady Murrietta added two hits. Starting pitcher Blake Killinger was able to contain hot-hitting Norco (15-2), giving up five hits and one run in 5⅓ innings. Jacob Melendez hit his fourth home run for Norco since becoming eligible on March 27. Orange Lutheran has won two prestigious tournaments in the same year — the Boras Classic South and the National High School Invitational in North Carolina. Perhaps the Southern Section’s computer rankings will reflect that feat after the Lancers were ranked No. 51 in this week’s Southern Section power rankings. Orange Lutheran will face Northern California champion, St. Mary’s, next Saturday in the Boras Classic championship game at Santa Clara University. Corona 7, Newport Harbor 5: A five-run fourth powered the …

Ella Langley, Dandelion review – A saloon-door-slamming country classic

Ella Langley, Dandelion review – A saloon-door-slamming country classic

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This In February, Ella Langley became the first woman ever to simultaneously top the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts with her tangy, twangy country rock single “Choosin’ Texas”. It’s the mainstream success that the 26-year-old Alabamian farm girl’s been chasing all her life. “Did anything and everything to get where I’m at, and damn if it don’t feel good!” she sings on her second album, Dandelion. But later on the same song, “Somethin’ Simple”, she concedes that while “living the dream” she still cherishes the basics: “A house on the hill, horse in the yard, a dog at my feet, pickin’ my guitar, supper on the stove, hard-workin’ man taking off his dirty work clothes…” So – although Langley first found fame singing covers on TikTok – there’s no reinventing the wagon wheel on this rich and accomplished record. …

5 classic Windows apps I uninstalled after finding Windows has them built-in

5 classic Windows apps I uninstalled after finding Windows has them built-in

Published by skeptic

Windows has evolved a lot over the years, and it’s no longer the barebone OS you think it is. I don’t blame you though. For the longest time, I also assumed my PC needed third-party apps for extracting files, managing storage, and even taking proper screenshots. But that’s no longer the case. Windows now has capabilities that make some of the most popular, decade-old apps feel unnecessary. Utilities like 7-Zip, CCleaner, Lightshot, and Ditto are no longer must-haves because Windows can handle a lot of these tasks on its own. 7-Zip Once a necessity, but not anymore Screenshot by Pankil Shah — No attribution required For years, 7-Zip used to be one of those utilities you had to install right after setting up your PC. It was the only reliable way to extract downloaded ZIP files and compress anything you wanted to send. But Windows’ built-in file extraction is now more than capable. You can right-click any file or folder and select Compress to ZIP to create an archive in seconds. Extracting files is just …

The people are yearning for classic ‘Zelda’: How to play in 2026

The people are yearning for classic ‘Zelda’: How to play in 2026

Published by skeptic

Even without a new game on the immediate horizon, 2026 feels like a big year for Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda franchise. There’s been a larger-than-normal amount of chatter on social media and other parts of the internet about Zelda lately. Nostalgia-filled gamers are reminiscing about their favorite titles, characters, and moments from the series, while speculating about what is coming next. Heck, even I’ve been bouncing back and forth between older games in the series this past week. Let’s dig into why classic Zelda is having such a moment, even in an off-year, and how you can get in on the action. SEE ALSO: Nintendo confirms live-action ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie arrives in 2027 Why are people talking about The Legend of Zelda in 2026? ‘Breath of the Wild’ on Switch 2 is amazing. Credit: Nintendo As I mentioned, Nintendo has not announced a new Zelda game for 2026, and it’s very unlikely that we’ll get one. Tears of the Kingdom launched in 2023 and Echoes of Wisdom followed in 2024, and given how …

How to get Union Jack Classic tickets at Wembley Stadium

How to get Union Jack Classic tickets at Wembley Stadium

Published by Daniella Wilson

American football is an already-established sport in London, with NFL games being hosted at venues like Wembley Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium several time a year. However, one facet of the sport that hasn’t made it across the pond yet is college football. Until now, that is. Later this year, American college football is coming to the UK via the Union Jack Classic, with Kansas and Arizona-based universities being the first to face off. Union Jack Classic is set to be more than just a sports game, as it’ll feature American traditions such as pep band rallies, a halftime show and more. It’s an historic moment in global sports. Here’s how you can get your hands on tickets today. You can also currently get tickets for AEW All In, as well as Women’s Six Nations tickets. Jump to: Who is playing in Union Jack Classic? The inaugural Union Jack Classic teams are none other than the Kansas Jayhawks and Arizona State Sun Devils. These teams hail from University of Kansas and Arizona State University respectively, …

Which early EV will become the first classic car of the electric era?

Which early EV will become the first classic car of the electric era?

Published by skeptic

Every automotive era has its classics, designs that transcend spec sheets and sales figure and, somehow, become more culturally relevant with age. Now, nearly thirty years into the modern era, it feels like it’s time to ask the question: Which early EV will become the first classic car of the electric era? While many will likely point to the GM EV1 or the original Tesla Roadster as the starting points of the modern EV era, neither were pioneers. Low-volume oddities like the all-electric Consulier GTP models built by Mosler Automotive and US Electricar got there first, proving battery power could deliver the sort of thrilling performance that defined many of the classic cars of the 60s and 70s. That said, you probably haven’t heard of either of those cars. Or the Robert Q. Riley-designed electric Trimuter and Tri-Magnum foamies. Or the AC Propulsion tzero roadster. All were early pioneers of both hypermiling and electrification featured in niche magazines like Kit Car, Mechanix Illustrated, and Popular Mechanics in the pre-internet age. Old-school cover cars FEB1980 FEB1983 …

Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

Published by skeptic

Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red Mars Terese Loeb Kreuzer/Alamy 2026 marks the dawn of a momentous era: humankind taking our first steps towards colonising Mars. Later this year, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes will fly to the surface of the Red Planet, capitalising on its proximity to Earth and paving the way for crewed flights in the near-future. Settlers may one day construct a number of self-sustaining cities, altering the barren Martian surface and allowing humans to flourish away from Earth. This will have the convenient side-effect of extending the lifespan of collective human consciousness. It’s a scenario posed by both Elon Musk (who, in 2024, posted on X of his plans to land on Mars within two years – though his firm SpaceX has since shifted focus to the moon), and one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of the last century: 1992’s Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Set in a then-future 2026, the book doesn’t rely on conflict with aliens or implausible technology for its action. The focus is instead on the infighting …

New Scientist Book Club: Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci-fi classic Red Mars

New Scientist Book Club: Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci-fi classic Red Mars

Published by skeptic

Bluish-white water ice clouds hang above the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars NASA/JPL/MSSS Mars was empty before we came. That’s not to say that nothing had ever happened. The planet had accreted, melted, roiled and cooled, leaving a surface scarred by enormous geological features: craters, canyons, volcanoes. But all of that happened in mineral unconsciousness, and unobserved. There were no witnesses – except for us, looking from the planet next door, and that only in the last moment of its long history. We are all the consciousness that Mars has ever had. Now everybody knows the history of Mars in the human mind: how for all the generations of prehistory it was one of the chief lights in the sky, because of its redness and fluctuating intensity, and the way it stalled in its wandering course through the stars, and sometimes even reversed direction. It seemed to be saying something with all that. So perhaps it is not surprising that all the oldest names for Mars have a peculiar weight on the tongue – Nirgal, Mangala, …