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Chloe Spencer
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Chloe Spencer is the summer intern for Kotaku and recently graduated from the University of Oregon. She enjoys reading graphic novels and playing video games.

True story, when I first entered college in 2003, I scored abysmally on the math portion of my entrance exam because I was a lazy artist kid who had barely cleared geometry (and hated school with the passion of a thousand suns). The shitty score meant I’d have to take 3 semesters of remedial classes, which I was not Read more

I learned a lot about European history and geography from the SNES game Uncharted: New Horizons and the PC game Europa Universalis. Things that I would have to be older and take a college level course to be exposed to. Let’s not forget Sim Ant. Of course, some things might be jumbled up if you took some games too Read more

Games seem to scale well to STEM-related subjects and to problem-solving.
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I dunno about universally better. It’s definitely better for typing on smartphones, but the constant fingerprints all over my screen make me wish we’d found a better way. It’s definitely inferior for gaming. Read more

You forgot Gundam Versus on PS4. September 29!! Read more

Thank you for the reply! I wasn’t actually expecting the fox to talk but that’s kind of a neat touch. I’ll keep an eye on the game and pick it up down the line.
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I have yet to watch the entire series (seen the first 6 episodes of season 1), but reading any line from any creator about deliberately choosing not to answer certain mysteries always rubs me the wrong way (most recently, I heard this sentiment coming from the creators of Stranger Things). If there’s no guarantee of a Read more

It’s worth noting there’s also a memory labelled “Bill_C”, and a statue of Bill during the Truth Tortoise chase sequence.
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Also in the episode “Close Encouters of the Rick Kind” Stans items he lost into his portal come out of an open portal right before the Ricks chasing our rick show up.

Well, I can think of at least one way they could return:

I miss this show. I watched it with my kids and we were all losing it laughing. Read more

Holy shit, it has only been a year and a half since it ended? It feels like an eternity. Read more

On the plus side, at least it was the decision of Hirsch and his team to end it when they did. And it also had one of the best series finales out there.
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I got a laugh out of it too. “Dippy Fresh” is still one of my favorite jokes from the series. (Along with Hamster Ball Mabel).
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“Giddy Fresh Team”

“We’re curing this zombie plague...one bullet at a time. Read more