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Fortnite Rescue Attempt Goes Horribly Wrong
A Fortnite streamer pulled off an impossible rescue mission… almost. A streamer called Muselk happened upon a strange scenario in his Fortnite game. He saw a golf cart on the edge of a cliff, and after killing the player trying to drive it, he looked down and saw another player trapped at the edge of…
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Hello Games just dropped a new trailer for the big No Man’s Sky update coming next week, showing off multiplayer for the first time. The game looks a lot closer to how people pictured it at launch—and the update will also feature unlimited base building, potentially solving an ongoing problem in the community
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The Left’s Most Notorious Podcasters Are Divided On Video Games
On a sticky summer night outside a bar in Brooklyn, Felix Biederman, one of the co-host of political podcast Chapo Trap House, was talking to me about Metal Gear Solid 2 as I sipped a rosé. “It’s the most prophetic video game of all time,” he said. Biederman is by far the biggest gamer on…
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Skateboarder Nyjah Huston Is Amazing (But His Video Game Isn’t)
California skater Nyjah Huston now has his own skateboarding game. For a mobile game, it’s pretty fun, but I wish it were as entertaining as watching him skate. I grew up playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and it gave me an appreciation of skateboarding. I was never coordinated enough to skate for real, so I…
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No Man’s Sky Malcontent Says He Was Just Role-Playing An Evil Emperor
Three days ago, a No Man’s Sky community leader saw one of her bases erased by a notorious streamer who roleplays as a tyrannical overlord. In response, the community put their foot down. SeriusGamerX, or SGX, is a streamer who mainly plays No Man’s Sky. His whole gimmick is that he’s an evil overlord, playing…
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Twitter Bots Can’t Stop Snarking About No Man’s Sky And Persona 5
Tons of Twitter bots are still just pictures of boobs asking for your credit card information, but programmers have also used the format to make some cool shit. Every Teenager Bot and Gradients are genuinely fun little experiments that brighten up my timeline. But every botmaker struggles with getting flagged as spam, and some bots…
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Overwatch Fans Can’t Stop Talking About Hanzo’s Dainty Ankles
For over a year, Blizzard has insisted that Hanzo Shimada does not have prosthetic legs. Nevertheless, Overwatch fans have their doubts. Let me be frank—Hanzo Shimada has impossibly tiny ankles. Observe: As a result of this undeniable truth, Overwatch fanfiction writers have been operating under the assumption that Hanzo has prosthetic legs. The understanding was…
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This Roller Coaster Does Math And It’s Freaking Me Out
An intrepid RollerCoaster Tycoon player has made a working calculator out of roller coasters. This incredible build combines my two least favorite things: math, and dropping from somewhere high up. Most of the time when I play Rollercoaster Tycoon, I’m just trying to make roller coasters that don’t kill people. Redditor LordMarcel, however, has made…
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This Rock Band Loves Playing Dungeons & Dragons Between Tour Stops
Conor Murphy, lead singer of the post-rock band Foxing, says that Dungeons and Dragons is his favorite thing in the world “because you get to be a voyeur to your friends, who are having this reawakening of their imaginations in front of you.” When I bring up Dungeons and Dragons, though, he gets audibly excited.…
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Why You Should Watch JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is one the most outrageous and joyous series I have ever watched. You owe it to yourself to experience it. Describing what JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is about is much harder than describing its pedigree. It’s one of the most famous and influential mangas ever, which was finally adapted into an anime in…
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In 2018, Tumblr Is A Joyless Black Hole
From the outside, Tumblr looks like a mess. As a platform that has become the main hub for people who like fanart, fanfiction and talking about ships, Tumblr has gained a reputation for creators being driven away because of rampant harassment and abuse. From the inside, its users agree, but they don’t know where else…
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I Wish I Could Forget The Sims‘ Rendition Of Nelly’s ‘Hot In Here’
The Sims series has featured pop songs re-recorded in the fake language of Simlish since The Sims 2, and The Sims 4‘s Seasons expansion brought a few new ones into the mix. The game’s new version of Nelly’s “Hot In Herre” is just a whole lot. Simlish is the series’ made up language that sound…
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LGBT Fans Find A Safe Haven In K-Pop
“This panel, we’re just going to show our gay,” Lai Frances proclaimed to the packed crowd at KCon’s panel on LGBT fandom in Korean pop music. The K-Pop fans in attendance roared with approval. Frances, a freelance journalist and self-proclaimed girl group enthusiast, served as panelist alongside a music video producer at Universal Asia who…
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Overwatch Players Have Made Their Own Ways To Celebrate Pride Month
Even though Overwatch’s mascot character is an out lesbian, the game didn’t offer any Pride-themed events or costumes this month. So players have found their own ways to celebrate. When Blizzard released a holiday comic that showed the Overwatch mascot character, Tracer, celebrating Christmas with her girlfriend, fans were ecstatic. They’d already been writing fic…
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Winter Pool Parties Less Dangerous For Your Sims, And Other Patch Notes
With every new Sims expansion, there comes new bug fixes. Just before the Seasons expansion launched last week, The Sims’ team pushed through some fixes. Turns out that the expansion itself made a few more bugs, which they’ve fixed yesterday. Some of these patch notes are pretty funny. Here are my favorites. Sims were hosting…
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Someone Made A Pachinko Machine In No Man’s Sky
One No Man’s Sky player made a base that’s a working pachinko machine, just in case you wanted to play a game while you game. No Man’s Sky players are mostly twiddling their thumbs while they wait for the huge update that’s bringing true multiplayer next month. Some of them are still finding ways to…
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Sims 4 Expansion Lets You Bang Santa
The new Sims 4 expansion introduces holidays into the game. More importantly, it lets you fuck Santa. Seasons, a new expansion released last Friday, spices up the world of Sims 4 by adding seasons, a new gardening career, and also holidays. One of them, Winterfest, is a Christmas-esque holiday that occurs in winter. If you…
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