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CultureOdds and EndsSpiritfarer Pokes Fun At Animal Crossing’s Jerk Raccoon, Tom Nook
Spiritfarer and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have a lot of shared DNA. Both feature anthropomorphic animals with distinct personalities. Both give you a space of your own that you can shape to your whims. Both demand a meticulous level of resource management. And both, more surprisingly, star a morally defunct raccoon salesman who worships at…
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CultureOdds and EndsCreepypasta Spins The Strange And Unsettling Circumstances Around Cancelled Tomb Raider Game
As I was doomscrolling (heh) Twitter early this morning (a deeply unhealthy part of my morning ritual) I came across a thread written by Xalavier Nelson Jr., former PC Magazine writer and Narrative Designer on ‘90s internet simulation Hypnospace Outlaw. Nelson’s thread hooked me from the very beginning, promising a never-before-heard story about a video…
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CultureOdds and EndsNeat Stuff I Found While Cleaning My Room
I’ve spent the last week or so finally combing through the clutter of my living space in anticipation of adopting a kitten. This gave me a chance to really take stock of the various crap I’ve collected over the last few years, much of it gaming-related, and the various points in my life in which…
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CultureOdds and EndsFantasy Miniatures In Battle-Ready Wheelchairs Please Me Greatly
First the outstanding Sara Thompson creates a set of rules for combat wheelchairs for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Now Strata Miniatures, makers of small role-playing figures, has created a line of wheeled fantasy heroes ready to roll into battle, with a portion of all sales going towards Ehlers-Danlos Support UK I have to admit, it’s…
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CultureOdds and EndsConsiderate Fall Guys Player Saves AFK Contestant From Elimination
It’s an inescapable fact that the world is full of assholes, and the same can be said of Fall Guys. But sometimes someone—or in this case, somebean—does something so wonderful that it makes you forget about humanity’s failings for a little while. Just check out this player safely guiding an AFK competitor around Perfect Match…
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CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’s Gate III Delivers The First Actually Good Not-E3 Developer Livestream
Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream. I haven’t seen friends or family in any sort of natural or sustained way for months, the unemployment rate is only slightly below where it was during the worst months of the Great Recession, and hundreds are still dying every day of…
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CultureOdds and EndsThis Lion King Speedrunner Is A Queen
Damn! Damn! I don’t think you understand how difficult this is to execute. Mere mortals who play this game have about a 50/50 chance of grabbing onto any swinging rock, with failure almost always resulting in insta-death. And she just… does it. On the hardest difficulty with zero lives. Eight is a straight-up badass.
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CultureOdds and EndsSuperliminal Is My Favorite Game Of SGDQ So Far
God I love Games Done Quick. The biannual speedrunning charity event is like a video game holy week for me. I watch everything. It’s on when I work, when I’m eating (if I eat at all), it’s on when I sleep. I am always watching, which actually sounds kinda sinister. The 3D puzzle platformer block…
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CultureOdds and EndsHalo 5 Forge Experts Are Remaking Halo Infinite Demo
Halo Infinite may have been delayed until next year, but Halo fans are busy trying to recreate the world shown in its first gameplay trailer inside of the last Halo game. Halo 5: Guardians is five years old at this point and hasn’t gotten a major update in quite some time. But its map making…
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CultureOdds and EndsHow Microsoft Flight Simulator Makes The Ground Look So Good
While in-air screenshots and footage from the latest installment of Microsoft Flight Simulator are gorgeous, it’s not too shabby at ground level either, depending on which of the three different cityscape rendering types the game uses. YouTuber ObsidianAnt shows us the difference between handcrafted, auto-generated, and photogrammetry-built cities. In their video, ObsidianAnt uses the game’s…
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CultureOdds and EndsStreamer Dances Sephiroth To Death In Kingdom Hearts
One of the hardest boss battles in the original Kingdom Hearts is the secret platinum match featuring Sephiroth. He has hard-to-dodge attacks that deal massive amounts of damage. Many players struggle to beat him. But streamer and YouTuber SarahKey not only beat the optional boss fight, she did it using a dance pad. A tweeted…
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CultureOdds and EndsHelp! Fall Guys Is Ruining My Relationship
My partner hates playing online games, but this weekend I made him try Fall Guys and now our relationship is in peril. Online games just aren’t for him. He doesn’t think interaction with or dependence on strangers should be a requirement to finish a game. Plus, he’s social enough in his offline life to not…
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CultureOdds and EndsRed Dead Online Player Saves Friend In Coolest Way Possible
Out in the wild west of Red Dead Online, you still need to look both ways before messing around railroad tracks. One player almost learned the hard way what happens when you ignore this rule. But then their friend stepped in a saved the day with an expertly timed and perfectly thrown lasso. The clip…
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CultureOdds and EndsRapper Sounds Like An Animal Crossing Character
645AR is a Bronx rapper who burst onto the scene a few months ago thanks to his… unique vocal delivery. “I do the squeaky voice but nothin’s sweet,” 645AR, whose real name is Austin Alan Rochez, told lyrics database Genius in February I guess this technically requires a NSFW warning but come on.
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