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CultureOdds and EndsThe Second Fan-Made Animal Crossing Quality-Of-Life Update Video Makes My Heart Ache
Back in May, YouTuber Nick Ha and friends put together a faux quality-of-life update video for Animal Crossing: New Horizons featuring dream changes that would make the game so much nicer to play. Now they’ve released part two, with even more outstanding changes. Buying multiple Nook Miles Tickets at once? Calling NPCs in chat? Setting…
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CultureOdds and EndsWhat Is The Forbidden Book, And Other Blaseball Questions Answered
As the baseball season hobbles on like a drunken three-legged cat with rickets, fans in search of an organized sports fix have found a new sensation on which to hyperfocus: Blaseball. Blaseball (and I’m going to kill my autocorrect function before this piece is over, I swear) is what would happen if the delightfully twisted…
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CultureOdds and EndsGrand Theft Auto V Kinect Mod Makes Plane-Flying Physical
Flying in video games with a controller is fine. It works well enough and it’s how many folks play. But what if you were the controller? What if you had to hold your arms out to fly and steer? Well wonder no more, for a YouTuber has made a mod for Grand Theft Auto V…
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CultureOdds and EndsPlaying Video Games While Pooping Is Terrible
My new apartment is nice for a lot of reasons. But one stranger reason is that it includes a bathroom connected directly to my office via one of two doors. And in front of that door to my office and the TV is a toilet. It’s an odd layout, but I had an idea. Do…
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CultureOdds and EndsGundam Is Here With An Important Public Service Announcement: Be Good To Each Other
Gundams and their pilots are here to remind us all not to lose faith in our shared humanity. Over on the GundamInfo YouTube channel, which usually hosts an ever-changing lineup of episodes and movies from the series’ decades-long back catalog, a video titled “Message from Gundam ‘Beyond’” recently went up, full of trippy visuals and…
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CultureOdds and EndsPaper Mario Player’s Coins Hit A Very Nice Number
Twitch streamer and speedrunner Boyks accomplished a monumental feat of gaming prowess earlier this week when he briefly hit 42,069 coins in Paper Mario: The Origami King That’s it, that’s the story. I’m 12 years old.
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CultureOdds and EndsGhost Of Tsushima Could Really, Really Use A Loadout Feature
Ghost of Tsushima almost has it all. It’s freakin’ beautiful. The quests and characters are endlessly entertaining. The combat’s a blast—a deft blend of skill mastery and power fantasy. You can even pet foxes (aww). But there’s one big quality-of-life feature missing from this action-packed, samurai-themed masterpiece: loadouts. When playing Ghost of Tsushima, you’ll find…
By Ari Notis
