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CultureOdds and EndsYou Can Fly Into The Windows XP Wallpaper In Flight Simulator
I’ve seen folks flying to all kinds of places in Flight Simulator, from Point Nemoto Jeffrey Epstein’s island, but I’m yet to see a journey as niche and impressive as the one that lets you recreate the experience of booting up Windows XP for the first time. rockin_gamer managed to find the exact coordinates and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsIKEA Recreates New Catalogue In Animal Crossing
IKEA’s new 2021 catalogue is out, and while it’s fine if IKEA catalogues are your thing, others might be more interested in the smaller, cuter Animal Crossing version instead. The company’s Taiwan division released the homage a few days back (which means these are Taiwanese dollars, before you look at the prices and die), and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhy Do Classic Uno Video Game Intros Go So Hard
While the social dynamics can be interesting, I wouldn’t call Uno the most exciting game in the world, and that naturally extends to its many video games. Someone didn’t get the memo when they were working on the intros for these Japan-exclusive adaptations, which seem like they belong to completely different genres until their titles…
By Ian Walker Published August 21, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsA DSLR Lens On A Game Boy Continues To Rule
I knowI’ve written about this before, but I just love it so much, and this video is so good that I’m going to do it again. Reader Sam was messing around with the same 3D-printed DSLR mod that I wrote about in 2018, but instead of using it to massively zoom in on stuff like…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 20, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFlight Simulator Pilots Make 16-Hour Flight From LA To Dubai In Real Time
One of the big draws with Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is that it recreates the entire planet to scale. What that means is, if you want, you can fly from one airport to another in real-time. And few airports are further away in a single trip than LAX and Dubai International Airport. It takes around…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 20, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsStephen King Baffled By Tekken Jargon
I love horror novelist Stephen King. I love fighting games. But it seems those two flavors don’t go together all that well. It all started last night when a random Tekken player, as they are wont to do, hopped on Twitter to demand changes from the developers. I won’t bore you with the competitive implications…
By Ian Walker Published August 20, 2020 -
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…
By Ari Notis Published August 20, 2020 -
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…
By Ash Parrish Published August 20, 2020 -
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…
By Ian Walker Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsSupreme Is Releasing A Mortal Kombat Arcade Cabinet
I have seen Supreme collab on some real dumb shit in my time, from cookies to literal bricks, but this upcoming Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet is something else. The label showed off its Fall/Winter 2020 collection earlier this week, and among stuff like this: Was this: Yup. It’s a Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet, including the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFlight Simulator Creates Terrifying Citadel In Melbourne, Turns Buckingham Palace Into Apartments
Between using actual satellite data and some fancy algorithm work, Flight Simulator has done a pretty good job recreating the entire planet. But there are some areas where the whole thing just falls over, with terrifying/hilarious results. Example 1: Buckingham Palace. It’s one of the most identifiable landmarks on the planet, but as theBBC (via…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2020 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsLord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth Is Being Remade By Fans, And It Looks Fantastic
Back in 2018, we first got word that a group of Lord of the Rings fans were remaking the cult classic Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4. If you were expecting that to be the last you heard of the project, sorry, two years later there’s now a very comprehensive gameplay update, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
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…
By Ian Walker Published August 18, 2020 -
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…
By Ethan Gach Published August 18, 2020 -
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.
By Ash Parrish Published August 18, 2020 -
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…
By Ash Parrish Published August 18, 2020
