Author: Jack Slater
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Press X to Honk
In the pantheon of video games there are few things as fun as having some glee at the expense of NPCs. I love naming them ridiculous things in Pokémon. In a fun old Half-Life level you could torture scientists and reveal what an incredible shit you are. Of course The Sims games were famous for…
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How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
This is an amazing article by Rachel Aviv for the New Yorker about elderly people in Nevada being tossed out of their homes and having their possessions taken by a genuinely evil system of guardianship that was supposed to take care of them. There is too much to quote in the article, but the main…
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Super NES Classic Edition Stuff
The Super NES Classic Edition is out for $80, Chris Scullion has a review of the Brit version which looks a little different externally and in the menu, but is functionally identical, to the US version: The only main problem I have with the SNES Mini is how important the Reset button on the console…
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Jon Bois Gives Us 3 Takeaways
Jon Bois of SB Nation has this great video up talking about the 1987 Eagles and the way the players handled the NFL Players Association strike that year. Here is what I took away from it: Fuck the Cowboys Fuck Anti-Union Assholes Fuck the Cowboys
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Fortnite vs PUBG
Epic MegaGames has been in development on a game called Fornite for a long time, but just released it for free with a surprise PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds + crafting game mode called Fortnite: Battle Royale. This wouldn’t be a big deal, except for the fact that Epic is the licensor to Bluehole for the engine behind…