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Humanity is set apart from the rest of the animal kingdom thanks to our remarkable technological achievements. Our…
Reid McCarter
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Reid's a writer and editor who has appeared at GQ, Playboy, and Paste. He also co-created and writes for videogame sites Bullet Points Monthly and Digital Love Child.
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During the first great Pokéwave of the late ‘90s, Martin “Ztorm” Culpepper accepted the grave responsibility of…
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The problem with modern technology, some sickos seem to think, is that it’s just not fleshy enough. Previously, some…
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Online property listings have given us a wealth of bizarre houses to gawk at in recent years, but never, to our…
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The Mortal Kombat theme song rules. Yes, the ’90s pop artifact is transcendentally cheesy, but it’s also the perfect…
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The internet, like a ’90s comedian standing on a stage and pointing out the absurdities of daily life, is currently…
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Journalist Laura Bassett learned last fall that her feet had their very own profile on fetish website wikiFeet. This…
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One of the Nintendo Switch’s most notable features is that it can easily be used as either a home video game console…
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The past few months of Jeopardy! episodes have featured a series of guest hosts that lots of viewers seem to have…
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The machines are still on track to replace us as rappers, opera performers, mascot creators, Star Wars writers, and …
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Will.i.am, superpowered cowboy, App Store archaeologist, and co-conspirator in some of the worst music crimes of the…
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Reddit user JaytheChou holds a belief that’s admirable in its simplicity and conviction: That duffel coat fashion…
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When we first covered Sinfeld Chronicles—a horror game based on Seinfeld and other New York City-set comedies—it had…
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We thought we were done with COVID parody songs. Over the past year, the genre willed itself into existence and…
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Omega Mart advertises time-traveling ham, nut-free peanuts in series of perfectly normal commercials
Earlier this year, we looked at a commercial for Omega Mart that featured a self-replicating Willie Nelson deepfake…
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Godzilla Vs. Kong is out now, providing a new answer to the vexing question of who would win if a giant monkey and a…
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In a move that’s sure to renew trust in American policing practices, the Texas Department Of Public Safety has…
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The big cargo ship Ever Given has been freed from its Suez Canal prison. It is once again floating where it pleases,…