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Trump tariffs terrify board game designers
Placko called the new policy “not just a policy change” but “a seismic shift.” Rob Daviau, who helps run Restoration […]
Old faces in unexpected places: The Wheel of Time season 3 rolls on
Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time […]
Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns this summer with ten new episodes. Paramount+ has dropped a tantalizing one-minute teaser for […]
Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better
Enshittification is not the only option. I’ve been complaining about tech a lot recently, and I don’t apologize for it. […]
Tel‘Aran’Rhiod at last—the Wheel of Time reveals the world of dreams
Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time […]
Praise Kier for Severance season 2! Let’s discuss.
Marching bands? Mammalian Nurturables? An ORTBO? Yup, Severance stays weird. Severance has just wrapped up its second season. I sat […]
Sometimes, it’s the little tech annoyances that sting the most
Anyone who has suffered the indignity of splinter, a blister, or a paper cut knows that small things can sometimes […]
The Wheel of Time delivers on a pivotal fan-favorite moment
Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time […]
Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average
It’s worth clarifying that AI models did not generate the images used in the study. Instead, researchers used popular, pre-existing […]