Of all of gaming’s many genres, few have remained as spiritually pure as the 2D beat ‘em up. From the early arcade favorites like Final Fight to more recent home console hits like River City Girls, the simple premise of walking in a straight line and dropkicking waves of baddies …
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The breakup between The Great American Bar Scene singer Zach Bryan and BFFs podcaster Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is taking the internet by storm, and if that word scramble doesn’t mean anything to you, buckle up. The yearlong relationship between the Grammy Award-winning country artist and Barstool podcast host might be …
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The parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, have created an AI version of their late son, who partook in an interview today with journalist Jim Acosta. The interview took place on what would have been Oliver’s 25th birthday. The conversation, …
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As AI technology becomes more integrated into every aspect of daily life, people have grown increasingly comfortable asking large language model chatbots for help with all kinds of questions — including, it seems, in matters of life and death. In a new survey of 2,000 Americans commissioned from research consultancy …
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In the video, a man putters up and down the street carrying a pitchfork, shouting at his neighbors and at no one, punctuated by the occasional obscenity. He isn’t happy that the neighbors are filming. “You guys are taping me? For what?” he asks. “I’m walking down the street! I’m …
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Worlds will soon collide for fans of tabletop roleplaying games as a major shakeup in the actual play community just hit. Critical Role returns! Albeit with some massive changes. During a live show in Indiana tonight, the cast of Critical Role announced their newest campaign (and fourth overall) will begin …
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S aigon, Vietnam, June 8, 1972. Just before sunrise, a small group of newsmen slid into combat fatigues and safari jackets before slipping through the waking city in a convoy of vans and rental cars. As they sped northwest, they snaked past legions of people seeking refuge, a silent cortege …
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The project that changed Julia Whelan’s life was a huge success and one of her biggest frustrations all at the same time: Gillian Flynn’s 2012 crime novel Gone Girl. Flynn’s tale following professor Nick Dunne and the mysterious disappearance of his wife Amy was a New York Times bestseller and …
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On Monday, a 27-year-old man entered a Midtown Manhattan office building with a rifle and killed four people — a police officer, a security guard, a real estate associate, and a real estate executive — before turning the gun on himself. None, it appears, were intended targets, as law enforcement …
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After a three-week trial, a Miami jury on Friday found Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 accident involving its Autopilot driver-assistance feature, awarding the family of the deceased and an injured party a total of $329 million in damages. The company will have to pay a third of the …
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