Reid McCarter
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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With Redfall, Arkane mishandles Stephen King’s legacy — and its own
Redfall, the new open-world FPS from Arkane Studios on PC, Xbox, and Game Pass, can’t live up to the pedigree of Dishonored, ‘Salem’s Lot, or Deathloop. → Read More
Redfall is Arkane defanged
Redfall, which has a May 2 release date on Xbox Series X and PC, features a compelling supernatural setting, with fun character abilities that can’t make up for bad combat. → Read More
Adam McKay recruits Darth Vader to help deliver a "love letter to Exxon"
Adam McKay's Hyperobject Industries has released a video that sees Darth Vader praise Exxon CEO Darren Woods for profiting off the destruction of the planet. → Read More
Steven Spielberg shares personal theory explaining all those UFO sightings
During an interview with Stephen Colbert, Steven Spielberg explained that his optimistic theory about UFO sightings is that we're witnessing far-future humans come back in time to study our history. → Read More
Joyce Carol Oates spent the long weekend using her Twitter to dunk on transphobes
Joyce Carol Oates used her frequently chaotic and absurd Twitter account to refute transphobic talking points over the Presidents' Day long weekend. → Read More
Woman creates "raccoon drive-thru," which, to our delight, is exactly what it sounds like
A TikToker from British Columbia has created a raccoon drive-thru, uploading clips of the animals visiting her kitchen window to enjoy leftovers. → Read More
Huh: People want to bang The Last Of Us' giant mushroom monster
Adam Basil, the stunt performer who played The Last Of Us' Bloater monster, explained in a recent interview that the internet has made his gross creature into "a bit of a sex icon." → Read More
Help, please, murder: Two workers fall into chocolate vat at Mars Wrigley factory
Last summer, two contract workers at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania’s Mars Wrigley factory fell into a vat of Dove chocolate and had to be retrieved by a team of more than 24 rescuers. → Read More
Dog pees during national anthem and other highlights from Puppy Bowl XIX
Last night saw 122 puppies, one of whom peed on the field during the national anthem, compete in Puppy Bowl XIX. → Read More
Terrible M&M ad campaign comes to predictable end
After M&M's started a culture war over all-women mascot packaging and pretended to replace its candy characters with Maya Rudolph, its ad campaign came to an end with a Rudolph-starring Super Bowl ad that ends with the mascots reinstated. → Read More
New AI-hosted podcast covers tech news and kangaroo invasions, provides graphic sex advice
AI Radio is a new podcast written and hosted by a pair of AIs that discusses everything from tech news to kangaroo invasions, and graphic sex advice. → Read More
GoldenEye 007 marked a massive change in the course of game design
Developer Rare’s iconic James Bond shooter for N64, which has recvently been re-released for Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch, marked a time of great change for first-person shooters. → Read More
An AI has been generating an endless Seinfeld episode on Twitch
Nothing, Forever is a computer-generated take on Seinfeld streaming eternally on Twitch → Read More
Fox News is now mad about the A&W bear parodying the M&M mascots
Fox News anchors called A&W's obvious parody tweet an example of "woke police cancel culture" → Read More
10 of the finest posts spat out by the "Film Twitter Take Generator"
We've collected a bunch of our favorite opinions created by the randomized "Film Twitter Take Generator" → Read More
Farewell Toadzilla, we hardly knew ye
An enormous, six-pound cane toad was discovered (and euthanized) in Australia → Read More
M&M's recruit Maya Rudolph to take part in boneheaded, candy mascot-centered culture war
Ahead of an apparent Super Bowl ad campaign, the company announced Maya Rudolph as its new spokesperson → Read More
Bang your head against an Elden Ring GeoGuessr adaptation
The browser game tasks players with figuring out where they are on an Elden Ring map using screenshots → Read More
Behold the natural majesty of a bunch of deer getting high and freaking out on nitrous
A video captures deer sniffing naturally occurring nitrous oxide fumes coming from a decomposing leaf pile → Read More
Fox News is concerned about the moral and political implications of M&M's... again
A new M&M's ad campaign designed to support women has driven Tucker Carlson, Fox News, and other right-wing figures into a melt(in-your-mouth)down → Read More