Even better than wizard chess

It feels like personal house robots are just around the corner. Tesla is working on its own robot servant , along with several other companies that are making leaps in a field that was long considered a pipe dream, thanks to advances in image recognition and AI. But what if we told you that 40 years ago, you could have purchased a home robot that could do much more than you would expect from a robot of the 1980s? In 1984, Hubot emerged as a pioneer in the world of personal robotics, offering a…

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As a parent today I am doing all I can to provide my kids with the most comfortable, safest and accident free childhood I can. For some reason I have decided that that is the best childhood I can give them. But when I look back at my own childhood, it was as far removed from that as possible - It wasn't safe, it wasn't comfortable and it absolutely wasn't accident-free. Yet it still was a very happy and fulfilling childhood, and I wouldn't change anything about it. I used to get hurt A LOT; I b…

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Anime powerscaling? More like anime brainscaling.

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I'm just going to say it: I'm really glad to be out of school . And it's not that I don't love learning new things—on the contrary, it's still one of my favorite things to do. It's just that the entire school system feels outdated and obsolete to me. Not just the idea of putting children in a closed room for hours and expecting them to memorize irrelevant information, but also the textbooks those kids are supposed to learn from. These textbooks are almost always out of date, badly written, and…

In a game where everything is decided by the roll of the dice , it's no wonder some gamers get irrationally angry at their inanimate dice and feel the need to publicly shame them for their 'misbehavior.' It's funny to see how Dungeons and Dragons players treat their dice as if they are a spiritual entity that has a mind of it's own and can be appeased (or angered) by certain behaviors. Some players kiss the dice before rolling them, some whisper a little prayer to them before an important roll…

Some of these are just... No words

I used to love E3, I really did. Sure, it was made up of 93% pure cringe, but that was part of its charm. Watching game developers squirm on stage, trying to be cool while showing incomplete, buggy versions of their games was pure fun! Well, E3 is dead now and will probably never be coming back, But thank god for Geoff Keighley, who now seems to be holding the entire gaming industry on his scrawny shoulders as he hosts The Game Awards , Summer Games Fest, and Gamescom—all at pretty much the sam…

There's not enough time in the world to accommodate a casual gamer's desire to 100% every FromSoftware game

Brace yourself for a reality check that's equal parts amusing and eye-opening