We absolutely LOVE Astro bot! While not as widely recognizable as Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog , over the past several years, Astro bot has become the official mascot of the PlayStation brand—and for good reason! At first glance, this tiny, cute, blue-and-white robot might seem like just some side character from a generic video game, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. As it stands today, the Astro bot "series" (I’ll explain why I’m using quotation marks later) offers some of the best g…

The grass is always greener for the 15-year-old on summer break who's been prestiging the latest Call of Duty for the last 4 days

I think maybe we all love Bucky a little too much , and it’s mostly because of Sebastian Stan. I mean, that guy is charming ! I’m not ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reaction videos on YouTube where people watch the entire Infinity Saga for the first time (don’t judge me), and I can see how both men and women react to the Winter Soldier/Bucky. Men think he’s the coolest , and women think he’s the dreamiest. He’s like a non-goody-two-shoes Captain America. He has it all—the looks, the superpow…

We have Quidditch! We finally have Quidditch! Okay, maybe it's not an Olympic sport yet, like I’ve been suggesting, but at least we finally got the long-awaited Quidditch update for Hogwarts Legacy . By the way, I don't care if you're not a gamer or don’t own a console—if you're a Harry Potter fan, you owe it to yourself to play this game. It is so much better than it has any right to be. I thought these types of games were supposed to be shameless cash grabs, not an immersive simulation of the…

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Let's get nostalgic AND hungry!

The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. The pull of Middle-earth grows stronger, a whisper that calls me back to the Shire, to Rivendell, to the very fires of Mount Doom. Much that once was known is lost… for none now live who remember all the extended edition scenes by heart. The dialogue, the epic battles , the gentle wisdom of Gandalf—all have faded from memory. And so, I must re-watch the trilogy anew. One does not simply resist the call…

One of my favorite expressions in the world is “Ludonarrative dissonance”, which sounds very fancy and complicated but is actually just the conflict between the plot of a video game and the actual actions the player preforms during the game. So, for example, Link has to save Hyrule from lord Gannon, who is about to destroy the entire kingdom any second, But on his way to save everyone he stops to collect 900 Korok Seeds because.

The first Legend of Zelda game (you know, the one that was just called The Legend of Zelda ) was my very first virtual adventure . I distinctly remember my 11-year-old self sitting on the floor in front of our "giant" 22-inch TV, completely transported to a different world for hours at a time. I had played quite a few video games by that point, but this was the first time I felt like I was Link. I felt like I was exploring a real land called Hyrule—I knew its forests, its deserts, and its caves…

I can't help it, I love terrible puns and dad jokes . In fact, The worst they are the more I laugh. I don't even think it's the wordplay itself that makes me laugh, it's the fact that someone would sit down and write a wordplay so bad - that's what funny to me. Combine that with these cheesy stock images and the circle of cringe is complete. Well, this time I have for you a collection of terrible puns and dad jokes all revolving around doctors, hospitals and medicine in general. I find these jo…

You know what? I’m not going to be ashamed of it anymore, and I’m just going to say it—I love hotdogs! I know it’s considered one of the lowest forms of food, and I know you should never ask how a hotdog is made because you won’t be able to live with the answer (apparently, it’s made with every piece of meat humans refuse to eat). But I am done hiding! I love them! I will buy a jumbo pack of 50 hotdogs, and if no one else is around, I will finish that pack in about two days. I have even enjoyed…

One meme to rule them all, One meme to find them, One meme to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

You know what's funny? The fact that when we were kids, and also when we were teenagers, we used to groan and cringe whenever our dads told a particularly bad dad joke . And now that we are parents ourselves, we can't help but tell the same stupid jokes to our kids, who groan and cringe just like we did. And it's not that our sense of humor changed once we became parents, The truth is that we always found these jokes funny, we just found our parents cringy! Want some proof? we STILL groan and c…

Sometimes I feel like we were transported to a different universe right after Avengers: Endgame . It's like Tony Stark died, Then we had a global pandemic, then civil unrest, several wars, Betty White Died and mumble rap lives on, but it also seems like we accidentally stepped into a universe where Marvel forgot how to run a cinematic universe. Remember the time when Marvel could do no wrong? When every single movie they produced broke box office records and got both the fans and the critics ex…

Any game night that falls just shy of a TPK is a good session

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