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Pour Out a Bourbon—Wynonna Earp Will End After Season 4 on Syfy
6.2.2021
Gather ‘round, Earpers—it’s time to say farewell.Read more
Dril Wants Your Money To Finish Some Game
5.2.2021
Dril, the famous online shitposter, philosopher, TV star, and Betsy Ross museum volunteer, is making a video game and is asking for some cash via Patreon to finish it. According to him, it will probably be, “pretty good.”Read more
Blockchain Bites: The Weird and Wonderful in Crypto This Week
5.2.2021
Also: Ether is jumping off, taking DeFi tokens with it
Some Typography Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
4.2.2021
Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property — From Manish Goregaokar in 2017. Of many oddities, I found the one where font: medium monospace renders at 13px where font: medium sans-serif renders at 16px particularly weird.
The good line-height — Since
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Hitman 3 Has Some Weird Easter Eggs, Like A Talking Hippo
30.1.2021
The Hitman games have always had some weird secrets and Easter eggs. And Hitman 3 continues the tradition, including some truly strange and cool secrets, like a talking hippo, a UFO abduction, and a hidden ending.Read more
Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird
9.1.2021
Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions. Read more
Would You Put These Bizarre Funko Pops on Your Shelf?
5.1.2021
As someone who doesn’t pay any attention to Funko Pops, I’m always a little concerned by the staggering amount of products the company has. The seemingly infinite line of collectibles spans multiple decades of media, turning some of our favorite nerd properties into plastic figures with oversized...
This Weird Driving Controller Had Force Feedback Before Steering Wheels
30.12.2020
One of the fortunate things about racing, compared to other sports, is that it’s relatively easy to simulate in a virtual setting. The experience of playing NBA 2K, for example, doesn’t correspond to any of the physical skills required to actually play basketball in real life. Those of us who love...
The Rules of Margin Collapse
30.12.2020
Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing:
This idea might sound simple, but if you’ve been writing CSS for a while, you’ve almost certainly been surprised when margins either don’t collapse, or they collapse in weird and unexpected ways.
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Hey Xbox Game Pass, Where Are All My Weird Old Platformers?
23.12.2020
Xbox Game Pass features a truly mind-boggling amount of content. If you’ve ever scrolled through the service you’ve probably experienced the same delirium I have. The idea that anyone can ping-pong between Gears of War 5, The Master Chief Collection, and Rainbow Six: Siege in a single sitting...
A Strange Game That Lets You Create A Digital Art Gallery About Anything
20.12.2020
Art galleries can be cool. But they are hard to create, so we don’t get as many galleries as we deserve. For example? Where are the galleries and museums for things like broken extension cords? Or people like Keanu Reeves? Well, thankfully, with The Anything Gallery, you can create a gallery about...
Someone Found A Weird Unreleased Simpsons Game On An Old Dreamcast Dev Kit
19.12.2020
Sreak, a user over on the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files from an old, broken Dreamcast dev kit hard drive. Users quickly found inside an unreleased, incomplete and odd Simpsons game, which it seems had never been publicly announced or revealed.Read more
Five times crypto got weird in 2020
18.12.2020
Crypto is no stranger to weirdos, so here’s a few times the space got strange in 2020
It's Weird How Some Games Are Now Too Big To Fail
18.12.2020
For nearly the entire history of video games, most title’s lifespans would play out the same cruel, Darwinian way: they would come out and either live or die, sometimes with spectacular consequences. No second chances.Read more
I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy
17.12.2020
I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to modify the intrinsic size and resolution of images. And hey! We did it! But boy, was it ever a learning experience.
This wasn’t my first...
Marvel's Weird New Multiplayer Mobile Game Goes Live
16.12.2020
Available worldwide today for iOS and Android devices, Marvel Realm of Champions is an online team-based brawler that taps into 2015's Secret Wars comic crossover to give players access to strange, alternate-dimension versions of their favorite heroes. Read more
Hell Yes! CSS!
15.12.2020
Speaking of cool CSS stuff you can buy, Julia Evans’ zine Hell Yes! CSS! is hot off the presses. A “zine” being 28 pages of “short, informative, and fun comics which will quickly teach you something useful.” Some parts of it are like cheat sheets. Some parts of it...
Crisis!! Super Street Fighter II Turbo Weird-Version Music Deathmatch!
8.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, a knock-down, drag-out brawl to the death between two little-heard arranged versions of Capcom’s most enduring fighting game. Fight!Read more
The Original Fire Emblem Is A Weird Game For The Switch To End Its Year On
7.12.2020
I’ve spent the last week, in odd moments here and there, helping Fire Emblem’s Prince Marth search for a legendary sword and defeat the forces of darkness to rescue his kingdom from an evil wizard. Throughout all of it, in good times and bad, one question kept bubbling up to the surface: why?Read...
Those Weird Noises In Demon’s Souls? Just A Glitch, Says Sony
4.12.2020
After weeks of speculation, we finally have an answer regarding those loud, seemingly random sound effects haunting the Demon’s Souls remake: Sony told Kotaku they’re a glitch, nothing more.Read more