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[Link] These Bose Headphones Helped Cure My Airplane Ear

Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com

I’m not going to sugar coat it: Flying sucks. The hell of getting to the airport, TSA screaming at you to take your shoes off, endless delays, the sad food selection (with the exception of free Biscoff cookies), turbulence—the list goes on.

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[Link] Australia’s Most Expensive Dildo Is On-Sale for $696.69

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

Yoni Pleasure Palace's Honey Dipper has a big price tag and next-level design, but we've got the details on why it's so special—and a discount code.

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[Link] It’s Time to Admit the Theragun is a Sex Toy

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

The Theragun, a triangle-shaped personal massager by wellness company Therabody, is not, by any official account, a sex toy. The website explicitly says it’s not. The company warns against using it on your junk.  Despite this, Theraguns have become a popular device for drilling one’s genitals.

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[Link] ‘It is surreal’: the five-second book reviews going viral on TikTok

Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Fifteen seconds is all you need. Point your phone camera to a shelf and hold up your favourite book, or three. Add a trending soundtrack, a caption, a couple of hashtags – #BookTok #FYP. Throw a pandemic into the mix and you have the formula: you can make a book review go viral.

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[Link] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energ

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[Link] Hellbound: the South Korean death-fest that wipes the floor with Squid Game

Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The easiest thing in the world would be to call Hellbound the new Squid Game. After all, they’re both South Korean dramas, they both deal in violent death and they’re both smash hits on Netflix.

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[Link] Scholars Cringe at the Term ‘Dark Ages.’ Dan Jones Explains Why.

Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Those who write about medieval history often develop a keen awareness that the narrative is best told when it is made relatable to the modern reader.

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[Link] ‘New Game+’ Is a Terrible Name but Offers a Great Advantage

Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com

Every single action-adventure game comes with its own unique playing style baked in. Combat is intricately orchestrated; tools and weapons—from health boosts to special bombs and traps—are abundant.

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[Link] Blade review – Wesley Snipes is back in excitingly macabre vampire horror

Read: 9/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The first film in the Blade trilogy, made in 1998, is getting a re-release: Wesley Snipes is the implacable and massively ripped daywalker marching around in his shades and leatherised protective armour, slaying the vampires with his cold steel implements and martial-arts skills.

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[Link] 'UBOAT' Recasts the Sub Sim as a Roguelike Management Game

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

From their very first combat deployment in the American War of Independence, when the tiny Turtle tried and failed to attach explosives to the hulls of British warships, submarine warfare has always been a dicey prospect.

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[Link] ‘I had to watch it with my therapist’: when real-life horrors get turned into TV

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The dark new drama The Shrink Next Door tells an almost unbelievable story. Almost, of course, because it actually happened.

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[Link] Why would anyone hate Ted Lasso?

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Ihave a degree in English literature, which is to say I left university with no life skills apart from the ability to be pretentious at the drop of a hat.

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[Link] Apple’s new AirPods are greater, but girthier

Read: 27/10/2021 www.smh.com.au

The new AirPods 3rd Generation ($279) are curious devices. On the one hand, they’re much more impressive than their older siblings thanks to added sensors and spatial audio.

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[Link] Battlefield 3 10th Anniversary – Why It’s the Best Battlefield Game of All-Time (Opinion)

Read: 26/10/2021 mp1st.com

It’s October 25, 2021 and this is the day Battlefield 3 was released 10 years ago. Writing it out, I still can’t believe it’s been this long since the game was released. Another thing I can’t believe? How DICE still hasn’t released a better Battlefield game than BF3.

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[Link] Why I Use Microsoft Edge on Android

Read: 25/10/2021 www.howtogeek.com

Microsoft Edge started life on Windows 10, but it’s now available on several platforms, including Android. Chrome is the default browser on most Android devices, but I’m here to tell you Edge is just as good—if not better.

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[Link] I Tried the Satisfyer Pro 2 Vibrator to See Why It's a Cult Fave Sex Toy

Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com

In the world of sex toys, the Satisfyer Pro 2 is lauded—nay, worshipped—for giving a Come Unto the Jizzy Light user experience without ever making direct contact with the clitoris, thanks to its revolutionary form of light suction.

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[Link] PineTime Smartwatch And Good Code Play Bad Apple

Read: 17/10/2021 hackaday.com

PineTime is the open smartwatch from our friends at Pine64. [TT-392] wanted to prove the hardware can play a full-motion music video, and they are correct, to a point.

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[Link] Ah, Mr Bond. I was expecting you – to entertain me

Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Spoiler alert! This column is about the new James Bond film and reveals some big things that happen in it. If you haven’t seen it but plan to, don’t read on. The main spoiler is: they’ve spoiled it.

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[Link] Playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ How It’s ‘Supposed’ To Be Played Is Lifechanging

Read: 12/10/2021 www.forbes.com

Yesterday, I got a new PC from PowerGPU after my old one died last week. I could have repaired it, and I probably still will, but I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway. The first game I installed after I got it set up? Cyberpunk 2077.

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[Link] Plex just changed the game when it comes to music playlists that aren't terrible

Read: 15/8/2021 www.androidauthority.com

When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.

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[Link] I can't stop laughing at how small Nvidia's new graphics card is

Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com

It's not often nowadays that we end up with a GPU that's comically small, but here we are: the Nvidia RTX A2000.

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[Link] 'Hell Let Loose' Asks 50 Players to Work Together, or Die

Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com

This is a bad game with a bad commander. We don't need more people at the tiny steppe village on the Kursk map. We have about 40 infantry on our team across eight squads, and Yamki is really nothing more than a row of small wooden houses, burning ruins, a couple ditches, and a vegetable garden.

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[Link] Super Monkey Ball x Jet Set Radio Crossover Is Like A Tasty Peanut Butter Cup

Read: 7/8/2021 kotaku.com

Jet Set Radio protagonist Beat will appear in the upcoming Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania as a playable character, Sega announced this morning.

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[Link] Back 4 Blood's PvP Versus mode has too many hiding places for humans

Read: 7/8/2021 www.rockpapershotgun.com

I had a grand old time blasting through the open beta of Back 4 Blood's campaign mode earlier this week, and I'm pretty sure everyone from Left 4 Dead diehards to complete newbies like myself will have an equally fun romp with it when the open beta starts for real on August 12th.

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[Link] ‘Ted Lasso’ Makes Me Want to Be a Better Person

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Most days, I think I’m a decent-enough person.

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[Link] Get Packed: Fully Loaded is a pleasant co-op surprise

Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com

As of this weekend, I’ve played through two co-op party-action games about moving, and you know what? I don’t think Moving Out and Get Packed: Fully Loaded will be the last.

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[Link] Free Guy review – Ryan Reynolds bounces through fun videogame existential crisis

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Reynolds plays a normal, boring guy whose name is Guy (amusingly, it is never clear if this is his actual given name, as in Guy Crouchback, or the more generic “guy”).

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[Link] Paris Hilton Is, Like, A Chef Now

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Paris Hilton glides down the aisles of a Gelson’s, a high-end Southern California grocery store where most people don’t typically pick out cereal in a Pepto-pink gown that’s giving Marilyn Monroe.

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[Link] The Best Unique and NSFW Board Games for You and Your Awful Friends

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Board games and card games hold a special place in our hearts. They remind us of simpler times, like when Dad would get angry and flip over the game board when he wasn’t winning Clue, or when the drunk adults would viscously shame children who lost at Monopoly around the dinner table.

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[Link] The Best Men’s Underwear, According to Men

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

Collectively, we as a society don’t spend much time worrying about men’s underwear. Movies made before 2010 tell us that most men wear the same baggy, white boxing shorts (oh… that’s why they call them “boxers”) underneath literally every piece of lower-body clothing they own.

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[Link] 'Mini Motorways' Is a Beautiful Game About the Futility of Roadbuilding

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

As the centerpiece of its act, Mini Motorways crafts the same cruel illusion as its predecessor, Mini Metro.

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