In Real Life
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Racist Twitch Trolls Defeated By Talking Banana
Mike Nichols just wanted to make a talking banana. A self-described inventor of “useless” things, his original goal was to create an interactive robot for his Twitch viewers to play with. Whatever they typed into chat, the banana would say — while dancing! Then the trolls showed up.
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Tokyo’s Monster Hunter Bar Doesn’t Want You Touching Things
Earlier this spring, Capcom opened a Monster Hunter bar. Please don’t touch stuff in it, OK?
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This Week In The Business: Rolling The Dice On Loot Box Legality
“We’re working with all the industry associations globally and with regulators in various jurisdictions and territories, [and] have established that programs like FIFA Ultimate Team are not gambling.” — On Tuesday, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said regulators agreed with EA’s position that loot boxes aren’t gambling.
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Fine Art: If The Second World War Dragged Into The 1950s…
Michael Kus is a concept artist from Poland who between jobs has been working on a personal project called 1952, which draws a line through Second World War technological development and imagines a conflict that, into its third decade, is being fought with fancy jet aircraft and mechs.