You've heard of the classic "red flags" for dudes: the Pulp Fiction dorm room poster, liking Fight Club a little too much, an unopened copy of Infinite Jest on the nightstand. But what about anime red flags? Is something as hyper-specific as Ergo Proxy really a red flag? We discuss
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It’s no secret that there’s plenty of pressure on healers in Final Fantasy XIV. One minute your weekly Euphrosyne Alliance Raid is going fine and suddenly your tank is dropping to the single digits and there’s a couple of DPS dead when all you were trying to
One of the strongest, if not the most pervasive, motivators in my life is anger. I use it as a guiding force. If something or someone pisses me off enough, I will work to spite them. Consider this anger management. Over on Twitter, a place for the very normal to
Hey there. It’s probably felt a little quiet on this feed for a while. The blogs and reviews have definitely slowed down in the past year and change. But if you’ve kept up with what’s going on with DeadEndRoad Video or Publishing, you can in all likelihood
Note: This review was conducted using the 2021 model of the Razer Blade 14. Most of this review should still apply to the 2022 Blade 14. The 2022 model will have an improved processor/GPU options and therefore higher performance metrics. Otherwise it is using the same chassis and screen
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ is a productivity and creative powerhouse– full stop. Anything you throw at the device it can handle, thanks to top of the line internals, a gorgeous Super AMOLED screen, along with an included S-Pen operating at a ridiculously low latency for good measure. The S7+
Last month in a promotion, Google gave anyone with a YouTube Premium subscription a Stadia Premiere Edition. The bundle includes a controller, a Chromecast Ultra, and 3 months of Stadia Pro. Clinging to the decaying corpse of Google Play Music, which entitled me to a YouTube Premium membership, I qualified
DRM removal tool claims to be the only still-functional method left to decrypt and convert Nook epub DRM, but is it actually true? In recent years, as Barnes & Noble has ignored and depreciated various Nook apps like Nook for PC and Nook Study, the methods used to decrypt Nook DRM
A haunted city on the brink of collapse, a family legacy shrouded in ghosts, men driven by honor and revenge in a world that recognizes only decay. These are the circumstances of Eight Days in October by DM Schwartz, a horror novel that pulls gently from weird fiction to tell
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I’m bad at math. In high school for some ungodly reason I was put into higher level algebra and calculus classes. It was a nightmare realm of pain and torment. I learned nothing. I retained nothing. And in the years since, and despite the insistence of the hit, extremely-2000s
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This week, a lawsuit from the Association of American Publishers forced the nonprofit Internet Archive to shutdown its ebook lending program. This program, which was expanded during the coronavirus pandemic, dubbed a “National Emergency Library,” was to remain open until June 30th or the end of the pandemic (whichever occurred
The Diary of a Serial Killer’s Daughter is presented quite literally. It is a thriller novel composed of diary entries written by Ruby Marlowe, the protagonist and narrator, a redheaded girl living in a single-parent household with her father. The novel, and recursively Ruby’s diary, spans multiple years,
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Outline is like drowning. It’s a weight, a suffocation of stories and characters and social obligation and emotional labor. It ties this to the ankles of the narrator and pushes her into the water, and she drags the reader along with her. We’re soon underwater, done in by
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The Fossil Hybrid HR aims to blend the feature set of a smartwatch in a covert design that, from the outside, appears to be nothing more than a stylish analog watch. In order to combine the two, compromises have to be made. The good news is that this trade-off allows
Starting today, proceeds from the sale of Fred’s First Adventure by MJ Stevens will go to the Port Macquarie NSW Koala Hospital’s “Adopt a Koala” program, to help koalas impacted by the devastating Australian bushfires. The Koala Hospital’s “Adopt a Koala” program allows supporters to donate to
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In Immobility, a man wakes up in a storage tank, with flashes of images that might be memories. He doesn’t know who he is, or was, or where he is. All he has are vague memories of the world ending in a cataclysmic event he calls the “Kollaps.” Evenson