The Walking Dead has served its share of infuriatingly repugnant characters across its eleven long years on AMC. Indeed, the show’s devoted audience is quite accustomed to seeing insufferable asshats torment and/or kill beloved characters, creating an empty, sour return on emotional investment. Robert Kirkman’s source material comic book indicates that the most infuriating of
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This article contains spoilers for the Foundation book series. Right at the beginning of episode 1 of the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi classic Foundation, an opening voiceover from mathematician and Hari Seldon protégé Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) mentions several characters and places that will appear in the story that’s about to be
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Some streaming services pay lip service to October as spooky season. With its list of new releases for October 2021, Amazon Prime Video is making it clear that it’s a big priority. Amazon’s biggest original series this month is straight up horror. The latest iteration of I Know What You Did Last Summer premieres on
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Happy birthday to the Hargreeves family and more importantly: happy birthday to us!  October 1 is a special day for The Umbrella Academy. In the show’s continuity, that is the 1989 date in which 43 women across the world suddenly gave birth despite showing no previous signs of pregnancy. Esteemed industrialist Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feorge)
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A man struggles with the health care system and his own feelings of guilt when he checks his 100-year-old, estranged mother into Gateway TransCare — a memory care facility that uploads elderly minds into computer data banks. “Life Begins at Rewirement” by Trevin Matcek Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About
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New World‘s Trade Skills system is certainly one of the game’s most interesting features. See, instead of only allowing you to learn a couple of Trade Skills at a time (which are broken down into Gathering, Refining, and Crafting categories), New World lets you learn all 16 available trades at once. On top of that,
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You feel that? There’s a sudden coolness in the air, and the smell of freshly fallen leaves out your window. If you listen closely, you can even hear the delight of passerbys as they realize everything suddenly tastes like pumpkins. Yep, spooky season is almost here, and that goes for Netflix too. Ironically, the most
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Grading on a curve always raised mixed emotions when I was in school. If I didn’t know the subject as well as I should, it could be a godsend—the stay of execution from a grade card hangman. When I actually knew what I was doing, however, the bell curve was a curse, dragging even whole
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New World features some of the most interesting character-building, skills, and weapons systems I’ve seen in an MMO in quite some time. While many MMO developers talk about balancing such systems to discourage meta min-maxing and encourage experimentation, New World‘s flexibility genuinely encourages you to explore a variety of builds to see what works best
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Remember George Lucas? He’s back… in figure form! Yes, the filmmaking visionary who, with some help, conceived a ubiquitously-dominant film franchise, is set to be immortalized in plastic via the practice that put the Star Wars merchandising machine on the map. Indeed, Hasbro Toys has revealed a new George Lucas rendition, this one arriving in
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