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An interview with the big boss of MGS fan animations
Parametric Avocado explains how he riffs on Kojima classics.
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Shooting off screens: An interview with DVLSBLSH
by Dan Solberg 20+ years ago in magazine sidebars and web 1.0 galleries, the dominant visual representation of videogames was the screenshot. Capturing single instances of interactive media, screenshots were always a limited format for videogames PR, but that restricted context can also imbue screenshots with a level of
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Behind the art of SpongeBob
A conversation with one of the internet's most ardent SpongeBob archivists.
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Learning from Las Vegas’ Sphere
The Sphere is itself a symbol — but of what?
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Every bedroom you've ever entered
Thoughts on guitars, tablature, and the internet (plus a bonus mixtape).
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What’s the deal with Roblox? An EX Special Report
We turned our red Roblox caps backwards and started greeting our fellow kids.
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The greatest meme of all time
Anyone who works for very long on “the internet culture beat” has to quickly come to terms with the fact that they’ll never beat Know Your Meme. The site, which has been around since 2007, is simply faster and more authoritative about what’s happening on the internet than
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A user’s guide to the Kendrick Lamar/Drake beef
The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has dominated pop culture for the past 6 weeks or so, and one consistent complaint I’ve heard from people, online and IRL, is that they don’t know what’s going on. Either a) they don’t know the backstory, b) they
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I have been Jedi-pilled once again
Remembering every fake Han Solo.
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The golden age of rap producer tags
It’s quite likely that you and I are both thinking of the exact same thing right now.
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EX rex: 8 recent things we loved
Julia Holter, One More Shot, and Slice & Dice.
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Who invented “oooh subscribe!!?”
On the tail of an unforgettable call to action