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Even if you’re traveling by yourself, you’ll never be alone since you’re on a 24-hour live stream.
Apparently even crows aren’t immune to the “I put this card in my deck because I think the character looks cool!” weakness.
Tokyo model lets you share a beer with your sudden wife of eight years and play with your seven year-old daughter.
The legendary arcade is closing down for good, but there’s still time to see this awesome piece of history for yourself.
And if your mother never made fresh-squeezed onionade for you, you may want to consider if she really loved you.
We look back on a great solution to the problem of picking one costume: wear everyone’s old ones at once!
Admission fees, age requirements, and unrestricted public posting of erotic anime art would all be part of “Akihabara Gate City.”
But Gemutore doesn’t care if kids become pro gamers or not, because the company’s goals are deeper, and more heartwarming, than e-sports glory.
“Will you eat, or be eaten?” is the ominous tagline of this land chicken vs. sea chicken animated battle.
The technology is definitely there, but are your elderly relatives ready for you to drive robots around their houses?
If you’re using the Necronomicon as your cookbook, you might end up with something like this monstrosity.
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