I've owned every title in the XCOM franchise. I've played XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Windows rigs, my Mac, PS Vita, and, on my iPad. I won't relate the shameful number… Read the rest of the article: XCOM 2 for the Nintendo Switch is a glitchy heart breaker

This video from Ken Burns, featuring James Baldwin, will help you to call bullshit on anyone trying to tell you that tearing down a monument to racism is tearing down… Read the rest of the article: Ken Burns: our monuments are representations of myth, not fact

The first Blockbuster Video location was opened in 1985, in Dallas, Texas, by Sandy and David Cook. David pulled together the scratch for the startup by selling off the assets… Read the rest of the article: Watch the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video in under four minutes

So, you know how the governments and citizens of some countries are doing everything they can to flatten the COVID-19 curve, while others have been flipping birds for the sake… Read the rest of the article: The European Union may not admit Americans once their borders reopen

The border between Canada and the United States has been closed to everything but essential travel, for some time now. This means that Canadians and Americans can't enter each other's… Read the rest of the article: Americans are getting fined for goofing off in Canada

A performance in Portland, August 26, 2017.

Somewhere between discovering The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Hellblazer, I fell deeply into love with early-to-mid 20th-century detective fiction. It was a world of smart men who mean… Read the rest of the article: Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJV9acMsDwM If HBO's upcoming Lovecraft Country is even 20% as great as its source material—Matt Ruff's novel bearing the same name—We're in for a fun, terrifying treat. I suppose we'll… Read the rest of the article: Lovecraft Country is coming to HBO and I am here for it

Photoshop kinda sucked when Adobe introduced it to the iPad last year. Months in, Photoshop for iOS is still such a flummoxing disappointment when I need to tinker with an… Read the rest of the article: Adobe makes sending images Lightroom to Photoshop on iPad a thing

When we finally come out of this terrifying situation that the world has found itself embroiled in, the very best we can hope for is to become a better people… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Oysterband—Early Days of a Better Nation

Thanks to the coronavirus, international travel is pretty much out of the question. This, however, doesn't mean that you can't take a taste of a huge number of cultures from… Read the rest of the article: Radio Garden is a great way to discover music from around the world

Look, nothing about what's done in this video is easy or anything less than time consuming. But, if you're hellbent on being able to enjoy something as close to a… Read the rest of the article: Making Cadbury Creme Eggs from scratch takes a lot of work… and sugar

Apparently, Greater Manchester is the New Florida during spring break of the United Kingdom. Despite warnings, daily updates to the number of victims of COVID-19 and the threat of steep… Read the rest of the article: Idiots in the UK risk their community for the sake of socialization and bouncy castles

While you're sheltering in place, I hope it's with someone who loves you and makes you feel whole.

If you own a piece of hardware, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it, period. Don't like the color? Paint it. Not enough storage?… Read the rest of the article: The right to repair is the right to screw up

More often than not, the solutions for slowing the roll of our planet into an untenable ball of environmental disasters is right under our noses—protect green spaces. End the use… Read the rest of the article: Scientists: enzyme eats plastic like it's made of Pringles

It's easy to get bored, sheltering in place, or worse, being confined to one room in your home under quarantine. I've played my fair share of video games over the… Read the rest of the article: Get into Google's Stadia game service for free

Let's take a moment to reflect upon the fact that, no matter how dire things are and, how more terrible they're expected to become, we're still able to issue some… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: The Decemberists—Calamity Song

No matter how much joy owning a cat may have brought into your life, there's no denying that they're nothing more than cuddly little murder machines that like to watch… Read the rest of the article: Limit the spread of coronavirus by keeping your cat indoors

I'm not sure that we deserve a happy ending. But like the rest of you, right now, I'm hoping like hell for one.