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The video game “Hytale,” that has been in production for ten years and received high amounts of anticipation when announced, has recently been confirmed to have cancelled development after a full decade of work with a recent announcement from Hypixel studios, on their official website, stating that “we’re ending development...

We’re all becoming dumb. Well, in the sense that media literacy is dying – and with it the unreliable narrator. Unreliable narrators are (biasedly) one of the best ways to create a compelling and relatable story; they are a key part of what makes storytelling feel human. Just like in...

The era of kale chips, waist trainers and detox teas may be drawing its final breath — replaced by a once-obscure injectable medication called Ozempic. Celebrities and social media influencers alike have helped catapult Ozempic and similar glucagon-likepeptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists into the cultural spotlight. Originally developed for diabetes management, these...

The zombie movie genre has consistently been at the forefront of popular culture for decades. These creatures have graced the screens of millions across the world, and yet they have fallen out of favor in the past few years. People have argued that the beginning of its decline happened around...

In the age of 24/7 content and vanishing attention spans, political power is no longer measured in policy or public service — it’s measured in clips. Fifteen seconds. That’s the new length of a political legacy. A blink-and-you-miss-it gaffe. A staged zinger at a debate. A phone-recorded tirade at a...

Throughout the season so far, New York’s Mets have had a bad string of defeats. Out of the eleven games they have played before the Atlanta Braves, they lost ten of them from the terrible slump they have been in. However, because of their victory against the Braves, this now...

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