Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Back in 2013, Binding of Isaac fans turned the single-player game into a competitive pastime where multiple players raced against each other, live. Races involve two players facing off simultaneously, side-by-side, with each running through the game as fast as they can. That scene faded for a while, but now it’s making a big comeback on Twitch….
Careful, now—that sword is 3,000 years old. (Image: GUARD Archaeology) In what archaeologists are calling the “find of a lifetime,” a horde of Late Bronze Age weapons has been discovered at a Scottish construction site. Among the items found is a gold-decorated spearhead, and a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in remarkably good condition. The artifacts were…
Just three years ago, Robin Thicke was shamelessly begging for Paula Patton’s forgiveness, but a lot has changed since then. For the past few months, they’ve been locked in a custody battle that seems to only be getting messier, with the latest incident on Thursday involving the cops. The dissolution of their marriage, to the…
Back in last July, we learned that whatever hairdo Daisy Ridley was sporting as Rey was somehow so important that Lucasfilm felt it needed to be hidden, even when Ridley was just working out. Now, thanks to a picture of empty toy packaging, this great mystery of our time has been solved. It’s… longer! Thank…
The most hype moment of a big San Francisco Street Fighter V event this week came during a spur of the moment challenge from the crowd. And it’s a lesson about the danger of being a little too brave. The event was a big party involving Capcom and fighting game enthusiast Lupe Fiasco. Both were celebrating Lupe’s…
Wes Siler, an experienced outdoorsman, thinks that Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse all wrong. (This will probably make more sense if you read the article he’s responding to, although Siler’s post does a decent job summarizing. The really short version: Peter Thiel is not the only venture capitalist with a fortified luxury bunker…
Photo: Getty Images Scarlett Johansson’s recent decision to strategically uncouple from Romain Dauriac seems to have taken Duraic by surprise, if this quote from an insider source is any indication. “No request for a judge was requested,” the source told People. “While her lawyer did request that Scarlett get residential custody, again, for procedural purposes,…
After a fucking creep won the Oscar, he received a standing ovation from the audience. Brie Larson was also standing, behind him, with her hands firmly at her sides. The Internet was littered with gifs and pics of Larson imitating a tin soldier back there, and many suggested she was silently protesting the Academy Award…
Image: Amazon Some conservatives and Donald Trump supporters are freaking out online because there’s a new pirate station called Resistance Radio, dedicated to fighting fascism and Nazi propaganda. Only one problem: It’s fake. Amazon announced this week that it was launching Resistance Radio as a companion program for The Man in the High Castle, an…
Art by Angelica Alzona Every birthday I get an overseas call from my grandma, always early in the morning due to time zones. This was the first year that call was tinged with concern that I would be attacked by a fellow citizen. She lived in America for decades, but suddenly, in 2017, she’s concerned…