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Fresh apples exist in sealed ancient tombs
Crypts untouched by human hands for millennia are routinely stocked with perfectly crisp, edible fruit ready for immediate consumption.
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Doom began as a weekend project on borrowed computers
Ignoring your employer is the secret ingredient to inventing the first-person shooter genre. While employed by Softdisk to make boring, monthly software…
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Gwent was invented in a bathtub—in just three days
The card game that derailed millions of main quests was cobbled together during a frantic, hygienic brainstorming session. CD Projekt Red needed a tavern…
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Bridge has Olympic recognition, technically
Yes, sitting silently at a card table while fiercely judging your partner is technically recognized by the IOC. While you will absolutely never see them…
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Movie magic often starts with PVC pipes
Behold the majesty of a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry relying on hardware store plumbing. Because physical props only need to exist for actors to…
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Train Simulator's DLC costs over $10,000
For the incredibly niche demographic that hates having disposable income but loves public transit. To purchase every single piece of downloadable content for…
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Neo Geo brought arcade hardware into the living room
Bringing the actual cabinet experience to your living room, literally. It offered the exact same internals for domestic use, ensuring flawless ports without a…
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A video game helps a man catch a cold
Sometimes the world needs saving, and sometimes a random guy just needs a sick day. Elite Beat Agents features a squad of secret agents who solve people's…
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Screen peeking started fights in couch multiplayer
Looking at your friend's quadrant of the television is the original sin of couch multiplayer. Friendships were permanently shattered when someone conveniently…
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Demon’s Souls was the project nobody wanted
The pioneer of the notoriously brutal 'Soulsborne' genre was basically the studio's unwanted garbage child. The original Demon's Souls was failing so…
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In Metal Gear Solid 2, bird poop can blow your cover
You are a legendary superspy, capable of taking down an entire regime, but your greatest weakness is basic sanitation. In Metal Gear Solid 2, walking over a…
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In games, catfishing can earn rare loot
Catfishing lonely strangers for free loot is the oldest and most lucrative hustle in the multiplayer rulebook. A simple avatar change is often enough to have…
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Charades forces adults to pantomime individual syllables
Watching a grown adult frantically tug on their ear to indicate 'sounds like' while aggressively flapping their arms to mimic a helicopter is priceless. It…
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In Tony Hawk games, helicopters are just another ramp
Gravity is merely a polite suggestion for a professional skateboarder. Launching yourself off a wooden ramp to do a spinning board trick over the spinning…
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Why Roman from GTA IV always wants to go bowling
While you are busy dodging bullets and navigating the criminal underworld of Liberty City, your cousin is facing his own demons on the hardwood lanes. No…
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Shuffleboard is largely played in retirement homes
Sliding smoothly weighted pucks down a salted wooden table is the ultimate low-energy competitive sport. It requires absolutely zero athletic prowess, making…
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I spy builds early childhood cognitive categorization
Staring out the window and guessing a blue object forces children to frantically filter their visual field by specific attributes. It is a clever…
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Sudoku was born from a retiree's boredom
Despite the deeply cultural sounding name, this number grid was not handed down by ancient Eastern philosophers. It was actually slapped together by a retired…
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Uno rules permit matching identical numbers of any color
You don't always need a blue card to play on a blue pile. If the top face proudly displays a seven, you can immediately slam down a green seven without…
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Content creators getting sued over background music
Sharing gameplay with the world is fun until the copyright bots arrive. Automated legal systems routinely flag and punish content creators simply because a…
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Megaman slides on his knees to move slightly faster
Walking is just too inefficient for an advanced combat robot. Instead, he prefers to hurl himself face-first onto the metallic floor, sliding dangerously on…
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Snooker tables severely dwarf standard sized pool tables
Attempting to play this aristocratic game requires incredible eyesight and a massive room. The regulation table spans a staggering twelve feet by six feet,…
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Checkers allows promoted kings to move backwards
The moment you slide your little round token to the opposite edge, the entire dynamic shifts. Gaining a crown removes the directional shackles, allowing you…
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In two-player Uno, Reverse becomes Skip
Since reversing the direction between exactly two people is logically impossible, the card just forces the other player to lose their turn. It is a hilarious…
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