Tag: weird

In my recent retrospective on Ken Penders’ run on Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog and its spinoffs, I was very negative, because reading his comics is often a nightmare. But Ken wasn’t the only writer, and focusing exclusively on him doesn’t paint a full picture of...

A song featuring AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd vocals went viral before being taken down by streaming services. A spokesperson for Universal Music Group — who denounce AI music — said in a statement to Music Business Worldwide, “The training of generative AI usin...

The following is the script for the above video Pokemon is the most successful game franchise in the world. Over 238 million copies of the main series games have been sold. The anime has over 1000 episodes. There’s tons of spinoff games and merchandise. But what if I told you the games migh...

Fans of The Legend of Zelda have long been hypothesizing weird Zelda timelines. The series has grown its mythology over time with each new release, making it more complex. Whetting the imaginations of fans, Nintendo prefers to keep explanations of its timeline vague. Although ...

A supernatural Western game just in time for Spooky Season Howdy, y’all! I reckon this time of year is the perfect time to explore the old West and shoot cannibals, werewolves, zombies, and other creatures in this free game available for PlayStation Plus members. Weird West is an ac...

I‘m going to share an (ab)use of a Windows feature which can result in bypassing User Group Policy (as well as a few other interesting things). Bypassing User Group Policy is not the end of the world, but it’s also not something that should be allowed and depending on User Group Policy s...

The other morning I woke up to a bunch of notifications on my phone telling me how much money I had made overnight. I couldn't believe it. Thousands of people are using this simple method to earn income passively. I was able to make over $2,000 per day just by following some surprisingly straigh...

You are standing at the front of the room, leading a writing warm up to a class of thirty-six fifteen-year-olds who run the gamut of locked-in to fully asleep to grinning at their phone to raising a hand to go the bathroom because “they locked the bathroom by the lunch room” to drawing o...

The American Falls part of Niagara Falls encountered a temporary closure in 1969. This was merely a redirection of water from the American Falls to the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the border, not a complete shutdown of Niagara Falls. This was done as part of an effort to repair the Ameri...

The Klein Bottle was discovered in 1882 by the German non-Euclidean geometer and educator Felix Klein. Weird and most wonderful it is indeed. And the limerick, above, as we shall see, is one precise description of its topology. But it is not the simplest, as a single Möbius strip can sutur...

Over the past couple of years, I’ve utilized psychedelics for the betterment of my mental health and overall life. Why? Isn’t that a little scary? Unpredictable, even? Sure, it can be. It can also be wonderful, mystical, joyful, overwhelming, sad, intense…and weird. D...

Are you a history buff? Well, think again. History is full of surprising and shocking truths that many of us wouldn’t believe are actually true. From bizarre events to unbelievable coincidences, there are some facts that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew. In this...

Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum — Boulder City, Nevada For the horror movie lovers, Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum is located in Boulder City, Nevada. Devlin is a professional props and special effects designer who decided to open a museum to showcase his personal collection ...

Cricket is always a serene sport when viewed from a distance as a spectator, because all the action happens quite a long way at the pitch, a very neat and tidy rectangular strip of grass situated in the middle of an oval, a playing field which vastly exceeds the dimensions of a soccer or football fi...

I was in the bathroom wielding a stick of incarnadine Tom Ford. My boyfriend was waiting (im)patiently in the living room, as boyfriends do. I emerged minutes later as a more brightly coloured version of myself. Boyfriend did a double-take and looked visibly shocked. This was not the response I&r...

Change isn’t always a bad thing (although when the pages didn’t look quite like I was expecting them to, the way they HAVE looked for the past seven and a half years, I did do a double-take of sorts and check to make sure I had typed the utility company’s web address correctly and ...