Friday 13 May 2016

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May 13, 2016
The best cartoons for grown-ass people

Sure, they say, it looks like a kids' cartoon, but there's actually a lot for you to enjoy, too! But here's the thing: You're an adult. You're a grown-up. You don't want a kids movie that adults can also enjoy, you want a cartoon that's made specifically for people who are allowed to buy their own alcohol.
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The biggest plot hole in Captain America: Civil War happened because Marvel loves China
Captain America: Civil War is in theaters, raking in all the money that a worldwide Marvel summer movie event is supposed to. Although it's technically the third in a trilogy of movies featuring Chris Evans as Captain America, Civil War spends almost half of the twisty thriller plot concerned with the headspace of Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark.
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Doom absolutely screams on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080
I remember when the original Doom was released and how much of a difference running it on a Pentium 166 made compared to my old 486DX 50. I ended up using Doom as a benchmark for quite a while. Now it seems Nvidia is doing the same, only this time it's all about the graphics card rather than the CPU. Over the weekend Nvidia announced its latest generation of graphics cards carrying the names GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070.
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The most fiendishly complex Dungeons & Dragons traps
Originally published back in 1981, Grimtooth's Traps details a whopping 101 different edition agnostic traps for use in roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, or whatever other system you prefer. Though tabletop RPG trends and tastes have shifted and evolved in the three decades since, Grimtooth's traps are as dangerously effective and comically complicated as ever.
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