Tips, comparisons, and fun articles about random generation tools, language, and pop culture.
Most party games try to eliminate awkward silence. The Paranoia Game sprints toward it — and that tension is exactly what makes it one of the most socially magnetic games ever invented.
Fourth Wing gets called "smut" the way no male-authored fantasy ever does — but the double standard says more about literary culture than it does about the book. Here is the case for taking it seriously.
Everyone has a system for picking lottery numbers — birthdays, hot streaks, numerology. The uncomfortable truth is that none of it changes your odds by even a fraction of a percent.
From Spider-Man to Black Panther, superheroes dominate the stories children grow up with. What values are those stories actually passing on — and are we giving the genre enough credit for the work it is doing?
AI can generate realistic placeholder text in seconds — so why are designers holding onto lorem ipsum? The answer reveals something important about what placeholder text is actually for.