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PSA: Torchlight Free at GOG.com for 48 Hours
In need of new dungeon crawler time sink? Don’t like spending money? Then GOG.com has something to scratch your itch. From now until Thursday, you can download the action-RPG Torchlight for free. The...
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Dan Harmon Breaks Promise by Being a Jerk About Community Season 4, Apologizes
After promising he wouldn’t be a jerk about Community‘s fourth season, the comedy’s once and future showrunner Dan Harmon spoke out on his Harmontown podcast about what he thought of the Harmon-less...
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Digg Reader to Release Just in Time for Death of Google Reader
July 1st is coming up fast, and those of you out there that still rely on Google Reader are running out of time to find a new RSS reader. A lot of people have already jumped on the Feedly bandwagon,...
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We’re in Lesbians With This The Last of Us/Scott Pilgrim Mashup Poster
I’ve been thinking about getting the critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic game The Last of Us for a couple of days now, but now I know I’m getting it. Apparently all I need to be interested enough to...
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DreamWorks Partners With Netflix to Deliver Original Content
DreamWorks has made a deal with Netflix to provide the streaming service with 300 hours of original TV series. A spin-off series to the upcoming animated movie Turbo has been confirmed, and other...
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Geekolinks: 6/18
Tweet is now OED official (The Daily Dot) Painted memes are a classy look back at Internet comedy (The Mary Sue) Drunk guy tries to jump balconies, plummets 13 stories (Guy Code Blog) John Oliver...
View ArticleJohn Mayer’s New Music Video is Just Four Minutes of the Prancercise Lady...
John Mayer has a weird sense of humor. Apparently he also had a deadline that he forgot about for the music video to his latest single, “Paper Doll.” So what’s an unbelievably famous musician with a...
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Your Used Games Are Killing the Game Industry Because They’re Actually...
Despite the popularity of the Gears of War series, game designer Cliff Bleszinski isn’t particularly well known for his ability to embrace the gaming culture that exists outside the industry’s...
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Excited to Binge Watch All of Amazon’s Original Shows? Too Bad!
Amazon is diving into the original streaming content pool with its political comedy Alpha House sometime late 2013 or early 2014, but when it does come out it’s not going to be coming out all at once,...
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That’s It, We’re Moving: Seven-Foot-Tall Bruce Lee Statue Unveiled in L.A.’s...
Geekosystem’s office is in New York City, and while I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, I’ve got to admit that we have terrible pop culture-centic statues compared to some other cities. Philadelphia...
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Make It Count, Dude: Spider Species Dies After Having Sex
I know the human dating game can seem rough at times, but the fact of the matter is, we have it pretty good. Don’t believe me? Consider if you will the sorry state of Dolomedes tenebrosus, the dark...
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Dubbler App Wants to Be Audio Equivalent of Vine
There’s no shortage of apps that let you easily share pictures, and apps like Vine make sharing short video clips just as easy. What about voice? That’s where Matthew Murphy and his company Appsurdity...
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Ken Levine, of BioShock Fame, to Pen Logan’s Run Reboot Screenplay
Ken Levine, the mind behind the award-winning BioShock games, is working on a new project. It’s about an alternate timeline and a corrupt society. Its plot revolves around warring factions. And it’s...
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Liquid Nitrogen Pool Party Poisons Nine in Mexico, Leaves One Victim Comatose
For no doubt the first time ever, a bad decision was made a pool party sponsored by Jagermeister. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. This bad call, though, went beyond the standard ill-starred hookup...
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Hate Your Job? New Gallup Survey Says So Does Almost Everyone Else
I really love my job here at Geekosystem, but it turns out I’m in the minority. According to a Gallup survey only 30% of the 100 million Americans with a full-time job are “actively engaged” at the...
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Interest in Google Alternative DuckDuckGo Doubles in Wake of PRISM Scandal
The PRISM scandal has everyone upset, and for good reason — we all knew deep down that our data wasn’t necessarily protected by companies like Google or Facebook, but it’s still a shock to the system...
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FBI Drones Are Engaged in Surveillance Over the U.S.
At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier today, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that the agency uses unmanned drones to conduct surveillance in the United States. The admission came...
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Man Plays Soccer for 90 Minutes Without Realizing There’s a Bullet Lodged in...
A Bosnian man played a full soccer match with a 9mm bullet in his head this past weekend, and only discovered it when complaining about a headache. While some soccer players are masters of making...
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NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge, Wants Your Help in Stopping Them
Hop into your triangle-shaped spaceship and start shooting dots at drifting polygons, because NASA wants you to do your part in stopping asteroids from destroying the planet. On Tuesday, the space...
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They Might Be Giants Analyzes the Evolution of the Twitter Bird, Because...
Twitter was made for the kind of esoteric snippets of awesome that the Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants (@tmbg) revels in, so it makes sense that they’d be pretty into it as a media platform....
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