From an objective standpoint, the Surface Pro line of tablets are perfectly passable pieces of technology of admirably unexceptional quality that have had both praise and criticism levelled towards them. From a subjective standpoint however, they can suck a quarter mile of dong because they’re simply not iPads.
Benedict Cumberbatch Hates Selfies
We’re not ashamed to admit that we think Benedict Cumberbatch is an oddly beautiful and handsome man, which is why it came as quite a shock to us that such a delicate specimen of what an androgynous comic character would like in real life, he dislikes the idea of taking pictures of your own face.
Men in the 90’s Really Didn’t Like Being Proven Wrong
As we’ve discussed before, in the world of statistical mathematics there’s a simple thought experiment known colloquially as “The Monty Hall problem” which is a magnet for arguments. In 1990, arguably one of the smartest people on Earth tried to discuss and explain the math behind this problem in a magazine article and thousands of people insisted that they were wrong, just because she was a woman.
Goku was Redesigned to Make Drawing Him Easier
Son Goku from the Dragon Ball series is a fairly unique case in the world of pop culture because he’s one of the few main characters from a franchise to undergo a permanent physical transformation throughout the course of his native series, changing from a young boy with a monkey’s tail to a grown-ass man who fires lasers from his hands. A decision that was made almost exclusively because the artist who drew Goku was sick of drawing him as a kid.
This is Why Ecco the Dolphin Was So Hard
If you played any sort of Sega game system as a child there’s a fairly decent chance that you also at one point played Ecco the Dolphin, a game in which you play as a dolphin who saves the world from aliens. The game is best remembered for being really fucking hard, meaning only a handful of kids kids ever got far enough into the game to realise it also involves flying through time and headbutting aliens in the dick.
