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What Makes Eden Netflix’s First “Japanese Original Anime”?

Earlier this week, Netflix re-released the promising trailer for Eden, a science fiction anime series coming to the streamer in May 2021. The four-episode, Japanese-language series is set thousands of years in the future in a robot city known as “Eden 3.” When two farming robots accidentally awaken a human baby girl from stasis during a routine assignment, they begin to question everything they thought they knew about the myth of humanity and decide to raise the child secretly on their own. Great premise, right? Well, the production has some great creative talent to drive it too. Eden comes from…
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What Makes the PlayStation 5 SSD Unique?

The potential of the PS5 SSD has been one of the console’s biggest talking points ever since Sony confirmed that the device will take advantage of one of the biggest hardware advancements to hit the mass market in the last decade. PS5 developers everywhere have been praising the PS5 SSD, and the most adamant PS5 fans will quickly tell you about all the wonderful things the console’s SSD will finally make possible. All of that hype may leave you with the simple question: “What makes the PS5 SSD unique?” That’s a more than fair question that’s complicated somewhat by the…
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Community: Britta Perry Is the Worst, Which Makes Her the Best

Sitcom characters very rarely come off of the page fully formed. Many classic (and not-so-classic) network sitcoms rely on time as an ally. Time spent with characters allows for not only an audience to get a better sense of them but also for the writers and actors to do so as well.  Community was no exception. Each of the ensemble cast’s seven main characters (and tertiary characters like Ben Chang and Dean Craig Pelton) arrived in the pilot fundamentally unfinished. And each of them evolved over time, in some cases sharpening creator Dan Harmon and the writing staff’s original assumptions…
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Link Tank: How the Growing Irrelevance of Gaming Platforms Differences Makes for Better Games

With the lines between console, mobile, and PC gaming increasingly blurred, here’s what that means for the future of the video games industry. “Nothing screams dystopia more than two massive corporations conscripting their massive audiences into a petty legal war. No viewer should care which studio controls which Marvel movie rights. No consumer should take a side in the ongoing war between Apple and Epic Games over Fortnite direct payments.” Read more at PCMag. This “things overheard in movie theaters” thread on Twitter is the pick-me-up we all need today. “Writer Mike Ginn probably didn’t expect for his tweet about…
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