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Max Schindler

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01 Aug

Spider-Man: Brand New Day – How Sadie Sink’s Character Will Change the MCU Forever

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This article contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. After months of speculation, we can finally say for sure that the X-Men have arrived to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, one of them, anyway, but it’s a founding member! Sadie Sink is indeed Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a mutant telepath and one of the most important characters in X-Men history. Even so, and with Jean Grey at the center of the movie, the film didn’t actually do much setting up for the future of the X-Men. Neither Cyclops nor Wolverine appeared, and the post-credit scene didn’t involve…
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01 Aug

15 Songs Where They Aren’t Saying What We All Think They’re Saying

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Almost everyone has confidently sung the wrong lyric at some point. Whether it is because of unusual pronunciation, fast vocals, or simply hearing what our brains expect instead of what was actually recorded, misunderstood lyrics have become part of music culture. Some mistakes are so widespread that thousands of fans still refuse to believe they have been getting the words wrong for years. In many cases, the incorrect version has become almost as famous as the real one. These are fifteen songs with lyrics that countless listeners have been mishearing for decades, proving our ears cannot always be trusted. IMDb…
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31 Jul

15 People Share Their Questionable DIY Tech Hacks

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You don’t have to spend much time on Reddit to realize that people will fix almost anything with whatever happens to be lying around. Sometimes it’s because replacement parts are expensive. Sometimes it’s because waiting isn’t an option. And sometimes… it’s just because they can. The results aren’t always pretty, and they definitely wouldn’t pass inspection, but you have to admire the confidence behind some of these improvised solutions. Here are 15 people sharing their questionable DIY tech hacks. ©Reddit Comcast’s “redneck engineering” Power goes out? No problem. Someone suspended a portable generator from the utility lines to keep things…
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31 Jul

Silent Hill: Townfall Previews an Intense Ride Through a New Haunted Town

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After last year’s Silent Hill f took Konami’s long-running horror series to Japan for a terrifying expansion of what the franchise can be, Screen Burn Interactive and Annapurna Interactive are taking the series to another global location for their upcoming title Silent Hill: Townfall. Set in the Scottish coastal town of St. Amelia during the ‘90s, the game follows amnesiac protagonist Simon Ordell as he investigates the ominous hamlet to learn about his past and connection to the location. Den of Geek was invited to a special early hands-on preview of the game in Los Angeles and we’re ready to…
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31 Jul

Street Fighter Sneak Peak Corrects the 1994 Movie’s Biggest Mistake

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The influx of Japanese culture into the United States meant lots of misunderstandings and mispronunciations happened on American schoolyards, especially around the Street Fighter franchise. We kids found the most ludicrous ways to say the words “Guile,” “Dhalsim,” and especially “Ryu.” While you can chalk most of those mistakes up to unfamiliarity with other languages, the tendency to say Rye-oo came straight from the 1994 movie, where director Steven E. de Souza treated accurate pronunciations with as little care as he did everything else in his adaptation. But the upcoming Street Fighter movie from director Kitao Sakurai takes pains to…
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31 Jul

Bill Sienkiewicz Brings His Expansive Legacy Into Focus in a New Documentary

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“People would ask me early on when I first started what my drugs of choice were because they thought my work was just so crazy,” recalls Bill Sienkiewicz with a smile while speaking with Den of Geek. “It was disconcerting for them to hear that the work was the drug. Everything else got in the way of that.” Coming into the Den of Geek studios at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Sienkiewicz certainly has a lot to smile about, remaining as busy as ever within the world of art, particularly within the comic book industry where he has been a groundbreaking…
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31 Jul

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Just Complicated The Wrath of Khan

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This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 2 At the climax of “The Griffin Incident,” the second episode of Strange New Worlds‘s fourth season, the haunted ship that Kirk, Spock, and La’an have been investigating nearly drives two of the Starfleet officers to kill one another. La’an stabs Kirk and then stands over his body, mocking him for saying that he wants to live for his young son, David. “Your little boy is going to die just like you,” sneers La’an. “At the end of a blade, bleeding out in a dark corner of…
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31 Jul

THE ONE PIECE: Inside Netflix’s New Anime Adaptation of a Manga Classic

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! Eiichiro Oda’s ONE PIECE isn’t just a groundbreaking pillar of the anime industry, it’s a Guinness World Record-holding pop culture sensation that’s more popular than ever. ONE PIECE’s icon Monkey D. Luffy has proudly been featured in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the series has inspired a New York Fashion Week runway event, and even launched a collaboration with the NBA that recently saw Luffy become an honorary member of the New York Knicks! After 22 seasons,…
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29 Jul

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence Stars Prepare Us for the War on Vegetables

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Those pesky killer tomatoes have been quiet for a while, but like many of our cult franchise faves, they were way overdue for a reboot! Enter this year’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a fifth film in the Killer Tomatoes series that follows a young biotech prodigy developing a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. Fortunately, for fans of the original 1978 movie and its sequels, the experiment spirals out of control, unleashing a new generation of killer tomatoes upon us. We caught up with Organic Intelligence stars Dan Bakkedahl, Myrna Velasco, and Noor Razooky…
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29 Jul

15 Boss Fights Everyone Cheese’d Instead of Beating Normally

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Boss fights in video games are the culmination of the game’s systems, testing everything you’ve learned in a final clash for survival. If you can’t cheese it, that is, or find a way to bypass a lot of what makes the fight difficult. You may wonder why anyone would do that, since it essentially takes away from the experience of the game, but gamers have their reasons. Not all of us have all the time in the world to master a game’s system, let alone beat its hardest moments, but we still want the feeling of satisfaction from doing every…
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29 Jul

15 of the Funniest Gags from “The Hangover”

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Some comedies make you laugh because of the dialogue. Others get there by throwing one ridiculous situation after another at their characters until everything falls apart. The Hangover somehow manages to do both. Every new clue about the missing night creates an even bigger problem, and the group’s increasingly desperate attempts to fix things only make the chaos worse. Along the way, the movie piles on unforgettable visual gags, perfectly timed reactions, and running jokes that are still quoted years later. It’s the kind of comedy that rewards repeat viewings because there’s always another joke waiting in the background. Here…
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29 Jul

15 Nerds Share Their ‘Fun’ Facts Nobody Asked For

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Nerds come in all shapes and sizes, bringing up ‘fun facts’ about history, wildlife and everything in between. Reddit users get together from time to time to share their little factoids with the world, letting us know all kinds of things to be all the rage at parties. The results ranged from strange animal biology and forgotten history to surprising facts about famous people and unusual scientific discoveries. Some are genuinely useful, others are simply fascinating, but they’re all the kind of trivia that sticks in your brain far longer than expected. IMDb History’s Most Unlikely Neighborhood Between 1913 and…
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28 Jul

14 of the Funniest Jokes from “Blades of Glory”

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Some comedies rely on clever dialogue, while others get the biggest laughs from complete absurdity. Blades of Glory somehow manages to do both. The movie throws together ridiculous characters, over-the-top rivalries, outrageous costumes, and just enough surprisingly impressive skating to make the whole thing work. Years later, many fans still remember individual scenes long before they remember the competition itself. That’s usually a good sign a comedy got something right. Here are 15 of the funniest jokes from Blades of Glory. ©IMDb Chazz and Jimmy are forced to compete together The entire premise is ridiculous from the start. After getting…
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28 Jul

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Director Talks Blowing Up the Earth and Human Solutions to Tech Problems

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This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 1 For six decades, Star Trek has featured an array of planets, endless alien species, and countless godlike beings. But the kick-off to the fourth season of Strange New Worlds may have outdone all its predecessors. The season 4 premiere, “Valles Marineris” sends Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise back to prehistoric Earth, where they discover not just a planet ruled by dinosaurs but also a Martian military at war with enemies from another planet in our solar system, a planet heretofore unknown to us. By the…
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28 Jul

Kevin Feige Is Mostly Right About the Thanos and Doctor Doom Comparison

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Barring an ominous but brief post-credits scene in last year’s Fantastic Four: First Steps—a cameo, we might add that featured neither a line of dialogue or closeup—Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom will not have a real introduction before the highly anticipated Marvel Studios joint bearing his name this December: Avengers: Doomsday. Off-screen, the diehard fans and even some casuals know one of the key reasons for this. Until sometime well into 2024, Downey nor Doom were expected to star in the first Avengers movie since 2019’s Endgame. But following some last-minute brainstorming and rearranging of MCU strategy, Avengers day became…
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28 Jul

Avengers: Doomsday Establishes a Fantastic Four Connection to Doctor Doom

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This article contains potential spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday. Judging by the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, Doctor Doom is a multiversal threat who battles Thor and the original Avengers. Sure, some other heroes are involved, including the X-Men and the New Avengers, but they’re mostly concerned with fighting one another. Least relevant of all, according to the trailer, are the Fantastic Four, who just hang out in the background, giving each other hugs and shaking the hands of Wakandans. Comic book fans find this infuriating, and not just because Doctor Doom first appeared in the pages of Fantastic Four. However,…
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28 Jul

The 10 Best Stores You Can Go to for Reasonably Priced Nerd Stuff

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Being a nerd can get expensive fast. Between board games, collectibles, comics, manga, video games, and fandom merchandise, it’s easy to spend far more than you planned. Fortunately, not every geeky purchase requires collector-level budgets. A handful of retailers have built loyal followings by offering discounts, used inventory, and even clearance deals. If you’re hunting for tabletop games, action figures, books, or digital downloads, these stores have earned reputations for delivering good value without sacrificing selection. Here are some of the best places nerds can shop without completely emptying their wallets. Game Nerdz Game Nerdz Board game enthusiasts frequently recommend…
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28 Jul

15 Movies Where the Action is Clearly More Important Than the Plot

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Think about the last action movie you really enjoyed. Chances are you remember the car chase, the fight, or the impossible stunt long before you remember the plot. That’s hardly unusual. Plenty of action movies are designed that way, putting all their energy into spectacular set pieces while keeping the story as simple as possible. Here are 15 movies where the action is clearly more important than the plot. ©IMDb Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) The story could be summed up in a couple of sentences, but that’s never been the point. George Miller fills nearly every minute with practical…
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27 Jul

House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 6 Review: Butcher’s Work

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*Editor’s note: This article contains House of the Dragon Season 3 episode 6 spoilers. Also Lord Commander Alec Bojalad is out this week, so brother David Crow is taking the watch. Promise magic but then deliver horror and pain. This not-so-secret recipe has always made the fantasy worlds of George R.R. Martin taste simultaneously bitter and exciting. Whereas most high-fantasy since the days of Tolkien and Baum has leaned into wonderment, and an often childlike sense of escapism, the minor-key appeal of A Song of Ice and Fire is it resembles the reality we run from. There’s a kind of…
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27 Jul

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 1 Review – Let Maggie Be Happy Again

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This review contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City season 3 episode 1, “Trillium.” If you forgot what happened in the first two seasons of Dead City, it’s unlikely you’ll need a recap because the season 3 premiere has Negan briefly rehash the basics for us after he finds Maggie digging a grave for Ginny. Maggie and Negan trade the moral high ground, with Negan upset at Maggie’s role in the loss of his young charge and Maggie apologizing, telling Negan she would undo her actions if she could, but she can’t, and that Negan needs to accept it.…
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