by crissly | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Maybe Batgirl was always cursed. Joss Whedon abandoned the movie in 2018, a year after he took the helm, saying he “really didn’t have a...
by crissly | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week, Beyoncé released her seventh studio album, Renaissance. Soon—if the hidden messages in the album’s various promotional images are correct—the end days foretold in Revelation will come.Or, at least, that’s what some folks believe. Social media has told us...
by crissly | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Stray, you play as a cat. For many, this is a mic drop worthy of an instant purchase, and Blue Twelve Studio, the former Ubisoft employees responsible for the game, clearly know this—from the very beginning, Stray taps in shamelessly to the memeable antics of Felis...
by crissly | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
George Pigula can’t get a prom date. With roughly 24 hours until the dance, the Sims 4: High School Years lead producer is reliving one of the most mortifying experiences a teenager can have: rejection, rejection, rejection.Pigula’s plight is self-inflicted, as both...
by crissly | Jul 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
It started by accident. At the suggestion of a friend, I sent my 15-year-old the Belle and Sebastian song “If You’re Feeling Sinister.”“Cool song,” she texted back. “I like it.” It was only five words, but it was the most she’d intentionally communicated to me in...
