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TikTokers Trick Its Anime Filter Into Giving Them Big Boobs

Let’s not talk about how many pots and bowls it took for me to “make” this.Image: TikTok / Quantic Dream / Kotaku Those kiddos are at it again with their TikTok trends. The latest fad on the mobile app is actually quite hilarious because they’re tricking its anime ai filter into giving them comedically large

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Gaming

PS3 Hacker Hired To Fix Twitter By Elon Musk Just Quit, Yikes

I feel this “I give up energy” from Hotz so hard.Photo: San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst Newspapers (Getty Images) Twitter has been a sinking ship ever since billionaire jerk Elon Musk took it over in October 2022 (though, arguably, you could say it’s been that way for a while now). The SpaceX and Tesla CEO

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Drink of the Week

Drink of the Week: the Thai Basil Martini

Thai basil is a unique and flavorful herb that can be used to make a variety of cocktails. One of the most popular is the Thai Basil Martini, which is made by muddling Thai basil and gin together and then adding lime juice and simple syrup. To make a Thai Basil Martini you will need:

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Gaming

What Are Your Video Game Resolutions For 2023?

The first thing anyone says in Edith Wharton’s 1924 novella “New Year’s Day” is “she was bad…always.” Though nothing I do will intrigue as much as Lizzie Hazeldean appalling Wharton’s fictionalized New York high society with her affair, “running out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on New Year’s day with all those dressed-up women,” I’ve

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Gaming

Xbox Had No Games In 2022, But Game Pass Dominated Everything

2022 was somehow both a very big, successful year for Xbox and Game Pass and also one that it felt as if the gaming giant was starting to lose some steam. Sure, the Xbox Series S has quietly become one of the biggest success stories of the next generation—easy to find and cheaper than the

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Gaming

Game Awards Erases Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech

Screenshot: The Game Awards / Kotaku The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second Game of

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Gaming

Square Enix Abandons Chocobo Racing Game 9 Months After Launch

A game not included on our list of major 2022 games that died this year was Square Enix’s kart racer, Chocobo GP. There’s a reason for that, as it will remain playable for the foreseeable future. However, as Square Enix announced on December 21, the game is effectively dead now since “no further large scale

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Gaming

Absurd NFT Project Just Got Taken To Court By Pokémon

Screenshot: PokeWorld The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) works pretty hard to keep its monsters in their proper pens, fervently stamping out any attempts to use pocket beasties without a licensing agreement in place. Just a few months ago, we saw the company going after six Chinese firms that had crossed the line with their own

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Kickstarter Suspends AI-Generated Porn-focused Image Project

Image: Kickstarter Until today, there had been an active Kickstarter campaign running for Unstable Diffusion, a project describing itself as “a group born out of a grassroots community effort to reject the limiting rules of corporate AI companies.” The campaign, which had comfortably passed its initial funding goals, described its pitch as follows: This is

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