Why in the hell would the band punish the people propelling them to stardom?!

I wish I could jump in the bandwagon, trust me.

There's no point.

Poor Shia. He SEVERELY underestimated 4chan's power to fuck with people. Ironically, the message in his flag was kinda right -- in a way, Trump ended up uniting all of those anons with a single goal in mind: fuck up Shia's protest/art installation.

I realize I'm talking more about the series as a whole, than the reboot. I'm sorry. And before you ask: yes, I had this idea midshave, stopped what I was doing and started filming. Gotta go finish this now.

After failing in New York, failing in Albuquerque, and failing at the "unknown location" (which only stayed "unknown" for about 36 hours), actor-turned-crazy-person Shia Labeouf took the He Will Not Divide us piece across the pond to Liverpool, England -- where it was ALMOST IMMEDIATELY raided by /pol/.

What you heard is that United booted two girls from a flight just for wearing leggings. Here's what ACTUALLY happened. According to Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a United gate attendant rejected two passangers for wearing leggings. Watts kicked up a social media storm and before long, tens of thousands were vowing to boycott United -- based on nothing but second-hand account of a story they didn't know the full context of. In reality, the two girls are related to United employees, and as such they get a perk called "Pass Rider". Refered to by airlines as "non-revs", short for "non revenue", pass riders travel for a massively reduced price; the catch is that they have to conform to a certain dress code. This is standard practice by nearly every airline that offers such a perk. Didn't matter for the Twitter mob, though!

Not a day goes by without someone complaining about the endemic problem of Twitter harassment. Here's what I propose we do regarding this so-called problem.

The internet went into DEFCON 1 yesterday when Ethan Klein (of h3h3productions/Vape Nation/Papa Bless/"NAWLEDG!" fame) made perhaps the most inflammatory claim about the mainstream media in recent weeks -- according to Klein, the Wall Street Journal deliberately faked screenshots showing ads running against blatantly racist videos to craft a story about Google bakrolling bigots. Ethan, assisted by screenshots sent by the creator of one of the videos cited by the WSJ, believed he found the "smoking gun" which proved no ads were being displayed on the offensive videos. The original WSJ story sent a shockwave through the YouTube community, who was already incensed over their previous PewDiePie story. An online "old media vs new media" war had already been brewing, and things became even worse after Ethan published his "exposé". And now that we've had more time to sift through Ethan's finding, it seems he misinterpreted the data, hilariously jumped to conclusions and embarrassed himself -- and the entire YouTube community -- in the process. Claiming the mainstream media is "out to get youtubers" sounds more like a crazy tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory today than it sounded 2 days ago.

Bruno Borges from Brazil was last seen March 27. The 24 year old psychology student was apparently a fan of esotheric literature, and he left behind 14 hand-crafted books, written in a code people are only now starting to decypher. Along with the books, and all the messages and symbols scrawled all over the walls in his room, his family found a massive Giordano Bruno statue. Bruno was also a UFO enthusiast. Brazilian police have made official statements saying they are investigating the matter. Believe it or not, this appears legit Where is Bruno? What's in those books? What was he trying to do?

THIS TIME there's no excuse. This Sunday, United threw out a paying customer from Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville because they screwed up and overbooked the flight bt 4 seats -- which were needed for their own employees who were flying on standby. United asked for volunteers, no one would give their seat up, so they randomly selected 4 passengers and gave them the boot. 3 went without incident; the last refused to exit the aircraft. Airport security came by and messed the guy up.

Local instagram model Ashley Resch came by the "studio" for a chat about growing your social media and creepy comments!

WHAT?! After only 5 months, Nintendo inexplicably pulls the plug on the NES Classic Edition. While very confusing, I suspect I know why... Was it piracy? Was Nintendo worried that the NES Classic Edition would compete with the Virtual Console on the Switch? Were they losing money with the tiny retro console?

Mike Martin (aka DaddyoFive, aka @mikemartin1982) is a YouTube personality running a family vlog-type channel. People recently started paying a little closer attention and questioning the way he treats the kids in his videos -- that is to say, a lot of people had issues with the way Martin emotionally (and at times physically) abuses his children, and/or incentivizes them to physically abuse one another. Mike has been deleting all of the incriminating videos, but I'll try to update this description with the worst offenders.

After what felt like a thousand-hour flight, I'm finally in the city best known for Carnaval, a giant Jesus statue, 100 degree weather and butts.

Nintendo caught everyone by surprise with this New 2DS XL, available on July 28th for US$150. Considering that they are now focusing most of their efforts on the newly-released Switch, and both its production woes AND those of the recently deceased NES Classic Edition, it seems kind of odd they'd start producing new(ish) hardware so soon. Is this proof the 3DS family has still a long life ahead? Or is this its swan song, like the Game Boy Micro was for the GBA line, or the Wii Mini was for the Wii? Will you buy one?