It’s baked into everything we love about Japanese culture. Nearly every shōnen manga/anime has a cute creature (sometimes person) that injects levity into what could otherwise be a rather serious tale. And of course, Japanese video games are no different. While FFXIV contains plenty of serious and significant moments (mostly in the Main Scenario questline), there’s an abundance of kawaii everywhere in the game – including the mount selection. Whether one chooses to ride around on one of the game’s terrifying dragons or high-tech machinations is up to each player....

The truth is, you can’t make yourself fall asleep, but you can put steps in place to help you fall asleep quickly, as our Top 10 tips below will show you. In our feature on why is sleep important (opens in new tab), we discovered that it’s normal to take up to 20-30 minutes to fall asleep. Interestingly, if you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow you may be experiencing sleep deprivation....

While smartphone cameras are smarter and more automated than ever before, you can still get more out of your shots if you know how to best use that snapper. Whether you’re taking photos of landscapes, Instagramming pictures your meal, or taking stunning night mode photos, there are different ways to improve all your images. Of course the smartphone isn’t everything and getting a good photo from an older device is also possible when you know what you’re doing....

Either way, you probably realize cooking isn’t all that simple. I nearly burned my house down with baking paper, somehow. But fear not, for anime has all the amazing cooks we can look at (and pretend we’re anywhere near their level). So while we’ve already ranked some of our favorite cooking-related anime, let’s now delve into some of the best chefs that anime has to offer. 15. Brock Anime: Pokémon Brock may not be a fancy restaurant chef....

When I got back into Yu-Gi-Oh for the first time since my childhood, the first deck I ever picked up was a Performapal pendulum deck. I was so amazed by the new pendulum summoning mechanic, and it’s that interest that reignited that love of Yu-Gi-Oh for me! Pendulum monsters are half-spell cards and half-monster cards. You can either play them as a monster, and gain their monster abilities, or you can play them as spell cards in the pendulum zone to gain their spell effects....

Since this genre seems to get bigger and bigger as time goes on, it can be hard to keep up with some of the better titles in the space That’s what prompted me to make a list detailing my best picks for the aficionado fleet commander. If you just aren’t sure which naval battle games to try out, well I’m sure you’ll find something here! 15. Windward (2015) Check Out This Game Our voyage at sea begins with Tasharen Entertainment’s Windward, a naval exploration and combat adventure where the world is procedurally generated....

Following the massive success of the OnePlus 3 and 3T, OnePlus launched the OnePlus 5 in June this year. While the reviews surrounding the handset were primarily negative, the handset has still found plenty of takers all thanks to the excellent goodwill gained by the company after the 3/3T. If you have purchased a OnePlus 5 due to the strong word of mouth, you have made a wise choice. The phone’s camera might not be one of its strength, but there still plenty to like about it....

If you play it right, this revelation can raise the stakes in the story, encourage fervent discussions, and perhaps entice new people to watch your series. But that’s the thing: Not all moments of deception work their wonder. Worse, it can backfire and ruin viewing experiences, appearing cheap or merely pulled out of thin air. In contrast, the anime betrayals I’ve compiled below have done their job with flying colors, ensuring that fans will keep talking about them for years to come....

Surely farming is about cows, crops, and chickens? Maybe so. But the fact that Farming Simulator has such a developed forestry component to it is a testament to what a great game it is, and shows how it has grown over the years. There are individual trucking, mining, and forestry games out there. But Farming Simulator combines all of these activities into one neat package. And where the base-game is lacking, the modding community have filled the gaps with a whole host of mods....

It was created over 30 years ago by now-celebrity game developer Hideo Kojima. And until just recently, the series was his life’s work and a reflection of his growth as an artist. Published and owned by Konami, the franchise and the team behind it have been at the forefront of game development since its inception. It pioneered and popularized stealth games in general, while also continuously pushing the industry’s technical and creative boundaries....

They seem to pull off a fascinating combination of scientific and adorable. Just look at Blipbug! A lot of these designs are amplified by their shiny forms. With a ton of bold choices, the Bug-typing has some of my favorite shinies of all time. And without further ado, let’s take a look at the absolute best-of-the-best when it comes to shiny Bug Pokémon! 20. Wurmple We’re starting with one of the most basic Bug Pokémon: Wurmple....

They exist in just about every genre – and pretty much everyone can attach themselves to at least one character to call a waifu. Shonen is such a wide and sprawling genre that it has created an uncountable amount of “best girls” in its time, from romcoms, to adventures, to battle anime and beyond. Well I’m here to put to rest any question as to who the best girls are from the expansive shonen genre....

But what about widespread combat? That’s right, today we’re going over the best war and military related anime of all time! Will you find a TV series about a large-scale battle between two groups, or just the life of a soldier? Or maybe a classic anime movie about a war-torn country? Who knows, but I guarantee this list will be epic! But let’s start off with two honorable mentions....

There is one thing though that can make a bad game seem not too awful: a great game with a really bad ending. You invest all your time and energy into the story and the characters only for it all to crash and burn at the end. It’s like the writers took all the great things they did and just threw them in the dumpster for some odd reason....

Even from a holistic, community-driven perspective, money is the best measurement of success. After all, the better your farm does, the better Pelican Town’s economy fares. We need to raise Pelican Town’s GDP if Pam is ever going to make it out of that mobile home! Carrying the fate of an entire town on your shoulders might feel heavy, but with the late-game money-making techniques I’m about to share with you, it’ll be a breeze....

The Nintendo Switch is full of waifus like Pearl and Marina in Splatoon 2, and Twintelle from ARMS – but even as far back as the Wii, unforgettable female characters were making our hearts swoon. The following waifu catalog is a mixture of all-time favorites and Wii newcomers that received lots of love during the console’s lifespan. 5. Rosetta Appears in: Rune Factory Frontier (2009) If we’re talking waifus, we can’t overlook the best dating sim/farming sim/RPG on the Wii: Rune Factory Frontier....

Top 5 Ways to Exclude Posts from Your Wordpress RSS Feed Change the feed URL This might look like the easiest of the ways to exclude a Wordpress category from RSS feed, but actually its not. I will tell you why later. This is done by changing the feed structure. Normally the RSS link will look like this: You can exclude any category by appending a query string to the feed URL, like this: where 5 & 10 are the IDs of the categories you want to be excluded from RSS feed....

It’s a great game with predominantly great characters, though there are some that are better than others. Some of them just really irk me, and from what I understand, that’s a pretty universal experience. It’s like, why are you even here?! So without further ado, here are the absolute worst villagers that can be found in Pelican Town. 5. George I have nothing against the elderly. But I do have something against people who take being elderly as an excuse to be persnickety....

Who’s On Top? CS: GO Counter-Strike in its various forms has been a staple of the competitive gaming scene for nearly two decades. The two biggest teams this year, according to ESL Gaming, are SK Gaming from Brazil and Faze Clan with players from Nordic and Slavic backgrounds. SK Gaming’s team consists of FalleN, fer, coldzera, TACO, and boltz. This Brazilian team sits at the top both in terms of club ranking as well as power ranking on ESL Gaming....