No one would blame fans of the Chicago White Sox for losing their appetites after enduring an abominable 2024 campaign, one that included a 21-game losing streak. Statistically,…
Read more While the 2024 White Sox Burned, Campfire Shakes Were a Soothing DistractionA version of this post originally appeared on September 9, 2024, in Eater and Punch’s newsletter Pre Shift, a biweekly newsletter for the industry pro that sources first-person…
Read more We Asked: “How Do You Get to Your Restaurant Job?”It’s fall festival season! Matt is joined by Peter Kujawski, the chairman of Focus Features, to discuss the science of premiering a movie at a film festival. Peter…
Read more How to Choose the Right Festival to Premiere Your MovieThe Battle Bus arrived in Lego Fortnite as of an August 2024 update, giving the option for limited fast travel between Bus Stations. Our Lego Fortnite Bus Station…
Read more How to fast travel with the Battle Bus and Bus Stations in Lego FortniteTo earn the “Timely Assistance Medal IV,” Officer Mewmew tells you to investigate a “suspicious shadow” by Waterfall Soup at night in Zenless Zone Zero. However, there are…
Read more How to find the ‘suspicious shadow’ at Waterfall Soup in Zenless Zone ZeroWas anyone going to tell me I’ve been pronouncing “scadutree” wrong, or did I have to find out from a TikTok comment? Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree…
Read more You’ve probably been saying “scadutree” wrongTourists rarely make it out of Downtown Chicago to explore what the city’s neighborhoods have to offer, and locals looking to play tourist can gain a new perspective…
Read more How to Spend a 24-Hour Staycation in Downtown ChicagoThe Abyssal Woods from Elden Ring’s DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, is a land of horrors and madness. Frenzied Flame followers inhabit the woods and nightmarish creatures skulk…
Read more How to get to the Abyssal Woods in Elden Ring: Shadow of the ErdtreeForty years ago next month, Bruce Springsteen released what would become the album most entwined with his legacy and American culture writ large: Born in the U.S.A. In…
Read more How Music Videos Invented Bruce Springsteen, the IdeaWe weren’t very kind to Amy Winehouse when she walked among us. She was a tremendous singer with a mesmerizing style, a strange case of a 21st-century pop…
Read more We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Amy WinehouseLong before anyone heard a note, Taylor Swift’s new album caused controversy among the grammarians. The fuss was about the title, The Tortured Poets Department, and its conspicuously…
Read more How Taylor Swift Writes About Being Taylor SwiftMatt is joined by Jeremiah Reynolds, partner at Eisner LLP and copyright law expert, to untangle the recent plagiarism accusation by screenwriter Simon Stephenson over Alexander Payne’s The…
Read more ‘The Holdovers’ Plagiarism Claim and How to Protect Your ScriptThe Skimmer is a new kind of vehicle type in Destiny 2 that you can use in place of your trusty Sparrow. It’s essentially a hoverboard that you…
Read more How to permanently unlock Destiny 2’s new hoverboard vehicleLast Epoch’s offline mode is an awesome option if you’re sick of fighting with the game’s servers. However, the offline mode does create some additional issues for you…
Read more How to play Last Epoch in offline modeFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth has a playable demo on PlayStation 5, allowing you to step into Cloud’s implausibly polished Doc Martens ahead of the game’s Feb. 29 release.…
Read more How to carry progress from the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo to the main gameNintendo will broadcast a new Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 21, a showcase focused Switch games coming in the first half of 2024, the company announced Monday.…
Read more New Nintendo Direct coming on Feb. 21Chargers are big, nasty bugs in Helldivers 2, and you’ll need to take out multiple of them if you want to complete some Personal Orders (as of this…
Read more How to find and kill Chargers in Helldivers 2GTA Online runs on money. That’s why there are no cheats for it in the game. (There are, however, cheats in GTA V proper.) Everything you want to…
Read more How to make money in GTA OnlineA glider is essential for getting around Enshrouded’s Embervale, a sprawling realm that usually demands a lot of walking. While there are a few fast travel points —…
Read more How to craft the glider in EnshroudedIt’s no secret that the Polygon staff loves to read. We’re genre agnostic, with tastes spanning categories such as mystery, science fiction and fantasy, literary fiction, romance, and…
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