By definition First Person Shooters are supposed to play out in a first person perspective, meaning the player should feel like they're actually pulling the trigger and mowing down the bad guys.

But there's something not quite right about "first person" perspective in FPS games, and as this Hejibits comic by John Kleckner shows the problem is your eyeballs aren't in your chest- they're in your head where they belong.

And not your torso head either, your actual, top of your body on top of your neck head...unless you're a mutant...hey, maybe every FPS video game character is a mutant!

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Remember that lovable green ogre named Shrek? Of course you do! He was in a bunch of movies and TV specials, and he even had his own Broadway show for a minute, and yet Shrek is no longer relevant to many because he hasn't made a new movie in a while.

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It appears the absence of Shrek in our lives has made some people really sad while others are starting to lose their minds, and a few even feel like the only way to fill that ogre-shaped hole in their hearts is to become one with Shrek.

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See 24 Shrek Posts That You Should Let No Innocent Child See here

Toy stores are like heaven on Earth for most little kids, because they're full of new and wonderful sources of amusement.

There are thousands of shiny new toys that catch the eye, hundreds of dollys looking for a new home, and one particular store is home to a giant giraffe mascot that tells kids his store is a place where "a kid can be a kid".

But once we outgrow our unconditional love of toys we start to see the toy store for what it really is- an overpriced pain in the neck full of kids who have no respect for a collectible figure's packaging. 

Cartoonist JHALL and Jake Young revealed the disparity between how we feel about the toy store when we're kids versus what the toy store is like for adults, and it's got me wishing I could see it all through a child's eyes once again.

See Going To The Toy Store As A Kid Vs. As An Adult at Dorkly

Bojack Horseman is a dark and delightful show that is as hilarious as it is depressing. It's no wonder then that the Gallery 1988 show based on the Netflix original features such original, fascinating and downright meloncholy art.

Whether or not you've seen the newest season, it's hard not to love seeing the characters in so many different situations and art styles. 

So don't miss the whole collection on their website.

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There are quite a few steps involved in the making of action figure, including sculpting, molding, assembly and painting, which is why it's virtually impossible for one person to put out their own line of action figures.

But there's an artist in the Philippines who doesn't need a factory or machines of any kind to create his line of action figures- he just needs flip flops, scissors, a razor blade and some glue.

Filipino artist Elmer Padilla creates his awesome foam "action figures" out of old flip flops, which helps him make a little money to feed his family and helps clean up waste in Manila, where old flip flops are a major water pollutant.

Elmer's figures may not have as much poseable "action" as regular action figures, but his versions of the Transformers, Hellboy, Deadpool and Predator are so cool looking kids will definitely have fun playing with them.

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The Ramones song Blitzkrieg Bop is such an upbeat and bouncy song it really makes you want to get up and rock out when it comes on the radio, and even though it's an earworm I don't mind having the tune in my head all day.

Blitzkrieg Bop is also a very raw and basic song, making it great for matching up with video footage, as you can see in this mashup video created by Gabriel Magallon created with clips from The Addams Family.

The Addams Family dancing Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones from Gabriel Magallon on Vimeo.

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Just about everyone is familiar wtih Reddit, but what do know about the history of the site itself? You might be surprised about some of the fascinating facts about the site featured in this Daily Dot article. For example, did you know that as of 2012 the site had only spent $500 on advertising (and presumably not much after that either)? Or that the site didn't originally get comments and that, fittingly, the first comment on the site was a complaint about how they added the option to comment? 

Enjoy all 30 facts about about Reddit here.

Digg is going all out for the new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered last night with one episode on CBS-TV and another on the streaming service CBS All Access. Here's a roundup of reviews. They gushed about the artistry of the opening credits, which you can see here. And since there are people -mostly young people- who haven't seen much Star Trek over the past fifty years, they have a viewer's guide to catching up on all 600 hours of Star Trek in TV and film (or at least the hours worth watching). Here's the order list:

Star Trek: The Original Series
The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Territory
The Next Generation Seasons 1-7
Star Trek: Generations
Deep Space Nine Seasons 1-5
Voyager Seasons 1-2
Star Trek: First Contact
Deep Space Nine Seasons 6-7
Star Trek: Insurrection
Voyager Seasons 3-7
Star Trek: Nemesis
Enterprise
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Beyond

The reasoning behind the viewing order is explained in this post.

The transporter mechanism in Star Trek is quite cool for science fiction, in that you could set the destination, step onto a platform, and find yourself on an unexplored planet. Most of the time. We know the fictional tech was invented purely to save money on the original series, compared with using a spaceship to reach the surface of planets. It also saved time. But if it were real, would you trust such a device?

According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, when a person steps onto the transporter pad, the computer uses “molecular imaging scanners” to scan his or her body, before the person is converted into a “subatomically debonded matter stream.” In other words, a crew member is taken apart piece by piece, breaking apart the bonds between individual atoms. Then, particles are streamed into a “pattern buffer," where they remain briefly before being sent to their destination.

This sounds an awful lot like death. In fact, it’s even more death-y than conventional death where, after the body’s processes have stopped, the body slowly decomposes. The effect is the same—the pieces of you come apart—the transporter’s just a lot more efficient at it.

Once the matter stream arrives at its destination, the person is somehow “rematerialized” or put back together. While the transporter tends to use the person’s atoms to reconstruct a human, it really doesn’t have to. The machine could use totally different atoms, and the effect would be exactly the same.

So does the transporter actually send those atoms to a new place, or does it send the data to make a copy of you? Does it really matter, since our bodies are always replacing our own atoms as we go about our everyday lives? Ars Technica take a deeper and more philosophical look into the workings of a Star Trek transporter. -via Metafilter

The Netflix original series Stranger Things made such a splash it almost singlehandedly made the major TV networks change their mind about the validity and profitability of streaming video, plus it's just a damn good show.  

Stranger Things doesn't need to advertise to bring in viewers at this point, and people have been talking about the show non-stop since the season 2 premiere date was announced, but Netflix decided to create some cool promo posters anyway.

And as expected they looked to movie posters from the 80s for inspiration, creating slick looking posters starring Eleven and the gang based on posters from Jaws, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Stand By Me and more.

Stranger Things season 2 premieres on Netflix on October 27th, just in time for Halloween!

See more Stranger Things Season 2 Promo Posters at Bored Panda

It's easy to forget cartoons weren't created just for kids to watch, nor were they meant to tell strictly silly-slapstick-nonsensical stories devoid of serious emotion, but animators have never forgotten about their roots.

And it seems no matter how silly the show animators always make sure to include at least one episode that gives us all the feels.

Remember when SpongeBob's snaily friend Gary ran away from home because SpongeBob forgot to feed him?

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The episode was sadly relatable to anyone who has ever had a pet run away, and when SpongeBob sang the "Gary Come Home" song there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Then there was that episode of Rugrats entitled "Mother's Day" that talked about Chuckie's dead mother- this particularly poignant episode was probably lost on the kiddies but definitely left their parents reaching for a tissue.

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And even though Adventure Time has presented us with plenty of emotion-filled episodes the episode "I Remember You" revealed that the Ice King took care of Marceline when she was a kid and thereby made me sob like a little creampuff.

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See 14 Cartoons That Got Way Deeper Than You Were Expecting here

Many of Walt Disney's early movies feature a common theme of the main character losing, or having already lost, their mother- Bambi's mother was shot, Dumbo's mom was locked up and Cinderella's mom died before the film's storyline began.

These themes, like many others present in Disney films, weren't included simply to cause an emotional reaction, they were included as a nod to Disney's own life.

Walt Disney was doing so well with his animation studio by the 1940s that he bought his parents a new house, allowing them to share in his success.

But when it was discovered that the home's furnace was in need of repair Walt sent one of his studio hands over to fix it rather than calling a professional, which would prove to be a fatal act of frugality.

The housekeeper arrived one day to find Disney's parents unconscious on the floor, poisoned by a gas leak. She pulled Walt's parents outside as quickly as she could, which saved Elias Disney's life, but sadly his mother Flora was already dead.

Disney never forgave himself for making such a terrible mistake, and the theme of a dead or missing mother became a common tragic thread that connects most Disney films.

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According to pop culture pirates love parrots, and even though real life pirates kept all kinds of birds as feathered status symbols the parrot will always be associated with pirates thanks to Long John Silver from Treasure Island.

So now that parrots are eternally connected to pirates it's about time someone opens up a parrot shop that caters to pirates, one which is on an island so they can sail right up, grab a bird and go.

Just make sure the shop appeals to gross and grimy pirates, because ugly parrots need love too!

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Parrot Away was created by third year animation students at The Animation Workshop in Denmark, but it seems like it was made by veteran animators- because it's entertaining from beginning to end!

Before Players one and two are handed a newborn baby and officially begin their first quest in the strange and wondrous game called Parenthood they have to go through the longest intro sequence ever.

This intro sequence isn't much fun for the mother carrying the child, but it does prepare her for the fact that nearly every quest in Parenthood will be an escort quest- and the wee one has a very small health bar.

And, as this comic by Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgman shows, Parenthood is full of stealth, danger and toxic fluids, but if you're lucky you'll survive to play Parenthood 2: The Next Batch.

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We're taught in school that the most important inventions created by Black people are peanut butter, blood banks and the sidewalk mailbox, but the history books continue to overlook a more recent yet equally important contributor- Jerry Lawson.

Jerry was a self-taught engineer who gave us one of the greatest, and most fun, technological leaps forward in human history- the video game console.

While working as head of engineering and marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor in the mid-70s Jerry created the Fairchild Channel F gaming console, the first cartridge-based console, which was released in 1976.

The Channel F had interchangeable cartridges so players could expand their library with new games, before that gaming "consoles" were stuck playing the one game programmed directly into the hardware.

Jerry Lawson's legacy was overshadowed by big names like Atari and Coleco, but Jerry truly deserves to be seen as one of the most important Black inventors of all time for his contribution to our entertainment lovin' lives.

-Via Endgadget