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Video: Video Game Characters Read Mean Tweets

December 9, 2015 Declan Doody

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Celebrities aren’t the only ones to get a hard time from social media/internet users! No one is safe when it comes to the snarky trolls online even poor video game characters aren’t safe from sour Tweets and hurtful Facebook posts! YouTubers Big Head Mode show us just how our reactionary posts and messages can hurt […]

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Featured

#BoycottStarWarsVII: On Fandom And White Embarrassment

October 23, 2015 ArcadeAdmin

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[Editor’s Note – Two of our writers wanted to take a shot at the recent Star Wars boycott controversy. Normally we’d select one to run with it, but they both offered different takes on the topic that we felt were interesting and worth hearing with the overall broad strokes complimenting each other. So, here’s both […]

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Culture

Edward Snowden Has Joined Twitter

September 30, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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In case you’ve been living in a cave, under water or out of contact from the rest of the world, Edward Snowden is the former government contractor that leaked top secret documents concerning the use of improper surveillance practices by federal agencies across the world. For his actions, Snowden was forced to flee the U.S. Yesterday Snowden joined Twitter. The […]

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Culture

Colin Trevorrow Speaks On The Lack Of Female Blockbuster Directors

August 25, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Film director Colin Trevorrow has given his views on the state of the film industry having been asked a poignant question by a fan on Twitter. Trevorrow was asked why there were so few female blockbuster directors. Suffice to say, his view on the matter was not without interest: @AutisticWeirdo pic.twitter.com/Nt17F2ohMn — Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) August 21, 2015 Trevorrow‘s […]

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Buzz

Your Social Media Account Could Be the Next Best Ice Cream Flavour

July 30, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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Ice cream is one of my favourite things to eat so when I spotted this nifty little idea online that converts the social media essence of you into an ice-cream flavour, I had to try it! A lot of the time, without knowing it, we communicate with each other in terms of taste. ‘Sweetie’, ‘Honey’ and […]

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Canadian Teen Imprisoned For Online Harassment

July 10, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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A Canadian teenager, linked to hacker group Lizard Squad, has been given a 16 month sentence for online harassment. According to Wesley Yin-Poole of eurogamer.net the convicted would contact victims: “via League of Legends or Twitter, then set to work harassing them if they declined his friend requests. He blamed his actions on boredom.”. The accused […]

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Mobile Apps

Twitter To Remove The 140 Character Limit For Direct Messaging

June 13, 2015 Mairead

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Twitter has announced that you will soon be able to send longer messages through the direct messaging system. It was announced through a post on the developer forum on Thursday that the site plans to remove the 140 character limit on its direct messaging feature in July. The character limit for regular tweets, which is […]

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Comics/Books

J.K. Rowling: “You Went To Hogwarts”

June 9, 2015 Declan Doody

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Tuesday blues getting you down? Well author and resident Arcade hero/legend/beloved icon J.K. Rowling has made our day and hopefully it will make yours too. The social media mogul that she is, Rowling took to her Twitter account to explain that we’ve all been to Hogwarts and that we are all a huge part of it: […]

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Comics/Books

J.K. Rowling: "You Went To Hogwarts"

June 9, 2015 Declan Doody

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Tuesday blues getting you down? Well author and resident Arcade hero/legend/beloved icon J.K. Rowling has made our day and hopefully it will make yours too. The social media mogul that she is, Rowling took to her Twitter account to explain that we’ve all been to Hogwarts and that we are all a huge part of it: […]

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Twitter Honours #HomeToVote Hashtag

May 29, 2015 Seán Ó Cinnéide

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Only a week on from #HomeToVote and the Twitter gods are so pleased with the trending hashtag that they’re putting it on a wall in their head offices at Twitter HQ. We here at The Arcade didn’t even know Twitter did things like this, but apparently Ireland isn’t the first to have this honour bestowed! Some […]

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