Author: Heath Andrews

Heath Andrews has been a student of pop culture ever since he found himself to be the only student in 3rd grade who regularly watched "Get Smart" on Nick-At-Nite. Ever since then he's been engrossed in way too much media with a growing collection of music, books, comics, TV on DVD box sets, and a video game collection that could rival a brick and mortar store. Prior to writing for Nerdbot he's written for Review You, MyAnimeList, and various advertising companies. Since 2016 he's run his own YouTube channel under the moniker of The Critical Android where he livestreams video games and uploads podcasts about pop culture and Frasier.

Of all the toxic environments that the internet has created, few have the level of infamy that 4chan has. The level of anonymity it’s provided users has led to profound amounts of hate mongering, conspiracy theorizing, and targeted harassment of others. But hey, sometimes someone posts a funny meme there, so it evens out, right? While not every user has contributed to the toxic environment, the site’s reputation has made it a target for other communities to hack and attack. Seems like one of them was so effective, it may be the end of 4chan itself. Over the last couple…

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Fyre Festival 2. This absolute mess of an event had more red flags flying up than a bad Tinder date. With a scheduled date of May 30th-June 2nd, 2025, only one confirmed artist, two possible locations that weren’t confirmed, and a vague list of events, there was no way it would’ve ended well. But festival founder and convicted felon Billy McFarland was insistent that the festival would happen as planned. And shocking, it won’t. There was no possible way that this event was going to happen as intended, with the lack of announced artists and 2 disputed venues. To be…

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It might be called the happiest place on Earth, but some visitors to Disneyland probably weren’t too happy with what they saw last Saturday. It’s not too often you see someone naked at a theme park, as long as you dismiss Donald Duck not wearing pants. That’s what happened in the California park over the weekend, and you can count the naked individual as one of the unhappy people considering he was promptly arrested. The Anaheim Police Department responded to a situation on Saturday when reports of a nude individual at Disneyland started making the rounds. The naked man, identified…

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The film division of Warner Bros. Discovery has not been having a very good go of things over the last year and a half or so. For every hit they had like “Dune: Part Two” or “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” they had massive financial failures like “Joker: Folie a Deux.” 2025 wasn’t looking much better with the back-to-back bombs of “Mickey 17” and “The Alto Knights.” Then along came “A Minecraft Movie,” and the fates of co-chairpersons / CEO’s Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy turned around quickly. And their plan to continue that good fortune involves confirmation of more sequels; for…

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Comedy is a subjective thing; always has been and always will be. This is something that “Saturday Night Live” knows full well having been in the comedy game for 50 years now. There has been no shortage of skewering of public figures on the show, from actors, to politicians, to athletes. When does it go over the line though from comedic to unnecessarily mean? If you were to ask actress Aimee Lou Wood, it happened to her on the most recent episode of “SNL.” Wood’s career started to take off with her portrayal of Aimee Gibbs on Netflix’s “Sex Education”…

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The post apocalyptic, fungal zombie survival tale “The Last of Us” was a huge success for HBO when it premiered in 2023. Along with Amazon’s “Fallout” series, they proved video game adaptations can truly work in a live-action series format. “The Last of Us” is set to premiere its second season this weekend, and HBO has just ordered a third season. This is the channel that killed “Westworld” after its third season. It’s parent company held “Coyote Vs. Acme” hostage until it sold to another entertainment group. The series is a big enough success that if creators Neil Druckmann and…

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Carrie White is one killer prom date. That may not be the exact lesson to take away from Stephen King’s iconic first novel, “Carrie,” but it remains true in every sense of the phrase. It’s an iconic story that’s a lot more than just a prom gone bad thanks to a bucket of pig’s blood and psychokinetic powers, that’s just the most iconic element of the story. Because of its themes of bullying, parental abuse, womanhood, and social acceptance, the story has been adapted to film and television three times with a fourth on the way. Now we have reports…

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There is no denying animals can provide an immense amount of comfort, love, and joy to people. Having something in your life that relies and depends on you can also help to reset your priorities and focus your mind and heart on how valuable life truly is. But what if your support animal was a tiger? And what if you had seven of them? Things start getting a bit complicated at that point considering that, you know, tigers are endangered animals and someone having seven of them could pose some problems. That’s what led to the police arresting Karl Mitchell.…

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There are only a few names in video game development that command so much respect that their name alone can sell a game. Hideo Kojima is one of them. Even though he’s done other projects, it was “Metal Gear Solid” in 1998 that broke him into the global consciousness. Kojima has always had a flair for the cinematic and a deep love of film, which is why it wasn’t surprising to find out that he would be producing a film based on his game, “Death Stranding.” Now that film has a director who knows a bit about apocalyptic horror. In…

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Did you know dire wolves were an actual animal species? They weren’t just things from fantasy novels and tabletop RPG’s, they were an actual breed of wolf from the Americas. Long since been extinct, they’ve still lived on in folklore and literature. “Game of Thrones” did quite a bit to bring the animal back into the public zeitgeist. Meanwhile, bioengineering company, Colossal has done quite a bit to actually bring the animal back to life; literally. In something that seems straight out of a Michael Crichton novel as opposed to a George R.R. Martin tale, Colossal’s bioengineers took DNA from…

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